Former BTI REU Intern Receives Fellowship from the American Society of Plant Biologists

Hannah De Jong, an undergraduate in the Georg Jander lab, received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB). This fellowship will pay for her summer research and a trip to the ASPB annual meeting in 2013.

Research in Georg Jander’s lab focuses on the interactions between Arabidopsis thaliana and aphids. During her internship, Hannah will be researching the relationship of how certain diseases and infections influence aphid preference for plants.