Congratulations to CAPS Affiliate and Molecular Genetics Assistant Professor, Anna Dobritsa, who has been awarded a new three-year $772,000 NSF grant to support research on processes that are not only interesting to plant biologists, but to materials scientists.

Dobritsa is PI on the project, “Pollen apertures as a model for formation of distinct extracellular domains.” Heather Owen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is co PI, and Adriana Dawes, Assistant Professor, Molecular Genetics, Mathematics, and MBI, is a collaborator. For more information, click here.