ICAR2018 Workshop on Public Engagement, June 28, 2018 Communicating Science in the Age of Fake News: Broadening Your Impact ICAR2018 Workshop on Public Engagement, June 28, 2018 Background As part of an NSF-funded Research Coordination Network grant, the North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee…

This week's edition is guest edited by Arif Ashraf, a PhD student at Iwate University, Japan and Graduate Student Ambassador of ASPB. His research interest is understanding the hormonal interplay in primary root development of Arabidopsis thaliana. He blogs about plant science (http://www.aribidopsis.com/).…

South African Women in Science Awards Danielle Roodt, a Plantae Fellow and PhD candidate in the Forest Molecular Genetics (FMG) Programme of the University of Pretoria, was recently awarded a South African Department of Science and Technologies ‘DST-Albertina Sisulu Doctoral Fellowships’. The…

Finding genes that function in plant development often requires mutant screening, but probing the wealth of natural variation can provide important insights as well. A major focus of developmental biology is uncovering the mechanism behind cell polarity, that is, how components are deposited asymmetrically…

Every plant organ, from tuber to tepal, is formed by cells that divide along precisely placed cell plates. While much is known about the molecular biology behind cell plate formation (e.g., Gu et al., 2016), why cells divide where they do is much less clear. Dividing cells have much in common with soap…

  NEW Internship Posts: Internship; Lab Technician; Postdoc in Crop Metabolic Engineering and Genome Editing, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Internship in Crop Genetic Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA PhD student in Hydrology &…

Preparing graduate students and postdocs for diverse careers Changes in the workforce are challenging academia to prepare scientists to be adaptable and adept at communicating across boundaries. To meet these demands, the Plant Science Research Network (PSRN, plantae.org/PSRN) is shifting the focus…