Keith E. Duncan, first author of “X-ray microscopy enables multiscale high-resolution 3D imaging of plant cells, tissues, and organs” Current Position: Research Scientist in Chris Topp’s lab at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and Director of X-ray Imaging Facility Education: BS in Biology, MS in Plant Pathology; MEd in Science Education Non-scientific Interests: Sport-touring […]
Kunpeng Liu, first author of “Intragenic tRNA-promoted R-loops orchestrate transcription interference for plant oxidative stress responses” Current Position: Postdoc at School of Life Sciences in Tsinghua University Education: B.S. from Huazhong Agricultural University；P.hD. from Fudan University Non-scientific Interests: Reading, running Brief bio: I am interested in transcriptional regulation of genes in plants. During my master […]
Changyu Yi, first author of “Diverse phosphate and auxin transport loci distinguish phosphate tolerant from sensitive Arabidopsis accessions” Current Position: Postdoc, Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Sciences, La Trobe University Education: Ph.D. in Botany, La Trobe University, Australia. M.Sc. in Horticulture, Zhejiang University, China Non-scientific Interests: reading, movies Brief bio: My interest in plants […]
Carsten Voelkner, first author of “Two plastid POLLUX ion channel-like proteins are required for stress-triggered stromal Ca2+ release” Current Position: Ph.D. student, School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University Education: B. Sc. in Biology from the University of Cologne Non-scientific Interests: Football (either one), Spikeball, reading, hiking and backpacking, cooking, and politics. According to […]
Youping Li, first author of “The CRY2-COP1-HY5-BBX7/8 module regulates blue light-dependent cold acclimation in Arabidopsis” Current Position: Postdoc in Beijing Vegetable Research Center (BVRC), Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Science (BAAFS) Education: Ph.D. Botany from China Agricultural University, B.S. Horticulture from Sichuan Agricultural University Non-scientific Interests: Pop music lovers, painting lovers, foodie Brief bio: […]
Amit Kumar, co-first author of “Development of aerial and belowground tubers in potato is governed by photoperiod and epigenetic mechanism” Current position: Postdoc fellow in Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands Education: PhD from Biology Department, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune BS and MS (Botany) from Lachoo Memorial […]
Kirtikumar R. Kondhare, co-first author of “Development of aerial and belowground tubers in potato is governed by photoperiod and epigenetic mechanism” Current position: Asst. Prof. (AcSIR) and DST – Inspire Faculty, Biochemical Sciences Division, CSIR – National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune, Maharashtra, India. Education: Ph.D. in Plant Physiology & Biochemistry from Harper Adams University, United […]
Marco Incarbone, first author of “Immunocapture of dsRNA-bound proteins provides insight into Tobacco rattle virus replication complexes and reveals Arabidopsis DRB2 to be a wide-spectrum antiviral effecto” Current Position: Lise Meitner postdoctoral fellow at Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna Education: Master’s in plant biotechnology (Torino, Italy), PhD in molecular plant virology (Strasbourg, France) Non-scientific interests: playing music, being with people, being outdoors, learning about […]
Soujanya Akella, first author of “Co-targeting strategy for precise, scarless gene editing with CRISPR/Cas9 and donor ssODNs in Chlamydomonas“ Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Biological Sciences and Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Education: PhD in Genetics, Iowa State University (USA); BS in Biomedical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (India) Non-scientific […]