Outreach
Our Committment to Community
The Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology is committed to
academic and community outreach programs. Many of our faculty mentor
junior high and high school students through a variety of volunteer programs.
In addition, our faculty are available to provide seminars to nearby colleges,
universities, and civic organizations. The public is invited to attend
our seminar series featuring speakers from OSU and other academic institutions
addressing topics at the forefront of plant biology research. Click here to
view the current seminar schedule.
Our greenhouse offers tours for visiting groups at all levels and for many
interests. For inquiries and to schedule a tour see the Greenhouse
web site.
Please contact Dr. Randy Scholl to
request a speaker from our faculty.
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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