Yixian Zheng has a long-standing interest in cell division and cytoskeleton. In recent years, her team's findings have broadened their research using animal models to include the study of stem cells, genome organization, and lineage specification—how stem cells differentiate into …

Plant Biology Carnegie's rich legacy of plant research started with the Desert Botanical Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, which was founded in 1903, and has extended from that original mission of probing plants survival in arid conditions to detailing the photosynthetic process, revealing plant's light responses, and determining plant hormone communications cascades.

Aug 23, 2022 · Palo Alto, CA— Water is inextricably linked to our understanding of life—it makes up most of our planet’s surface and organisms across the tree of life depend on it to function.Yet the ability to survive extremely dry conditions for long periods is crucial to the life cycles of many species—including in plants, which can reproduce from desiccated pollen …

Palo Alto, CA—The world’s population is growing, and global climate change will reshape our maps—shifting locations where human settlements can sustainably exist and thrive.Plant science can help us understand and mitigate the coming challenges, including fighting hunger, promoting renewable energy, and sequestering carbon pollution from the atmosphere.

A longstanding goal of biology is to identify the key genes and species that critically impact evolution, ecology, and health. Network analysis has revealed keystone species that regulate ecosystems and master regulators that regulate cellular genetic networks. Yet these studies have focused on pairwise biological interactions, which can be affected by the context of genetic background and ...

Washington, DC— Technological innovation and investment will be needed to reduce agriculture-related greenhouse gas emissions to zero, according to new work from Carnegie Staff Associate Lorenzo Rosa and Visiting Scholar Paolo Gabrielli. Their findings were recently published in Environmental Research Letters. “Right now, farming is responsible for about 12 percent of all global greenhouse ...

The Fan Lab studies the molecular mechanisms that govern mammalian development, using the mouse as a model. They use a combination of biochemical, molecular, and genetic approaches to identify and characterize signaling molecules and pathways that control the development and maintenance of the musculoskeletal system.

Comparisons of carbon uptake estimates from bottom-up terrestrial biosphere models (TBMs) to top-down atmospheric inversions help assess how well we understand carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange between the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere. Previous comparisons have shown varying levels of agreement between bottom-up and top-down approaches, but they have almost exclusively focused on large ...

Carnegie's newest division comprises our expertise in developmental biology, ecology, and plant science. Together we are developing a new approach to studying life on Earth across scales.

Jun 22, 2021 · Palo Alto, CA—Carnegie’s Megan Ruffley was awarded a prestigious Plant Genome Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology from the National Science Foundation to study the genetics underpinning a plant’s ability to adapt to a changing climate. Plants are fundamental to life as we know it. They make Earth’s atmosphere oxygen rich and form the basis of our food chain.