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By Bret Hart, Conviron Scholar I interviewed Dr. David Parrott, Ph.D. He is currently at Westminster University, but earned his Ph.D. in Plant Science at Utah State University after a B.S. in Botany and an M.A. in Biology from Humboldt State University. He is focused on teaching undergraduates at…

By Christopher Sorich, Conviron Scholar Dr. Christopher Jones is professor and chair of the Biology department at Moravian College located in Bethlehem, PA. He is interested in many aspects of molecular genetics, but his research focuses primarily on the genetics of behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila…

By Tim Burnette, Conviron Scholar

By Yanniv Dorone, Conviron Scholar Dr. Shouling Xu is a mass spectrometrist and a biologist in the Department of Plant Biology at Carnegie Institution of Science. She obtained her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she worked in Joe Kieber’s lab. After this, she did a postdoc…

By Catherine Freed, Conviron Scholar Hello everyone! I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Mary Williams. Mary is a features editor of Teaching Tools in Plant Biology for Plant Cell as well as a Plantae community manager. She got her PhD in Plant Molecular Biology from Rockfeller University…

By Jaclyn Noshay, Conviron Scholar Interviewer: Jaclyn Noshay Interviewee: Dr. Amanda Waters Date: November 7, 2018 Dr. Amanda Waters is currently a Crop Bioinformatician in the Agro-Discovery team of PepsiCo.  After beginning her undergraduate degree as a pre-med biology student, she began…

By Jonathan Lombardino, Conviron Scholar Perhaps for some of you the looming prospect of where your career as a research scientist will take you has been a daunting and stressful thought-process. Lucky for us, I have enlisted the help of Dr. Miguel Vega-Sanchez, a scientist whose diverse career path…