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Kevin Lehner, first author of VAP-RELATED SUPPRESSORS OF TOO MANY MOUTHS (VST) Family Proteins are Regulators of Root System Architecture Current Position: USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow at Colorado State University Education: PhD in Genetics and Genomics, Duke University Non-scientific Interests:…

Dongbo Shi, first author of Tissue-specific transcriptome profiling of the Arabidopsis inflorescence stem reveals local cellular signatures Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), Heidelberg University, Germany Education: PhD in Life Science from Kyoto University…

Yushi Yoshitake, first author of RCB-mediated chlorophagy caused by oversupply of nitrogen suppresses phosphate-starvation stress in plants Current Position: Assistant professor at Department of Life Science, School of Agriculture, Meiji University Education: Ph. D. (2019), School of Life Science…

Akira Yoshinari, first author of Transport-coupled ubiquitination of a borate transporter BOR1 for its boron-dependent degradation Current Position: Postdoc, Institute of Transformative Biomolecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University Education: Ph.D., Hokkaido University, Japan; bachelor degree, Tohoku…

Lina Duan, first author of Characterization of CYCLOPHILLIN38 shows that a photosynthesis-derived systemic signal controls lateral root emergence Current position: Basic Life Research Scientist, Stanford University Education: PhD in Science School, National University of Singapore Non-scientific…

Jiao Zhan, first author of Inverse regulation of light harvesting and photoprotection mediated by a 3' end-derived sRNA in cyanobacteria Current Position:  Assistant researcher, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Education: Ph.D., Genetics, University of Chinese Academy of…

Maria-Angelica Sanclemente, first author of Sugar Modulation of Anaerobic-Response Networks in Maize Root Tips Current Position: Post-doctoral researcher at Utrecht University Education: PhD in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology and MS in Horticultural Sciences from University of Florida Non-scientific…