Category: Plant Physiology: Author Profiles

Yuta Kikuchi, first author of Chloroplast autophagy and ubiquitination combine to manage oxidative damage and starvation responses Current Position: a company employee Education: MSc in Life Science, Tohoku University, Japan Non-scientific Interests: cooking, traveling, playing golf Brief bio:…

Fanfan Zhang, first author of The SUN domain proteins OsSUN1 and OsSUN2 play critical but partially redundant roles in meiosis Current Position: Post doctor, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Education: PhD in Genetics (Institute of Genetics…

Alessandra Boccaccini, first author of Low blue light enhances phototropism by releasing cryptochrome 1-mediated inhibition of PIF4 expression Current Position: Post-doctoral fellow at Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne Education: Ph.D. in “Life…

Zongcheng Lin, first author of Ectopic expression of a self-incompatibility module triggers growth arrest and cell death in vegetative cells Current Position: FWO senior postdoc fellow, VIB-UGent joint Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium Education: Bachelor, Harbin Institute of Technology;…

Qiufang Shen, first author of Calmodulin HvCaM1 negatively regulates salt tolerance via modulation of HvHKT1s and HvCAMTA4 Current Position: Postdoc, Institute of Crop Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R.China Education: 2013/09-2018/06, PhD in Crop Science, Zhejiang University 2009/09-2013/06,…

Michela Osnato, first author of Genes of the RAV family control heading date and carpel development in rice Current Position: science communication manager (@secretlifeofaplantbiologist), member of the Plantae fellow program Education: MS in Plant Biotechnology and PhD in Plant biology and crop productivity…

Robyn Roberts, first author of Molecular characterization of differences between the tomato immune receptors Flagellin sensing 3 and Flagellin sensing 2 Current Position: Postdoctoral Scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute. Starting in August 2020 I will be an Assistant Professor at Colorado State…

Jishan Jiang, first author of Retrograde induction of phyB orchestrates ethylene-auxin hierarchy to regulate growth Current Position: Candidate for a tenure track faculty position, college of Grassland Science and Technology at China Agricultural University, Beijing, China Education: Ph.D; Forage…