Baskin Receives $480,000 NSF Award

Tobias Baskin has received a new, three-year ($480,000) NSF award for a project titled "The nano-mechanics of celluose sythesis". Baskin is the Co-PI on the project, the PI is Lori Golner in Physics. The goal of the project is to use both high resolution imaging of living cells and biochemical analysis of extracts to deepen our understanding of how cellulose, perhaps the most abundant polymer on Earth, is synthesized.