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!
The Weng lab resolved the molecular structure of pine sporopollenin. A paper describing this work is published today at Nature Plants. The news release from the Whitehead institute can be accessed here. Special thanks to the Hong lab of MIT Chemistry, our fantastic collaborator on this project!
Electron micrograph of mixed plant pollen grains. Credit: Louisa Howard.
Many congrats to Olesya for successfully defending her PhD thesis! The first PhD out of the Weng Lab.
Roland Kersten’s paper on discovery and engineering of plant lyciumin-type branched cyclic peptides is out today. Check out the paper here, and the news release from Whitehead Institute.
“To make better biomedical research tools, a grad student picks apart fireflies’ glow“—STAT news of The Boston Globe covers our latest paper on sequencing and analyzing the firefly genomes.
Jing-Ke Weng is one of the five recipients of the Inaugural Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award. Building on the successful 25-year history of the Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research, the Foundation created the Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award in 2017 to fuel creativity and innovation in junior investigators in the basic sciences. The Odyssey Awards support the pursuit of high-impact ideas to generate breakthroughs and drive new directions in biomedical research. The awards fund high-risk, high-reward pilot projects solicited from the brightest junior faculty in the region.
