PCMB Facilities
Rightmire Hall
1060 Carmack Road
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Rightmire
Hall is home of the Plant Biotechnology Center as well as the Neuro-biotechnology
Center and Transgenic Mouse Facility.
Directions to Rightmire Hall
Rightmire Hall is located on the West Campus of The Ohio State
University, south of Lane Avenue, and just west of Kenny Road.
From
State Route 315: Exit at Lane Avenue. Turn west. Go to Kenny Road,
turn left (south). Go to the next light, which is Carmack Road, and turn
right. Once you turn onto Carmack, you will see a loop of buildings on the
right (north side of Carmack). Rightmire Hall is the last building on the
loop..
Parking: Visitor meter parking is available on the loop.
COTA Bus Service: The COTA Bus System serves the area, stopping
near Rightmire Hall. For schedule
information, please call (614) 228-1776 or visit COTA's
web site.
PCMB NEWS
Erich Grotewold Receives Grant from US-Israeli Binational Agricultural
Research and Development Fund
We are pleased to announce that Erich Grotewold has been awarded another new grant.
This is a 3-year award from the US-Israeli Binational Agricultural
Research and Development Fund. It is in the amount of $137,000 and is
entitled "Regulation of tomato fruit development by interacting MYB proteins.".
Erich Grotewold Receives DOE And NSF Grants
Erich Grotewold has been awarded 3-year grant in the amount o $449,390 from the DOE, entitled "Engineering phenolic metabolism in the grasses using transcription factors."
Erich has also been awarded a second, major grant from NSF (Plant Genome). It is a 3-year award in the amount of $2,479,632 entitled "The Grass Regulome Initiative: Integrating control of gene expression and agronomic traits across the grasses.
David Somers' Lab Published In Nature
David Somers’ group has published an article in Nature (Sept. 20)
entitled, “ZEITLUPE is a circadian photoreceptor stabilized by GIGANTEA
in blue light.” Woe-Yeon Kim and Sumire Fujiwara are co-first authors.
Erich Grotewold Awarded USDA Grant
Erich Grotewold has been awarded a grant from the USDA in the amount of $201,025 for a two-year study entitled, “Transposons as gene control elements.”
Rebecca Lamb Receives OPBC Award
Rebecca Lamb has received an award of $57,567 over two years from the OPBC for a study entitled, ”Two Arabidopsis WWE-PARP proteins involved in abiotic stress response and development.”
Plant Biotechnology In-Floor Seminar Series Schedule
Follow the link below for a schedule of informal 30-40 min seminars that
will take place at noon on Fridays in room 189 of Rightmire Hall.
Schedule
[pdf]
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