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A new approach to graduate professional development; lessons learned from a leadership retreat

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If you had 48 free hours, what are the odds you’d spend them at a leadership retreat? Prior to my own experience I would have said “not likely”. After all, I’m a second-year graduate student with coursework, experiments, and TA responsibilities clamoring for my time. I’m also a member of the…

Careers in Plant Synthetic Biology Part II: Computational Synthetic Biology

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In part II of the series looking at careers in Plant Synthetic Biology I reached out to Valentin Zulkower who works as the Software Manager of the Edinburgh Genome Foundry (EGF), Scotland, UK, to find out about computational jobs. In what ways can computational biologists contribute to synthetic…

Synthetic Biology: Improving Photosynthesis

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Evidence suggests that crop breeding programs have not optimized photosynthesis making it an attractive target for improvement. The last few years have been an exciting time for photosynthesis research with several groundbreaking studies that have afforded huge advances in both our understanding of…

Scientists reveal a new mechanism of epigenetic regulation of plant leaf senescence

Article source: Plant Research Institute Published: 2019-02-03. Translated from the original. Leaf senescence is subject to severe regulation processes and is the final stage of leaf development. When leaves senescence, chlorophyll, nucleic acids, lipids, proteins, and other high-molecular substances…

From whole plant physiology to food security: a career journey

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Guest post by Melissa D. Ho – Vice President, Freshwater, World Wildlife Fund-US When Rob asked me to write something on security, I must admit I had a blank page for a couple of weeks. I decided to offer a perspective that is familiar to me and see if I could translate this to something relevant…

What We're Reading: February 1st

Happy 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!

We'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

By 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

By 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…