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“The public is invited to attend a local rocket launch celebrating an Ohio University experiment that will be traveling to the International Space Station next week,” reports the Athens Messenger. Ohio University’s Team Gravitron, led by Sarah Wyatt, professor of Environmental Plant and Biology and principle investigator, will be conducting […]

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 […]

By McKenzie Powell From Compass Ohio University students and faculty spent a recent Saturday working with their counterparts from Hocking Technical College, Miami University, and volunteers from the community, U.S. Forest Service, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the National Wild Turkey Federation, and the American Chestnut Foundation on a […]

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 […]

Undergraduate student Adam Cook presented a poster on revealing novel genes in research on how plants respond to gravity at the annual meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research Oct. 25 in Pasadena, CA. Co-authors on Microarray Analysis of GPS Treatment Reveals Novel Genes Involved in Gravitropic […]

Undergraduate student Zachary Hall presented a poster on identifying a genetic mutation in the small, mustard-like plant that allows Ohio University researchers to study the gravitational effect on the plant. The research on Identification of the Gene Defective in gravity persistence signal (gps) 6 of Arabidopsis thaliana was co-authored by […]