Category: Careers

BY SANDRA SMIESZEK, ASPB Student Ambassador, Royal Holloway, University of London (Originally published March 2014) Professor, University of Southern California and Director of Convergent Biosciences It is certainly my great pleasure to introduce Steve Kay, holder of the Anna H. Bing Dean’s Chair…

BY MICHAEL OSEI ADU, ASPB Student Member, University of Nottingham and James Hutton Institute (Originally published March 2016) Professor, James Hutton Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom You graduated with a BA in biochemistry from Oxford University and a PhD in botany from Manchester University.…

BY ARIF ASHRAF, ASPB Student Ambassador and Research Student, Cryobio Research Center, Iwate University, Japan (Originally published September 2016) Professor, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Philip N. Benfey graduated from the University of Paris and received his  PhD in cell and developmental…

The Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) has produced a set of career resources including a set of career profiles of soil scientists. Here are a few links: Consulting soil scientist in Alaska Molecular environmental soil scientist Research soil scientist Check out the SSSA Career Profile…

Want a career in agriculture? AgCareers is a website that specializes in ag careers. One of the terrific resources on the site is a list of Career Profiles, each of which describe a different type of ag job. Examples include: Plant Pathologist, Viticulturist and Plant Breeder, and Plant Geneticis…

GROW is a UK-based initiative "set up by a group of influential organisations within the horticulture industry to inform people about horticultural careers and the range of fantastic opportunities horticulture has to offer". Here you can learn about different careers and career paths in horticulture,…

The Scientist (Feb 1 2017) profiles Andrea Eveland, Principle Investigator at the Danforth Center. Read more here Andrea Eveland Teases Apart Gene Networks in Crop Plants Her lab webpage https://www.danforthcenter.org/scientists-research/principal-investigators/Andrea-Eveland

  Digging Deeper: Developing a Model for Collaborative Teacher/Scientist Professional Development Are you passionate about science education? Would you like to build connections with high school biology teachers and their students? Are you excited about an opportunity to share what's so exciting…