Andrea Casadesús, first author of Holoparasitic Plant–Host Interactions and their Impact on Mediterranean Ecosystems Current Position: PhD at the University of Barcelona on regulatory hubs of the relationship between vitamin E and oxylipins in different plant systems in Mediterranean-type ecosystems:…

Xiaowen Shi, first author of Genomic imbalance determines positive and negative modulation of gene expression in diploid maize Current Position:  Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Biological Sciences at University of Missouri, Columbia Education: Ph.D. in Genetics, Genomics and Development,…

Evan S. Forsythe, first author of Genome-wide signatures of plastid-nuclear coevolution point to repeated perturbations of plastid proteostasis systems across angiosperms Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Colorado State University Education: PhD, University of Arizona, School of Plant Sciences Non-scientific…

Recognizing Plant Physiology First Author, Kentaro Sasaki, author of:  A model system for studying plant-microbe interactions under snow Current position: Principal Scientist at the Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Tsukuba, Japan Education:…

Recognizing Chikako Kuwabara, first author of:  A model system for studying plant-microbe interactions under snow Current position: Postdoctoral fellow at Graduate school of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan Education: Ph.D. in Bioscience from Hokkaido University Non-scientific Interests:…

Recognizing Plant Physiology first author Xiaoming Song, first author of Brassica carinata genome characterization clarifies U’s triangle model of evolution and polyploidy in Brassica Current Position: Associate professor, School of Life Sciences, North China University of Science and Technology,…

Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara, Masaomi Yamamura et al. identify factors that play essential roles in the biosynthesis of seed-coat protective neolignans. Plant Cell. http://bit.ly/3mseqae By Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara and Kazuki Saito, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science Background: Neolignans…

Daniil M Prigozhin, first author of:  Analysis of intraspecies diversity reveals a subset of highly variable plant immune receptors and predicts their binding sites Current Position: Project Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Education: BA in Mathematics/Molecular and Cell Biology,…