News

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.” ...

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 ...

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