Congratulations, Hani!
News

David Korasick (Strader & Jez Labs) Discovers How Protein Interactions Control Auxin Responses
Korasick, DA, CS Westfall, SG Lee, R Dumas, M Nanao, G Hagen, TJ Guilfoyle, JM Jez, and LC Strader (2014) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111, 5427.

Incoming Students Cynthia Holland and Anne Zimmerman Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Angela Schlegel (Haswell lab) and Erica Thomas (incoming student) received Honorable Mentions

Chuanmei Zhu (Dixit Lab) named Monsanto/Norman Borlaug Corporate Fellow
Congratulations, Chuanmei!

Brian San Francisco (Kranz Lab) Wins a Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Fellowship
Congratulations, Brian!

Blankenship Lab Deciphers Assembly of the Cyanobacterial Photosynthetic Megacomplex
Blankenship lab Science paper - Liu et al., Science 342:1104-1106 (2013)

A Molecular Samurai Sword: Katanin
Zhang Q, Fishel E, Bertoche T, Dixit R (2013) Microtubule severing at crossover sites by katanin generates ordered cortical microtubule arrays in Arabidopsis. Curr Biol 23, 2191-5

Lab-made Complexes are “Sun Sponges”
New discoveries from the Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC) are highlighted in the WUSTL Record.

Teaming Up to Engineer Crops of the Future
Profs. Himadri Pakrasi, Tae Seok Moon, and Fuzhong Zhang aim to engineering nitrogen fixation into cyanobacteria.