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 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 ...
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 ...
Jan 09 2018 Seeing in the dark: how plant roots perceive water through growth By Carnegie HQ Washington, DC — Without eyes, ears, or a central nervous system, plants can perceive the direction of environmental cues and respond to ensure their survival. For example, roots need to extend through the maze of nooks and crannies in the soil ...
Oct 04 2017 Science News Selected Carnegie’s José Dinneny as “Scientist to Watch” By Carnegie HQ Science News magazine has selected José Dinneny, of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology, as one of ten young scientists to watch in 2017. The researchers were selected because they are likely to make big discoveries. The investigators are ...