Interviews with synthetic biologists: Tobias Erb
BlogSynthetic biology is a set of tools, a way of thinking, the integration of engineering principles into biological sciences, and potentially the biggest opportunity for advances in plant sciences since PCR. Yet many struggle to define it, and fewer still grasp its full potential.
Now, four early-career…
Announcing the Plantae Conviron Seeding Discovery Competition
Blog, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Undergraduate StudentsWe’re excited to launch a novel initiative in support of early career plant scientists: the Plantae Conviron Seeding Discovery competition...
Hijacking the ER membrane – lessons from Turnip mosaic virus
Blog, Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: News and ViewsBy Lynn GL Richardson
Positive-strand (+)RNA viruses account for the majority of plant viruses. Apart from their significant impact on worldwide agriculture, they also inform our understanding of basic virus biology (Scholthof et al., 2011). Upon entry into the cells of their host, (+)RNA viruses…
Careers in SynBio: Startup companies
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As part of our continuing series on future careers in plant science I spoke to Dr. Ran Chao, Co-founder of LifeFoundry, a startup company aiming to expedite research and reduce cost in synthetic biology, about making the transition from graduate research to entrepreneur and what he looks for in new…
Interviews with synthetic biologists: Matthew Mattozzi
BlogSynthetic biology is a set of tools, a way of thinking, the integration of engineering principles into biological sciences, and potentially the biggest opportunity for advances in plant sciences since PCR. Yet many struggle to define it, and fewer still grasp its full potential.
Now, four early-career…
Interviews with synthetic biologists: Michael Mendez
BlogSynthetic biology is a set of tools, a way of thinking, the integration of engineering principles into biological sciences, and potentially the biggest opportunity for advances in plant sciences since PCR. Yet many struggle to define it, and fewer still grasp its full potential.
Now, four early-career…
Taproot S3E6: Opening Channels of Communication Between Cells and Scientists
Blog, The Taproot Season 3, The-Taproot
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso who is a faculty member at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom to bust the myth competition is a part of science that cannot be avoided.
Dr. Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso is originally from Cuba, and completed her graduate studies at…
Interviews with synthetic biologists: Professor Jennifer Nemhauser
BlogSynthetic biology is a set of tools, a way of thinking, the integration of engineering principles into biological sciences, and potentially the biggest opportunity for advances in plant sciences since PCR. Yet many struggle to define it, and fewer still grasp its full potential.
In the first of…
Creating a future of effective science communicators
BlogThe need for incentivized science communication training for graduate students
In 2017, I attended the March for Science in Denver, CO alongside two plant biology graduate students. The excitement I got from being in a mass of people who support science funding dissipated when we started talking to…