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Steffen Heinz: The Plant Cell First Author

Steffen Heinz, first author of "Thylakoid attachment to the plasma membrane in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 requires the AncM protein" Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher in the Molecular Plant Science group, LMU Munich, Germany Education: PhD, Molecular Plant Science group, LMU Munich, Germany;…

Joke De Jaeger-Braet: The Plant Cell First Author

Joke De Jaeger-Braet, first author of "Heat stress reveals a specialized variant of the pachytene checkpoint in meiosis of Arabidopsis thaliana" Current Position: Ph.D. Student at IPM (University of Hamburg, Germany) Education:    M.Sc. in Plant Biotechnology (University of Gent, Belgium) B.Sc.…

Patricia Ballester Fuentes: The Plant Cell First Author

Patricia Ballester Fuentes, first author of "A transcriptional complex of NGATHA and bHLH transcription factors directs stigma development in Arabidopsis" Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at IBMCP (CSIC-UPV, Valencia-Spain). Education: PhD in Biotechnology, Polytechnic University of Valencia,…

Yuanyuan Zhou: The Plant Cell First Author

Yuanyuan Zhou, co-first author of "The calcium-dependent protein kinase CPK28 is targeted by the ubiquitin ligases ATL31 and ATL6 for proteasome-mediated degradation to fine-tune immune signaling in Arabidopsis" Current position: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Doctoral candidate Education:…

Xiaotong Liu: The Plant Cell First Author

Xiaotong Liu, co-first author of "The calcium-dependent protein kinase CPK28 is targeted by the ubiquitin ligases ATL31 and ATL6 for proteasome-mediated degradation to fine-tune immune signaling in Arabidopsis" Current Position: Assistant researcher at the Center for Agricultural Resources Research,…

Feng Zhu: The Plant Cell First Author

Feng Zhu, first author of "Genome-wide association of the metabolic shifts underpinning dark-induced senescence in Arabidopsis" Current Position: Postdoc at Huazhong Agricultural University and Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie Education: B.S. in Huazhong Agricultural University; Ph.D…

Mingqin Chang: The Plant Cell First Author

Mingqin Chang, first author of "COPII Sec23 proteins form isoform-specific endoplasmic reticulum exit sites with differential effects on polarized growth" Current Position: Postdoc scholar at University of California Davis, US Education: Ph.D University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, US Non-scientific…

Sydney Duncombe: The Plant Cell First Author

Sydney Duncombe, first author of "Super-resolution imaging illuminates new dynamic behaviors of cellulose synthase" Current Position: PhD student in the Plant Biology program at the Pennsylvania State University. Education: BS in Genetics and Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley. Non-scientific…

Leonie Hacker: The Plant Cell First Author

Leonie Hacker, first author of "The repair of topoisomerase 2 cleavage complexes in Arabidopsis" Current position: PhD student, Botanical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany Education: B.S. and M.S. in Biology, Karlsruhe…