How do plants sense and acquire nitrate?
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ASPB Conviron Scholars Independent Project
Nitrogen (N) is one of the important plant nutrients required for growth and development. Nitrogen makes up the genetic backbone and is assimilated into numerous different proteins. Plants take up N in two forms: nitrate and ammonium. Nitrate is…
SURFing with ASPB: How fellowships and mentorship for undergraduates foster a more diverse and inclusive society
BlogHello ASPB members!
If we haven’t met, or if you don’t follow me on Twitter (@PLANTasticPope), my name is Lauren Pope and I am a first-year graduate student in the Stanford Biosciences PhD program. While I am still rotating through labs during my first year at Stanford and am seemingly far from…
Finding What Works: Locating Resources and Reproducible Protocols
BlogOver the course of 26 years Richard Lenski, a professor at Michigan State University, watched the E. coli bacteria used in his lab multiply through over 59,000 generations. He used his lab freezer as a “time machine” and collected samples after every 75 days, roughly every 500 generations. Over…
Hyperspectral Imaging and its Applications in Agriculture
BlogASPB Conviron Scholars Program Independent Project by Bryce Askey
Plant Responses to Relative Humidity
BlogASPB Conviron Scholars Presentation by Daisy Dobrijevic
Plant Girl Comics
BlogCreated by Ruth (Jean Ae) Kim as part of the ASPB Conviron Scholars Program
For my independent project, I decided to make a series of comics about a character called Plant Girl. I am hoping this makes plant biology accessible for young children to young adults in a fun way! The first chapter is about…
Faculty Job: Myths & Realities - an interview with Cătălin Voiniciuc
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Describe your journey from student to newly appointed faculty
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Group Leader, Designer Glycans lab - (since 01.2019)
Research Associate, Markus Pauly lab - (05.2016 – 12.2018)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Björn Usadel lab - (02.2016 – 04.2016)
PhD…
Faculty Job: Myths & Realities - an interview with Tom Bennett
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Describe your journey from student to newly appointed faculty
I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Leeds, then moved to the University of York to do my PhD with Ottoline Leyser. I really enjoyed my PhD, but decided I didn’t want to work on auxin any more (famous last…