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Kevin Cox, an associate professor of biology in the Arts & Sciences division at Washington University in St. Louis, received the 2025 Eric E. Conn Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Plant Biologists. This honor acknowledges not only exceptional research but also remarkable performance in outreach, civic engagement, mentoring, or teaching by early-career plant scientists.

At WashU, Cox employs spatial and single-cell genomics, imaging, and molecular biology techniques to reveal the spatial arrangement of genes in plants, aiming to decipher the communication processes within plant cells. He emphasizes plant-microbe interactions and the biology of duckweed. Additionally, Cox serves as an assistant member and principal investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.

The article Biologist Cox wins young investigator award was first published on The Source.

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