
Kyle Palos: The Plant Cell First Author
Kyle Palos, first author of "Identification and functional annotation of long intergenic non-coding RNAs in Brassicaceae"
Current Position: Postdoctoral scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute with Dr. Andrew Nelson.
Education: PhD in Plant Science from the University of Arizona with Dr. Mark…

Tianzhen Liu: The Plant Cell First Author
Tianzhen Liu, first author of "Dwarf and High Tillering1 represses rice tillering through mediating the splicing of D14 pre-mRNA"
Current Position:Ph.D. candidate, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Education: B.S. at Shandong Agricultural University,…

Meina Guo: The Plant Cell First Author
Meina Guo, first author of "Alternative splicing of REGULATOR OF LEAF INCLINATION 1 modulates phosphate starvation signaling and plant growth"
Current Position: Postdoctoral/associate researcher in the lab of Prof. Keke Yi, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy…

Xinhang Zheng: The Plant Cell First Author
Xinhang Zheng, first author of "Ustilaginoidea virens secretes a family of phosphatases that stabilize the negative immune regulator OsMPK6 and suppress plant immunity"
Current Position: Ph.D. candidate at China Agricultural University
Education: Bachelor’s degree in China Agricultural University
Non-scientific…

Vasiliki Michalopoulou: The Plant Cell First Author
Vasiliki Michalopoulou, first author of "The host exocyst complex is targeted by a conserved bacterial type-III effector that promotes virulence"
Current position: Post-doc, IMBB-FORTH
Education: PhD in Microbiology Plant Biotechnology at University of Crete, MSc in Molecular Biology and Plant…

Naresh Loudya: The Plant Cell First Author
Naresh Loudya, first author of "Mutations in the chloroplast inner envelope protein TIC100 impair and repair chloroplast protein import and impact retrograde signalling"
Current Position: Post-doctoral Research Associate, Royal Holloway University of London. I am fortunate to be about to join as…

Yu Chen: The Plant Cell First Author
Yu Chen, co-first author of “MOR1/MAP215 acts synergistically with katanin to control cell division and anisotropic cell elongation in Arabidopsis”
Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
Education: Bachelor Degree from Hainan…

Xiayan Liu: The Plant Cell First Author
Xiayan Liu, co-first author of “MOR1/MAP215 acts synergistically with katanin to control cell division and anisotropic cell elongation in Arabidopsis”
Current Position: Professor, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
Education: B.S. from Fudan University in…

Anjil Kumar Srivastava: The Plant Cell First Author
Anjil Kumar Srivastava, co-first author of "The conjugation of SUMO to the transcription factor MYC2 functions in blue light-mediated seedling development in Arabidopsis"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Education: PhD;…