Entries by ASPB Conviron Scholar

Informational Interview with Professor David Parrott, Westminster University (PUI)

January 30, 2019 in /by

By Bret Hart, Conviron Scholar I interviewed Dr. David Parrott, Ph.D. He is currently at Westminster University, but earned his Ph.D. in Plant Science at Utah State University after a B.S. in Botany and an M.A. in Biology from Humboldt State University. He is focused on teaching undergraduates at his current institution but has experience […]

Informational Interview with Prof. Christopher Jones, Moravian College (PUI)

January 30, 2019 in /by

By Christopher Sorich, Conviron Scholar Dr. Christopher Jones is professor and chair of the Biology department at Moravian College located in Bethlehem, PA. He is interested in many aspects of molecular genetics, but his research focuses primarily on the genetics of behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, especially learning and memory as well as seizure disorders. […]

Informational interview with Dr. Shouling Xu, Director of the mass spectrometry facility at Carnegie Institution of Science

January 30, 2019 in /by

By Yanniv Dorone, Conviron Scholar Dr. Shouling Xu is a mass spectrometrist and a biologist in the Department of Plant Biology at Carnegie Institution of Science. She obtained her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she worked in Joe Kieber’s lab. After this, she did a postdoc in Zhiyong Wang’s […]

Informational Interview with Dr. Mary Williams, Features Editor, The Plant Cell

January 30, 2019 in /by

By Catherine Freed, Conviron Scholar Hello everyone! I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Mary Williams. Mary is a features editor of Teaching Tools in Plant Biology for Plant Cell as well as a Plantae community manager. She got her PhD in Plant Molecular Biology from Rockfeller University and did a Postdoc at the University of California-Berkeley. […]

Informal Interview with Dr. Amanda Waters, Crop Bioinformatician in the Agro-Discovery team of PepsiCo

January 30, 2019 in /by

By Jaclyn Noshay, Conviron Scholar Interviewer: Jaclyn Noshay Interviewee: Dr. Amanda Waters Date: November 7, 2018 Dr. Amanda Waters is currently a Crop Bioinformatician in the Agro-Discovery team of PepsiCo.  After beginning her undergraduate degree as a pre-med biology student, she began to do research in Dr. Nathan Springer’s maize genomics lab where she discovered […]

Informational Interview with Dr. Miguel Vega-Sanchez, Regulatory Affairs Pipeline Strategy Manager, Insect Control and Genome Editing at Bayer

January 30, 2019 in /by

By Jonathan Lombardino, Conviron Scholar Perhaps for some of you the looming prospect of where your career as a research scientist will take you has been a daunting and stressful thought-process. Lucky for us, I have enlisted the help of Dr. Miguel Vega-Sanchez, a scientist whose diverse career path has given him a unique perspective […]