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…
Informational Interview with Dr. Manuel A. Luján, postdoc at California Academy of Sciences
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Heidi Wipf, Conviron Scholar
About four years ago, during a trip to the Venezuelan Embassy in San Francisco, a tropical biologist stopped to have his photograph taken outside the doors of the California Academy of Sciences - a planetarium, aquarium, rainforest, and natural history museum located…
Informal interview with Dr. Chia Sin Liew, core facility bioinformatician, University of Nebraska
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Yen Ning Chai, Conviron Scholar
Dr. Chia Sin Liew is a bioinformatician working for the bioinformatics core facility at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Her jobs include maintaining the computing servers and providing bioinformatics services to the researchers at UNL. She obtained her Bachelor…
Informational Interview with Dr. Robert Gaeta, Plant Biotechnology team leader, Bayer Crop Science
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy 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
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy 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 Lauren Gardiner, Curator of Cambridge University Herbarium
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Bryony Yates, Conviron Scholar
Informational Interview with Dr. Alexandra Erwin, Director of Talent Development at BioKansas
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy 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
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy 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…