Informational Interview with Dr. Liana Nice, Research Scientist and Project Manager, NSIP LLC
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Kate Harline, Conviron Scholar
Dr. Nice has a PhD in plant breeding from Cornell University and works at a small plant breeding company.
Informational Interview with Dr Lauren Gardiner, Curator of Cambridge University Herbarium
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Bryony Yates, Conviron Scholar
Informational Interview with Dr. Alexandra Erwin, Director of Talent Development at BioKansas
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Aleah Henderson-Carter, Conviron Scholar
Alex Erwin is a recent graduate from the University of Kansas Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department. She is now a member of staff at BioKansas, a bioscience networking organization which represents a variety of biotechnology companies and academic…
Informational interview with Dr. Viktoriya Coneva, Postdoc at a PUI
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Hannah Thomas, Conviron Scholar
Current position:
Post-doc research associate at Kenyon College in Ohio. This position is unique in that it has a strong teaching and mentorship emphasis. She teaching 1 class every semester and mentors 5-6 undergraduate students in the lab.
A typical workday:
Because…
Informational Interview with Dr. Claire Bendix, patent agent
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Heidi Wipf, Conviron Scholar
Dr. Claire L. Bendix is a patent agent for the Intellectual Property group at Morrison & Foerster LLP.
Since beginning her career in IP as a scientific analyst in 2017, Dr. Bendix finds the work to be continually engaging, the work environment to be supportive,…
Informational Interview with Katherine Rose Brian, pesticide regulatory specialist
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Daisy Dobrijevic, Conviron Scholar

EDITORIAL The Plant Cell celebrates 30 years of publishing the best work in plant biology
Blog, Pubs Pages, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: News
By Sabeeha S. Merchant, Nancy A. Eckardt and Nancy Winchester
As Bob Goldberg, founding editor, noted upon the 20th anniversary of The Plant Cell in 2009 (Vol. 21, pp. 3–12), 1989 was a year of major change: not just for the world (“the Iron Curtain came down, the Berlin Wall crumbled, the…

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Jeremy Jewell
BlogJeremy Jewell, first author of Extracellular ATP shapes a defense-related transcriptome both independently and along with other defense signaling pathways
Current Position: Postdoc, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, USA
Education: PhD, Molecular Plant Sciences,…
New Teaching Tool: "Molecular Control of Plant Shoot Architecture"
BlogWe’re excited to announce the publication of The Plant Cell’s latest Teaching Tool, “Molecular Control of Plant Shoot Architecture,” by Agustin Zsögön and Lázaro E. P. Peres, available without subscription at Plantae.org.
Manipulation of plant form and height has been instrumental in…
