WATER AND LIFE INTERFACE INSTITUTE
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About WALII

The mission of WALII, a National Science Foundation-funded Biology Integration Institute, is to understand how life can persist without water by elucidating how molecules, cells, and organisms protect themselves during desiccation and rehydration.
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The Water and Life Interface Institute (WALII) will study how life interacts with water from the molecular to the organismal level across plants, fungi, and animals. We will study this interaction in four integrated themes: the physical and molecular determinants that allow organisms to survive in the solid state (Theme 1); rehydration responses in desiccation tolerant and desiccation sensitive systems (Theme 2); molecular grammar of desiccation tolerance conferred by intrinsically disordered proteins (Theme 3); and short- and long-term evolutionary history of desiccation tolerance (Theme 4). WALII includes team members with diverse expertise ranging from biophysics to plant biology and experience with several desiccation tolerant and sensitive systems. Our long-term goal is to understand how organisms can tolerate desiccation, invent technologies and concepts to study anhydrobiosis, engineer macromolecules, cells, and organisms that can survive desiccation, and produce the next generation of leaders in all sectors of our society.
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STANFORD LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
“WALII operates in part out of the Carnegie Institution for Science's Plant Biology Department located at Stanford University. Stanford sits on the ancestral land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Ohlone people. Consistent with our values of community and inclusion, we have a responsibility to acknowledge, honor, and make visible the University’s relationship to Native peoples.”
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WALII is funded by NSF DBI grant #2213983
  • Home
  • About
    • Mission, Vision, Values
    • Institute Themes & Structure
    • Team
    • Code of Conduct
    • Scientific Advisory Board
    • Contact Us
  • Research
    • Overview
    • Surviving the Solid State
    • Rehydration & Recovery
    • Molecular Engineering
    • Evolutionary Dynamics
    • Integration of Themes
  • Training
    • Overview
  • Careers
  • Outreach
    • Overview
    • Seed Longevity Experiments
    • Tardigrade Hunting
  • Publications
  • Resources