Jun 15 2017 Cesar Cuevas-Velasquez selected as Latin American Fellow for Pew Charitable Trusts By admin 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 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 By admin 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 ...
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 ...
Dec 14 2016 A plant’s response to heat stress fluctuates between day and night By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA— Climate change and recent heat waves have put agricultural crops at risk, which means that understanding how plants respond to elevated temperatures is crucial for protecting our environment and food supply. For many plants, even a ...