• Source: Richard Amasino

Richard Amasino is a professor of biochemistry and genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He got his bachelor's degree in biology at Pennsylvania State University. He went on to receive his PhD in biochemistry at Indiana University in 1982 and did post doctoral research at the University of Washington. Amasino's research focuses on plants and how plants know when to flower. In 2006 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Amasino’s research has focused on how plants know when to flower after exposure to winter, a process called vernalization. Amasino discovered that annual and biennial Brassicaceae—and in particular Arabidopsis thaliana—will only flower after prolonged cold treatment by shutting off a gene called Flowering Locus C (FLC). Recently, his work has centered on vernalization responses in temperate grasses using Brachypodium distachyon.




Honors and awards


2018 Carlos O. Miller Professor of Biochemistry
2013 Hilldale Professorship
2011 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
2009 Elected Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists
2008 Hildale Professorship
2006 Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
2006 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Teaching Professor
2003 Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Biochemistry, UW-Madison
1989-1994 Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation
1986 McKnight Foundation Individual Research Award in Plant Biology




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External links


Hhmi.org
Biochem.wisc.edu

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