Ms. Maki Hayashi, a third-year doctoral student at the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, has received the Japan Encouragement Prize of the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science 2015. Under the philosophy of the Award program, this prize is one of the domestic prizes awarded to doctoral or postdoctoral young female scientists in over 60 countries around the world, with the aim of encouraging and supporting their research at domestic research or educational institutions for one year.
With "Molecular mechanism of blue light regulation of stomatal opening" as her research subject, she is working to understand plants' environmental response and create useful plants by revealing the mechanism of the opening of stomata in plants.
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