Congratulations to Greg Moorhead who was awarded the C.D. Nelson Award in August 2006 at the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists and the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists in Boston. This Award recognizes young plant physiologists whose "outstanding research contributions" show "originality and independence of thought." Following postdoctoral research with Philip Cohen and then Carol MacKintosh in the MRC Unit, Greg established his own group at the University of Calgary, Canada, where his research focuses on how protein phosphatases and nutrient sensors regulate cellular processes in plants and animal systems.