Edwin receives Thomas Davies award

Edwin was awarded the prestigious Thomas Davies award from the Australian Academy of Sciences; congrats Edwin!

https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-releases/researchers-study-fairy-circles-tree-rings-smoke-signals

Fiona Kang new PhD student in the lab

We welcome Fiona Kang as anew PhD student in the lab. Fiona will work on cell wall-related research in Marchantia.

Dispatch piece in Current Biol

Ghaz and Staffan wrote a dispatch piece for Current Biology on a paper that outline a microtubule-independent guiding mechanism of the CESA complex from the Cohen group.

Paper accepted in Bioinformatics

A paper outlining an automatic pipeline for our quantitative actin organization tool was accepted in Bioinformatics

Orianne Montulet new PhD student in the lab

We welcome Orianne in the lab; a joint student in the Max-Planck UoM PhD program!

ARC success 2019

Marc was awarded an ARC DECRA and Staffan was a co-CI on a new electron microscope in this years ARC announcements. Congratulations.

Paper online in Plant Physiology

Our collaborative paper with Dabing Zhang’s lab on how RMD influences gravitropism in rice shoots by modulating the actin cytoskeleton is now online in Plant Physiology; http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/early/2019/08/15/pp.19.00497

Paper accepted in Plant Physiology

Our collaborative paper with the group of Dabing Zhang on actin organization and shoot graviresponses is now accepted in Plant Physiology.

Paper highlighted in Development

Our recent paper in Development was highlighted with an editorial piece in the journal: http://dev.biologists.org/content/146/10/e1001

Huizhen Xu gets a Norma Hilda Schuster Scholarship

PhD student Huizhen Xu just received a Norma Hilda Schuster Scholarship of $5,000. Congrats!!