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Missy Holbrook to lead Harvard Alumni Association trip to Cairo, Egypt from Dec. 27th to Jan. 5th

December 27, 2019

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 to give HUH Seminar on Nov. 5th

November 05, 2019

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...

Holbrook lab hosts HUH Seminar speaker, Scott McAdam on October 8th

October 08, 2019

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...

Holbrook Lab members travel to Padua, Italy for the 4th Xylem International Meeting held Sept. 25-27, 2019

September 25, 2019

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...

Holbrook lab members attend celebratory BBQ for the Arboretum's DaRin Butz Interns

July 30, 2019

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

Morgan Furze to begin postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University

May 30, 2019

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.

Welcome Zhe!

September 11, 2019

The Holbrook Lab is happy to welcome Zhe He as our newest graduate student. Zhe's research interests include understanding xylem structures and their roles in plant-water relations, specifically by probing the biochemical structures and mechanical...

Congratulations to friend of the lab, Cadwell Turnbull on the release of his debut novel!

June 05, 2019

The Holbrook lab congratulates friend of the lab and spouse of Anju Manandhar, Cadwell Turnbull, on the upcoming release of his debut novel entitled, The Lesson. All are welcome to join him for a reading and signing of his book on Tuesday, June 18, 2019...

Jessica Gersony gives talk at the annual OEB G4 symposium on Thursday, May 2nd

May 02, 2019

Jessica Gersony will be giving at talk entitled, Carbon's tangled up in blue: Interactions between sugars and water in tree leaves, at the annual OEB G4 symposium.

Noel Holbrook named as a winner of the 2019 Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research

April 29, 2019

Congratulations to Noel Holbrook for being named as one of the winners of the 2019 Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research! This program provides seed funding to interdisciplinary high-risk, high-impact projects in the life, physical...

It's a boy!!

April 26, 2019

The Holbrook Lab wishes its heartfelt congratulations to Dan Buonaiuto and his wife, Gita, on the birth of their son. Baby boy Buonaiuto was born at 1:20am on Wednesday, April 24th and weighed 8 lbs. We're happy to report that mom and baby are both well...

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...

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