November 14, 2016: Metabolic Crosstalk in Auxin and Salicylic Acid Homeostasis
Ashley Sherp (Jez lab) is a co-first author
Westfall CS* & Sherp AM* et al. (2016 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 113, 13917-22) describe how the GH3.5 acyl acid amido synthetase mediates metabolic crosstalk in auxin and salicylic acid homeostasis in Arabidopsis.
October 28, 2016: Vierstra Lab Science Paper
Mutant plants reveal temperature sensor
Legris et al., 2016 Science (354, 897-900) reveals how a phytochrome integrates light and temperature signals.
October 9, 2016: Presidential Debate
PMB Student Jenny Shoots was selected in the lottery for seats to attend the debate!
October 4, 2016: PMB Students Host Professor Susan Golden (UCSD) as their Fall Invited Seminar Speaker
September 26, 2016: NSF Grant launches the Center for Engineering Mechanobiology
PMB Faculty Ram Dixit, Guy Genin, Liz Haswell, and Lucia Strader are part of a new NSF Science & Technology Center.
September 22, 2016: PMB Faculty Member Liz Haswell Named an HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Simons Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the selection of 84 faculty scholars, early-career scientists who have great potential to make unique contributions to their fields.
September 15, 2016: PMB Science Papers
Ashley Sherp (Jez lab) is a co-author.
The Jez and Kutchan labs contribute to the Plant Translational Biology special issue. See Jez JM, Lee SG, Sherp AM 2016 Science 353, 1241-4 and Wurtzel ET, Kutchan TM 2016 Science 343, 1232-6.
August 26, 2016: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Amelia Nguyen (Pakrasi lab). Amelia leaves for Washington, DC and her position as a Presidential Management Fellow with the EPA.
August 7, 2016: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Tara Enders (Strader lab). She heads to the University of Minnesota for a postdoc in the Springer lab.
August 7, 2016: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Wan Shi (Running & Kunkel labs). Wan will join the Estelle lab at UC-San Diego for his postdoc.
June 28, 2016: Student Gordon Research Conference Talk
Angela Schlegel (Haswell Lab) presents a talk at the Bacterial Cell Surfaces GRC in the Membrane Dynamics Session.
June 22, 2016: Monsanto Fellowship
Erica Thomas (Zaher lab) receives a 3-year fellowship from the Monsanto Excellence Fund for Graduate Fellowships in the Life Sciences.
June 15, 2016: Congratulations to the 2016 William H. Danforth Plant Sciences Fellows
Jordan Brock (EEPB; Olsen lab) and Gretchen Walljasper (EEPB; Dantas lab) are this year’s fellows.
May 20, 2016: TEDx Talk
Prof. Joe Jez’s TEDx talk on The Once & Future Green Factory from November’s Catalyst event.
May 4, 2016: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Sheri McClerklin (Kunkel lab) – she heads to Chicago as the Director of Biology at the Chicago Art Institute School.
May 3, 2016: BALSA & Nature Careers
Amelia Nguyen (Pakrasi lab) was highlighted in an article in Nature on her work with BALSA, a non-profit cons
April 18, 2016: Annual Varner Lecture
Elliot Meyerowitz (Cal Tech) presents “Chemical and Mechanical Signals in Control of a Plant Stem Cell Niche.”
March 29, 2016: NSF Honorable Mentions
Samantha Powers (Strader & Jez labs) and Erica Thomas (Zaher lab) were honorable mentions in this year’s NSF-GRF competition.
March 19, 2016: iBiology Young Scientist Seminar Series
Eric Hamilton (Haswell lab) is one of four winners and will travel to San Francisco to record his seminar in May.
March 8, 2016: Biotech Internship
Ashley Sherp (Jez lab) will start a Discovery Trait Breeder internship at Monsanto this May.
February 24, 2016: Presidential Management Fellows Finalist
Amelia Nguyen (Pakrasi lab) was selected as a 2016 PMF.
February 24, 2016: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Jeremy King (Blankenship lab). He heads to Los Angeles for his postdoc in the Williams lab at the City of Hope National Medical Center.
February 8, 2016: Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Biomedical Fellows Award
David Korasick (Strader & Jez labs) was named a 2016 Olin Fellow in recognition of his thesis work.
January 11, 2016: ASBMB Travel Award
Cynthia Holland (Jez lab) receives a travel award to attend Experimental Biology in San Diego this April.