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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, leaf hydraulic design, and xylem evolution.

Holbrook Lab 2016 — Lab photo 2016. Top row: Teressa Alexander, Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi, Greg Ceccantini, Jess Gersony, Alexandre "Pono" Ponomarenko, Walton "Tinker" Green. Bottom row: Nathan Mueller, Kadeem Gilbert, Fulton "Tony" Rockwell, Noel Michele "Missy" Holbrook, Uri Hochberg, Clement Quintard, Yongjiang "John" Zhang. Not pictured: Laura Clerx, Robinson "Wally" Fulweiler, Juan Losada, Bridget Power and Jessica Savage

Recent Publications

Huggett, Brett A., Jessica A. Savage, Guang-You Hao, Evan L. Preisser, and N. Michele Holbrook. 2018. “Impact of hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) infestationon xylem structure and function and leaf physiologyin eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis).” Functional Plant Biology 45: 501–508. Publisher's Version

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Rockwell, Fulton E, Jessica T Gersony, and Michele N Holbrook. 2018. “Where does Münch flow begin? Sucrose transport in the pre-phloem path.” Current Opinion in Plant Biology 43: 101-107. Publisher's Version

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Holbrook, N. Michele, and Michael Knoblauch. 2018. “Physiology and metabolism: Phloem: a supracellular highway for the transport of sugars, signals, and pathogens.” Current Opinion in Plant Biology 43: iii-vii. Publisher's Version

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Hao, Guang-You, N. Michele Holbrook, Maciej A. Zwieniecki, Vincent P. Gutschick, and Hormoz BassiriRad. 2018. “Coordinated responses of plant hydraulic architecture with thereduction of stomatal conductance under elevated CO2concentration.” Tree Physiology 38 (7): 1041–1052. Publisher's Version

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Congratulations to Morgan!

April 17, 2019

Huge congratulations to Morgan Furze who successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Understanding whole-plant nonstructural carbohydrate storage in a changing world" on Friday, April 12th! Everyone in lab is very excited for her and we wish her the best in her future endeavors!

Maria Park performs with the River Charles Ensemble is this Friday from 7- 8pm in Paine Hall

April 10, 2019

Mosaic Visions poster

Holbrook lab undergrad, Maria Park, will be performing with the River Charles Ensemble in a concert entitled, Mosaic Visions this Friday from 7 — 8pm in Paine Hall. For tickets, click...

Morgan Furze Dissertation Defense - Friday, April 12

March 29, 2019

Please join us for the dissertation defense of Morgan Furze on Friday, April 12, at 11:00 AM in Haller Hall, Geological Museum 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge. Defense flyer is attached.

Title: Understanding whole-plant nonstructural carbohydrate storage in a changing world

Committee: Missy Holbrook (Advisor), Chuck Davis, Elena Kramer

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Morgan Furze Attended the SICB 2019 Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL

January 18, 2019

Holbrook Lab graduate student, Morgan Furze, attended the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) annual meeting which was held in Tampa, FL from Jan. 3-7, 2019. During the meeting, Morgan gave a talk entitled "Understanding Nonstructural Carbohydrate Storage and Seasonal Dynamics at the Whole-tree Level." Read more about Morgan Furze Attended the SICB 2019 Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL

Meghan and Morgan present data at the AGU Fall 2018 meeting in Washington, DC

December 19, 2018

Holbrook graduate students, Meghan Blumstein and Morgan Furze presented data at the AGU Fall 2018 meeting held from December 10th- 14th in Washington, DC. Meghan presented a posted entitled, "A Novel Approach to Quantifying the Drivers of Alternate Carbon Allocation Strategies in a Temperate, Deciduous Tree Species." Morgan presented a poster entitled, "Whole-tree Nonstructural Carbohydrate Budgets and Seasonal Dynamics in Five Temperate Species." Great work, ladies! Read more about Meghan and Morgan present data at the AGU Fall 2018 meeting in Washington, DC

Maria Park artwork and concert!

December 6, 2018

Artwork by Holbrook lab undergraduate student, Maria Park, is currently on display at Harvard's Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. Her artwork, in the form of paintings, installations, and videos features a tree, fraxinus americana, which was grown for her senior thesis. Maria is also playing in a free concert on Saturday, Dec...

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