Archive: March, 2023

Yunqing Yu, first author of "Grain shattering by cell death and fracture in Eragrostis tef"  Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Education: Ph. D., the Pennsylvania State University, USA Non-scientific Interests: walking in nature, reading Brief…

Hu et al. investigate the enzymatic mechanism used by peptide asparaginyl ligases for activation and substrate recognition. The Plant Cell (2022) By Side Hu, Abbas El Sahili and Julien Lescar Background: Proteases, protein scissors that cut proteins into smaller pieces, can be found almost everywhere…

Mickaël DURAND, first author of "The Arabidopsis transcription factor NLP2 regulates early nitrate responses and integrates nitrate assimilation with energy and carbon skeleton supply" Curent Position: Associate professor, Plant Biomolecules and Biotechnology lab, Université de Tours, France Education:…

Yongming Duan, first author of "Combination of bacterial N-acyl homoserine lactones primes Arabidopsis defenses via jasmonate metabolism" Current Position: Ph.D. candidate at Julius Kühn-Institute, Germany Education: 2018 – Now: Ph.D. student, Julius Kühn-Institute, Germany 2015…

Philipp Wendering, first author of "Toward mechanistic modelling and rational engineering of plant respiration" Current Position: Doctoral student in Bioinformatics with Zoran Nikoloski at the University of Potsdam Education: Sc. in Molecular Biology at the University of Potsdam Sc. in Bioinformatics…

Zhan Li, first author of "Resting cytosol Ca2+ level is maintained by Ca2+ pumps and affects environmental responses in Arabidopsis" Current Position：Associate professor at South China Agricultural University Education: B.S. Anhui Agricultural University Ph.D. Zhejiang University Post…

Daniel Balderrama, first author of "Phytochrome F mediates red light responsiveness additively with phytochromes B1 and B2 in tomato" Current Position: PhD Student at the University of Maine, USA Education: B.S. from the University of Puget Sound Non-scientific Interests: Game Design, Music…

Jiang Zhenbo, co-first author of "Multi-omics analysis reveals spatiotemporal regulation and function of heteromorphic leaves in Populus"  Current Position: National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB)，Ph.D student Education: 2017-2021 Master of Botany, Tarim University. Non-scientific Interests:…