BY PRATEEK TRIPATHI, ASPB Student Ambassador, South Dakota State University (Originally published March 2013) Professor, University of Zurich, Switzerland PT: What got you interested in plant biology in general, and what influences directed you to your specific area of research? SH: Professor Enrico…

BY MARGARET TAYLOR, University of Minnesota (Originally published November 2012) Professor, University of California, Los Angeles MT: Since you joined the faculty at UCLA in 1976, it’s become possible to dive into an organism and look at every gene you’re interested in. This wasn’t possible back…

BY KRANTHI K. MANDADI, ASPB Postdoc Ambassador, Texas A&M University (Originally published September 2013) Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison Most of us have an important person in our life who inspired us to get to where we are. Who was your role model   or the “modifier” that…

BY PRATEEK TRIPATHI, ASPB Student Ambassador, Postdoc Fellow, University of Southern California (Originally published November 2013) Professor, University of California, San Diego What inspired your interest in plant biology in general, and what influences directed you to your specific area of research? As…

BY KEUM YOUNG LEE  ASPB Student Ambassador, PhD Candidate in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington (Originally published January 2014) Professor, University of Washington Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh has been a faculty member in the Botany and Biology Departments,…

BY PRATEEK TRIPATHI, ASPB Student Ambassador, Postdoc Fellow, University of Southern California (First published July 2013) Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany What got you interested in plant biology in general, and what influences directed you to your specific…

BY SAMBASIVAM PERIYANNAN, ASPB Student Ambassador, Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIRO Plant Industry (Originally published March 2015) CSIRO Fellow, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia Richard Richards’s research interests are to understand the genetic and physiological basis of variation in growth,…

BY PRATEEK TRIPATHI ASPB Student Ambassador, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Southern California, Los Angeles (Originally published September 2015) Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India What got you interested in plant biology in general, and what influences directed you…