Norm will be visiting the lab several times in the second half of 2010 to talk to lab members, discuss research avenues in evolutionary genomics, and work on a collaborative project on gene flow between maize and its wild relatives.

Norm’s reaction, from a UC Riverside news report on the award:

"I am still in shock about the Guggenheim Fellowship because so few scientists receive this prestigious honor,” Ellstrand said. “Because the Guggenheim Foundation has given the same award to so many of my heroes, be they scientists, artists, photographers, intellectuals or writers that I have been in awe of, I am doubly humbled. I could not have received this without the longterm support of my department, my college, and the other wonderful folks at UC Riverside, not the least of whom are ‘TeamEllstrand,’ the good-hearted and hard-working folks in my lab over three decades.”