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Shintaro Ichikawa: Plant Direct First Author

Shintaro Ichikawa, first author of "Live-cell imaging of the chloroplast outer envelope membrane using fluorescent dyes" Current Position:  Ph.D student, Graduate School of Regional Development and Creativity, Utsunomiya University, Japan Education:  Bachelor of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University,…

Sarathi M. Weraduwage: Plant Direct First Author

Sarathi M. Weraduwage, first author of "Characterization of promoter elements of isoprene-responsive genes, and the ability of isoprene to bind START domain transcription factors" Current Position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Bishop’s University, QC,…

Hila Behar: Plant Direct First Author

Hila Behar, first author of "Populus endo-glucanase 16 localizes to the cell walls of developing tissues" Current Position: Co-founder at BryoSphere Biotechnologies Education: B.Sc. Biology, Tel Aviv University (2011-2014); Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia…

Stefanie Böhmer: Plant Direct First Author

Stefanie Böhmer, first author of "Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutants deficient for Old Yellow Enzyme 3 exhibit increased photooxidative stress" Current Position: Post-doc at Photobiotechnology group, Ruhr University Bochum Education: B.Sc. Biology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (2011 – 2014) M.Sc.…

Rong Guo: Plant Direct First Author

Rong Guo, first author of "The identification of conserved sequence features of co-translationally decayed mRNAs and upstream open reading frames in angiosperm transcriptomes"  Education: BA. in Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Boston University Non-scientific Interests: Playing the…

Raed Ahmad Al Saharin: Plant Direct First Author

Raed Ahmad Al Saharin, first author of "Using CRL3BPM E3 ligase substrate recognition sites as tools to impact plant development and stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana" Current Position: Assistant Professor (Tafila Technical University) Education: PhD of Molecular Plant Sciences/ Washington State…

Xiangyan Feng: Plant Direct First Author

Xiangyan Feng, first author of "The limiting effect of genome size on xylem vessel diameter is shifted by environmental pressures in seed plants" Current Position: PhD at Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Education: My research field is Plant…

Santos Barrera Lemus: Plant Direct First Author

Santos Barrera Lemus, first author of "Large genomic introgression blocks of Phaseolus parvifolius Freytag bean into the common bean enhance the crossability between tepary and common beans" Current Position: Biotech Research Manager at Plant Sciences Inc. Education: Ph.D. in Agronomy and Horticulture,…

Brian St. Aubin: Plant Direct First Author

Brian St. Aubin, first author of “Regulatory dynamics distinguishing desiccation tolerance strategies within resurrection grasses” Current Position: Computational Biologist, Pairwise Education: PhD in the lab of Prof. Gregg Howe (Michigan State University), B.S. in Genetics and Plant Biology…