Lab News
Lab Members Recently Featured on Popular Podcast
Lab members Ali Schuessler and Brad Posch were recently featured on the popular podcast: In Defense of Plants. You can listen to Ali’s feature titled “Soil Microbes and Desert Plant Restoration” here. And you can listen to Brad’s feature here. You can...
New Paper Published By Current Postdoc, Dr. Brad Posch
Physiological acclimation to temperature fluctuations has been recognized for decades as a critically important coping mechanism for heat stress in plants. Yet there remains a limited understanding of the patterns of thermal acclimation in the most fundamental and...
New paper published by former PhD student Dr. Giacomo Mozzi
Paper recently published in the Annals of Botany showing how the succulent leaves differ from non-succulent leaves in their structure and function.
New paper published by Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dr. Brad Posch
Paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing how leaf cooling boosts tree survival during intense heat waves.
Completion of M.S. by lab member, Mary Chisholm
Mary Chisholm successfully defended her thesis in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Mary studied growth rings of box elder trees to determine whether male and female trees respond differently to stress caused by drought and heat exposure. Congratulations Mary!
Launch of Global Water Potential Network by Lab Member Dr. Jessica Guo and Colleagues
The National Science Foundation funded Global Water Potential Network, PSInet was recently launched by lab member Dr. Jessica Guo and colleague Dr. Kimberly Novick (University of Indiana).