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 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 ...