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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.” ...

Sep

20

2018

Venture Grant Awarded to Dionysis Foustoukos and Sue Rhee

By Carnegie HQ

A new Venture Grant has been awarded to the Geophysical Laboratory’s Dionysis Foustoukos and Sue Rhee of the Department of Plant Biology, with colleague Costantino Vetriani of Rutgers University for their project Deciphering Life Functions in ...

Apr

09

2018

Carnegie’s Arthur Grossman Receives Human Frontier Science Program Grant

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA—Senior scientist Arthur Grossman of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology was part of a team* awarded a three-year grant, with $100,000 for each year, from the International Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Organization. The team ...

Mar

13

2018

18th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, Washington DC, June 17-21, 2018

By admin

Carnegie's Arthur Grossman is spearheading the organization of the conference, sponsored by Carnegie's Department of Plant Biology, which will be held at Carnegie Science's Headquarters in our nation's capitol. The program will have an international ...

Feb

16

2018

Walls, toxicity and explosions: How plant cells protect themselves from salinity in soil

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —Roots face many challenges in the soil in order to supply the plant with the necessary water and nutrients. New work from Carnegie and Stanford University’s José Dinneny shows that one of these challenges, salinity, can cause root ...

Jan

31

2018

Winslow Briggs' 90th Birthday Symposium: April 19, 2018

By admin

A Celebration of 66 Years of Photobiology Research: Winslow Briggs has been conducting and publishing research for 66 years, right up to the present day (he is presently growing and measuring fava bean plants in the greenhouse). His incomparable ...

Jan

09

2018

Seeing in the dark: how plant roots perceive water through growth

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — Without eyes, ears, or a central nervous system, plants can perceive the direction of environmental cues and respond to ensure their survival. For example, roots need to extend through the maze of nooks and crannies in the soil ...

Oct

04

2017

Science News Selected Carnegie’s José Dinneny as “Scientist to Watch”

By Carnegie HQ

Science News magazine has selected José Dinneny, of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology, as one of ten young scientists to watch in 2017. The researchers were selected because they are likely to make big discoveries. The investigators are ...

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