An academic career is multifaceted. Academics combine research and teaching with mentoring, grant-writing, publishing, community service, and administrative roles. One of the first questions aspiring academics must ask themselves is how much time they want to devote to teaching versus research, alongside everything else their position demands. For some, the answer to this question shifts […]
Plantae Presents: How to Build a Productive Lab Featuring Yuchen Long and Carl Ng When: Wednesday, November 26, 2025, at 4:30 AM PST | 7:30 PM EST | 12:30 PM GMT | 8:30 PM Beijing About this Webinar Many early-career researchers (ECRs) and new PIs receive little to no formal training in lab management, despite […]
Plantae Presents – Rooted in Balance: Building Healthy Work-Life Balance as a Plant Scientist Featuring Kevin Cope, Jessica Erickson, Gnanesh Nanjappa, and Vojtěch Schmidt When: Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 6:00 AM PDT | 9:00 AM EDT | 2:00 PM BST | 9:00 PM Beijing About this Webinar Similar to any other job in the […]
It’s 10:30 p.m. and your laptop is still open. The submission deadline is tomorrow, your latest experiment failed, and your email inbox is a small avalanche. You silently wonder how long you can keep this up — and how everyone else seems to handle it better than you. Even though it can often feel like […]
Behind manuscripts are researchers, professors, professionals and students dedicated to advancing the field of plant science. You’ve seen our First Authors on Bluesky, Twitter, and Facebook— now, read more about why they chose to pursue plant sciences and click on the links below the pictures to read their articles. Deniz Ece Ozcan Deniz Ece […]
A message from Silvia Restrepo, President, Boyce Thompson Institute As the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) embarks on our second century of plant science innovation, I’m deeply honored to announce the launch of the Jane Silverthorne Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, made possible by a generous gift from Dr. Silverthorne’s estate. This initiative embodies everything we stand for […]
Plantae Presents – Fledgling Season: Sound Advice for ECRs Starting Out in Academia Featuring Sunil K. Kenchanmane Raju and Howard S. Judelson When: Friday, September 26, 2025, at 9:00 AM PDT | 12:00 PM EDT | 5:00 PM BST | 12:00 AM Beijing About this Webinar Making the jump from a postdoc to a faculty […]
At the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2025) in Ghent, the workshop “Resolving Heterogeneity in Plants with Imaging and Omics” brought together researchers from across the world to explore one of the most intriguing and rapidly evolving frontiers in plant science: cellular heterogeneity. When we think of a single plant- or even a single leaf […]
Plant scientists often find themselves rethinking the boundaries between research and life experience. Understanding edible landscapes requires more than identifying species, their complex biology, and reproduction–it involves listening to the people who live with these plants every day, whose knowledge often precedes the academic lens by centuries. This became especially clear during the early months […]