
What I Wish I had Known When I Started Grad School
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Plantae Webinar: What I Wish I had Known When I Started Grad School
When: Tuesday, April 13th at 2 PM EDT
11 AM PDT (UTC-7) | 1 PM CDT (UTC-5) | 2 PM EDT (UTC-4)
About This Webinar
This semester, many graduate students are embarking on a new unprecedented journey. The ASPB Early Career…

Plant Cell Webinar: Highlighting Plant Cell Focus Issue on Biology of Plant Genomes (Part 1)
Blog, Plantae Presents, Research SkillsPlantae Presents: Ksenia Krasileva, Christine Diepenbrock, and Rory Craig
Special Event: The Plant Cell Focus Issue on the Biology of Plant Genomes
Recorded Wed April 7th – 4 pm EDT, 1 pm PDT 9 pm BST, Thurs April 8th 8 am NZT
Advances in genome sequencing have yielded insights…

Lessons from Plants: A Conversation with Beronda Montgomery
Blog, Plantae Webinars
A conversation with Beronda Montgomery
Recorded April 6, 2021
Beronda Montgomery is a Foundation Professor at Michigan State University in the departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics.
The Montgomery Lab pursues a common research theme of…

Plantae Presents: Special Event: Claudia Vickers and Guillaume Barbier
Blog, Plantae Presents, Research SkillsPlantae Presents Special Event: Claudia Vickers and Guillaume Barbier
Special Event: Plant Synthetic Biology
Recorded March 31 - 4pm EDT, 9pm BST, Thursday April 1, 7am in Sydney
Save the date for the 2021 Plant Synthetic Biology conference (virtual) September 25 – 27. More details…

NAASC-Seeds of Change: Using Plants to Broaden the Impact of Science in Society
Blog, Changing Culture and Climate, Education General Public, NAASC, Video Lectures / Webinars, WebinarsIn November 2018, NAASC hosted an NSF-funded* workshop entitled "Broadening the Impact of Plant Science Through Community-Based Innovation, Evaluation and Sharing of Outreach Programs" at the University of California, Davis.
The 3-day workshop was organized by members of NAASC**, and before it started…

Plantae Presents: Yuling Jiao and Lilan Hong
Blog, Plantae Presents, Research SkillsPlantae Presents: Yuling Jiao and Lilan Hong
Recorded March 24
Yuling Jiao: Stochastic gene expression drives mesophyll protoplast regeneration in Arabidopsis
Yuling Jiao is a Research Group Leader at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,…

Plant Scientist Highlight: Barbara McClintock
BlogBarbara McClintock was born on June 16th, 1902 in Hartford, Connecticut, and was raised in Brooklyn, NY. She was one of four children of Sara and Thomas McClintock. She received her bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees from Cornell, completing her education in 1927. She defied norms at the time…

Plantae Presents: Sheng-Yang He and Jonathan Jacobs
Blog, Plantae Presents, Research SkillsPlantae Presents: Sheng-Yang He and Jonathan Jacobs
March 17 - 10am EST, 2pm GMT, 3pm CET
Recorded March 17
Sheng Yang He: Plant-pathogen interactions facing a changing climate
Sheng-Yang He is a Professor at Duke University and an Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical…

Plant point of view: Echinacea alkamides and microbial friends
BlogWritten and Illustrated by Laura Mejia. Click on images to enlarge.
This week’s article by Maggini et al. (2017) is focused on the interactions between a plant and its endophytes. Specifically, it explores the contributions of the bacterial endophytes of Echinacea purpura, widely used in traditional…
