Ariel Hernán Tomassi, first author of The intrinsically disordered protein CARP9 bridges HYL1 to AGO1 in the nucleus to promote micro RNA activity Current Position: PhD fellow at Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina   Education: Ph.D. in Biological Sciences    Non-scientific…

Bastian Oldenkott, first author of Reciprocal complementation with moss and angiosperm editing factors Current Position: PhD Candidate in the Department for Molecular Evolution belonging to the Insitute for Cellular and Molecular Botany (IZMB) of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Education:…

Weiping Mo, first author of PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR-LIKE14 and SLENDER RICE1 interaction controls seedling growth under salt stress Current Position: Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Education: B.S. from South China Agricultural University (SCAU), and…

Bhuvan Pathak, first author of Recombinase-mediated integration of a multigene cassette in rice leads to stable expression and inheritance of the stacked locus Current Position:  Program Associate, University of Arkansas Education: PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology (2019) - University of Arkansas;…

Lena Maria Müller Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY, USA Nitrogen (N) is a critical element in plant nutrition and an important building block of amino acids, nucleic acids, and secondary metabolites. Roots take up N mainly in the form of nitrate (NO3-) and ammonium (NH4+). To feed a growing…

Waadt et al. use a suite of genetically encoded biosensors to monitor signaling compound concentration changes and how they overlap in time and space. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00892 By Rainer Waadt Background: To survive, plants need to sense the environment and adjust their growth…

Jiaqi Sun, first author of LUNAPARK Is an E3 Ligase that Mediates Degradation of ROOT HAIR DEFECTIVE3 to Maintain a Tubular ER Network in Arabidopsis Current Position: Post-Doc Research Fellow, Biology Department, McGill University Education: B. Sc. in Agriculture from Zhejiang University, China;…

Maja Arsic, first author of Bio-imaging techniques reveal foliar phosphate uptake pathways and leaf phosphorus status Current Position: PhD student (University of Copenhagen and the University of South Australia) Education: Bachelor of Science (Advanced with Class I Honours), Griffith University…