Radosław Mazur, first author of "The SnRK2.10 kinase mitigates the adverse effects of salinity by protecting photosynthetic machinery" Current Position: assistant professor in the research group studying the structural and molecular basis of chloroplast function in the Department of Metabolic…

Zhou, Kusmec, Mirnezami et al. reveal how genetically determined measurement bias affects the accuracy of high-throughput phenotyping and genetic analysis. The Plant Cell (2021) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab134 By Yan Zhou Iowa State University Background: The accuracy of trait measurement…

Leonie Hacker, first author of "The repair of topoisomerase 2 cleavage complexes in Arabidopsis" Current position: PhD student, Botanical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany Education: B.S. and M.S. in Biology, Karlsruhe…

Danfeng Zhang, co-first author of “Efficient and high-throughput pseudorecombinant-chimeric Cucumber mosaic virus-based VIGS in maize” Current Position: Postdoc at School of Life Sciences in Tsinghua University Education: Ph.D. in College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural…

Huangai Li, co-first author of “Efficient and high-throughput pseudorecombinant-chimeric Cucumber mosaic virus-based VIGS in maize” Current Position:  Postdoc researcher at School of Life Sciences in Tsinghua University (China) Education: Ph.D. in Agriculture at The University of Tokyo (Japan);…

We stand with our colleagues in the Maize Genetics Cooperation in supporting targets of harassment and discrimination, and renew our pledge to uphold our code of conduct at ICAR meetings to prevent anyone from experiencing these harms. While current accusations against a member of our community…

Huzefa Ratlamwala, co-first author of "Rapid specialization of counter defenses enables two-spotted spider mite to adapt to novel plant hosts" Current Position: Finance and Data Analytics Education: BSc in Biotechnology, University of Aberdeen. MSc in Molecular Biology, University of Western Ontario Non-scientific…

Kristie Bruinsma, co-first author of "Rapid specialization of counter defenses enables two-spotted spider mite to adapt to novel plant hosts" Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Biology Department, University of Western Ontario Education: BSc, MSc, and PhD in Genetics, University of Western…