Sloan Fellowship Will Help Patrick Shih Investigate Ancient Origins of Photosynthesis

February 20, 2019
By JBEI

Patrick Shih, JBEI’s Director of Plant Biosystems Design who also serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Biology at UC Davis, was recently selected as a 2019 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Computational and Evolutionary Molecular Biology.

Shih, will use this fellowship to help fund his research to reconstruct the evolution of photosynthesis, a process that originated billions of years ago.

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