December 17, 2020: Molecular Cell paper from the Zaher lab
PMB student Leo Yan reports how ribosome quality control antagonizes activation of stress response on colliding ribosomes. The WUSTL Source highlights the work on how ribosomes avoid a ‘full lockdown.’
November 25, 2020: American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
PMB faculty member Barbara Kunkel is named as a AAAS Fellow. Seven WUSTL faculty were elected Fellows this year – congratulations to all!
October 17, 2020: PMB Retreat – Virtual Style!
This year’s virtual retreat welcomes Prof. Gerry Wright (Director of the Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University) as our keynote speaker.
October 16, 2020: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Dinesh Gupta (Bose lab)! Dinesh heads to UC-Berkeley for a postdoc in the Nayak lab.
September 11, 2020: New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Angela Schlegel (Haswell lab)!
September 1, 2020: Welcome to the Incoming 2020 PMB Class – Adrienne Brauer, Kristen Edgeworth, Olivia Gomez, Cooper Hostetler, Alexander Liu, and Edward Lopatto
July 30, 2020: PMB Student Maria Sorkin Presents at Plant Biology 2020
Maria (Nusinow lab) talks about her work on a comprehensive interactome for the Arabidopsis circadian clock.
July 25, 2020: Structure of a Plant Mechanosensitive Channel
PMB Student Angela Schlegel (Haswell lab) is a co-author
July 17, 2020: Congratulations to the 2020 William H. Danforth Plant Science Fellow
Emma Frawley (EEPB, Olsen lab) is named as a 2020 Danforth Fellow.
July 1, 2020: New PMB Co-Director – Hani Zaher
Thank you Petra for 6 years as co-program director! And welcome to Hani Zaher as he becomes a co-program director.
June 4, 2020: Controlling Microtubule Stability
Former PMB student Chuanmei Zhu is a co-author on Ganguly et al. (2020) FRA1 kinesin modulates the lateral stability of cortical microtubules through cellulose synthase-microtubule uncoupling protein. Plant Cell 32, 2508
March 31, 2020: NSF Honorable Mention
Ed Wilkinson (Strader lab) and incoming PMB students Alexander Liu & Edward Lopatto were honorable mentions in this year’s NSF-GRFP competition.
February 28, 2020: Skandalaris Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Global Impact Award Finalist
PMB alum Ben Wolf (Blankenship lab), Zuzana Kocsisova, and Raf Saer launched Engine2Photonics in 2018 and are finalists for the Global Impact Award.