Phil Bates, IBC faculty, is promoted to Full Professor
Phil joined the IBC in 2018 and has built a world-class program researching plant lipids. Congratulations, Phil!
News
Work by IBC faculty Lange and Croteau featured in editorial article in Chemical and Engineering News
Chemical and Engineering News, the flagship news magazine of the American Chemical Society, publishes an article on efforts to unravel the biosynthesis of paclitaxel, a leading anticancer drug.
Mark Lange presents at PAG33, the world’s largest ag-genomics conference
Mark Lange gave an invited talk on the biosynthesis of cannabis aroma constituents.
Pappachan Kolattukudy, IBC founding director, passed away on January 4.
Pappachan was an outstanding scientist with broad interests. While at WSU, his research focused on waxy biopolymers.
IBC faculty Helmut Kirchhoff receives new $ 674,231 NSF grant
The collaborative research project will address lipid-protein interactions during light harvesting.
How photorespiration is linked to one-carbon metabolism
Collaborative efforts involving IBC faculty Sanja Roje published on metabolic flux analyses in an article published in Nature Plants.
Grad students across disciplines study climate’s effect on grain
A group of folks were recently interviewed by the WSU Insider, and the feature article was published today. It highlights the outcomes of one of the MPS journal club sessions led by Dr. Andrei Smertenko and the graduate student experiences. The article was published in The Plant Journal, titled “Grain under pressure: Harnessing biochemical pathways […]
Mechanism for unusual essential oil composition in mint revealed
A team led by IBC faculty Mark Lange published the outcomes of a genome-wide association study in New Phytologist.
