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Dr. Allan Showalter, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, will give an invited talk during the Second International Conference on Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Arguments for Salt Tolerance at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, Oct. 12-14 Showalter’s presentation on “Cellular Signaling of Root Growth in Response to Salt” includes research contributions […]

Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor cold—nothing stopped the special FedEx delivery from Kennedy Space Center to Ohio University this morning, Feb. 18. The box labeled “Critical Space Item” was the only thing in the freezer truck, driven overnight by a two-person team of FedEx drivers, who encountered plenty […]

Watch live as the Ohio University experiment leaves the International Space Station today, Feb. 10, at 2 p.m. on NASA TV. Coverage beings at 12:45 p.m., and the release of the SpaceX/Dragon Cargo Ship from the the space station is scheduled at 2:10 p.m. ET. The Expedition 42 crew closed […]

Before dawn on Saturday, the SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying an Ohio University experiment finally headed to space after several weeks of launch delay. Ohio University’s Team Gravitron plants-and-gravity experiment launched Jan. 10 and docks with the International Space Station today, Jan. 12. Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology […]

Dr. Ahmed Faik, Nan Jiang, and Dr. Michael A. Held published “Xylan Biosynthesis in Plants, Simply Complex” in Advances in Plant Biology Volume 4, 2014, pp 153-181. Faik is Associate Professor of Environmental and Plant Biology at Ohio University. Jiang is a doctoral student in the Faik Lab. Held is […]

Dr. Sarah Wyatt presented her lab’s work on developing a network of gene expression data that is helping them to expand the knowledge of how plants respond to gravity. Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, presented Plant Gravitropic Signal Transduction: A Network Analysis Leads to Gene Discovery at the […]

  Graduate student Proma Basu presented a poster on studying the proteins plants express as they are exposed to gravitational changes in spaceflight and upon reorientation to the Earth’s gravitational pull on Oct. 25 at the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research. Her co-author on Proteomics Analysis of Plants […]