May 23 2019 How plant cells neutralize the potential for self-harm By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA— Photosynthesis makes our atmosphere oxygen-rich and forms the bedrock of our food supply. But under changing or stressful environmental conditions, the photosynthetic process can become unbalanced, resulting in an excess of highly ...
May 16 2019 Two New Venture Grants Awarded By Carnegie HQ The Office of the President has selected two new Carnegie Venture Grants. Peter Driscoll of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and Sally June Tracy of the Geophysical Laboratory were awarded a venture grant for their proposal Carbon-rich Super- ...
May 14 2019 Moises Exposito-Alonso Joins DPB By Garret W. Huntress In September 2019, evolutionary geneticist Moises Exposito-Alonso will join Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology as a staff associate, a prestigious position designed for early career scientists who are ready to independently deploy creative ...
Mar 21 2019 Revealing the plant genes that shaped our world By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA— The creation of new library of mutants of the single-celled photosynthetic green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii enabled a Carnegie- and Princeton University-led team of plant scientists to identify more than 300 genes that are ...
Feb 19 2019 Heather Meyer Receives Twelfth Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence Award By Carnegie HQ Heather Meyer, a postdoctoral fellow in David Ehrhardt’s Plant Biology lab since 2016, has been awarded Carnegie’s twelfth Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence Award. These prizes are given to postdocs for their exceptionally creative approaches ...
Feb 15 2019 9 In Memory of Winslow Briggs By Zhiyong Wang In Memory of Winslow Briggs, a luminary who shed light on plants and enlightened people We are deeply saddened that our beloved and respected friend and colleague Professor and Director Emeritus Winslow Briggs passed away peacefully on February 11, ...
Feb 12 2019 Winslow Briggs, who discovered how plant seedlings grow toward light, dies at 90 By Carnegie HQ Washington, DC— Carnegie’s Winslow Briggs, a giant in the field of plant biology who explained how seedlings grow toward light, died on February 11 at Stanford University Medical Center. He was 90. Briggs joined Carnegie as the Director of the ...
Jan 22 2019 Worms help Carnegie and Stanford biologists investigate how plant-derived neurological drugs work By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA— For millennia, humanity has used medicinal plants and plant-based compounds to treat a variety of neurological ailments including epilepsy, mania, migraines, and bipolar disorder. Now a team of researchers from Carnegie and Stanford ...
Dec 06 2018 Could algae that are “poor-providers” help corals come back after bleaching? By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA— How much of the ability of a coral reef to withstand stressful conditions is influenced by the type of algae that the corals hosts? Corals are marine invertebrates from the phylum called cnidarians that build large exoskeletons from ...
Oct 05 2018 Carnegie’s Devaki Bhaya named California Academy of Sciences Fellow By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA— Carnegie’s Devaki Bhaya has been named a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. She is one of 14 new members selected as “partners and collaborators in the pursuit of the Academy mission to explore, explain, and sustain life.” ...