THE PURDUE CENTER FOR PLANT BIOLOGY (CPB)
Welcome to Purdue’s home for basic plant biology! The CPB community connects faculty, staff, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the plant sciences across different departments and colleges. We’re committed to enhancing research and training in our field, and the Center provides the resources scientists need to answer pressing questions about plant biology.
Fostering Collaboration and Growth
Purdue has invested more than $50M to advance plant biology research.
CPB is a diverse community of >100 faculty, graduate students and postdocs.
Purdue has invested more than $50M to advance plant biology research.
CPB is a diverse community of >100 faculty, graduate students and postdocs.
1-in-5 papers are authored by 2+ CPB labs, with over half of publications published in high-impact (Q1) journals.
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Check out our news and events page for information on upcoming events and the latest discoveries, including stories featuring current and former CPB members.
NEWS & EVENTScurrent center news
Aspiring to become a marine biologist wasn’t all that unusual among her peers in Honolulu,...
On Friday March 22, Bob Auber returned to Room 116 in Whistler Hall to stand behind a podium in...
Purdue College of Agriculture professors Songlin Fei and Tesfaye Mengiste have been named fellows...
Lei Zhang, assistant professor of plant nematology, is on the lookout for the soil-borne...
Imagine broccoli’s short, sparse and ugly cousin, and you have Arabidopsis thaliana. It is...
If you took a biology class in high school, you probably learned that flowering plants reproduce...
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