Category: The Plant Cell: Author Profiles

Sabrina Chin, first author of Spatial and Temporal Localization of SPIRRIG and WAVE/SCAR Reveal Roles for These Proteins in Actin-Mediated Root Hair Development Current Position: Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Education: Ph.D., The Australian National University, Canberra,…

Andrea Berardi, first author of Complex evolution of novel red floral color in Petunia Current Position:  Harvard University Herbaria Research Fellow Education: PhD in Biology at University of Virginia, B.A. in Biology at Colgate University Non-scientific Interests:  yoga, baking, botanizing Brief…

Wenbin Zhang, the first author of Arabidopsis NF-YCs play dual roles in repressing brassinosteroid biosynthesis and signaling during light-regulated hypocotyl elongation Current Position: Job hunting Education: PhD student in South China Botanical Garden，Chinese Academy of Sciences Non-scientific…

Titouan Bonnot, first author of Time of day prioritizes the pool of translating mRNAs in response to heat stress Current Position: Post-doctoral research associate in the laboratory of Dr. Dawn Nagel at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), Department of Botany and Plant Sciences Education:…

Pierre Buscaill, first author of Defeated by the nines: nine extracellular strategies to avoid MAMP recognition in plants  Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Plant Chemetics Lab of Prof. Renier A.L. van der Hoorn at the University of Oxford. Education: PhD Biology (National…

Kirk Amundson, first author of Rare instances of haploid inducer DNA in potato dihaploids and ploidy-dependent genome instability Current Position: Ph.D. Candidate, University of California Davis, Davis CA USA Education: B.S. in Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Non-scientific interests:…

Carmen Martín-Pizarro, first author of The NAC transcription factor FaRIF controls fruit ripening in strawberry Current position: Postdoc at the Institute for Mediterranean and Subtropical Horticulture (IHSM – UMA – CSIC) Education: BSc in Biological Science and PhD in Molecular Biology (University…

Shajahan Anver, co-first author of Gene expression evolution in pattern-triggered immunity within Arabidopsis thaliana and across Brassicaceae species Current Position: Research Associate, Department of Genetics Evolution and Environment & UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London Education: …