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  [### Noel Michele Holbrook

 ](/people/noel-michele-holbrook) <holbrook@oeb.harvard.edu>Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry

Director, Harvard Forest

 

 

 Professor Holbrook studies 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. Her lab is... 

 

 

      ![Professor Noel Holbrook](/sites/g/files/omnuum6381/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/holbrook/files/missy_holbrook_photo.jpg?itok=Rjc0l0Sm) 

 

 

 

   [### Amarilis Castro

 ](/people/bridget-power) [acastro@fas.harvard.edu ](<mailto:acastro@fas.harvard.edu >)Lab Administrator 

 

 

 

      ![Lab Administrator](/sites/g/files/omnuum6381/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/holbrook/files/screenshot_2023-10-31_at_11.16.24_am.png?itok=1rdI0pDw) 

 

 

 

   [### Hannes De Deurwaeder

 ](/people/hannes-de-deurwaeder) [hannes\_dedeurwaeder@fas.harvard.edu ](<mailto:hannes_dedeurwaeder@fas.harvard.edu >)Visiting Fellow 

 

 

 To understand how vegetative ecosystems will shift in response to climate change and human encroachment, it is imperative to reconcile the individual measurable physiological performances of plants with demographic responses. I am passionate about how... 

 

 

      ![hannes](/sites/g/files/omnuum6381/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/holbrook/files/img-20220909-wa0002.jpg?itok=l0MV_qHL) 

 

 

 

   [### Fitz Dougherty 

 ](/people/fitz-dougherty) <jdougherty@g.Harvard.edu>Graduate Student

 

 

 Stomata are complexes on leaves that allow plants to acquire CO 2 when open, but opening stomata also results in a disproportionately large loss of water. I am broadly interested in how plants regulate their stomata and control gas exchange. I am studying... 

 

 

      ![screenshot_2023-08-17_at_4.10.33_pm.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum6381/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/holbrook/files/screenshot_2023-08-17_at_4.10.33_pm.png?itok=LDkf50r5) 

 

 

 

   [### Sophie Everbach

 ](/people/sophie-everbach) <severbach@g.harvard.edu>Graduate Student

 

 

 Trees are always on the hunt for light. The variety of growth forms seen in the forest is a testament to this photic need; individuals differentially find, occupy, and maintain branches in available light gaps despite the mechanical stressors of gravity... 

 

 

      ![Sophie Everbach](/sites/g/files/omnuum6381/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/holbrook/files/sophie_everbach.jpg?itok=5WIByJIP) 

 

 

 

   [### Zhe He

 ](/people/zhe-he) <zhehe@g.harvard.edu>Graduate Student

 

 

 Plants possess intricate structures that function as robust and indispensable elements for their survival. My research focuses on pit membranes, which are micron-scaled structures within plant xylem that prevent embolism from spreading during drought... 

 

 

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   [### Cade Kane

 ](/people/cade-kane) [cadekane@fas.harvard.edu ](<mailto:cadekane@fas.harvard.edu >)Postdoc

 

 

 Plants lose most of their water through pores on the surface of leaves called stomata. In order for the plant to protect themselves from hydraulic failure during drought stomata can be closed with the hormone abscisic acid. My research focuses on... 

 

 

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   [### Melissa Mai

 ](/people/melissa-mai) <melissamai@g.harvard.edu>Graduate Student

 

 

 In general, plants cannot physically run away from their problems, so they must be able to tolerate whatever their environment throws at them. I study how plants couple fluid transport with the management of solutes they need to retain or remove in order... 

 

 

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