This week we are featuring the Faculty Job: Myths and Realities Series created by ASPB Ambassador Arif Ashraf. In each interview, faculty members describe their journey from student to newly appointed faculty and answer the following questions: What inspired you most to pursue your current career? Which conferences do you regularly attend? How long did […]
In the final episode of Season 4, we talk with Todd Barkman, Professor of Biology at Western Michigan University. Todd earned his PhD in Botany at the University of Texas at Austin with Beryl Simpson, and went on to a postdoc position at Penn State with Claude dePamphilis. He started his lab at Western Michigan […]
This Valentine’s Day, give a gift that keeps growing with these DIY seed packets! A fun project for kids and adults! Instructions: 1.) Download this PowerPoint file and select the Valentines that you wish to print Plant Valentines.pptx 2.) Download the Seed Packet Template .pdf and print as many as you need on colorful paper […]
Preparing your Manuscript for Submission Recorded Tuesday, February 4, 2020 About This Webinar In this webinar, ASPB Features Editor Mary Williams will outline the key steps in writing a paper, preparing figures, and navigating the submission process. Topics include how to frame the significance of the question being addressed; how to put the results […]
This episode, we continue our discussions about cultivating a career with guest Kelly Gillespie, Nursery Solutions Lead at Bayer Crop Science. Kelly got her bachelor’s degree at Knox College, a small liberal arts college in Illinois. She then moved on to do a PhD with Lisa Ainsworth at the University of Illinois. She did a […]
This month we are celebrating the anniversary of The Global Plant Science Events Calendar! So far, we have collected over 200 events. In the past year, the calendar has become one of our most viewed pages, but how global is the calendar? To get an idea, here is a word cloud generated from the location […]
Transdisciplinary Plant Phenomics and Phenotyping for Maize Crop Improvement Recorded Tuesday, January 21, 2020 About This Webinar Emerging tools in plant phenomics and high-throughput field phenotyping are redefining possibilities for decisions in plant breeding and agronomy as well as discoveries in the plant sciences more broadly. More specifically, coupling unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, i.e., drones) […]
Our guest for this episode is Dr. Holly Bik. Holly obtained her PhD in Molecular Phylogenetics at the University of Southampton, working with John Lambshead at the Natural History Museum of London in conjunction with the UK National Oceanography Center. She completed postdoctoral appointments with Dr. Kelley Thomas at the University of New Hampshire and […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR, PLANT BIOLOGY COMMUNITY! What a year 2019 was! So many wonderful things happened. ASPB hosted another successful Plant Biology meeting in San Jose, CA. We spent the year celebrating The Plant Cell‘s 30th anniversary (check out the hashtag #ThePlantCellebration30 for a year full of fun, and […]