News

The Harvard Gazette reported on an awesome paper by our dear lab member, Nathan Mueller, about the impacts of agriculture on the environment ! Give it a look! http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/02/todays-farming-practices-…

A new collaborative paper about the Munch hypothesis just came out in eLife! Abstract below: Long distance transport in plants occurs in sieve tubes of the phloem. The pressure flow hypothesis introduced by Ernst Münch in 1930 describes a mechanism of...

On June 14th the lab got together on the Cambridge Public Library lawn for an awesome summer potluck picnic! Hopefully the first of many this summer! The (still undefeated!) Cavitators (volleyball team) also took this opportunity to further refine their...

Every year, many science labs at Harvard form volleyball teams and participate in a volleyball tournament known as The Rhino Cup. This year, the Holbrook Lab (along with some friends) felt up to the challenge and formed a team called "The Cavitators". We...

On May 11th , Mel Tyree came to visit the lab to talk about his recent cell-water dynamics research and to enjoy the beautiful weather!

Many of our lab members have been out and about recently! John recently came back from a 6 day trip to Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. And Greg recently came back from a 5-day workshop in Manaus, Brazil where he gave a talk entitled: Wood...

Wally Fulweiler Visiting Bullard Fellow in Holbrook Lab will be giving a talk on "The Terrestrial Silica Pump-Exploring the Role of Vegetation in Altering the Flux of Si to the Coastal Ocean" at Harvard Forest, March 11, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. 324 N. Main...

Welcome to Jessica Gersony who will be joining the Holbrook Lab as a new graduate student!

Just how big can fruit grow? A new study co-authored by OEB Professor, N. Michele Holbrook and Putnam Fellow, Jessica Savage answers that question in the latest issue of Plant, Cell & Environment. Their research is spotlighted in BBC Earth. Full story .