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Eduardo Acosta

Mr. Eduardo Acosta
Laboratory Coordinator, Web Master, Equipment Coordinator & Jack of all Trades
B.S., The Ohio State University, 1994.

Contact:
The Ohio State University
Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology
054A Jennings Hall
1735 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210

Office: 614.292.4757
Fax: 614.292.6345
e-Mail: Acosta.2@osu.edu

Laboratory Coordinator :

Responsible for the care and maintenance of all aspects of the teaching laboratories for PCMB 101, PCMB102 and PCMB 300.

Webmaster:

OSU Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology (design and webmaster)
OSU Plant Microbe Genomics Facility (web site design)
OSU Plant Molecular Biology / Biotechnology Program (design and webmaster)
BioCassava Plus (design and webmaster)
OSU PCMB GTA Training and Resources...this site is only available to OSU PCMB GTAs.
Institute of Mitochondrial Biology (design and webmaster)
Ohio State Biochemistry Program (web site design)
OSU Department of Biochemistry (design and webmaster)
OSU RNA Group (web site design and webmaster)

Asset Manager:

As asset manager, I am responsible for the maintenance of records for all capitalized assets for the department. I annually conduct the physical inventory of our capitalized assets which I provide to the office of the controller.

Memberships, Awards and Conferences

2007 Colleges of the Arts and Sciences "Distinguised Staff Award" Nominee.
2007 College of Biological Sciences "Distinguished Staff Award" Nominee.
2006 Professional and Organizational Network Conference in Portland, Oregon.
2006 FTAD - OSTEP Program Grant Recipient and Co-coordinator.
2005 FTAD - OSTEP Program Grant Recipient and Participant.
2005 Colleges of the Arts and Sciences Staff Advisory Comittee - Subcomittee on Staff Wellness.

Revised: 9-apr-08

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]

News Archive

Read past information and news articles.