Aashima Khosla, first author of A series of dual-reporter vectors for ratiometric analysis of protein abundance in plants Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA Education: PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the Kansas State University, USA; Master of Science in Biotechnology at the MS University of […]
Yuta Kikuchi, first author of Chloroplast autophagy and ubiquitination combine to manage oxidative damage and starvation responses Current Position: a company employee Education: MSc in Life Science, Tohoku University, Japan Non-scientific Interests: cooking, traveling, playing golf Brief bio: I joined the research group of Dr. Masanori Izumi when I went to graduate school at Tohoku […]
Fanfan Zhang, first author of The SUN domain proteins OsSUN1 and OsSUN2 play critical but partially redundant roles in meiosis Current Position: Post doctor, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Education: PhD in Genetics (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); BSc in Horticulture (Nanjing Agricultural […]
Alessandra Boccaccini, first author of Low blue light enhances phototropism by releasing cryptochrome 1-mediated inhibition of PIF4 expression Current Position: Post-doctoral fellow at Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne Education: Ph.D. in “Life Science”, Sapienza, University of Rome; MSc in Genetic and Molecular biology, Sapienza, University of Rome; BSc […]
Zongcheng Lin, first author of Ectopic expression of a self-incompatibility module triggers growth arrest and cell death in vegetative cells Current Position: FWO senior postdoc fellow, VIB-UGent joint Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium Education: Bachelor, Harbin Institute of Technology; PhD, University of Birmingham Non-scientific Interests: badminton, tennis, hiking, cooking Brief bio: I started my […]
Qiufang Shen, first author of Calmodulin HvCaM1 negatively regulates salt tolerance via modulation of HvHKT1s and HvCAMTA4 Current Position: Postdoc, Institute of Crop Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R.China Education: 2013/09-2018/06, PhD in Crop Science, Zhejiang University 2009/09-2013/06, Bachelor in Agronomy, Zhejiang University Non-scientific Interests: reading, walking and cooking Brief bio: I have been working on […]
Michela Osnato, first author of Genes of the RAV family control heading date and carpel development in rice Current Position: science communication manager (@secretlifeofaplantbiologist), member of the Plantae fellow program Education: MS in Plant Biotechnology and PhD in Plant biology and crop productivity at the University of Milan (UNIMI, Italy) Non-scientific Interests: travel, photography, yoga, […]
Robyn Roberts, first author of Molecular characterization of differences between the tomato immune receptors Flagellin sensing 3 and Flagellin sensing 2 Current Position: Postdoctoral Scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute. Starting in August 2020 I will be an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University. Education: Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.S. […]
Jishan Jiang, first author of Retrograde induction of phyB orchestrates ethylene-auxin hierarchy to regulate growth Current Position: Candidate for a tenure track faculty position, college of Grassland Science and Technology at China Agricultural University, Beijing, China Education: Ph.D; Forage Genetics, Breeding and Seed Sciences at Chinese academy of Agricultural Sciences Non-scientific Interests: hiking, camping and drawing […]