This article was originally published on Women in STEMM Australia. Read the original article The Value of Mentoring Posted on May 31, 2015 by Women in STEMM Australia Trainees in science often express the need for ‘a mentor’. What does this mean and what should mentees and mentors expect? What…

Kara Perrow (nee Vine), University of Wollongong; Amy Wyatt, University of Wollongong, and Martina Sanderson-Smith, University of Wollongong As children we are encouraged to dream big, and many young people – including young women and girls – aspire to a career in science. While there are role…

Recently, we’ve been profiling first authors of Plant Cell papers that are selected for In Brief summaries. Here are the first-author profiles from the December issue of The Plant Cell. Michael Sandmann, featured first author of Targeting of A. thaliana KNL2 to centromeres depends on the conserved…

BY CHRISTOS NOUTSOS, postdoc at Cold Spring Harbor Labs (first published May 2012) Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Lab CN: Thanks for sitting for this interview. Let’s start at the beginning. How did you become interested in biology? Which scientific fields  attracted you the most? RM: Like…

From the Ground Up February 1, 2017 profile of Elliot Meyerowitz from The Scientist. http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/48064/title/From-the-Ground-Up/ Here's an excerpt: “About 15 years ago, I gave a talk on plant development in a session focused on animal development at…

BY SUNIL KUMAR K R, ASPB Student Ambassador, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (@Sunil_husker) (Originally published January 2017) Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Germany Marja Timmermans began her scientific career at Cold Spring Harbor…

One of the most important skills a young scientist needs to learn is how to read (and write) scientific papers. Some students begin to learn this in a high school biology classes, and others as they begin their university coursework. To help instructors teach these critical skills, we created two articles…

The Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center (ABRC) has developed numerous investigative activities using Arabidopsis. Most of the activities are suitable for high school or college level students. You can order seeds (usually free to educators) and download teaching guides from the Education and Outreach…