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Informational Interview with Dr. Robert Gaeta, Plant Biotechnology team leader, Bayer Crop Science

By 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…

Informational Interview with Dr. Liana Nice, Research Scientist and Project Manager, NSIP LLC

By 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. Alexandra Erwin, Director of Talent Development at BioKansas

By 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

By 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

By 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

By Daisy Dobrijevic, Conviron Scholar  

EDITORIAL The Plant Cell celebrates 30 years of publishing the best work in plant biology

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

Jeremy 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,…