Plant Physiology

Young Nam Yang, first author of "The transcription factor ORA59 exhibits dual DNA binding specificity that differentially regulates ethylene- and jasmonic acid-induced genes in plant immunity" Current Position: Ph.D. candidate at Department of Life Sciences, Korea University Education: B.Sc.…

Linlin Luo, first author of "TRANS-ACTING SIRNA3-derived short interfering RNAs confer cleavage of mRNAs in rice" Current Position： PhD candidate at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China Non-scientific Interests: Reading, hiking, growing plants Brief Bio: I began…

Jorge El-Azaz, first author of "Deregulation of phenylalanine biosynthesis evolved with the emergence of vascular plants" Current Position: Postdoctoral scientist at Hiroshi Maeda’s Lab, UW-Madison Education: Major in Biology (University of Málaga, Andalusia, Spain). Ph.D. in Molecular Biology…

Radosław Mazur, first author of "The SnRK2.10 kinase mitigates the adverse effects of salinity by protecting photosynthetic machinery" Current Position: assistant professor in the research group studying the structural and molecular basis of chloroplast function in the Department of Metabolic…

Danfeng Zhang, co-first author of “Efficient and high-throughput pseudorecombinant-chimeric Cucumber mosaic virus-based VIGS in maize” Current Position: Postdoc at School of Life Sciences in Tsinghua University Education: Ph.D. in College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural…

Huangai Li, co-first author of “Efficient and high-throughput pseudorecombinant-chimeric Cucumber mosaic virus-based VIGS in maize” Current Position:  Postdoc researcher at School of Life Sciences in Tsinghua University (China) Education: Ph.D. in Agriculture at The University of Tokyo (Japan);…

Huzefa Ratlamwala, co-first author of "Rapid specialization of counter defenses enables two-spotted spider mite to adapt to novel plant hosts" Current Position: Finance and Data Analytics Education: BSc in Biotechnology, University of Aberdeen. MSc in Molecular Biology, University of Western Ontario Non-scientific…

Kristie Bruinsma, co-first author of "Rapid specialization of counter defenses enables two-spotted spider mite to adapt to novel plant hosts" Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Biology Department, University of Western Ontario Education: BSc, MSc, and PhD in Genetics, University of Western…