News

Nov

22

2011

Big Boost to Plant Research

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA--The four largest nonprofit plant science research institutions in the U.S. have joined forces to form the Association of Independent Plant Research Institutes (AIPI) in an effort to target plant science research to meet the profound ...

Nov

21

2011

The Carnegie Institution welcomes the Dinneny lab to the Department of Plant Biology

By admin

José Dinneny and 5 members of his lab have moved from the Temasek Lifesciences Laboratory in Singapore to their new home in building 100 of the DPB. José is no stranger to the Bay Area as he received his BS from the Department of Plant and Microbial ...

Aug

18

2011

New component of a plant steroid-activated pathway discovered

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA —Plant biologists have been working for years to nail down the series of chemical signals that one class of plant hormones, called brassinosteroids, send from a protein on the surface of a plant cell to the cell’s nucleus. New research ...

Jul

12

2011

Carnegie Institution at Stanford Ranked One of Best Places to Work in Academia

By admin

The Carnegie Institution at Stanford has been ranked one of the best places in academia to work. You can read more about this ranking in this recent article published in The Scientist.

Jun

15

2011

What makes a plant a plant?

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA — Although scientists have been able to sequence the genomes of many organisms, they still lack a context for associating the proteins encoded in genes with specific biological processes. To better understand the genetics underlying ...

Jun

15

2011

What makes a plant a plant?

By admin

Palo Alto, CA — Although scientists have been able to sequence the genomes of many organisms, they still lack a context for associating the proteins encoded in genes with specific biological processes.

Jun

09

2011

Turning point: Martin Jonikas

By admin

How did you become interested in biology? During my undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, I took a required course in molecular biology. Biological machines can make complex proteins ...

Apr

11

2011

Shaping the Leaf Blade – Identification of a New Mechanism to Prevent HD-ZIPIII Dimerization

By admin

Leaf cells are specialized to optimize photosynthesis. Cells in the upper portion of the leaf are tightly packed and dense with chloroplasts to capture light energy. Cells in the lower portion are more irregularly shaped and loosely arranged to ...

Jan

24

2011

Nailing down a crucial plant signaling system

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— Plant biologists have discovered the last major element of the series of chemical signals that one class of plant hormones, called brassinosteroids, send from a protein on the surface of a plant cell to the cell’s nucleus. Although ...

Dec

13

2010

Unlocking the secrets of a plant’s light sensitivity

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— Plants are very sensitive to light conditions because light is their source of energy and also a signal that activates the special photoreceptors that regulate growth, metabolism, and physiological development. Scientists believe that ...

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