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Jun

15

2017

Carnegie’s Cesar-Cuevas Velazquez Announced Pew Latin American Fellow

By Carnegie HQ

Pew announced the 2017 classes of biomedical scholars, Latin American fellows, and Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research today. Cesar-Cuevas Velazquez of the Department of Plant Biology Dinneny lab is among 37 researchers selected. These new ...

Jun

15

2017

Cesar Cuevas-Velasquez selected as Latin American Fellow for Pew Charitable Trusts

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Ten pioneering postdoctoral scientists from Latin America will each be awarded two years of funding to conduct research at laboratories and academic institutions in the United States. The 2017 fellows are from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and ...

Jun

01

2017

Revealed: New step in plant mastermind hormone’s pathway

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —Plants are stationary. This means that the way they grow must be highly internally regulated to use the surrounding resources in the most-advantageous way possible. Just imagine if you were stuck in one spot and had to strategize to ...

May

19

2017

Jia-Ying Zhu Receives Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence (PIE) Award

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May

17

2017

International Fascination of Plants Day at Department of Plant Biology

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May

16

2017

Plant Biology’s Jia-Ying Zhu Receives Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence (PIE) Award

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C .--Plant Biology postdoctoral research associate since 2012, Jia-Ying Zhu was awarded the sixth PIE award for her creativity, productivity, being a great team player in research, “and also an active and caring member of the Carnegie ...

Apr

17

2017

Girls Advancing In Stem (GAINS) visit Department of Plant Biology

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Stanford, CA— Recently, Heike Lindner, Ximena Anleu Gil and Therese Suren LaRue led a group of 15 high school girls from around the country for a tour of Carnegie Science labs. The students loved meeting Heike, Ying and Threse, touring the work ...

Apr

17

2017

How do we tell 'good' science from 'great' science?

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Mar

16

2017

How improved valves let grasses “breathe,” cope with climate change

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA —New work from a joint team of plant biologists and ecologists from Carnegie and Stanford University has uncovered the factor behind an important innovation that makes grasses—both the kind that make up native prairies and the kind we’ ...

Jan

30

2017

Plant regulatory proteins “tagged” with sugar

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —New work from Carnegie’s Shouling Xu and Zhiyong Wang reveals that the process of synthesizing many important master proteins in plants involves extensive modification, or “tagging” by sugars after the protein is assembled. Their work ...

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