Dartmouth biology professor Mary Lou Guerinot receives the Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Award

Dartmouth biology professor Mary Lou Guerinot receives the Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Award

On June 25, biology professor Mary Lou Guerinot received the Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Award from the North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee for her research on plant metal transporters. Arabidopsis, a small flowering weed, is commonly used amongst scientists "to study how plants grow and develop, photosynthesize, produce valuable nutrients, or withstand stress and pathogens." To qualify for the Lifetime …