Informational interview with Dr. Shouling Xu, Director of the mass spectrometry facility at Carnegie Institution of Science
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Yanniv Dorone, Conviron Scholar
Dr. Shouling Xu is a mass spectrometrist and a biologist in the Department of Plant Biology at Carnegie Institution of Science. She obtained her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she worked in Joe Kieber’s lab. After this, she did a postdoc…
Informational Interview with Dr. Mary Williams, Features Editor, The Plant Cell
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Catherine Freed, Conviron Scholar
Hello everyone! I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Mary Williams. Mary is a features editor of Teaching Tools in Plant Biology for Plant Cell as well as a Plantae community manager. She got her PhD in Plant Molecular Biology from Rockfeller University…
Informal Interview with Dr. Amanda Waters, Crop Bioinformatician in the Agro-Discovery team of PepsiCo
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Jaclyn Noshay, Conviron Scholar
Interviewer: Jaclyn Noshay
Interviewee: Dr. Amanda Waters
Date: November 7, 2018
Dr. Amanda Waters is currently a Crop Bioinformatician in the Agro-Discovery team of PepsiCo. After beginning her undergraduate degree as a pre-med biology student, she began…
Informational Interview with Dr. Miguel Vega-Sanchez, Regulatory Affairs Pipeline Strategy Manager, Insect Control and Genome Editing at Bayer
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Jonathan Lombardino, Conviron Scholar
Perhaps for some of you the looming prospect of where your career as a research scientist will take you has been a daunting and stressful thought-process. Lucky for us, I have enlisted the help of Dr. Miguel Vega-Sanchez, a scientist whose diverse career path…
Informational interview with Kevin Tran, Biotech Process Development Associate, Orchard Therapeutics
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy 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 Dr. Fawad Shah, President and CEO, Minnesota Crop Improvement Association
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Carl Branch, Conviron Scholar
Dr. Shah, currently the head of the Minnesota Crop Improvement Association, has been involved in plant sciences and agriculture in a variety of roles all across the country. I've gotten to know him a little bit as a student in a seed science class this fall, and I…
Informational Interview with Matthew Ross, Director of Continuing Education at Longwood Gardens
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy 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…
Informational Interview with Dr Eloy Caballo Ponce
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Ángel Vergara Cruces, Conviron Scholar
I interviewed Dr Eloy Caballo Ponce, technician in the phytopathology department at the seed company Rijk Zwaan. During our conversation, we talked about academia, industry and career paths for life science graduates.
The first thing I wanted to ask…
Informational Interview with Dr. Susan McCarthy, USDA Knowledge Services Division (KSD)
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Matthew Fabian, Conviron Scholar
1. Please describe your path to a career in plant science, from undergraduate (or earlier) studies to your current role. What are some particular challenges, experiences, or milestones that you’d care to share?
After one course correction in my…