Informational Interview by Jaclyn Noshay, ASPB Conviron Scholar 2018 Dr. Amanda Waters is currently a Crop Bioinformatician in the Agro-Discovery team of PepsiCo.  After beginning her undergraduate degree as a pre-med biology student, she began to do research in Dr. Nathan Springer’s maize genomics…

Informational Interview by Tatyana Soto, ASPB Conviron Scholar 2020 Hope you enjoy my interview with Dr. Lisa Urry. I made it into a graphic just to make it more animated and engaging but this meant I had to condense some information. If you want to hear the inspiring story of her parents being first…

Informational Interview by Ally Weir, ASPB Conviron Scholar 2018 Dr. Joshua Der is an assistant professor at California State University Fullerton. He is also the curator of the MacFadden Herbarium at CSUF, as well as a research associate at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. AT CSUF he studies…

Informational Interview by Hillary Fischer, ASPB Conviron Scholar 2020 I recently had the pleasure to sit down with Dr. Christine Foyer, a professor at the University of Leeds in the Centre for Plant Science were her research lab focuses on the impact of stress on the growth and development of the…

Informational Interview by Will Hinckley, ASPB Conviron Scholar 2020 1. You began your education in Canada, but then continued it in the US. What are some of the differences in research culture you noticed while making that transition? I don't think that there were significant differences in research…

Informational Interview by Ruth (Jean Ae) Kim, ASPB Conviron Scholar 2020 Dr. Robert Jinkerson is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Department of Botany and Plant Sciences. He is one of the most interdisciplinary…

Informational Interview by Susana Perez Martine, ASPB Conviron Scholar 2020 I interviewed Dr. Elliot Meyerowitz who is the George Beadle Professor of Biology, and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator at the California Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1980. Prior to…

Informational Interview by Laura Ortega, ASPB Conviron Scholar 2018 Title: Dr. Leandro Mozzoni Associate Professor, Soybean breeding University of Arkansas I chose Dr. Mozzoni as my interviewee because I was looking for someone like himself who has had industry experience and has recently…