Hi @anavalladares @CPFreed @LauraMejia92 @rah107 @CPFreed@Humberto_Herrera, thank you so much for making up the fantastic infographics for FOPD! I am making up this post to compile them and what the social media text will look like. I will make up an article with all of them in Open Forum on the 17th so all links will take people to our compiled version. […]
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Scott Barolo about how he made a popular board game into a teaching tool, and we start a two-part discussion about the grad school application process. Scott gained his BSc at Penn State University and his Ph.D. in biology at the University of California, San Diego. He was […]
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Zen Faulkes about the graduate application process, what program directors are looking for and how hard (or indeed impossible) it is to have unbiased selection system. Zen gained a B.A., Psychology at the University of Lethbridge in 1989 and a Ph.D. at the University of Victoria about sand […]
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Ambika Kamath, a behavioral ecologist and a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, about her undergraduate research and how to make value-based career decisions. Ambika is originally from India and gained her B.A. in Biology at Amherst College in 2011. She received the Schupf Scholarship at Amherst which provided […]
The ASPB Conviron Scholars program serves as a foundation for a career in plant science. The scholarship consists of the four major themes: Career Planning, Writing and Communications, Leadership, and Effective Presentations Within each theme, the participants read collections of articles, attended webinars, and completed assignments within a private Plantae Network. The assignments required the scholars to […]
A look back at the most popular articles shared on Plantae social media in 2018. Plantae Social Media Interns Katie Rogers and Juniper Kiss have been reviewing the 2018 stats. Previously they shared the most popular posts overall. Here, they share the posts to research and review articles that got the most responses on […]
When plants are under attack by herbivores and microbes, running away is not an option. As a defence, plants produce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that repel herbivores, attract enemies of the herbivores, or alarm surrounding plants; VOCs have mostly been viewed as positive regulators in the plant defence system. They are cues for hormonal pathways, […]
A Plantae interview with Prof Corey Bradshaw about his new book Professor Corey J.A. Bradshaw is a Matthew Flinders Fellow in Global Ecology at Flinders University, Australia. His research focuses on global-change ecology and has had over 10,000 citations since 2013. His blog is www.conservationbytes.com, where he writes about biodiversity conservation and has almost reached 2 million visitors. We had a […]
Plantae interview with Prof Corey Bradshaw about his new book Professor Corey J.A. Bradshaw is a Matthew Flinders Fellow in Global Ecology at Flinders University, Australia. His research focuses on global-change ecology and has had over 10,000 citations since 2013. His blog is www.conservationbytes.com, where he writes about biodiversity conservation and has almost reached 2 million visitors. We had a chat […]