Graduate student Emily Yang received a JBC/Herb Tabor Young Investigator Award at the 2017 International Conference on Arabidopsis Research in St. Louis, Mo.  "She did a wonderful job presenting her PhD work at the meeting," said her mentor Meng Chen (UC-Riverside).  The Tabor Awards are given annually to students, postdocs, and pre-tenure faculty members who exemplify Herb Tabor’s values of creativity and scientific excellence.