Yasmin Chau, Tim Fallon and Geoff Liou successfully defended their PhD thesis in May. Congratulations to all three for this monumental career achievement!
Matthew Hill receives the 2019 NSF graduate research fellowship! Big congrats!
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.
Joe Jacobowitz’s paper on the function of two genetically redundant peroxidases in Arabidopsis pollen development is published this week in the journal Plant Cell. Congrats! Check out the Whitehead Institute news release here.
Electromicroscopy image of an Arabidopsis anther (yellow) filled with pollen grains (purple). Credit: Joseph Jacobowitz and Nicki Watson/Whitehead Institute
A fruitful pursuit: plant biology at whitehead institute
Decades of pioneering plant research at Whitehead Institute have led to biological insights and useful discoveries in the labs of Founding Member Gerald Fink, Member Mary Gehring, and Member Jing-Ke Weng.
Graduate student Joe Jacobowitz featured by MIT Biology on his thesis work analyzing new enzymes that could reveal key insights into pollen development and plant reproduction. Congrats!
