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Kornfeld, Schaal to speak for Assembly Series
By Mary Kastens Stuart Kornfeld, M.D., a prominent molecular biophysicist and biochemist, and Barbara Schaal, Ph.D., an authority on plant biology and life sciences, will receive the University's 2002 Faculty Achievement Awards and summarize their scholarly work at an awards ceremony as part of the Assembly Series. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 18 in Room 300 of the new Laboratory Science Building, located just north of Graham Chapel.
Schaal, the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences and professor of genetics in the medical school, is this year's recipient of the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award. Kornfeld and Schaal were selected by members of the faculty, based on the following criteria: outstanding achievement in research and scholarship; recognized prominence within the community of scholars; service and dedication to the betterment of the University; and commitment to teaching. Kornfeld, who co-directs the Division of Hematology, has made groundbreaking discoveries about how sugar chains direct protein movements within cells. This research is the result of earlier inquiries into the structures of many sugar chains. Much of his research was conducted in collaboration with his wife, Rosalind H. Kornfeld, Ph.D., professor of medicine and of biochemistry and molecular biophysics. Stuart Kornfeld is known for discovering how lysosomal enzymes are routed to lysosomes, cellular structures that serve as "garbage disposals." He identified two enzymes that add a specific sugar marker onto lysosomal enzymes and determined how the two recognize the enzymes they need to label. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific articles. His research has been recognized with membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Association of American Physicians. In 1991, he was awarded the Passano Award, and in 1999 he received the Karl Meyer Award. He also has served on numerous editorial and advisory boards. Kornfeld earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1958 and a medical degree from Washington University in 1962. He joined the faculty here four years later. Schaal, who served as chair of the Department of Biology from 1993-97, is known for applying molecular genetic techniques to the study of plant evolution. Her research investigates the evolutionary process within plant populations using a wide variety of techniques, from field observations to quantitative genetics and molecular biology. Schaal has studied hosts of plant species ranging from oak trees to Mead's milkweed, a Midwestern prairie plant.
Finding cassava's progenitors could potentially increase the genetic diversity Ñ and thus the disease resistance Ñ of cassava crops, especially in Africa, where cassava is a non-native plant and lacks resistance to African diseases. Schaal's research has led to membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She serves on the boards of trustees for the St. Louis Academy of Science and for the Missouri Chapter of the Nature Conser-vancy. She has been associate editor of the journals Molecular Biology and Evolution, The American Journal of Botany, Molecular Biology and Conservation Genetics. Schaal also is a past president of the Botanical Society of America. She serves on the National Research Council's (NRC) Board on Life Sciences and chairs the NRC Standing Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology, Health and the Environment. Schaal earned a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1969 and master's and doctoral degrees in 1971 and 1974, respectively, both in population biology from Yale University. She joined the Arts & Sciences faculty in 1980 as associate professor of biology and became full professor in 1989. For more information on the Assembly Series talks, call 935-4620 or visit the series Web site at wupa.wustl.edu/assembly. |
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