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Carnegie Science celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of the universe
For humans, the most important star in the universe is the Sun. The second most important star is nestled inside in the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it. The flickering star is 2.2 million ...
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Lionel X. Dupuy, The James Hutton Institute, Understanding root systems: new approaches to characterize and model their development
In this talk, I will present new approaches developed in my lab to observe, image, characterize and model the growth of root systems. We have developed a new type of substrate, named “transparent soil ...
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The three geochemical stages of a planet: accretion; evolution; and exploitation
Join Dr. Chris Ballentine, University of Oxford, UK, for "The three geochemical stages of a planet: accretion; evolution; and exploitation" with host Peter van Keken.
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Radio Observations of Magnetic Storms on Flare Stars
Jackie Villadsen, a Jansky Fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, will present a lecture at 11 a.m. on Thursday, September 14, 2017, in the Greenewalt Auditorium as part of DTM's Weekly ...
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Tom Mitchell-Olds, Duke University, Selection on the Genes that Control Complex Traits
Although many studies provide examples of evolutionary processes such as balancing selection or deleterious polymorphism, the relative importance of these processes for phenotypic variation is unclear ...
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Geophysical Detection of Liquid Water in the Subsurfaces of Greenland and Europa
Former DTM Harry Oscar Wood Fellow Nicholas Schmerr (2008-2010), now an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geology, University of Maryland, received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University. His ...
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Juan Dong, Waksman Institute, Rutgers Univ., Positive and negative regulations of the polarity proteins in the stomatal lineage cells
Cell polarization is a fundamental feature of almost all cellular organisms. Stem cell asymmetric division in the stomatal lineage requires a polarized plant-specific, non-membrane protein BASL ...
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Dan Chitwood, Danforth Plant Science Center, Morphometrics and persistent homology: from violins and leaves to the branching topologies of plants
The shapes around us contain information. Morphometrics, methods that quantify shape, can reveal patterns reflecting underlying biological phenomena. In this seminar, I will begin with a primer to ...
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Robert Sharp, University of Missouri, Root Growth under Water Deficits: Physiological Complexity and Coordination
Root growth is critical for plant adaptation to water deficit conditions, and certain types of roots have the ability to continue growing at water potentials lower than those that inhibit growth of ...
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Are High Field Strength Element Anomalies a Good Proxy for Archaean Subduction?
George Guice is the Peter Buck Fellow at the Department of Mineral Sciences of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He received his PhD from Cardiff University in 2019, and MSc in ...
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Planet Formation and Evolution in the Big Data Era
Kevin Schlaufman will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the lecture, at 10:30 a.m.