December 28, 2015: Happy Holidays from PMB
PMB and the WU Biology Department celebrated the holidays with an annual cookie contest sponsored by the Strader lab.
December 18, 2015: USDA-NIFA Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Libby Frick (Strader lab) receives a 2-year fellowship!
December 9, 2015: Prof. Petra Levin is a Fulbright Scholar
Petra leaves for Amsterdam this month to lecture and conduct research on the physiological control of bacterial cell size.
December 7, 2015: Cyanobacterial Carbon Metabolism
Sarah Rommelfanger (Umen Lab) is a co-author
Xiong W, Lee TC, Rommelfanger S, Gjersing E, Cano M, Maness PC, Ghiradi M, Yu J (2015) Phosphoketolase pathway contributes to carbon metabolism in cyanobacteria. Nature Plants 2, 15187
November 25, 2015: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Matt Kilgore (Kutchan lab). Matt heads to the Dudareva lab at Purdue University for his postdoc.
October 22, 2015: Haswell Lab Science Paper
Eric Hamilton & Ashley Sherp are authors.
Mechanosensitive channel MSL8 regulates osmotic forces during pollen hydration and germination. Hamilton ES, Jensen GS, Maksaev G, Katims A, Sherp AM, Haswell ES (2015) Science 350, 438-4
October 15, 2015: Prof. Arpita Bose is a 2015 Packard Fellow
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation named Arpita as one of 18 Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. Each Fellow receives a grant of $875,000 over five years to pursue their research.
August 28, 2015: Prof. Bob Blankenship Wins St. Louis ACS Midwest Award
Congratulations Bob!
August 15, 2015: Rethinking Statistical Testing of Plant Data
Eric Hamilton (Haswell lab) is a co-author on a Plant Cell paper
Brady SM, Burow M, Busch W, Carlborg O, Denby KJ, Glazebrook J, Hamilton ES, Harmer SL, Haswell ES, Maloof JN, Springer NM, Kliebenstein DJ (2015) Reasses the t test: interact with all your data via ANOVA. Plant Cell 27,
July 2015: Understanding Second-Site Mutations and Auxin Binding Protein Phenotypes
Tara Enders (Strader lab) publishes in Plant Cell
Enders TA, Oh S, Yang Z, Montgomery DL, Strader LC (2015) Genome sequencing of Arabidopsis abp1-5 reveals second-site mutations that may affect phenotypes. Plant Cell 27, 1820-6
July 14, 2015: Tara Enders (Stader Lab) Presents in Paris
Tara gave a poster highlight talk at the 26th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research in Paris, France on how the Arabidopsis MAP kinase 1 negatively regulates ROP activity through ROP binding protein in an auxin-dependent manner.
June 16, 2015: Congratulations to the 2015 William H. Danforth Plant Sciences Fellows
David Goad (Olsen & Kellogg labs), Cynthia Holland (Jez lab), Samantha Powers (Strader & Jez labs), Kristin Wendt (Pakrasi lab), Benjamin Wolf (Blankenship lab), and Anne Zimmerman
June 8, 2015: Amelia Nguyen (Pakrasi Lab) Attends the ASCB/Keck Graduate Institute’s Managing Science in the Biotech Industry Course
The course is offered by The American Society for Cell Biology and Keck Graduate Institute, with generous funding from EMD Millipore.
May 20, 2015: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. David Korasick (Strader & Jez labs). David will join the Tanner lab at the University of Missouri-Columbia for his postdoc.
Dr. Chilton was an honorary degree recipient at commencement.
May 15, 2015: Prof. Lucia Strader receives an NSF CAREER Award
The NSF’s CAREER Award supports junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.
April 21, 2015: Eric Hamilton (Haswell Lab) is a 2015 AAAS Mass Media Fellow
Eric will be assigned to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and sponsored by the American Society for Plant Biologists. Congratulations Eric!
This 10-week summer program places science, engineering and mathematics students at media organizations nationwide. Fellows use their academic training as they research, write and report today’s headlines; sharpening their abilities to communicate complex scientific issues to the public.
April 21, 2015: Prof. Bob Blankenship in the New York Times
Read about what he has to say in the article: Our Ever Green World
February 20, 2015: Prof. Ram Dixit Receives an NSF CAREER Award
Ram’s CAREER award is to study the mechanisms underlying plant morphogenesis.
