Category: Plant Physiology: Author Profiles

Cell walls are complex mixtures of cellulose microfibrils, proteins and other materials. Their mechanical properties can be measured and modeled, but it is not always simple to translate these measurements to changes at the molecular level. Zhang et al. used atomic force microscopy to provide an unprecedented…

María Flores-Tornero, first author of Transcriptomic and Proteomic Insights into Amborella trichopoda Male Gametophyte Functions Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher in the Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry Department, University of Regensburg Education: BSc. in Biological Sciences, University…

Jing Zhang, first author of Role of Protein Phosphatase 1 Regulatory Subunit 3 (PP1R3) in Mediating Abscisic Acid Response Current Position: Postdoc, Root Biology Center, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University Education: MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of…

Yusuke Kobayashi, first author of Holliday junction resolvase MOC1 maintains plastid and mitochondrial genome integrity in algae and bryophytes Current position: Assistant Professor, College of Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University Education: Ph.D. in Science. Graduate…

Jinghong Zhang, first author of The PPR-SMR protein ATP4 is required for editing the chloroplast rps8 mRNA in rice and maize Current Position: Ph. D. candidate, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, China Education: Ph. D. in Huazhong Agricultural…

César Bernat-Silvestre, first author of p24 family proteins are involved in transport to the plasma membrane of GPI-anchored proteins in plants Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, ERI BIOTECMED, University of Valencia Education: BSc in Pharmacy at the University of Valencia, Spain; PhD in…

Yang Yang, first author of Cytidine-to-Uridine RNA editing factor NbMORF8 negatively regulates plant immunity to Phytophthora pathogens Current Position: PhD student, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China. Supervisor: Prof. Weixing Shan Education: 2013-2017, Bachelor…

Zhifeng Wang, first author of MYB transcription factor 161 mediates feedback regulation of Secondary wall-associated NAC-Domain 1 family genes for wood formation Current Position: Ph.D. candidate Education: Ph.D. and MS from State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University,…

Swayoma Banerjee, co-first author of Spatial profiles of phosphate in roots indicate developmental control of uptake, recycling, and sequestration Current Position: Process Engineer, Intel Corp. Education: PhD, Biology, Texas A&M University, USA Non-scientific Interests: music, travel Brief…