Archive: July, 2018

Timothy Hearn, first author of BIG regulates dynamic adjustment of circadian period in Arabidopsis thaliana Current Position: Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge Education: Degrees & Honours: 2011 BSc Hons (Birmingham), 2016 PhD (Cantab), 2017…

Md. Yeasin Prodhan, first author of Guard cell salicylic acid signaling is integrated into ABA signaling via the Ca2+/CPK-dependent pathway Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur, Bangladesh Education:…

James Campanella, first author of Evidence for exaptation of the Marchantia polymorpha M20D peptidase MpILR1 into the tracheophyte auxin regulatory pathway Current position: James Campanella is a professor of genetics at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. Education: He earned bachelors…

By Anna N. Stepanova, North Carolina State University  Young children are curious by nature and their inquisitive minds are like sponges that take in everything that is happening around them.  As a parent, a scientist, and an educator, I feel that my role is to teach children the basic rules of…

A list of book recommendations from our community with a focus on Plant Sciences Current Topics The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World’s Rarest Species by Carlos Magdalena Carlos is a tropical plant horticulturalist at the Royal Botanic Garden Kew in London. He acquired the nickname…

Given the importance of branch angle in determining overall plant form, we know surprisingly little about how those angles are controlled. Branch angle clearly has genetic underpinnings but also responds strongly to light and gravity, as well as to water availability and other stimuli (reviewed in Roychoudhry…

Katharina Schiessl, first author of MtNODULE ROOT1 and MtNODULE ROOT2 are essential for indeterminate nodule identity Current position: Research Associate at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK Education: PhD, John Innes Centre Non-scientific interests: Sports Brief bio: I am…

Dandan Qian, first author of OsDer1 is an ER-associated protein degradation factor that responds to ER stress in rice Current Position: Research Associate, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Education: PhD in Developmental biology at the Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy…