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Butler-Jones and Menalled recognized by Northeastern Weed Science Society

-Magdalen Lindeberg

Congratulations to Aleah Butler-Jones and Uriel Menalled for awards received at the 2024 Northeastern Weed Science Society meeting held January 7 – 11 in Boston. Aleah Butler-Jones is a MS/PhD students in the Field of Horticulture, working in the program of Lynn Sosnoskie. She won the 2024 Northeastern Weed Science Society’s graduate student paper contest for her research to describe glyphosate resistance in NY Palmer amaranth populations, determine their mechanism of resistance, and describe their control with alternate herbicides. She also presented a poster describing her preliminary research results with electrical weeding.

person with poster

Uriel Menalled, currently a postdoc in Matt Ryan’s Sustainable Cropping Systems Lab, received the 2024 Robert D. Sweet Outstanding PhD Graduate Student Award. Dr. Robert Sweet was a long-time vegetable weed scientist in what is now the section of Horticulture. Uriel accepted the award from NEWSS President, Dr. Wesley Everman.

2 men with award

Graduate Students, Research, Soil and Crop Sciences

Plant Biodiversity and Adaptation Empowering Biodiversity for People and Planet Cohort hire

Background

The CALS Roadmap to 2050 identified five Transdisciplinary Moonshots – opportunities for the CALS community to collaborate on future-focused, cross-disciplinary scientific breakthroughs and to align research, education, and extension programs for greater impact and stronger connectivity. The Moonshot areas were designed to build upon core strengths in CALS, spanning the agricultural, life, environmental and social sciences, with the goal of recruiting 27 faculty into the college over the next three years. The Empowering Biodiversity cohort will advance the CALS Transdisciplinary Moonshot in Pioneering Life Science Breakthroughs.

Research in the Empowering Biodiversity cohort will be guided by ecological and evolutionary relationships and the documentation of patterns and processes that drive organismal success and decline. The ideal candidate will engage in Plant Biodiversity research that builds on historic and living collections and field research to directly address the biodiversity crisis at global and/or local scales. In addition to this hire in SIPS, the Empowering Biodiversity cohort includes new faculty positions in Population biology and the genomic architecture of species success (Computational Biology), Biodiversity Informatics (Department of Natural Resources and the Environment), Insect Biodiversity and Conservation (Entomology), and the Economics of Biodiversity (Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management) within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Position details

  • Teaching (40%) – The successful candidate will potentially contribute to teaching an undergraduate course in Plant Systematics and have opportunities to develop undergraduate or graduate courses in their area of expertise. In particular, we are looking for a faculty member interested in developing field courses that make use of Cornell’s nature reserve system using inclusive and culturally relevant/place-based pedagogy.
  • Research (60%) – Outstanding research scholarship is expected, as the successful candidate will lead an internationally recognized research program to leverage plant biodiversity and employ state-of-the-art approaches to understand fundamental mechanisms of convergent evolution and adaptation as a means of addressing the biodiversity crisis. Expected to maintain a well-funded research program. Excellence in and commitment to development of multidisciplinary team-based research and training programs is essential.

Search committee

  • Chelsea Specht (chair)
  • Jeff Doyle
  • Alejandra Gandolfo
  • Fay-Wei Li (BTI, Plant Bio Adjunct)
  • Christopher Dunn (Director, Cornell Botanic Gardens)
  • Swanne Gordon (EEB)
  • Rob Raguso (NBB, Plant Bio Graduate Field)
  • Josh Felton (Grad Rep, full member)

Candidate: Isaac Lichter-Marck, California Academy of Sciences

Research Talk: Origins and evolution of plant diversity in novel environments: an integrative approach
Isaac Lichter-Marck, California Academy of Sciences
School of Integrative Plant Science
Monday, January 22, 12:20 – 1:10 pm, 404 Plant Science & by Zoom

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Isaac Lichter-Marck is currently an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow with California Academy of Sciences. His background includes:

  • Masters/Hughes Fellow in Evolutionary Ecology: Wesleyan University
  • PhD 2021: University of California, Berkeley (Bruce Baldwin)
  • UCLA Postdoc, NSF funded: (Felipe Zapata)
  • NSF PRF:  (Sarah Jacobs, Rosita Scherson)

He is an evolutionary biologist working at the intersection of ecology, biogeography, phylogenomics and systematics, with emphasis on holistic understanding of biodiversity using specimen-based studies enriched by whole-genome scale sequencing and bioinformatic approaches. He is interested in the origin and evolution of plant diversity in novel or extreme habitats, including deserts and oceanic islands and has a strong teaching record for field courses: Full time professor in Environmental systems and Theory of Knowledge, Colegio del Mundo Unido Costa Rica; ecosystems of California; introductory botany field section. He has published in PNAS, Systematic Botany, Systematic Biology, Journal of Systematics and Evolution, Ecology and Evolution, Oikos, Ecology

Candidate: Hannah Marx, University of New Mexico

Research Talk: Disentangling drivers of floristic diversity on sky islands: from phylogenetics to functional genomics
Hannah Marx, University of New Mexico
School of Integrative Plant Science
Wednesday, January 24, 12:20 – 1:10 pm, 404 Plant Science & by Zoom

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Hannah Marx is an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico. Her background includes:

  • PhD 2016: University of Idaho (David Tank)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Michigan (Stephen Smith & Chris Dick)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Arizona (Mike Barker, K. Dlugosch)

She is interested in understanding the ecological and evolutionary processes that drive community assembly across spatial and temporal scales, integrating historical and novel plant collections, biodiversity informatics, and advances in genomics to address community diversity on alpine sky islands, invasion dymanics on oceanic islands, plant phylogenetics, systematics, and population genetics. She has published in Journal of Applied Ecology, Ecology, Systematic Biology, American Journal of Botany, Journal of Biogeography and is interested in teaching on Flora of NY; Biodiversity Informatics; Field-based Plant Form and Function; Place-based Plants & People

Candidate: Ana Maria Bedoya, Louisiana State University

Research Talk: Novel perspectives on the evolution of the world’s richest flora: insights from extreme botany
Ana Maria Bedoya, Louisiana State University
School of Integrative Plant Science
Monday, January 29, 12:20 – 1:10 pm, 404 Plant Science & by Zoom

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Ana Maria Bedoya is a postdoctoral researcher at Louisiana State University. Her background includes:

  • PhD 2021: University of Washington, Seattle (Dick Omstead)
  • LSU postdoc:  (Laura Lagomarsino)

She is a plant biologist investigating how the world’s richest flora was and continues to be shaped by geological and climatic history with a focus on aquatic plants: developing river plants as a model system to study evolution in nature and in action and translating knowledge into practical solutions to the climate crisis and conservation of freshwater ecosystems. She has published in Systematic Biology, Applications in Plant Sciences, TAXON, American Journal of Botany, Frontiers in plant science, Phytotaxa, Science (under review) and has teaching interests in plant systematics, Plant evolution and the fossil record, plant morphology and anatomy; geogenomics; Field observations to theory

Candidate: Daniel Anstett, Michigan State University

Research Talk: TBA: candidate works on adaptation across climate gradients
Daniel Anstett, Michigan State University
School of Integrative Plant Science
Monday, February 5, 12:20 – 1:10 pm, 404 Plant Science & by Zoom

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Daniel Anstett is a Plant Resilience Institute postdoctoral research fellow at Michigan State University. His background includes:

  • PhD 2017: University of Toronto (Marc Johnson)
  • NSERC postdoc fellow UBC (Amy Angert, Loren Rieseberg)
  • PRI MSU (David Lowry, Will Wetzel)

He is an evolutionary geneticist who studies how organisms adapt across climatic gradients and in response to climate change, rapid evolution at phenotypic and genomic levels & impacts on population demography, abiotic environment impacts interactions between insect herbivores and host plants, from populations to broad phylogenetic scales and is interested in linking evolutionary ecology with genomics and analytical chemistry to understand the contemporary evolution of physiologically relevant traits; allows for characterizing for when and where plants have the capacity to evolve to the Anthropocene. He has published in Science, Nature Communications, Evolution, TREE, Ecology, Journal of Chemical Ecology, New Phytologist, and his teaching interests are in ecology and evolution of plants; biology of climate change; Field course using area reserves

Plant Biology

Recent publications from the SIPS community – January 11, 2024

Synthetic auxin herbicides do not injure intermediate wheatgrass or affect grain yield.

DiTommaso, A., Jungers, J. M., Keene, C. L., Law, E. P., Picasso, V. D., Sheaffer, C. C., Shoenberger, E. D., Stoltenberg, D. E., and Wyse, D. L. 2023. Weed Technology 37:560-568.

Breeding allelopathy in cereal rye for weed suppression.

Henriquez Inoa, S., Leon, R. G., Mirsky, S., Moore, V. M., Murphy, J. P., Reberg-Horton, S. C., and Rebong, D. 2023. Weed Science:1-11.

Data insights: Descriptive data papers with high information impact are a new gold mine for readers of plant, cell and environment.

Julkowska, M. M. Plant, Cell & Environment n/a.

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally.

Smith, M. D., Wilkins, K. D., Holdrege, M. C., Wilfahrt, P., Collins, S. L., Knapp, A. K., Sala, O. E., Dukes, J. S., Phillips, R. P., Yahdjian, L., Gherardi, L. A., Ohlert, T., Beier, C., Fraser, L. H., Jentsch, A., Loik, M. E., Maestre, F. T., Power, S. A., Yu, Q., Felton, A. J., Munson, S. M., Luo, Y., Abdoli, H., Abedi, M., Alados, C. L., Alberti, J., Alon, M., An, H., Anacker, B., Anderson, M., Auge, H., Bachle, S., Bahalkeh, K., Bahn, M., Batbaatar, A., Bauerle, T., Beard, K. H., Behn, K., Beil, I., Biancari, L., Blindow, I., Bondaruk, V. F., Borer, E. T., Bork, E. W., Bruschetti, C. M., Byrne, K. M., Cahill Jr., J. F., Calvo, D. A., Carbognani, M., Cardoni, A., Carlyle, C. N., Castillo-Garcia, M., Chang, S. X., Chieppa, J., Cianciaruso, M. V., Cohen, O., Cordeiro, A. L., Cusack, D. F., Dahlke, S., Daleo, P., D’Antonio, C. M., Dietterich, L. H., S. Doherty, T., Dubbert, M., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Fischer, F. M., Forte, T. a. G. W., Gebauer, T., Gozalo, B., Greenville, A. C., Guidoni-Martins, K. G., Hannusch, H. J., Vatsø Haugum, S., Hautier, Y., Hefting, M., Henry, H. A. L., Hoss, D., Ingrisch, J., Iribarne, O., Isbell, F., Johnson, Y., Jordan, S., Kelly, E. F., Kimmel, K., Kreyling, J., Kröel-Dulay, G., Kröpfl, A., Kübert, A., Kulmatiski, A., Lamb, E. G., Larsen, K. S., Larson, J., Lawson, J., Leder, C. V., Linstädter, A., Liu, J., Liu, S., Lodge, A. G., Longo, G., Loydi, A., Luan, J., Curtis Lubbe, F., Macfarlane, C., Mackie-Haas, K., Malyshev, A. V., Maturano-Ruiz, A., Merchant, T., Metcalfe, D. B., Mori, A. S., Mudongo, E., Newman, G. S., Nielsen, U. N., Nimmo, D., Niu, Y., Nobre, P., O’Connor, R. C., Ogaya, R., Oñatibia, G. R., Orbán, I., Osborne, B., Otfinowski, R., Pärtel, M., Penuelas, J., Peri, P. L., Peter, G., Petraglia, A., Picon-Cochard, C., Pillar, V. D., Piñeiro-Guerra, J. M., Ploughe, L. W., Plowes, R. M., Portales-Reyes, C., Prober, S. M., Pueyo, Y., Reed, S. C., Ritchie, E. G., Rodríguez, D. A., Rogers, W. E., Roscher, C., Sánchez, A. M., Santos, B. A., Cecilia Scarfó, M., Seabloom, E. W., Shi, B., Souza, L., Stampfli, A., Standish, R. J., Sternberg, M., Sun, W., Sünnemann, M., Tedder, M., Thorvaldsen, P., Tian, D., Tielbörger, K., Valdecantos, A., van den Brink, L., Vandvik, V., Vankoughnett, M. R., Guri Velle, L., Wang, C., Wang, Y., Wardle, G. M., Werner, C., Wei, C., Wiehl, G., Williams, J. L., Wolf, A. A., Zeiter, M., Zhang, F., Zhu, J., Zong, N., and Zuo, X. 2024. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121:e2309881120.

Dysregulation of extracellular vesicle protein cargo in female myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome cases and sedentary controls in response to maximal exercise.

Giloteaux, L., Glass, K. A., Germain, A., Franconi, C. J., Zhang, S., and Hanson, M. R. 2024.  Journal of Extracellular Vesicles 13:12403.

The scaling relationship between perianth fresh mass and area: proof of concept using Magnolia × soulangeana Soul.-Bod.

Wang, J., Shi, P., Yao, W., Wang, L., Li, Q., Tan, R., and Niklas, K. J. 2024. Trees.

Publications

Recent publications from the SIPS community – January 4, 2024

Antioxidants of blushed and unblushed sides in relation to superficial scald of ‘NY2’ (RubyFrost®) apples treated preharvest with 1-methylcyclopropene and aminoethoxyvinylglycine.

Al Shoffe, Y., Nock, J. F., Gunes, N., Maloney, K., Brown, S. K., and Watkins, C. B. 2024.  Scientia Horticulturae 327:112806.

Predictive Modeling of Proteins Encoded by a Plant Virus Sheds a New Light on Their Structure and Inherent Multifunctionality.

Roy, B. G., Choi, J., and Fuchs, M. F. 2024.  Biomolecules 14:62.

A Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) Identifies SNPs Associated with Resistance to Tobacco Rattle Virus (TRV) and Potato Mop-Top Virus (PMTV) in a Tetraploid Mapping Population of Potato.

Anglin, N. L., Yellarreddygari, S. K. R., Gudmestad, N. C., Sathuvalli, V., Brown, C. R., Feldman, M., De Jong, W. S., Douches, D. S., Novy, R. G., and Coombs, J. J. 2023. American Journal of Potato Research.

Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method.

Mukerjee, R., Faye, N. F., Badji, M. J., Gomez, M., Rubin, D., Tufan, H. A., and Occelli, M. 2023. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 7.

Surviving the potato stems: differences in genes required for fitness by Dickeya dadantii and Dickeya dianthicola.

González-Tobón, J., Helmann, T. C., Stodghill, P., and Filiatrault, M.  Phytopathology 0:null.

Examination of Large Chromosomal Inversions in the Genome of Erwinia amylovora Strains Reveals Worldwide Distribution and North America-Specific Types.

Yang, H.-W., Thapa, R., Johnson, K., DuPont, S. T., Khan, A., and Zhao, Y. 2023. Phytopathology 113:2174-2186.

Graph-based Pan-genome of Brassica oleracea Provides New Insights into Its Domestication and Morphotype Diversification.

Guo, N., Wang, S., Wang, T., Duan, M., Zong, M., Miao, L., Han, S., Wang, G., Liu, X., Zhang, D., Jiao, C., Xu, H., Chen, L., Fei, Z., Li, J., and Liu, F. 2024. Plant Communications:100791.

Chapter Ten – Quantification of plant cardenolides by HPLC, measurement of Na+/K+-ATPase inhibition activity, and characterization of target enzymes.

Petschenka, G., Züst, T., Hastings, A. P., Agrawal, A. A., and Jander, G. 2023. Pages 275-302 in: Methods in Enzymology, vol. 680. J. Jez, ed. Academic Press.

Publications

Recent publications from the SIPS community – December 21 & 28, 2023

Fruitlet Thinning Reduces Biennial Bearing in Seven High-tannin Cider Apple Cultivars.

Zakalik, D., Brown, M. G., and Peck, G. M. 2024. HortScience 59:26-35.

Cretaceous-Paleocene Patagonian Spore and Pollen Clumps: New Findings, Alternative Explanations, and Opened Questions.

De Benedetti, F., Zamaloa, M. C., and Gandolfo, M. A. 2023.  The Botanical Review.

A super-pangenome of the North American wild grape species.

Cochetel, N., Minio, A., Guarracino, A., Garcia, J. F., Figueroa-Balderas, R., Massonnet, M., Kasuga, T., Londo, J. P., Garrison, E., Gaut, B. S., and Cantu, D. 2023. Genome Biology 24:290.

Helping students see bacteria in 3D: cellular models increase student learning about cell size and diffusion.

Wollmuth, E. M., Correa, A., Obando, M. A., Smith, M. K., Buckley, D. H., Hefferon, K. L., and Angert, E. R. 2023. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education 24:e00089-00023.

The dynamics and biophysics of shape formation: Common themes in plant and animal morphogenesis.

Burda, I., Martin, A. C., Roeder, A. H. K., and Collins, M. A. 2023.  Developmental Cell 58:2850-2866.

Detection of the Arabidopsis Proteome and Its Post-translational Modifications and the Nature of the Unobserved (Dark) Proteome in PeptideAtlas.

van Wijk, K. J., Leppert, T., Sun, Z., Kearly, A., Li, M., Mendoza, L., Guzchenko, I., Debley, E., Sauermann, G., Routray, P., Malhotra, S., Nelson, A., Sun, Q., and Deutsch, E. W. 2023. Journal of Proteome Research.

Transcriptional and epigenetic changes during tomato yellow leaf curl virus infection in tomato.

Romero-Rodríguez, B., Petek, M., Jiao, C., Križnik, M., Zagorščak, M., Fei, Z., Bejarano, E. R., Gruden, K., and Castillo, A. G. 2023. BMC plant biology 23:651.

Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies.

Martínez-Gómez, J., Song, M. J., Tribble, C. M., Kopperud, B. T., Freyman, W. A., Höhna, S., Specht, C. D., and Rothfels, C. J. 2023. Evolution Letters.

Enabling Population Biology Studies of Stemphylium vesicarium from Onion with Microsatellites.

Heck, D. W., Hay, F., and Pethybridge, S. J.  Plant Disease 0:PDIS-04-23-0706-RE.

Reinstatement and expansion of the genus Anatherum (Andropogoneae, Panicoideae, Poaceae).

Vorontsova, M. S., Petersen, K. B., Minx, P., Aubuchon-Elder, T. M., Romay, M. C., Buckler, E. S., and Kellogg, E. A. 2023. Systematics and Biodiversity 21:2274386.

The ancestral chromatin landscape of land plants.

Hisanaga, T., Wu, S., Schafran, P., Axelsson, E., Akimcheva, S., Dolan, L., Li, F.-W., and Berger, F. 2023.  New Phytologist 240:2085-2101.

Genome-Wide Association Study to Identify Possible Candidate Genes of Snap Bean Leaf and Pod Color.

Celebioglu, B., Hart, J. P., Porch, T., Griffiths, P., and Myers, J. R. 2023.  Genes 14:2234.

Publications

SIPS DEI Council Update: What is ‘Implicit Bias?’

The SIPS DEI Council is open to anyone in the SIPS community who would like to participate in building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community in our school through monthly online meetings and working groups on various topics.  New voices, viewpoints and energy are always welcome.  For more information, email: sips-dicouncil@cornell.edu.

The Language of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: What is ‘Implicit Bias?’

What follows is from the Cornell AgriTech DEI Bulletin.  Many thanks to our colleagues Anna Katharine Mansfield and Amara Dunn-Silver, Cornell AgriTech DEI Council co-chairs, who are taking such a strong lead with their DEI efforts. They write, like any group, DEI practitioners use jargon as a shortcut to convey specific meanings that may be unclear or confusing to anyone unfamiliar with the terms. As part of our DEI Bulletin series, we are exploring some key terms used to describe important DEI concepts. If there’s a term you’d like us to explore, contact Anna Katharine or Amara, or you can submit a suggestion anonymously.

Implicit biases are the subconscious views we hold about other people based on the way they look, speak, act, think, believe, etc. Humans continuously take in a huge amount of information from the world around us that we automatically process without conscious thought.

Unfortunately, this automatic processing means that our brains associate some groups of people with negative characteristics, or even as threats. Rather than recognizing a particular person as a fellow human being, a unique individual who holds many identities simultaneously, your brain notices a particular identity, then uses that as a shortcut to categorize them. As a result, you might think, speak, or act in a particular way towards that person, without realizing it.

This can show up in many different ways. It can lead people to preferentially offer interviews to job applicants with names that sound White instead of Black. It can result in academic advisors using different words to describe equally-qualified male and female students when writing recommendation letters. It can even lead to racial disparities in healthcare, literally a matter of life and death.

We all have implicit biases, which research suggests we absorb from the societies and cultures around us. Psychology professor Mahzarin Banaji describes this as “the thumbprint of our culture.”[1]  None of us can help the implicit biases we absorbed, and they don’t make us bad humans – but understanding our own biases can help us treat others more equitably. There is disagreement about the extent to which an individual’s implicit bias predicts their own biased behavior, but evidence suggests that overt bias in a community can be predicted by the implicit biases of individual community members.

What you can do about implicit bias

  • Identify your own implicit biases. The nature of implicit bias is that it is hidden, but there’s an easy-to-use tool that can help make invisible biases visible. The Implicit Association Test was designed to empirically measure biases around many identities and ideologies. For an explanation of how the test works and some additional context for reflecting on the test and your results, you might enjoy listening to (or reading the transcript from) this episode of the podcast Hidden Brain.
  • Notice how these implicit biases show up. When do you notice yourself making snap judgements about people? Where in your life – in or out of work – does implicit bias have the potential to influence your behavior? How could it impact your interactions with co-workers, supervisors or supervisees, students, job applicants, extension audiences, neighbors, etc.?
  • Make a plan to circumvent your implicit biases. Implicit biases can lead us to speak or act unfairly before we notice it. Research shows that we likely cannot change our biases, but we can reduce the impact of our biases on our behavior. When you are in a situation where you know your implicit biases could influence your behavior, pause. This gives you time to consciously align your behavior with your values, rather than automatically acting from your biases. Can you implement other practices around how you mentor, teach, conduct interviews, or do extension work that help you override your implicit biases?

At AgriTech we grow things, including our ability to recognize and address our own biases.

[1] Quoted in: In the Air We Breathe, Hidden Brain podcast.

Access and Community Empowerment

Recent publications from the SIPS community – December 14, 2023

In the presence of the other: How glyphosate and peptide molecules alter the dynamics of sorption on goethite.

Azimzadeh, B., Nicholson, L. K., and Martínez, C. E. 2024.  Science of The Total Environment 912:169264.

Harnessing crop diversity.

McCouch, S. R., and Rieseberg, L. H. 2023. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120:e2221410120.

Metamitron Thinning Efficacy of Apple Fruitlets Is Affected by Different Rates, Timings and Weather Factors in New York State.

Gonzalez Nieto, L., Francescatto, P., Carra, B., and Robinson, T. L. 2023.  Horticulturae 9:1179.

Global crop production increase by soil organic carbon.

Ma, Y., Woolf, D., Fan, M., Qiao, L., Li, R., and Lehmann, J. 2023.  Nature Geoscience 16:1159-1165.

Population genomics of the Isoetes appalachiana (Isoetaceae) complex supports a ‘diploids-first’ approach to conservation.

Wickell, D., Landis, J., Zimmer, E., and Li, F.-W. 2023.  Annals of Botany.

Rice residue burning trajectories in Eastern India: current realities, scenarios of change, and implications for air quality.

Urban Cordeiro, E., Hamilton, D. S., Rossiter, D. G., Mahowald, N., Hess, P., Malik, R., Singh, A., Samaddar, A., and McDonald, A. J. 2024. Environmental Research Letters 19:014006.

Opportunities to close wheat yield gaps in Nepal’s Terai: Insights from field surveys, on-farm experiments, and simulation modeling.

Devkota, M., Devkota, K. P., Paudel, G. P., Krupnik, T. J., and McDonald, A. J. 2024. Agricultural Systems 213:103804.

Nitrogen and phosphorus allocation in bark across diverse tree species.

Gong, H., Niu, Y., Niklas, K. J., Huang, H., Deng, J., and Wang, Z. 2024. Science of The Total Environment 908:168327.

The scaling of elemental stoichiometry and growth rate over the course of bamboo ontogeny.

Ouyang, M., Tian, D., Niklas, K. J., Yan, Z., Han, W., Yu, Q., Chen, G., Ji, C., Tang, Z., and Fang, J. New Phytologist n/a.

Publications

December 8: Plant Science Renovation Update

Project Brief

This gut renovation project will reconfigure floor layouts, restore the exterior building envelope, replace the exterior windows, replace the Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing & Life Safety systems, and generally modernize the facility to meet the School of Integrative Plant Science’s Instructional and Research needs in the 21st century.

  • The project obtained B&P’s Construction Approval on March 23, 2023.
  • FAHS Construction is the General Contractor.
  • The 30-month Construction period began on July 5, 2023, and is scheduled for substantial completion in January 2026.

Progress Report

  • Asbestos abatement has now been completed on the Ground, 1st and 2nd floors.
  • Selective demolition has largely been completed on the Ground and 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors.
  • Mass demolition has been completed on the Ground, 1st and 2nd floors.
  • The footing and foundation of the elevator have been completed.
  • Mass demolition has been completed on the Ground, 1st and 2nd floors.

Two-week look ahead

  • Installation of temporary power and lights will continue through the next two weeks.
  • Mass demolition on the 3rd floor is scheduled to begin on Dec. 11
  • Asbestos abatement is on-going on the 4th and is scheduled to be completed by Dec. 6
  • Relocation of the RO/DI system to PSB 403B:
    • Coring of the floor drain was completed on Nov. 22
    • Installation of the piping is in progress.
    • System relocation was moved from the original Dec. 6 date to Dec. 18

Upcoming shut-downs

  • The RODI system will be shut-down for relocation between Dec. 11 and 18
demolished building with bulldozer
Completed mass demolition on Second floor’s West N/S corridor
demolished building with pipes and columns
Completed mass demolition on First floor’s Central N/S corridor
concrete elevator shaft
Progress – Elevator pit’s footing and foundation on Ground Floor.
elevator shaft
Progress – Mechanical Shaft’s Foundation on Ground Floor.
PSB Renovation

Welcome to new SIPS Events Coordinator Danialle Hill

head shot danialle hillSIPS leadership is pleased to welcome Danialle Hill in her new role as Events Coordinator in the School of Integrative Plant Science. Danialle brings significant relevant experience to the role, having previously worked in Cornell Cooperative Extension Administration where she performed a range of administrative functions including supporting the Associate and Assistant Directors, providing logistical support for meetings and retreats, and assisting the CCE Conference Coordinator.

In her new position Danialle will serve as lead event coordinator for SIPS and as a subject matter expert to other SIPS staff, coordinating and organizing special seminars, workshops, field days, conferences, and other events across the School, and develop and implementing best practices.  Her office is located in 135E Plant Science. Tara Read, Lu Luce, and Catalina Enright have put a lot of work into planning for and onboarding Danialle. Please join me in thanking them and welcoming Danialle to our staff team!

Conferences, SIPS Director News

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