The Holbrook Group

Hannes and Cade visiting the oldest pear tree in the United States!

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Welcome!

Welcome to the Holbrook lab! We study the physics and physiology of vascular transport in plants with the goal of understanding how constraints on the movement of water and solutes between soil and leaves influences ecological and evolutionary processes. Currently, we are working on questions relating to cavitation, stomatal mechanics, solute transport, cell wall mechanics, and wood anatomy.

Latest News

Congratulations to Nya Nicholson and Addason Harris!

Congratulations to our two undergraduate students, Nya Nicholson and Addason Harris, for their awesome work this summer on sweaty shrubs (Nolana mollis) and tilted trees (tension wood). We are excited to see what you do next!

Welcome Cade to the Holbrook Lab!

We are excited to welcome our new post-doc Cade Kane to the lab! He graduated with a PhD from Purdue studying the role in regulation of Abscisic Acid (ABA) in higher plants. We are very lucky to have his expertise, calming vibes, and excellent tie-dye...

Congratulations Melissa!

The Holbrook lab would like to congratulate Melissa Mai for winning the Best Poster prize at the Harvard Biophysics Fall Retreat for her poster "Two-way Traffic: An Architectural Model of Competing Flows in Pine Needles"!
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Recent Publications

2024

Mai, Melissa, Chen Gao, Peter Bork, N. Michele Holbrook, Alexander Schulz, and Tomas Bohr. 2024. “Relieving the Transfusion Tissue Traffic Jam: A Network Model Ofradial Transport in Conifer Needles”. New Phytologist .
Mai, Melissa, Chen Gao, Peter Bork, N. Michele Holbrook, Alexander Schulz, and Tomas Bohr. 2024. “Relieving the Transfusion Tissue Traffic Jam: A Network Model Ofradial Transport in Conifer Needles”. New Phytologist .

2023

Johnson, Kate, Sophie Everbach, N. Michele Holbrook, and Mark Olson. 2023. “Evaluating Carlquist’s Law from a Physiological Perspective”. IAWA Journal.
Johnson, Kate, Sophie Everbach, N. Michele Holbrook, and Mark Olson. 2023. “Evaluating Carlquist’s Law from a Physiological Perspective”. IAWA Journal.

2022

Losada, Juan, Zhe He, and N. Michele Holbrook. 2022. “Sieve Tube Structural Variation in Austrobaileya Scandens and Its Significance for Lianescence”. Plant, Cell & Environment 45 (7): 2460-75.
Losada, Juan, Zhe He, and N. Michele Holbrook. 2022. “Sieve Tube Structural Variation in Austrobaileya Scandens and Its Significance for Lianescence”. Plant, Cell & Environment 45 (7): 2460-75.
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