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Oct

06

2015

Carnegie’s Jonikas and Zhang Receive Prestigious NIH Awards

By Carnegie HQ

Two researchers, Martin Jonikas of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology and Zhao Zhang of the Department of Embryology, have been awarded the New Innovator and Early Independence Awards, respectively, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). ...

Sep

30

2015

New nanoscale visualization method to unravel photosynthesis

By Carnegie HQ

Carnegie’s Arthur Grossman teamed up with engineers at Stanford University (including Fritz Prinz and graduate student s Zubin Hu ang and Witchukorn Phuthong) to develop the use of atomic force microscopy to determine the structures of ...

Sep

01

2015

SFGate: Glowing roots illuminate plant secrets

By Carnegie HQ

On SFGate: Carnegie's José Dinneny uses firefly proteins to light up certain plants and reveal root system behavior. More

Aug

19

2015

Firefly protein enables visualization of roots in soil

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA — Plants form a vast network of below-ground roots that search soil for needed resources. The structure and function of this root network can be highly adapted to particular environments, such as desert soils where plants like Mesquite ...

Jul

30

2015

Carnegie’s Frommer elected to German Academy

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —Wolf B. Frommer, Director of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology, has been elected as a member of the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, one of the world’s oldest national academies. Leopoldina has a membership of about 1,500 ...

Jul

09

2015

Deep into deserts: A letter from Carnegie President Matthew Scott

By Carnegie HQ

In 1903 the Carnegie Institution established a Desert Laboratory to explore the properties of desert plants. From that humble stone building in Tucson, Arizona, eventually emerged our spectacular Department of Plant Biology on the Stanford ...

Jun

26

2015

Carnegie and friends celebrate Arthur Grossman's 65th birthday

By admin

Jun

23

2015

Martin Jonikas

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Jun

16

2015

Zhiyong Wang Receives Germany’s Humboldt Research Award

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — Carnegie’s Zhiyong Wang will receive the Humboldt Research Award, one of Germany’s most-prestigious prizes. Granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation up to 100 times each year, the award honors academics “whose fundamental ...

May

28

2015

Quasi-sexual gene transfer and recombination drives genetic diversity of hot spring bacteria

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA — New work from a team including Carnegie’s Devaki Bhaya and Michelle Davison used massive DNA sequencing of bacterial populations that grow in the hot springs in Yellowstone National Park to determine their genetic diversity and ...

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