Muhammad Uzair, first author of PERSISTENT TAPETAL CELL 2 is required for normal tapetal programmed cell death and pollen wall patterning Current Position: Research Assistant (University of Hong Kong) Education: M.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture Biotechnology, Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology (CABB), University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Non-scientific Interests: travelling, cooking, and playing badminton Brief bio: […]
Laura Arribas-Hernández, first author of Occurrence and functions of m6A and other covalent modifications in plant mRNA Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen Education: PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Copenhagen (2015), BS and MS in Biology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2011), BS in Telecommunication Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Non-scientific […]
Shivani Upadhyaya, first author of Reciprocal regulation of photosynthesis and mitochondrial respiration by TOR kinase in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Current Position: Graduate Student, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India Education: M.Sc in Bioinformatics Non-Scientific Interests: Robotics, science fiction reading and writing Brief Bio: I joined my graduate studies in 2014 and was very interested in […]
Adrien Heymans, first author of GRANAR, a computational tool to better understand the functional importance of monocotyledon root anatomy Current Position: PhD Student at the Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Belgium Education: Master degree in Bioengineering, agricultural sciences, UCLouvain, Belgium Non-scientific Interests: trail, outdoor sports, climbing, and camping Brief bio: I started the PhD journey […]
Renesh Bedre, first author of GenFam: A web application and database for gene family-based classification and functional enrichment analysis Current Position: Assistant Research Scientist in Kranthi Mandadi laboratory at Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, Texas Education: Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics from Louisiana State University, 2016 Non-scientific Interests: chess, music, community […]
Trevor Nolan, first author of Brassinosteroids: Multi-Dimensional Regulators of Plant Growth, Development, and Stress Responses Current Position: Postdoc in the laboratory of Philip Benfey, Duke University and HHMI Education: Ph.D. in Genetics from Iowa State University Non-scientific Interests: photography, CrossFit, spending time with my wife and kids Brief bio: While attending an undergraduate genetics course […]
Nooshin Omranian, co-first author of Plasticity in metabolism underpins local responses to nitrogen in Arabidopsis thaliana populations Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (MPIMP), Potsdam, Germany Education: Ph. D. degree in Systems Biology University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany and M.Sc. in Software Engineering from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran […]
Prashant Pandey, co-first author of Plasticity in metabolism underpins local responses to nitrogen in Arabidopsis thaliana populations Current Position: Assistant Research Officer, The National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon Education: Ph. D. at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany Non-scientific Interests: travelling, reading, Indian history and philosophy Brief bio: I come from […]
Xue-Rong Zhou, first author of Reorganization of acyl flux through the lipid metabolic network in oil-accumulating tobacco leaves Current Position: Senior Principal Research Scientist Education: Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; M.Sc. in Molecular Genetics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; B.Sc. in Biology, East China Normal University, China Non-scientific Interests: fishing, […]