Review. Message in a Bubble: Shuttling small RNAs and proteins between cells and interacting organisms using extracellular vesicles Small RNAs have big effects and can serve to shut down or silence gene expression. Recently, studies have found that small RNAs can contribute to plant defense beyond…

  Michal Pyc, co-first author of "LDIP Cooperates with SEIPIN and LDAP to Facilitate Lipid Droplet Biogenesis in Arabidopsis" Current Position: Research Scientist at Willow Biosciences (Burnaby, Canada) Education: B.Sc., M.Sc. in Biology at Queen’s University (Canada); Ph.D. in Molecular…

Satinder Gidda, co-first author of "LDIP Cooperates with SEIPIN and LDAP to Facilitate Lipid Droplet Biogenesis in Arabidopsis" Education: M.Biotechnology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) (New Delhi, India); Ph.D in Biology at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) Non-scientific…

Harel Bacher, first author of "Wild emmer introgression alters root-to-shoot growth dynamics in durum wheat in response to water stress" Current Position: Ph.D. candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Education: B.Sc., M.Sc. and currently a Ph.D. at the Robert H. Smith Faculty…

Guoqiang Huang, first author of "AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR 6 and 7 control the flag leaf angle in rice by regulating secondary cell wall biosynthesis of lamina joints" Current position: Postdoc at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Education: B.S. in Shandong Agricultural University; Ph.D in Biology, Shanghai…

Boominathan Mohanasundaram, first author of "The unique bryophyte-specific repeat-containing protein SHORT-LEAF regulates gametophore development in moss" Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, MO, USA Education: PhD in Biology at Indian Institute of…

Wang et al. report how chromatin architecture reorganization shapes transcriptome patterns during polyploidization and domestication of soybean. The Plant Cell (2021). https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab081 By Longfei Wang and Qingxin Song Background: Soybean and common bean are important sources…

Justus Niemeyer, first author of "Real-time Monitoring of Subcellular H2O2 Distribution in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii" Current Position: PhD student in Prof. Michael Schroda’s lab in the Department of Molecular Biotechnology & Systems Biology, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany Education: Bachelor…