Poorwa Kamal Badola, co-first author of "MicroRNA858a, its encoded peptide, and phytosulfokine regulate Arabidopsis growth and development" Current Position: Senior Research Fellow (SRF) Education: Ph.D. in Science (2021): CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, India Non-scientific…

Ashish Sharma, co-first author of "MicroRNA858a, its encoded peptide, and phytosulfokine regulate Arabidopsis growth and development" Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Copenhagen Plant Science Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Education:   Ph.D. in Science (2020): CSIR-National…

Luca Piccinini, first author of "A synthetic switch based on the orange carotenoid protein to control blue-green light responses in chloroplasts" Current Position: PhD candidate, Plantlab, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy Education: B.Sc. in Biotechnology and…

Sanbon Chaka Gosa, co-first author of "Out of the blue: Phototropins of the leaf vascular bundle sheath mediate the regulation of leaf hydraulic conductance by blue light" Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Prof. Andrew Leakey’s research group at the Institute for Genomic Biology,…

Yael Grunwald, co-first author of "Out of the blue: Phototropins of the leaf vascular bundle sheath mediate the regulation of leaf hydraulic conductance by blue light" Current Position: TBD Education: PhD in Plant Physiology and MSc in Environmental Biology, both at the Faculty of Agriculture of…

Xun Liao, first author of "Mitochondrion-encoded circular RNAs are widespread and translatable in plants" Current Position: Postgraduate student, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China Education: B.S., College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University,…

Wang et al. investigate the downstream effectors of CLE peptide ligand-mediated meristem homeostasis. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab315 By Wenping Wang, Chong Hu, Xiaoping Gou and Jing Yi Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences,…

Zhihao Jiang, first author of "Barley stripe mosaic virus γb protein targets thioredoxin h-type 1 to dampen salicylic acid–mediated defenses" Current Position: Post-doc, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen (ZMBP), Tübingen, Germany Education: Ph.D. in college of Biological…