Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Rafael Catalá
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesRafael Catalá first author of Arabidopsis SmE1 regulates plant development and response to abiotic stress by determining spliceosome activity specificity
Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas-CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
Education: B. Sc. and M. Sc. Biology, Universidad…
Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Raul Huertas
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesRaul Huertas, first author of Arabidopsis SmE1 regulates plant development and response to abiotic stress by determining spliceosome activity specificity
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Noble Research Institute, Admore, Oklahoma, USA
Education: Ph.D. in Plant Science, Universidad de Granada…
Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Jennifer Andres
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesJennifer Andres, first author of Synthetic switches and regulatory circuits in plants
Current Position: PhD student, Institute of Synthetic Biology & CEPLAS, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Education: B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biology, with the focus on Microbiology and Biotechnology
Non-scientific…
Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Tim Blomeier
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesTim Blomeier, first author of Synthetic switches and regulatory circuits in plants
Current position: PhD Student, Heinrich-Heine-University, Institute of Synthetic Biology & CEPLAS, Düsseldorf, Germany
Education: M. Sc. Biology with a major in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology (Heinrich-Heine-University,…
Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Daniel Wangpraseurt
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesDaniel Wangpraseurt, first author of Optical properties of corals distort variable chlorophyll fluorescence measurements
Current Position: Marie Curie Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK
Education: PhD University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. MSc Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiolgy…
Informational Interview with Dr. Susan McCarthy, USDA Knowledge Services Division (KSD)
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Matthew Fabian, Conviron Scholar
1. Please describe your path to a career in plant science, from undergraduate (or earlier) studies to your current role. What are some particular challenges, experiences, or milestones that you’d care to share?
After one course correction in my…
Informational Interview with Dr. Manuel A. Luján, postdoc at California Academy of Sciences
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Heidi Wipf, Conviron Scholar
About four years ago, during a trip to the Venezuelan Embassy in San Francisco, a tropical biologist stopped to have his photograph taken outside the doors of the California Academy of Sciences - a planetarium, aquarium, rainforest, and natural history museum located…
Informal interview with Dr. Chia Sin Liew, core facility bioinformatician, University of Nebraska
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Yen Ning Chai, Conviron Scholar
Dr. Chia Sin Liew is a bioinformatician working for the bioinformatics core facility at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Her jobs include maintaining the computing servers and providing bioinformatics services to the researchers at UNL. She obtained her Bachelor…
Informational Interview with Dr. Robert Gaeta, Plant Biotechnology team leader, Bayer Crop Science
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Alex Clarke, Conviron Scholar
Background
Robert did his undergraduate at SUNY Cortland before moving to California to work as a technician in molecular biology. He pursued a Master’s degree at Fresno State, where he worked with C. elegans and performed plant transformations with nematode…