Artik Elisa Angkawijaya, co-first author of A Pair of Arabidopsis Diacylglycerol Kinases Essential for Gametogenesis and ER Phospholipid Metabolism in Leaves and Flowers Current Position: Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science…

Joseph Gage, first author of Ten Years of the maize Nested Association Mapping Population: Impact, Limitations, and Future Directions Current Position: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Buckler Lab at Cornell University Education: B.S. in Plant Sciences and Communications from Cornell University; M.S.…

Erin Louise Baggs, first author of Convergent loss of an EDS1/PAD4 signaling pathway in several plant lineages reveals co-evolved components of plant immunity and drought response Current Position: PhD Candidate, Krasileva Lab, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley Education:…

Tobias Jores, first author of Identification of plant enhancers and their constituent elements by STARR-seq in tobacco leaves Current Position: Postdoctoral scholar, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Education: PhD in Biochemistry, Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry,…

Aashima Khosla, first author of Structure-function analysis of SMAX1 reveals domains that mediate its karrikin-induced proteolysis and interaction with the receptor KAI2 Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA Education:…

Rolletschek et al. examine the role of cellular plasticity in oil-protein balancing. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00879 By Hardy Rolletschek and Ljudmilla Borisjuk Leibniz Inst Plant Genet & Crop Plant Res (IPK) Gatersleben, Germany Background: Seeds of some crops like…

Veder Garcia, first author of TRIPP is a Plant-specific Component of the Arabidopsis TRAPPII Membrane Trafficking Complex with Important Roles in Plant Development Current Position: Scientist, Seer Inc. Redwood City, California, USA Education: BS Biological Sciences with Honors in Cell Biology…

MYB proteins are a group of transcription factors that are highly conserved in all vertebrates and were first implicated in avian myeloblastosis (leukemia). Subsequently, they were shown to be cellular proto-oncogenes that regulate production of blood cells in animals. MYB proteins contain a DNA-binding…