Jul 30 2015 Carnegie’s Frommer elected to German Academy By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA —Wolf B. Frommer, Director of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology, has been elected as a member of the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, one of the world’s oldest national academies. Leopoldina has a membership of about 1,500 ...
Jul 09 2015 Deep into deserts: A letter from Carnegie President Matthew Scott By Carnegie HQ In 1903 the Carnegie Institution established a Desert Laboratory to explore the properties of desert plants. From that humble stone building in Tucson, Arizona, eventually emerged our spectacular Department of Plant Biology on the Stanford ...
Jun 16 2015 Zhiyong Wang Receives Germany’s Humboldt Research Award By Carnegie HQ Washington, DC — Carnegie’s Zhiyong Wang will receive the Humboldt Research Award, one of Germany’s most-prestigious prizes. Granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation up to 100 times each year, the award honors academics “whose fundamental ...
May 28 2015 Quasi-sexual gene transfer and recombination drives genetic diversity of hot spring bacteria By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA — New work from a team including Carnegie’s Devaki Bhaya and Michelle Davison used massive DNA sequencing of bacterial populations that grow in the hot springs in Yellowstone National Park to determine their genetic diversity and ...
Apr 23 2015 Ehrhardt named Royal Microscopical Society honorary fellow By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA— Carnegie’s David Ehrhardt has been awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal Microscopical Society. It was announced during the society’s Botanical Microscopy 2015 meeting at Exeter University. Potential fellows must be nominated and ...
Apr 09 2015 Hormones that guide root growth rates revealed By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA— A plant's roots grow and spread into the soil, taking up necessary water and minerals. The tip of a plant's root is a place of active cell division followed by cell elongation, with different zones dedicated to different functions, all ...
Mar 20 2015 Food-delivery process inside seeds revealed By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA— Inside every seed is the embryo of a plant, and in most cases also a storage of food needed to power initial growth of the young seedling. A seed consists mainly of carbohydrates and these have to be is transported from the leaf where ...
Mar 15 2015 How do they do plant research without growing a thing? By Carnegie HQ Human health and survival depend in large part on the chemistry of plant metabolism. About a quarter of our prescription drugs and half of anticancer drugs come from plants. These compounds, called specialized or secondary metabolites, are used to ...
Nov 13 2014 Switching on a dime: how plants function in shade and light By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA— Photosynthesis is the process by which plants convert energy from the sunlight into chemical energy in the form of sugars. These sugars are used by plants to grow and function, as well as food for animals and humans that eat them. ...
Nov 13 2014 Carnegie Institution Receives Phase II Grand Challenges Explorations Funding By Carnegie HQ Washington, D.C.— Carnegie announced today that it will receive Phase II funding through Grand Challenges Explorations , an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables individuals worldwide to test bold ideas to ...