News

May

24

2019

How corn’s ancient ancestor swipes left on crossbreeding

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— Determining how one species becomes distinct from another has been a subject of fascination dating back to Charles Darwin. New research led by Carnegie’s Matthew Evans and published in Nature Communications elucidates the mechanism ...

May

23

2019

How plant cells neutralize the potential for self-harm

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— Photosynthesis makes our atmosphere oxygen-rich and forms the bedrock of our food supply. But under changing or stressful environmental conditions, the photosynthetic process can become unbalanced, resulting in an excess of highly ...

May

16

2019

Two New Venture Grants Awarded

By Carnegie HQ

The Office of the President has selected two new Carnegie Venture Grants. Peter Driscoll of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and Sally June Tracy of the Geophysical Laboratory were awarded a venture grant for their proposal Carbon-rich Super- ...

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 ...

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