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Variability in Plant Hydraulic Traits Explain Differences in Drought Tolerance Among Amazon Rainforests

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A study led by Thomas Powell (Moorcroft Lab), former OEB PhD student, James Wheeler (Holbrook Lab) and Paul Moorcroft examined the unknown effects of drought tolerance among mature Amazon rainforest trees. The study found the differences in xylem and leaf...

How the Egg Got Its Shape

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An international team of scientists led by L. Mahadevan and Mary Caswell Stoddard (former postdoc in Edwards Lab) have answered the question of why there is great diversity in egg shape and sizes. And, the answer may help explain how birds evolved. The...

PBI 2017

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Stomata: Evolution, Development, and Physiology May 8-9, 2017 2017 Printable Poster (May 8th & 9th pdf) 2017 Printable Program (May 9th pdf) 2017 Printable Poster Session (May 9th pdf)

A Look At Flowers Millions of Years Ago

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News from the Friedman Lab! Flowering plants, which arose approximately 140 million years ago, are the most diverse group of plants on Earth. The evolution of these plants and why so diverse is a biology mystery. OEB Ph.D. student, Kristel Schoonderwoerd...

L. Mahadevan Develops A Simple Device That Mimics Complex Birdsongs

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L. Mahadevan used air blown through a stretched rubber tube to recreate complex birdsongs. The study published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, found the complexity of birdsongs may be due to a simple controllable instability in the structure of...

Andrew Knoll Awarded Honorary Doctor of Science

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Congratulations to Andrew Knoll, awarded a Doctor of Science honoris causa from the Richard Gilder Graduate School at The American Museum of Natural History in New York!

Paul Moorcroft and Researchers Examine Tree Mortality in Moist Tropical Forests

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Paul Moorcroft and reseachers identify rising temperatures, drought, fire and rising CO 2 as a few causes of increasing rates of tree mortality in moist tropical forests. In a study in New Phytologist, the team of researchers examine the drivers...

Uncovering Botanical Bias in Herbarium Collections

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Postdoc, Barnabas Daru (Davis Lab), is lead author of a study published in New Phytologist that points to sampling biases in a number of herbarium collections around the world. Daru suggests that researchers focused on climate change should take these...

Robin Hopkins Awarded Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching

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Congratulations to Robin Hopkins, awarded the 2018 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching!

L. Mahadevan Develops Framework for Reprogrammable Braille

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L. Mahadevan and researchers at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a framework to encode memory, in the form of Braille-like dimples and bumps, onto a blank, lattice-free material. The system, according to...

An Ocean Apart, Carnivorous Pitcher Plants Create Similar Communities

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As a graduate student in Naomi Pierce's lab, Leonora Bittleston (PhD '17) traveled to Nepenthes Camp in the Maliau Basin, an elevated conservation area in Malaysian Borneo with a rich, isolated rainforest ecosystem, to collect pitcher plants. The...

How Clumps of Honeybees Survive Wind

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L. Mahadevan and PhD students, Jacob Peters ('18) and Mary Salcedo (Mahadevan Lab) teamed with Prof. Orit Peleg, Colorado University-Boulder, to research the collective mechanical adaptation in honeybee swarms. The study, published in Nature Physics...