Linkan Dash, first author of "slim shady is a novel allele of PHYTOCHROME B present in the T-DNA line SALK_015201" Current Position: PhD student of Dr. Dior Kelley, Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University Education: Masters and Bachelors in Biology (National…

Xuyen Ha Le, first author of "The mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC) complex mediates one of three pyruvate-supplying pathways that sustain Arabidopsis respiratory metabolism" Current Position: PhD student in Millar Lab, ARC Centre for Plant Energy Biology Education: Bachelor of Biotechnology…

Marco Mellon, first author of “Inactivation of mitochondrial Complex I stimulates chloroplast ATPase in Physcomitrium patens” Current Position: Post-doctoral scientist Education: I have earned my bachelor’s and master’s degree in Molecular Biology at the University of Padova (Italy). Then,…

Vajiheh Safavi-Rizi, author of "Towards genetically encoded sensors for nitric oxide bioimaging in planta" Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow at Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany Education: Ph.D. at Department…

Peng Xu, first author of "Blue light-dependent interactions of CRY1 with GID1 and DELLA proteins regulate gibberellin signaling and photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis" Current Position:  Fudan University,PhD Education: Fudan University, PhD; Northwest A & F University, bachelor and master Non-scientific…

Gaochao Cai, first author of "Soil textures rather than root hairs dominate water uptake and soil-plant hydraulics under drought" Current Position: Postdoctoral scientist, Chair of Soil Physics, University of Bayreuth, Germany Education: PhD in Soil hydrology, Forschungszentrum Jülich / University…

Mohit Kumar Swarnkar, first author of "Prickle morphogenesis in rose is coupled with secondary metabolite accumulation and governed by canonical MBW transcriptional complex" Current Position: Ph.D. Candidate (GNDU, Amritsar) and Senior Technical Officer, Division of Biotechnology, CSIR-Institute of…

FEATURED FIGURE CAPTION:  Live imaging of Phytophthora infestans (magenta) growing on Nicotiana benthamiana cells (cyan). Cells that are colonized by the pathogen show increased numbers of vesicles (bright cyan dots) compared to cells that haven’t been colonized yet. Petre, Contreras, et al. investigate…