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Graduate Research Assistantship
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg

A graduate research assistantship (tuition plus stipend) is available starting April 1995 to work toward Ph.D. Research will focus on the role of the ubiquitin-dependent pathway of proteolysis during programmed cell death in plants. For more information contact Dr. Eric Beers, Department of Horticulture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0327; telephone 703-231-3210; fax 703-231-3083; e-mail ebeers@vt.edu.

Graduate Assistantships
University of South Dakota, Vermillion

Biology Department offers Ph.D. research programs. Research areas include plant responses to drought, high-temperatures, and low-temperatures. Students will be using laboratory techniques such as light microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, immunocytochemistry, gel electrophoresis, and immunoassays. Students will be exposed to a curriculum that includes lecture and laboratory courses, journal clubs, workshops, and other opportunites to develop speaking and writing skills. Graduate assistantships ($13,000/year) are available on a competitive basis. Contact Dr. Zoran Ristic, Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069; fax 605-677-6557; e-mail zristic@charlie.usd.edu.

A New Training Program
Maize: Bridging Basic Biology and Biotechnology
University of Missouri-Columbia

Contact: Dr. Kathleen Newton, Division of Biological Sciences, Tucker Hall, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia MO 65211; fax 314-882-0123, email nemerich@biosci.mbp.missouri.edu.

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