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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 ...
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Feb
15
2019
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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.” ...
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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 ...
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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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Mar
13
2018

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

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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 ...
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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 ...
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