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No eyes, no brain, no problem

Communications Department — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:30:43 +0000

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Uplands Farm: Grounds for discovery

Jennifer Michalowski — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:30:53 +0000

At first glance, Uplands Farm—12 carefully tended acres about a mile east of the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) campus—resembles farms you might have seen before. Orderly rows of corn dominate the fields, sharing space with sorghum, eggplants, and other crops. Three greenhouses shelter young plants, extending the growing season so they can flourish in...

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The CSHL School of Biological Sciences’ class of 2024

Communications Department — Sun, 05 May 2024 22:00:34 +0000

The ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) School of Biological Sciences (SBS) takes an innovative approach to advanced science education. Graduates of the doctoral program go on to pursue diverse careers. This year, the SBS awarded 11 Ph.D. degrees. Here, members of the class of 2024 reflect on their time and experiences at CSHL. Salomé Carcy...

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Cocktails & Chromosomes: Best shots of 2023

Communications Department — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:30:22 +0000

After a four-year hiatus, Cocktails & Chromosomes returned in 2023. Relive the past year’s best moments and see what’s in store for 2024.

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Cocktails & Chromosomes: Uprooting climate change

Communications Department — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:30:39 +0000

Pull up a stool to watch CSHL Associate Professor Ullas Pedmale speak about plants and climate change at Industry bar in Huntington, NY.

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CSHL’s Cocktails & Chromosomes series returns this summer

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 11:30:44 +0000

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Climate-control technology future-proofs plants

Communications Department — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 11:30:45 +0000

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New CSHL technology controls the weather and time itself

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 11:30:31 +0000

Just like baking a cake, growing crops isn’t only a science. It’s also an art. There’s a perfect recipe of light, water, air, and nutrients needed for plants to flower just right. Tragically, climate change jeopardizes all of these ingredients. But what if plant growers could somehow control the weather? What if they could harness...

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What shedding light on plant growth could mean for cancer

Nick Wurm — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:00:57 +0000

Understanding how plants process light is key to improving crop yields. Light helps plants know when to grow and flower at the right time. Plants find light using proteins called photoreceptors. ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Assistant Professor Ullas Pedmale’s team uncovered how proteins called UBP12 and UBP13 help regulate a photoreceptor called CRY2. Their...

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Do you have the dirt on plant research?

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:30:44 +0000

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Plants fight for their lives

Communications Department — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:30:26 +0000

« Previous Story Next Story » It’s 2050. The world population has increased by 2.3 billion to 9.9 billion. Demand for food has risen 70 to 100 percent but a warming planet, extreme weather, and a decrease in arable land is threatening food security. Luckily, farmers can grow crops more densely, increasing yield from smaller...

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Why roots don’t grow in the shade

Jennifer Michalowski — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 20:00:49 +0000

When a plant finds itself in too much shade, it redirects its resources to reach for light. Crop yield and root development stall as the plant focuses on growing taller, striving to rise above neighboring plants to access the sun. Shade avoidance is a vital survival strategy for an organism that depends on photosynthesis—but it’s...

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A healthy use for tobacco in coronavirus research

Jasmine Lee — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:30:34 +0000

In April 2020, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor David Jackson and CSHL Assistant Professor Ullas Pedmale wanted to contribute to the global scientific response to the COVID-19 pandemic. So, they combined plant science and coronavirus research. The two plant biologists used a modified tobacco system to grow coronavirus proteins in tobacco leaves. The goal...

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Coronavirus research in plants

Eliene Augenbraun — Fri, 15 May 2020 15:21:51 +0000

When ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) was asked to help produce critically needed reagents (coronavirus proteins) for COVID-19 research, the Lab’s plant biologists came up with a plan: Let’s produce the requested proteins cheaply, quickly, and in large quantities, in tobacco and duckweed. CSHL Professor David Jackson said that for the plant researchers, it all...

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Cocktails & Chromosomes

Public Affairs Administrator — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:09:13 +0000

Join us for the next edition of Cocktails & Chromosomes, featuring CSHL scientist Ullas Pedmale, Ph.D., an assistant professor working on how plants see and sense their neighbors.

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An essay from the President: Biology for the planet

Communications Department — Thu, 16 May 2019 16:17:34 +0000

As we advance toward the middle of the twenty-first century, humanity faces an existential challenge: figuring out how to feed the world’s rapidly growing population in the face of climate change and the increasingly limited availability of key nutrients and suitable land for farming. We need solutions that are local, national and global to increase...

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How do plants sense their environment?

Communications Department — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 20:35:08 +0000

Humans only make up about 0.01 percent of all life on the planet. Meanwhile, 82% of all Earthlings are plants. We’re so few… Do plants even notice us? CSHL plant scientist Ullas Pedmale details how plants sense the world we share.

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How do plants know when to flower?

Andrea Alfano — Fri, 18 May 2018 16:43:39 +0000

eather forecasting technologies and clairvoyant groundhogs are among the tools that we humans use to predict when spring will arrive. When colorful flowers and foliage burst from plants, we finally know it is here. But how do plants know that it is time to put out spring flowers? Plants have no nervous system to feel...

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Light, cryptochromes, action…

Communications Department — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:01:35 +0000

Assistant Professor Ullas Pedmale has received the National Institutes of Health “Outstanding Investigator Award,” a 5-year grant in recognition of “a record of research productivity with unusual potential.” One of only two plant biologists awarded, Pedmale studies how the environment of an organism regulates its growth and development. Without a brain, plants successfully integrate internal...

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