New journal launched – Plants, People, Planet Congratulations to everyone involved in the launch of the new journal Plants, People, Planet, “… a new cross-disciplinary Open Access journal from the New Phytologist Trust focusing on the interface between plants and society.” I’m sure that…

Yu-chi Liu, first author of A methyltransferase trio essential for phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis and growth Current Position: Technical specialist, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Education: BS in Bioengineering, Tatung University, Taiwan. MS in Life…

Guanxiao Chang, first author of ABI5-BINDING PROTEIN 2 Coordinates CONSTANS to Delay Flowering by Recruiting the Transcriptional Corepressor TPR2 Current position, Postdoctoral Researcher, Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, School of Life Sciences, Henan…

Evan McConnell, first author of Proteome-wide analysis of cysteine reactivity during the effector-triggered immunity Current Position: Ph.D. Student in Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Education: B.S. in Chemistry (2014), University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,…

Philip Berg, first author of Proteome-wide analysis of cysteine reactivity during the effector-triggered immunity Current position: Ph.D. student; Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology, Mississippi State University Education: MSc in Genomics and Systems biology, BSc in Plant Biology Non-scientific…

Timothy Westlake, first author of Proteome-wide analysis of cysteine reactivity during effector-triggered immunity Current Position: Researcher at the National Institutes of Health and current student pursuing Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Future Position: Post-doctoral…

Lisa-Marie Schmid, first author of PUMPKIN, the sole Plastid UMP Kinase, Associates with Group II Introns and Alters Their Metabolism Current Position: PhD student in the group of PD Dr. Jörg Meurer, Leister lab, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, München, Germany Education: B.Sc. Biology and M.Sc.…

Plants encounter myriad invaders, including bacteria, fungi, insects, and other parasites. These pathogens generally deliver effector proteins into plants, increasing their virulence and targeting various host processes (Toruño et al., 2016). Although advances in the past two decades have led to significant…