China Lunde, first author of A mixed-linkage (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan specific hydrolase mediates dark-triggered degradation of this plant cell wall polysaccharide Current Position: Staff Research Associate IV, UC Berkeley, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology in the laboratories of Drs. Sarah Hake,…

The USDA Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) is hosting a mini-conference on February 24 from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM (CST) to walk through the AG2PI seed grant mechanism and to promote team-building for these grants. The goal of AG2PI is to assemble a transdisciplinary community for those…

Jesús Montiel González, first author of Distinct signalling routes mediate intercellular and intracellular rhizobial infection in Lotus japonicus Current Position: Postdoc at Aarhus University, Denmark Education: PhD. Biochemical Sciences, Institute of Biotechnology (U.N.A.M., Mexico) Non-scientific…

Yi Zhang, co-first author of An Alternative Splicing Variant of PtRD26 Delays Leaf Senescence by Regulating Multiple NAC Transcription Factors in Populas  Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design (BAIC-TBMD), Beijing Forestry…

Hou-Ling Wang, co-first author of An Alternative Splicing Variant of PtRD26 Delays Leaf Senescence by Regulating Multiple NAC Transcription Factors in Populus Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design (BAIC-TBMD), Beijing…

Ji-Yun Kim, first author of Distinct identities of leaf phloem cells revealed by single cell transcriptomics Current Position:  Postdoctoral researcher at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf Education: BS/MS/Ph.D. in Biological Science at Seoul National University Non-scientific Interests: music,…

Mashael D. Alqahtani, first author of The role of PQL genes in response to salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis and barley Current Position: Assistant Professor Education: PhD in Biosciences, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia), Msc in Histology, King Abdulaziz University,…

Zhan and Steglich et al. investigate the small RNA-mediated regulation of the photoprotective Orange Carotenoid Protein in cyanobacteria. https://bit.ly/3d3AqY0 By Jiao Zhan1,2, Wolfgang Hess3 and Diana Kirilovsky1 1 Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the…