Dr. Raimund Nagel Iowa State University Plants produce a plethora of natural products that function as defensive compounds are frequently used by humans for medicinal purposes. A majority of these natural products, however, are either found in low concentrations, in slow growing plants, or are…

Dorota Kawa, first author of SnRK2 protein kinases and mRNA decapping machinery control root development and response to salt Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Plant Biology & Genome Center, University of California, Davis Education: PhD University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2017);…

Meisha Holloway-Phillips Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland [email protected] Since Terashima and Saeki (1983) demonstrated that light attenuation through the leaf was accompanied by spectral changes, there has been increasing interest in how light…

Elisa Dell'Aglio, first author of Identification of the Arabidopsis calmodulin-dependent NAD+ kinase that sustains the elicitor-induced oxidative burst Current Position: Research Assistant INSA-INRA Lyon (France) Education: PhD in Plant Biochemistry Non-scientific Interests: science journalism,…

Peter Crisp, first author of Variation and inheritance of small RNAs in maize inbreds and F1 hybrids Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Springer Lab, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota Education: PhD Plant Science, Pogson Lab, Centre for Plant Energy Biology,…

Lang Pan, first author of Aldo-keto reductase metabolizes glyphosate and confers glyphosate resistance in Echinochloa colona Current Position: Associate Professor, College of Plant Protection, Hunan Agricultural University, China Education: 2013-2018, Ph.D. student, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing…

Batthula Vijaya Lakshmi Vadde, first author of The TCP4 transcription factor directly activates TRICHOMELESS1 and 2 and suppresses trichome initiation Current Position:Postdoctoral Associate, Adrienne Roeder’s Lab, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Education: PhD in Plant Developmental…

Karen Kloth, first author of PECTIN ACETYLESTERASE9 Affects the Transcriptome and Metabolome and Delays Aphid Feeding Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University Education: BSc and MSc in Biology, Phd in genetical genomics of plant-aphid interactions Non-scientific…