December 11, 2017: 3rd International Symposium on Mechanobiology in Singapore
Ryan Calcutt (Dixit lab) gives a talk on his thesis work at the 3rd International Symposium on Mechanobiology.
November 20, 2017: American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows
PMB faculty members Michael Caparon, Susan Dutcher, and Toni Kutchan (Danforth Center) are named as AAAS Fellows.
November 10, 2017: Monsanto Graduate Fellows Symposium
Erica Thomas (Zaher lab) presents her work on mRNA damage and modifications.
November 1, 2017: PMB Lunch: Career Development Opportunities
PMB students are deeply engaged in entrepreneurship, consulting, education, & outreach and share their experiences as part of the BioEntrepreneurship (BEC), Young Scientist (YSP), and Biotech and Life Science Advising (BALSA) groups.
September 21, 2017: Crashing Ribosomes and Quality Control
Leo Yan (Zaher lab) is a co-author
Simms et al. (2017 Mol Cell 68, 361) show that ribosome collisons are important for quality control in no-go decay.
September 8, 2017: ASPB Conviron Scholars Program
Hannah Lucas (Bart lab; Danforth Center), Kari Miller (1st year), and Maria Sorkin (Nusinow lab; Danforth Center) are selected as inaugural ASPB Conviron Scholars.
September 7, 2017: “… with a Little Help from My Friends”
Jim Umen (Danforth Center), Ursula Goodenough, and Joseph Heitman (Duke) preview work on how prokaryotes influence eukaryotic sexual reproduction.
August 24, 2017: Welcome to the Incoming PMB Class!
PMB welcomes Natasha Bilkey, Kiona Elliott, Ryan Emenecker, Erin Mattoon, and Kari Miller as they start graduate school.
August 21, 2017: Totality: PMB at the Eclipse
Thanks to Erica Thomas, her dad, & the Zaher lab for photos of the 2017 Total Eclipse!
August 18, 2017: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Frick (Strader lab). Libby will be joining the Klee Lab at U. Florida for her postdoc.
July 13, 2017: Student Gordon Research Conference Talk
Cynthia Holland (Jez lab) gives a talk in the “Rising Stars & New Ideas” session at the Plant Metabolic Engineering GRC.
July 12, 2017: Connecting Ion Channels and Calcium Signals During Aphid Feeding
Natasha Bilkey, an incoming PMB student, contributes to a Plant Cell article
Natasha’s undergraduate work with Simon Gilroy at U. WIsconsin-Madison is published in The Plant Cell.
June 26, 2017: All Roads Lead to Tyrosine
Schenck & Holland et al. 2017 Nature Chem Biol 13, 1029-35
Cynthia Holland (Jez lab) in collaboration with the Maeda lab finds the switch that leads to a new pathway in legumes.
June 26, 2017: Libby Frick Presents at Plant Biology 2017 in Honolulu
Libby (Strader lab) talks about her thesis work on the role of MAPK17 and Peroxisome & Mitochondrial Division Factor 1 in salt-induced peroxisome proliferation.
June 21, 2017: Congratulations to the 2017 William H. Danforth Plant Sciences Fellows
Ryan Calcutt (Dixit lab) and Jenny Shoots (Haswell lab) are this year’s fellows.
June 2, 2017: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Ashley Sherp (Jez lab). Ashley heads to Benson Hill Biosystems as a scientist.
May 26, 2017: Christina Stallings Named as a BWF Investigator
Prof. Stallings receives a 2017 BWF Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases Investigator grant.
May 8, 2017: Annual Varner Lecture
June Nasrallah (Cornell U) presents “From Genes to Receptors to Mating Systems in the Brassicaceae.”
March 31, 2017: How Cyanobacteria Went Green
Blankenship 2017 Science 355, 1372-3
Prof. Blankenship’s perspective on cyanobacterial evolution.
March 28, 2017: PMB Faculty Receive ASPB Awards
PMB faculty member Blake Meyers (Danforth Center) receives the Charles Albert Shull Award and Rick Vierstra is an ASPB Fellow.
March 17, 2017: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Jenny Shoots (Haswell lab) received a fellowship and Sarah Rommelfanger (Zhang lab) was an honorable mention.
March 7, 2017: Making New Cytochromes c in the Kranz Lab
PMB student Jeremy King (Blankenship lab) is a co-author
Mendez et al. (2017 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 114, 2235-40) engineering human cytochrome c synthase to generate new cytochrome c variants with diverse properties.
March 6, 2017: TEDx Talk
Dr. Jim Carrington (Danforth Center) gives a TEDx talk on the Science in Our Food.
February 28, 2017: PMB Faculty Member Tim Wencewicz Named a Cottrell Scholar
The Research Corporation for Science Advancement announces the 2017 Cottrell Scholars, which includes a $100,000 award for research and teaching.
February 21, 2017: Graduate Senate Symposium Prize
Cynthia Holland (Jez lab) wins 3rd Place Best Poster in the Sciences at the Graduate Senate Research Symposium.
February 17, 2017: Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Biomedical Fellows Award
Tara Enders (Strader lab) was named a 2017 fellow in recognition of her thesis work.
January 11, 2017: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Eric Hamilton (Haswell lab). Eric leaves for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Communications Office.