{"id":1899,"date":"2007-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermont.salk.edu\/news-release\/national-academy-of-sciences-honors-joe-ecker-with-carty-award\/"},"modified":"2007-01-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T08:00:00","slug":"national-academy-of-sciences-honors-joe-ecker-with-carty-award","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/zh\/news-release\/national-academy-of-sciences-honors-joe-ecker-with-carty-award\/","title":{"rendered":"National Academy of Sciences honors Joe Ecker with Carty Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Jolla, CA \u2013 The National Academy  of Sciences has selected <a href=\"\/zh\/faculty\/ecker.html\/\">Joseph R. Ecker<\/a>, professor in the Plant Biology Laboratory and director of the Salk  Institute Genomic Analysis Laboratory, to receive the 2007 John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science  &#8220;for contributions in the areas  of ethylene signal transduction and Arabidopsis genomics that have paved the  way for a revolution in modern agriculture.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Awarded annually for noteworthy  and distinguished accomplishment in science, it was established by the American  Telephone &#038; Telegraph Co. in honor of John J. Carty and has been awarded  since 1932. The honor includes a  medal and a $25,000 prize that will be presented in Washington D.C. at the organization&#8217;s  annual meeting April 29. <\/p>\n<p>Ecker, who was  elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences last year, is  internationally recognized for his pioneering contributions to plant genomics.  Early on, he advocated the mapping and sequencing of the genome of the tiny  mustard weed <em>Arabidopsis thaliana<\/em> and  directed much of the sequencing project. <\/p>\n<p>Commonly known as  thale cress, <em>Arabidopsis<\/em> was the  first flowering plant to have its entire genome unlocked. <em>Arabidopsis<\/em> is now widely considered one of the most important  model organisms for the study of plant genetics and genomes thanks in large  part to the genome project. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, Ecker&#8217;s  groundbreaking research on the gaseous plant hormone ethylene has yielded  fundamental insights into the mechanisms of plant growth control and has led to  the development of technologies that delay fruit ripening and disease  processes.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Ecker  and his team pioneered technological advances that allowed them to capture the  genome-wide DNA methylation pattern of <em>Arabidopsis <\/em>in one big sweep. Methylation is chemical modification of one letter C  (cytosine) of the four letters (A, G, C, and T) reiterated in our DNA. Adding a  bulky methyl group to a C often blocks interaction with proteins required to  activate gene expression, effectively silencing the methylated gene. <\/p>\n<p>The ability to take a high-resolution snapshot of what genes  are methylated and which ones aren&#8217;t during different developmental or disease  states will have broad impact on the analysis of the human genome, stem cell  biology and therapeutic cloning. <\/p>\n<h3>About Joe Ecker:<\/h3>\n<p> Joe Ecker  earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Pennsylvania State University College  of Medicine and carried out postdoctoral studies at Stanford University. He  served on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania (1987-2000) before  joining the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he is a professor in  the Plant Biology Laboratory and director of the Salk Institute Genomic  Analysis Laboratory. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ecker has  been the recipient of multiple honors, including the Kumho Science  International Award in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (2001), the  International Plant Growth Substances Association Distinguished Research Award  (2004), and the American Society for Plant Molecular Biology Martin Gibbs Medal  (2005). He was chosen as the Scientific American 50: Research Leader of the  Year in Agriculture in 2004. Dr. Ecker currently serves as President of the  International Society for Plant Molecular Biology.<\/p>\n<h3>About the National Academy of Sciences:<\/h3>\n<p>The National Academy  of Sciences is an organization of scientists and engineers established by  Congress and dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the  general welfare. It was established in 1863 by a congressional act of  incorporation, signed by Abraham Lincoln, which calls on the Academy to act as  an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of  science or technology.<\/p>\n<p>Additional  information about the Academy is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasonline.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.nasonline.org<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/h3>\n<p>The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla,  California is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to fundamental  discoveries in the life sciences, the improvement of human health, and the  training of future generations of researchers. Jonas Salk, M.D., whose polio  vaccine all but eradicated the crippling disease poliomyelitis in 1955, opened  the Institute in 1965 with a gift of land from the City of San Diego and the  financial support of the March of Dimes.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[42],"disease-research":[],"class_list":["post-1899","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry","faculty-joseph-ecker"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>National Academy of Sciences honors Joe Ecker with Carty Award - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/zh\/news-release\/national-academy-of-sciences-honors-joe-ecker-with-carty-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"zh_CN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"National Academy of Sciences honors Joe Ecker with Carty Award - Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"La Jolla, CA \u2013 The National Academy of Sciences has selected Joseph R. 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