Plantae Webinar: What I Wish I had Known When I Started Grad School When: Tuesday, April 13th at 2 PM EDT 11 AM PDT (UTC-7) | 1 PM CDT (UTC-5) | 2 PM EDT (UTC-4) About This Webinar This semester, many graduate students are embarking on a new unprecedented journey. The ASPB Early Career Plant […]
In this episode, our guest is Aman Husbands. Aman is originally from Canada and got his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto. After completing his PhD at the University of California Riverside, he moved to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. In 2018, he moved to The Department of Molecular Genetics at the Ohio State University […]
This week’s podcast is a conversation with Dr. Kevin Cox. Kevin earned his PhD at Texas A&M University before returning to his hometown of St Louis, Missouri to do a postdoc with Blake Meyers at The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Kevin has won numerous awards and grants and was recently awarded an HHMI Hanna […]
Plantae Presents: Eric Schranz and Caroline Pont Recorded Feb 10 – 10am EST, 3pm GMT, 4pm CET Eric Schranz: Context Matters: Phylogenomic synteny analysis of plants and animals Eric Schranz is currently the professor of Biosystematics at Wageningen University. He was a an undergraduate at Cornell University and received his PhD from the University of […]
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Thelma Madzima, Assistant Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Washington, Bothell. A native of Zimbabwe, she received her Ph.D. in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Florida and went on to complete a postdoc with Karen McGinnis in the Department of […]
This week’s podcast is a conversation with Dr. Adán Colón-Carmona, Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Adán received his PhD from University of California, Irvine and he did postdoctoral research at the Salk Institute and at the University of California, Davis. His research currently focuses on plant rhizosphere interactions, abiotic stress response, […]
This week’s Taproot podcast episode is a conversation with Dr. Tanisha Williams A plant researcher, she was inspired this summer by the simultaneous rise of the pandemic and the civil uprising against police brutality to draw Black botanists together for a social media event called #BlackBotanistsWeek. Tanisha is an impressively accomplished early career researcher whose […]
Careers in Plant Biology Startups Recorded Thursday, November 12, 2020 About This Webinar Startups are an essential component of the plant biology and ag-tech industry ecosystems. In this webinar, organized by the Women in Plant Biology Committee, you will learn what it’s like to work at a startup, understand the basics of founding a company […]
Careers Beyond the Bench – Industry Edition Recorded Monday, October 26, 2020 About This Webinar During this Plantae webinar, which has been jointly organized by the ASPB EDIC Committee and the ASPB Women in Plant Biology Committee, you will develop insights into the many career options available to plant biologists by meeting scientists who have […]