Yang Liu, co-first author of “Expanding the application of anti-CRISPR proteins in plants for tunable genome editing” Current Position: Oak Ridge National Lab, Post-Doctoral Associate Education: Iowa State University, Ph.D. Beijing Forestry University, Master Southwest University, Bachelor Non-scientific Interests: Soccer, Photography Brief bio: While conducting doctoral research on the molecular mechanisms that control the tillering of […]
Guoliang Yuan, co-first author of “Expanding the application of anti-CRISPR proteins in plants for tunable genome editing” Current Position: Postdoc, Biological Conversion Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Education: PhD, Applied Biological Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium; MSc, Landscape Architecture, Zhejiang University, China; BSc, Biological Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, China Non-scientific Interests: basketball, travelling, hiking Brief bio: After completing […]
Shintaro Ichikawa, first author of “Live-cell imaging of the chloroplast outer envelope membrane using fluorescent dyes” Current Position: Ph.D student, Graduate School of Regional Development and Creativity, Utsunomiya University, Japan Education: Bachelor of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, Japan Non-scientific Interest: Watching soccer games, reading, cooking Brief bio: Since my undergraduate degree, I have worked in the laboratory of Prof. […]
Qiran Sun, first author of “Kinase MxMPK4-1 and calmodulin binding protein MxIQM3 enhance apple root acidification during Fe deficiency” Education: Shandong agriculture university (B.S); China Agricultural University (M.D; Ph.D) Non-scientific Interests: table tennis, swimming, piano Brief bio: I have been studying for my phD in the Pomology in College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University since 2019. […]
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 bio: I received my bachelor degree at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. For my Ph.D. training, I joined […]
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 in the natural world, including in plants. However, protein ligases, […]
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: PhD in Plant Molecular Physiology, Université de Poitiers, France Non-scientific interests: gravel and road bike, running, podcasting, […]
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 – 2018: Master, China Agricultural University, China 2011 – 2015: Bachelor, Hunan Agricultural University, China Non-scientific Interests: Reading and cooking […]
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 at the University of Potsdam Non-scientific Interests: In my free time, I like to […]