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 Dr.
Alejandro Calderon-Urrea, an associate professor of biology at
California State University, Fresno, will receive the 2008 Andreoli
Biotechnology Service Award on Saturday, Jan. 12, during at the 20th
annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium in Oakland.
The award recognizes a faculty member from the 23-campus California
State University system who has made outstanding contributions to the
development of biotechnology.
It is named in memory of Dr. Anthony Andreoli of California State
University, Los Angeles. He was committed to the idea that the CSU has a
special role in higher education by providing opportunities to a large
population of nontraditional students with fewer options for
advancement.
Since joining the Fresno State faculty in 1997, Calderon-Urrea has
served as the principal investigator for a grant that helps train
minority students for biomedical study and employment. He received the
2006 Provost's Award for Graduate Teaching and Mentoring and the 2005
Claude Laval, Jr. Award for Innovative Technology and Research.
He obtained his bachelor's degree from Universidad del Valle in
Colombia, his master's degree from Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium
and his Ph.D.
from Yale University. His postdoctoral work focused on understanding the
molecular mechanisms involved during plant-pathogen interaction.
During summer 2007, Calderon arranged for four Fresno State biology
students to participate in Yale's elite summer program of classroom and
lab research in genomics and bioinformatics, which use computers to
analyze biological data, some of which is locked in genetic code.
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