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Congratulations to Anju Manandhar who was the recipient of the Harvard Center for Biological Imaging Simmons Award for her project, "Structural mechanism of stomatal movement (How do leaves have pores that open and close?)!" Congratulations also to Meghan...

Congratulations to Meghan Blumstein who successfully defended her thesis entitled, "The plastic and adaptive potential of sugar storage in temperate trees under climate change on Thursday, August 6, 2020. We wish Meghan all the best in her future...

The Holbrook lab participated in the #ShutDownSTEM and #ShutDownAcademia initiatives on June 10th in support of our friends and colleagues of color. During this time, we met virtually as a group to discuss systemic racism, its impact in the sciences and...

Welcome to new Holbrook Lab members, Yakir Preisler, Anna Sala, and Melissa Mai! We're excited to have them join us!

Prof. Missy Holbrook will be leading a trip to Cairo, Egypt on behalf of Harvard's Alumni Association from Dec. 27- Jan. 5, 2020. The trip, known as " A Family Adventure: Egypt & the Nile" will include a tour of one of Giza’s Great Pyramids, a view of the...

Joyce Chery, who is a postdoctoral researcher at Pennsylvania State University, has been invited to give the HUH Seminar on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. The title of her talk will be, "How do plants climb? Macroevolutionary patterns to fine-scale cell wall...

Scott McAdam of Purdue University's College of Agriculture was invited by the Holbrook lab to give the HUH Seminar on Tuesday, October 8, 2019. The title of Scott's talk was, "Why did the ancestor of seed plants evolve a stomatal response to the hormone...

Prof. Missy Holbrook, Jessica Gersony and Anju Manandhar of the Holbrook Lab traveled to Padua, Italy for the 4th Xylem International Meeting held September 25-27, 2019. During the meeting, Jessica, gave a talk entitled, "Carbon export patterns in...

Members of the Holbrook lab joined the staff at the Arnold Arboretum in celebrating the DaRin Butz Interns with a fun summer BBQ.

The Holbrook lab wishes all the best to Morgan Furze who earned her Ph.D. and leaves us to begin a postdoctoral fellowship within Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.