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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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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...

Noel Holbrook to give the OEB departmental seminar on December 6th!

November 26, 2018

Join us at 3:30pm on Thursday, December 6th for a talk by Prof. Noel Holbrook entitled, "What’s So Special About Vascular Plants? A Down Under Perspective on Transport Physiology." The seminar will be held in the Biological Labs Lecture Hall, Room 1080, 16 Divinity Avenue in Cambridge. Read more about Noel Holbrook to give the OEB departmental seminar on December 6th!

OEB Seminar Series- Ted Farmer

November 8, 2018

The Holbrook lab is happy to be hosting Prof. Ted Farmer from the University of Lausanne who will be giving the OEB Seminar on Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 3:30pm. The title of his talk is "Long-Distance Electrical Signals in Arabidopsis Leaves." Please come and join us! Read more about OEB Seminar Series- Ted Farmer

Tree Physiology Methods paper published

November 7, 2018

Congrats to Morgan who contributed to the methods paper entitled "Standardized protocols and procedures can precisely and accurately quantify non-structural carbohydrates" which was recently published in Tree Physiology. Congrats, Morgan! Read more about Tree Physiology Methods paper published

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