Category: The Plant Cell: 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…

Ryu J. Iwatate, co-first author of Covalent Self-labeling of Tagged Proteins with Chemical Fluorescent Dyes in BY-2 Cells and Arabidopsis Seedlings Current Position:  Medical student, School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan Education: Ph.D. in Medicine, Master of Medical Sciences and…

Noriyoshi Yagi, co-first author of Covalent Self-labeling of Tagged Proteins with Chemical Fluorescent Dyes in BY-2 Cells and Arabidopsis Seedlings Current Position: Postdoc, Institute of Transformative Biomolecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University Education: Ph.D. in Science. Graduate School of Science,…

Akira Yoshinari, co-first author of Covalent Self-labeling of Tagged Proteins with Chemical Fluorescent Dyes in BY-2 Cells and Arabidopsis Seedlings Current Position: Postdoc, Institute of Transformative Biomolecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University Education: Ph.D., Hokkaido University, Japan; bachelor…

Zhenxia Su, first author of Regulation of Female Germline Specification via Small RNA Mobility in Arabidopsis Current Position: Postdoctoral scholar, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, China Education: Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Fujian Agriculture and…

Constance Musseau, first author of The tomato Guanylate-Binding Protein SlGBP1 enables fruit tissue differentiation by maintaining endopolyploid cells in a non-proliferative state Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU),…

Chaobin Li, first author of A SnRK1-ZmRFWD3-Opaque2 signaling axis regulates diurnal nitrogen accumulation in maize seeds Current Position: Postdoc, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern Education: Ph.D. in Shanghai University; B.S. in Shanghai University Non-scientific Interests: hiking,…

Rui Zhang, first author of Identification of the Key Regulatory Genes Involved in Elaborate Petal Development and Specialized Character Formation in Nigella damascena (Ranunculaceae) Current Position: Assistant Professor, State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany,…

Emily R. Larson, co-first author of Synergy among exocyst and SNARE interactions identifies a functional hierarchy in secretion during vegetative growth Current Position: Senior research associate, School of Life Sciences, University of Bristol Education: PhD: University of Vermont, Burlington VT…