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The ACS International Award for Research in Agrochemicals is given to a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the field of agrochemicals at the international level. Their vision and sustained contributions will have opened new horizons for other investigators in their field and beyond. Nominations are now being sought for the 2022 Award winner to be presented at the ACS Fall 2023 National Meeting in San Francisco, California.  This award includes an honorarium of $5000 USD. Deadline for nominations is December 31, 2022. For details on the nomination process, see the the Call for Nominations.

For more information, please contact Qing Li, AGRO Awards Committee Chair, 808-956-2011.

2022 Award Recipient

Jeffrey G. Scott is being recognized for his work on insecticide resistance and insect toxicology. He received his B.S. in biochemistry from Michigan State University (MSU) and M.S. degree in entomology also from MSU working with Professor Fumio Matsumura studying the mode of action of pyrethroid and cyclodiene insecticides. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside, working with Professor George Georghiou and studying the biochemistry and genetics of pyrethroid resistance in house flies. His work at Riverside also included collaborations with Professors Tom Miller, Roy Fukuto, and Toshio Shono.

Jeffrey was a postdoctoral associate studying the mode of action and metabolism of bicycloorthocarboxylate insecticides with John Casida at University of California, Berkeley. He then joined the Department of Entomology at Cornell and was promoted to full professor in 1998. His work has focused on diverse areas including insect toxicology, insecticide resistance, pest control, and the evolution of sex determination in house flies. From 2013 – 2015 he spearheaded the global effort to sequence and annotate the house fly genome.

Increased detoxification of insecticides is a major mechanism of resistance, but the large number of genes coding for enzymes capable of insecticide metabolism in any given species is large, making identification of the specific protein (or gene coding for the protein) a significant challenge. Jeffrey’s research group has tackled this problem with protein purification, heterologous expression, RNAi, genetics, molecular biology, proteomics and transcriptomic analyses. His lab was the first to purify (to a high specific content) a single P450 from an insect and identify how a mutation in the CYP6D1v1 promoter increased expression of this protein leading to pyrethroid resistance.

An important mechanism by which insects evolve resistance is due to changes in the target site of the insecticide. His group has actively pursued this line of research across multiple classes of insecticides (organochlorines, cyclodienes, organophosphates, carbamates, pyrethroids, neonicotinoids, spinosyns, etc.) and has documented both the nature of the mutations involved and the frequency of these mutations in different populations. Jeffrey also made significant contributions to our understanding of the population genetics of resistance and to our understanding of the fitness costs of insecticide resistance. His group has successfully used molecular tools to genotype individual insects that has revolutionized our understanding of these aspects of insecticide resistance.

In recognition of his research achievements, Jeffrey has received numerous awards, including Fellow of the Entomological Society of America and the Recognition Award in Insect Physiology, Biochemistry and Physiology from the Entomological Society of America.

In addition to his research Professor Scott has regularly taught two classes dealing with pesticides: Pesticides, Human Health, and the Environment and Insecticide Toxicology. Numerous graduate students, undergraduates, postdocs and visiting scientists have received training in the Scott lab which has been funded primarily by the NIH and USDA.

 

Past Awardees

2021

David B. Satelle, University College London, London, UK

2020

Qing X. Li, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa, Hawai‘i

2019

Vincent L. Salgado, BASF, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

2018

Stephen Powles, University of Western Australia, Australia

2017

Jeffrey Bloomquist, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

2016

Yoshihisa Ozoe, Shimane University, Japan

2015

Keith D. Wing, formerly of Rohm and Haas and DuPont Crop Protection, Wilmington, DE

2014

Ralf Nauen, Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany

2013

René Feyereisen, National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA), France

2012

Thomas C. Sparks, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

2011

George P. Lahm, DuPont Crop Science, Newark, Delaware

2010

Shinzo Kagabu, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan

2009

R. Donald Wauchope, USDA-ARS (retired), Tifton, Georgia

2008

David M. Soderlund, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

2007

Gerald T. Brooks, University of Sussex (retired), Brighton, UK

2007

Fredrick J. Perlak, Monsanto, St. Louis, Missouri

2006

Joel Coats, Iowa State University, Ames

2006

Isamu Yamaguchi, Agricultural Chemicals Inspection Station, Tokyo, Japan

2005

Robert Krieger, University of California-Riverside

2005

Janice E. Chambers, Mississippi State University, Starkville

2004

Stephen Duke, USDA-ARS, Oxford, Mississippi

2004

John Marshall Clark, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

2003

Hideo Ohkawa, Kobe University, Japan

2003

Bob Hollingworth, Michigan State University, East Lansing

2002

Marinus Los, American Cyanamid, Princeton, New Jersey

2002

Keith Solomon, University of Guelph, Canada

2001

Ralph Mumma, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

2001

Donald Crosby, University of California-Davis

2000

Herbert B. Scher, Zeneca, Richmond, California

2000

George P. Georghiou, University of California-Riverside

1999

James Seiber, University of Nevada-Reno

1999

Don Baker, Zeneca, Richmond, California

1998

Leslie Crombie, University of Nottingham, England

1998

George Levitt, DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware

1997

Izuru Yamamoto, University of Tokyo, Japan

1997

Fritz Führ, Institute of Chemistry and Dynamic, Jülich, Germany

1996

Klaus Naumann, Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany

1996

Günther Voss, Ciba, Basel, Switzerland

1995

Mohyee Eldefrawi, University of Maryland-Baltimore

1995

Koji Nakanishi, Columbia University, New York, New York

1994

Toshio Fujita, Kyoto University, Japan

1993

Morifusa Eto, Kyushu University, Fukoka, Japan

1992

Bruce Hammock, University of California-Davis

1991

Stuart Frear, USDA-ARS, Fargo, North Dakota

1990

David Schooley, University of Nevada-Reno

1989

Toshio Narahashi, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

1988

Ernest Hodgson, North Carolina State University

1987

Fumio Matsumura, Michigan State University, East Lansing

1986

James Tumlinson, USDA-ARS, Gainesville, Florida

1985

Junshi Miyamoto, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Japan

1984

Jacques Jean Martel, Roussel Uclaf, Paris, France

1983

Karl Heinz Buechel, Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany

1982

Jack R. Plimmer, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, Maryland

1981

Philip C. Kearney, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, Maryland

1980

Minoru Nakajima, Kyoto University, Japan

1979

Milton S. Schechter, USDA-ARS (retired), Beltsville, Maryland

1978

Julius J. Menn, Stauffer Chemical Co., Mountain View, California

1977

Francis A. Gunther, University of California-Riverside

1976

Morton Beroza, USDA-ARS (retired), Beltsville, Maryland

1975

Michael Elliot, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, England

1974

T. Roy Fukuto, University of California-Riverside

1973

Hubert Martin, British Crop Protection Council, London, England

1972

Ralph L. Wain, Wye College, University of London,England

1971

Robert L. Metcalf, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urban

1970

Richard D. O’Brien, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

1969

John E. Casida, University of California-Berkley

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