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Transitioning in the lab

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  I work as a bioinformatics-focussed research assistant in the Osbourn group at the JIC, which is the same lab I did my PhD in. Our lab focusses on plant natural product biosynthesis, and my own research involves leveraging the huge (and ever increasing..!) wealth and diversity of ‘omics data…

Cuiping Wan: Plant Physiology First Author

Cuiping Wan, first author of “A serine-rich effector from the stripe rust pathogen targets a Raf-like kinase to suppress host immunity” Current Position: PhD student at College of Plant Protection of Northwest A&F University, China Education: Bachelor degree (College of Plant Protection…

Yu Chen: The Plant Cell First Author

Yu Chen, co-first author of “MOR1/MAP215 acts synergistically with katanin to control cell division and anisotropic cell elongation in Arabidopsis” Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China Education: Bachelor Degree from Hainan…

Xiayan Liu: The Plant Cell First Author

Xiayan Liu, co-first author of “MOR1/MAP215 acts synergistically with katanin to control cell division and anisotropic cell elongation in Arabidopsis” Current Position: Professor, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China Education: B.S. from Fudan University in…

An N-terminally truncated NLR is functional

Wu et al. uncover the unexpected role of the truncated NLR NRG1C in negatively regulating plant immunity by antagonizing its full-length NRG1 neighbors. Background: Plants utilize sophisticated innate immune systems to fight against pathogens. Their genomes encode abundant immune receptors to detect…

Rekha Agrawal: Plant Physiology First Author

Rekha Agrawal, co-first author of "MEDIATOR SUBUNIT17 integrates jasmonate and auxin signaling pathways to regulate thermomorphogenesis" Current Position: PhD student, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India. Education: Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Botany, Jiwaji University,…

Mohan Sharma: Plant Physiology First Author

Mohan Sharma, co-first author of "MEDIATOR SUBUNIT17 integrates jasmonate and auxin signaling pathways to regulate thermomorphogenesis" Current Position: Post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Biology III, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Education: Doctor of Philosophy, National…