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Penn grad students, postdocs and RAs, you are invited to lunch with interesting guests. Not a talk – they’ll take 10 minutes to introduce their work, then it’s pure conversation. Sandwiches and drinks served.   Daniel Langleben is a professor of Psychiatry at the VA Medical Center and a member of the Center for Studies […]

Elizabeth Kellogg Donald Danforth Plant Science Center   Unexpected Diversity of Grass Abscission Zone   Abscission is a process in which plants shed their parts, and is mediated by a particular set of cells, the abscission zone (AZ).  In grasses (Poaceae), the position of the AZ differs among species, leading to the hypothesis that AZ formation […]