Plant Biology Index

Welcome to the home page of the Department of Plant Biology at North Carolina State University!

We offer Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees, with classroom and research opportunities in many areas of contemporary plant biology. Need more information? Contact plantbio_info@ncsu.edu

Plant Biology Club meeting :
To be announced -in 2704 Bostian

Recent Plant Biology News

December 2009 - Dr. Marc Johnson won the American Society of Naturalists' "Young Investigator" Prize, which he will accept in June 2010 while attending and presenting a talk at the annual ASN meeting.

Ph.D. graduate student, Nash Turley has been awarded an Arthur B. Moss International Travel grant for travel to Costa Rica to participate in "Ecology of Plant-Animal Interactions in the Tropics", a course sponsored by the Organization for Tropical Studies.

NCSU and NCSSM partnership brings minority high-school students to campus labs for summer research experience- Dr. Sue Carson

Ph.D. grad student Lissette Betancur won a best poster award at the recent Plant Cell Wall Gordon Conference for her poster "Cellulose synthase gene family expression in Arabidopsis vegetative trichomes." This work shows that the traditional categories of primary and secondary wall-related CesA genes are too simplistic.

Dr. Deyu Xie was named the 2009 Arthur C. Neish Young Investigator Award by the Phytochemistry Society of North America.

Click here for a full listing of the Plant Biology department accomplishments

Seminar

February 23, 2010

"NMR applications and capabilities at the DHMRI" - Dr. Kevin Knagge, NMR Manager, David H. Murdock Research Institute, Kannapolis, NC.
Host: Dr. Rebecca Boston

4:00 pm
101 David Clark Labs

Click for complete listing of
Spring 2010
Plant Biology Seminars

RECENT DEPARTMENTAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Dr. JoAnn Burkholder, Director of CAAE is the 2009 recipient of the CALS/CNR Service to Society and
the Environment award.

Dr. JoAnn Burkholder

This award is given to a tenure-track faculty member from any of NC State’s colleges, jointly by the deans of CALS and CNR. This prestigious award recognizes exemplary service to Environment and Society through any mechanism(s) of scholarly work.