Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Anutthaman Parthasarathy
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesAnutthaman Parthasarathy, co-first author of The Arabidopsis thaliana gene annotated by the locus tag At3g08860 encodes alanine aminotransferase
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate (Prof. A. O. Hudson), Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences
Education: BSc - Chemistry (Madras University,…
Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Ami N. Saito
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesAmi N. Sait, first author of Structure-function study of a novel inhibitor of the Casein Kinase 1 family in Arabidopsis thaliana
Current Position: PhD student, Department of Applied Chemistry, Waseda University, Japan
Education: B. Eng. in synthetic organic chemistry, Waseda University, Japan
Non-scientific…
Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Anahit Galstyan
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesAnahit Galstyan, first author of Auxin promotion of seedling growth via ARF5 is dependent on the brassinosteroid-regulated transcription factors BES1 and BEH4
Current Position: Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
Education:…
Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Will Hinckley
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesWill Hinckley, first author of The HAC1 Histone Acetyltransferase Promotes Leaf Senescence and Regulates the Expression of ERF022
Current Position: Undergraduate Senior in Dr. Judy Brusslan’s Lab at California State University, Long Beach
Education: Bachelors in Cellular/Molecular Biology in…
Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Young Cho
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesYoung Cho, first author of Non-allelic homologous recombination events responsible for copy number variation within an RNA silencing locus
Current Position: Post-doctoral Research Associate, Ort Lab, University of Illinois
Education: PhD, Crop Sciences, University of Illinois
Non-scientific…
Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Devrim Coskun
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesDevrim Coskun, first author of Si permeability of a deficient Lsi1 aquaporin in tobacco can be enhanced through a conserved-residue substitution
Current Position: FRQNT Postdoctoral Fellow, Bélanger Lab, Département de Phytologie, Faculté des Sciences de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation (FSAA),…
Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Xuan Xu
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesXuan Xu, co-first author of Cell wall composition and transcriptomics in stem tissues of stinging nettle (Urtica dioica L.): spotlight on a neglected fibre crop
Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Environmental Research and Innovation Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology,…
Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Kaisa Kajala
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesKaisa Kajala, first author of Real‐time whole‐plant dynamics of heavy metal transport in Arabidopsis halleri and Arabidopsis thaliana by gamma‐ray imaging
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Plant Ecophysiology, Utrecht University
Education: University of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD), postdoctoral…
Plant Direct Q&A with Alexis Maizel
Blog, Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author Q&A, Research
What does your lab work on?
My lab studies the mechanisms of lateral root morphogenesis in Arabidopsis. We combine molecular genetics, cell biology and microscopy to understand how these new roots are robustly formed.
Tell us about the key findings from your recent article in Plant Direct.
This…