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Maria Park artwork and concert!

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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...

Fall Bog Crawl 2022!

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With our final visit to Great Meadows, we've officially concluded our inaugural Fall Bog Crawl! This year's sites were: Ponkapoag Bog Gowing's Swamp Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Parker River Wildlife Refuge Hawley Bog Bear Swamp Great Meadows Stay tuned for...

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

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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...

Times they are a changin' (departures)

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Many changes have overcome the Holbrook lab in the past few weeks, in addition to the departure of Clem and Teressa, our dear year-long visiting professor from the University of Sao Paolo, Greg, multi-year undergrad, Laura, and summer high school intern...

Mel Tyree

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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!

How Tall Trees Move Sugars

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Missy Holbrook, Jessica Savage (former Holbrook Lab postdoc), Juan Losada (Arnold Arboretum Fellow), and Jessica Gersony (PhD student) collaborated with Michael Knoblauch, Washington State University, and Kaare Jensen (former Holbrook lab postdoc)...

Lab trip to Camp Xylem (and Phloem!) a.k.a. Gordon Research Conference

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What a great week!!! A majority of our lab (both current members and past members!) headed off to Newry, Maine for 5 days for a Gordon Research Conference about vascular plant biology. Not only did we engage in great conversations with people from all...

Munch hypothesis is alive and well! New paper in eLife!

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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...

Join Ginny Zanger and Holbrook Lab grad student, Cat Chamberlain, for "A Way In: The Art and Science of Climate Change" being held virtually on March 25th at 10:30am ET

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Five decades of weekly walks in the Arnold Arboretum find expression in Ginny Zanger’s art. “Rambling” gives her time to sketch and paint. Using the unique possibilities of her favorite medium—watercolor—and printmaking, Zanger explores, with articulate...

Cavitation or deformation? Our new study is out in Plant Physiology!

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Check out our new study by John, Tony, Adam, Teressa and Missy! Reversible leaf xylem collapse: a potential 'circuit breaker' against cavitation. http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/early/2016/10/12/pp.16.01191.abstra… We report a novel form of xylem...

Morgan Furze Dissertation Defense - Friday, April 12

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Please join us for the dissertation defense of Morgan Furze on Friday, April 12, at 11:00 AM in Haller Hall, Geological Museum 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge. Defense flyer is attached. Title: Understanding whole-plant nonstructural carbohydrate storage...

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