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CSHL Stories and Media archive for Tag: Rob Martienssen

image of a pond with duckweed, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY

The food and fuel that farms itself

4/1/2025

Duckweed can grow practically anywhere there’s sun and standing water. CSHL plant biologists identify the genes behind some of its most useful traits. Read the story »

Corn’s ancient ancestors are calling

2/6/2025

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professors Thomas Gingeras and Rob Martienssen have launched a new genomic encyclopedia called MaizeCODE. Read the story »

Big clues emerge in small RNA mystery

12/16/2024

How does the body separate “self” from “nonself?” CSHL Professor Rob Martienssen uncovers fascinating new leads in plant pollen and mouse sperm. Read the story »

Frog Pond

11/27/2024

These hopping amphibians aren’t the only animals that call the pond home. It’s a living snapshot of our area’s diverse ecosystem. Read the story »

At the Lab Season 1 Research Rewind: Genetics

10/22/2024

It’s the code for all life on Earth. This week At the Lab, we’re hacking it with the help of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s geneticists. Listen to the podcast »

Plants have a backup plan

10/3/2024

CSHL’s Rob Martienssen and his team discovered how plants like Arabidopsis continue to reproduce even when things go wrong in chromosome division. Read the story »

At the Lab Episode 25: How maize became corn

9/24/2024

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory solves a plant biology mystery some 4,000 years in the making. The implications may go far beyond vegetables. Listen to the podcast »

image of the pollen-producing part of the maize-teosinte hybrid

Corn’s ‘missing link’

8/7/2024

CSHL researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that may explain how corn spread so rapidly across the Americas 4,000 years ago. Read the story »

Barbara McClintock’s corn

6/16/2024

You’ve heard about Barbara McClintock’s Nobel Prize-winning research on corn genetics, but what about the corn itself? Read the story »

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The CSHL School of Biological Sciences’ class of 2024

5/5/2024

The School of Biological Sciences awarded Ph.D. degrees to 11 students this year. Here are some stories and reflections from their time at CSHL. Read the story »

CSHL’s Thomas Gingeras awarded $2 million NSF grant

4/3/2024

Climate change threatens crops with acidic soils and aluminum toxicity. Gingeras leads an international team tackling this problem head-on. Read the story »

image of Rob Martienssen overlaid on a DNA strand made from plant stems and leaves

From plant genomics to a bioscience revolution

3/25/2024

CSHL played a lead role in mapping the first plant genome. Today, that breakthrough fuels a whole new understanding of life on Earth. Read the story »

Rob Martienssen awarded 2024 Genetics Society Medal

11/8/2023

CSHL Professor Rob Martienssen earned the award for outstanding research contributions to the field of genetics. Read the story »

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The dance of epigenetic inheritance

9/27/2023

Making sure chromosomes get passed down correctly is hard work. Watch, through fluorescent and cryogenic lenses, how two proteins make it happen. Watch the video »

How plants pass down genetic memories

8/28/2023

Thirty years ago, CSHL’s Rob Martienssen discovered plant gene DDM1. Now, he’s identified just how the DDM1 protein helps control inheritance. Read the story »

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