What We're Reading: February 1st
Blog, WWR Full PostHappy February! This week we have a special issue featuring summaries written by candidates for the 2019 Plantae Fellows program. (Official announcement to follow soon).
Review: Deep learning on image-based plant phenotyping
The development of deep learning brings opportunities to train computers…
Announcing the new global Plant Science Events Calendar!
BlogWe're excited to announce the launch of a new Plant Science Events Calendar on Plantae.org. This service is provided free...
Informational interview with Kevin Tran, Biotech Process Development Associate, Orchard Therapeutics
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy John Tran, Conviron Scholar
Interviewer: John Tran, PhD Candidate in Plant Biology at MSU
Interviewee: Kevin Tran (Process Development Associate)
Masters – Biology in Stem Cell Research
B.S. – Biology in System Physiology
Academic meets Industry
John Tran sits down with Process…
Informational Interview with Matthew Ross, Director of Continuing Education at Longwood Gardens
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Jen Schmidt, Conviron Scholar
Name: Matthew Ross
Position:Director, Continuing Education at Longwood Gardens
Degrees: Bachelor of Science, Horticulture Science, Master of Science, Horticulture Science
I had the opportunity to interview Matthew Ross, the Director of Continuing Education at…
Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Raul Huertas
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesRaul Huertas, first author of Arabidopsis SmE1 regulates plant development and response to abiotic stress by determining spliceosome activity specificity
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Noble Research Institute, Admore, Oklahoma, USA
Education: Ph.D. in Plant Science, Universidad de Granada…
Informational Interview with Dr. Susan McCarthy, USDA Knowledge Services Division (KSD)
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Matthew Fabian, Conviron Scholar
1. Please describe your path to a career in plant science, from undergraduate (or earlier) studies to your current role. What are some particular challenges, experiences, or milestones that you’d care to share?
After one course correction in my…
Informational Interview with Dr. Manuel A. Luján, postdoc at California Academy of Sciences
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Heidi Wipf, Conviron Scholar
About four years ago, during a trip to the Venezuelan Embassy in San Francisco, a tropical biologist stopped to have his photograph taken outside the doors of the California Academy of Sciences - a planetarium, aquarium, rainforest, and natural history museum located…
Informal interview with Dr. Chia Sin Liew, core facility bioinformatician, University of Nebraska
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Yen Ning Chai, Conviron Scholar
Dr. Chia Sin Liew is a bioinformatician working for the bioinformatics core facility at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Her jobs include maintaining the computing servers and providing bioinformatics services to the researchers at UNL. She obtained her Bachelor…
Informational Interview with Dr. Robert Gaeta, Plant Biotechnology team leader, Bayer Crop Science
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Alex Clarke, Conviron Scholar
Background
Robert did his undergraduate at SUNY Cortland before moving to California to work as a technician in molecular biology. He pursued a Master’s degree at Fresno State, where he worked with C. elegans and performed plant transformations with nematode…