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Hirokazu Tsukaya: The Plant Cell First Author

Hirokazu Tsukaya, first author of "The leaf meristem enigma: The relationship between the plate meristem and the marginal meristem" Current Position: Professor, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan Education: PhD, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan Non-scientific…

Hyodong Lee: The Plant Cell First Author

Hyodong Lee, first author of “Calcium-dependent protein kinase 29 modulates PIN-FORMED polarity and Arabidopsis development via its own phosphorylation code” Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher in Department of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea Education: Bachelor…

Benjamin Julius: The Plant Cell First Author

Benjamin Julius, first author of "Maize Brittle Stalk2-Like3, encoding a COBRA protein, functions in cell wall formation and carbohydrate partitioning" Current Position: Scientist I – Bayer Crop Science Education: Ph.D. Biological Sciences University of Missouri-Columbia, B.S. Biology from Truman…

Youngwoo Lee: The Plant Cell First Author

Youngwoo Lee, first author of "A co-fractionation mass spectrometry-based prediction of protein complex assemblies in the developing rice aleurone-subaleurone" Current Position: Postdoc in Szymanski Lab at Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Plant Biology in Purdue University Education: PhD…

Lele Shang: The Plant Cell First Author

Lele Shang, co-first author of ''A mutation in a C2H2-type zinc finger transcription factor contributed to the transition towards self-pollination in cultivated tomatoes'' Current Position: Ph.D. Candidate, Huazhong Agricultural University Education: B.S. in Shandong Agricultural University Non-scientific…

Kenneth Acosta: The Plant Cell First Author

Kenneth Acosta, first author of "Return of the Lemnaceae: Duckweed as a model plant system in the genomics and post-genomics era" Current Position: PhD student, Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ Education: A.A. in Biology, Union County College - Cranford,…

Nadia Fernández-Jiménez: The Plant Cell First Author

Nadia Fernández-Jiménez, co-first author of "Defects in meiotic chromosome segregation lead to unreduced male gametes in Arabidopsis SMC5/6 complex mutants" Current Position: PhD student in Department of Genetics, Physiology and Microbiology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Education:…

Fen Yang: The Plant Cell First Author

Fen Yang, co-first author of "Defects in meiotic chromosome segregation lead to unreduced male gametes in Arabidopsis SMC5/6 complex mutants" Current Position:  Ph.D. student at the Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Acad Sci and the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science,…

Mei-yu Ke: The Plant Cell First Author

Mei-yu Ke, co-first author of "GmPIN-dependent polar auxin transport is involved in soybean nodule development" Current Position:  PhD student in Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University Education: PhD and MS in Haixia Institute of Science and…