December 7, 2021: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Emenecker (Strader lab)! Ryan will join the Holehouse lab in the Biochemistry Department at WUMS.
October 21, 2021: Artificial Scaffolds for Studying Plant Development
Ryan Calcutt (Dixit lab) publishes in Science Advances on creating artificial scaffolds for studying plant development.
October 12, 2021: 2021 PMB Retreat
This year’s virtual retreat welcomes Prof. Ali Ellebedy (Dept. of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University Medical School) as our keynote speaker.
October 2, 2021: Remembering and Celebrating Dr. Danforth
The Washington University community celebrated the life of Dr. Danforth, who passed away last September, with a memorial service at Graham Chapel. Among his many accomplishments, including 24 years as Chancellor of Washington University, he was a champion of plant science and its role in the St. Louis region.
August 25, 2021: Creating supportive environments in academia for Black scientists to thrive
PMB students Kiona Elliot and Taylor Harris are co-authors on a Plant Cell letter outlining how to change STEM training.
August 17, 2021: CO2 metabolism in C3 plants – the role of carbonic anhydrase
Kristen Edgeworth (Nusinow lab) is a co-author on a PNAS paper from her undergraduate summer research with Maureen Hanson at Cornell.
August 16, 2021: Congratulations to the 2021 William H. Danforth Plant Science Fellows
Kristen Edgeworth (Nusinow lab), Lily O’Connor (Meyers lab), and William McHargue (Dixit lab) are the 2021 fellows. Ethan Abercrombie (Myers lab) is the inaugural George Hayward Plant Biology Graduate Fellow.
July 29, 2021: Uncovering hidden biosynthetic potential
Yunci Qi (Blodgett lab) is first author on a PNAS paper.
A comparative metabologenomic approach reveals mechanistic insights into Streptomyces antibiotic crypticity (Qi et al., 2021 PNAS 118, e2103515118)
July 29, 2021: Haswell Lab Science Paper
Plant PIEZO channels in moss and Arabidopsis modulate vacuolar morphology during tip growth.
June 7, 2021: Congratulations to Eric Conners
Eric (Bose lab) receives the 2021-2022 Howard A. Schneiderman Fellowship.
May 20, 2021: Welcome to PMB 2021!
Cheyenne Anderson, Katherine Benza, Vincent Brazelton, Aidan Flynn, Brian Gallagher, Stefanie King, Pratheek Pandesha
May 17, 2021: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Liewei (Leo) Yan (Zaher lab)! Leo will join the Kostova Lab at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Baltimore for his postdoc.
April 8, 2021: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Yunci Qi (Blodgett lab)! Yunci will be a postdoc with the USDA-ARS in New Oreleans.
March 15, 2021: Phospholipase C4, sphingolipids, and phosphate deficiency
Graduated PMB student Anne Phillips is a co-author on a Plant Cell paper examining how a non-specific phospholipase contributes to sphingolipid remodeling under nutrient stress.
February 2, 2021: NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) to Ram Dixit
Ram receives a $2 million MIRA from NIGMS to study the dynamics of intracellular scaffolds.