Category: The Plant Cell: Author Profiles

Feifei Xu, first author of Exportin-4 Coordinates Nuclear Shuttling of TOPLESS Family Transcription Corepressors to Regulate Plant Immunity Current Position: Research associate at the Institute of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou, China Education: PhD…

Guo-Zhang Wu, first author of GUN control in retrograde signaling: How GENOMES UNCOUPLED proteins adjust nuclear gene expression to plastid biogenesis Current Position: Associate Professor, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Education: Ph.D from Shanghai Institute…

  Claudia Steglich, first author of Inverse regulation of light harvesting and photoprotection is mediated by a 3' end-derived sRNA in cyanobacteria Current Position: Senior researcher, Laboratory of Genetics & Experimental Bioinformatics, Institute of Biology III, University of Freiburg,…

Margot Bezrutczyk, first author of Evidence for phloem loading via the abaxial bundle sheath cells in maize leaves Current Position:  PhD Student at Heinrich Heine University Education: BS in Neural Science from NYU, MS in Neuroscience from U.C. San Diego Non-scientific Interests:  gardening…

Ryo Yokoyama, first author of The Entry Reaction of the Plant Shikimate Pathway Is Subjected to Highly-Complex Metabolite-Mediated Regulation Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Education: BA, MS, and Ph.D., Kyoto University, Japan Non-scientific…

Yujiao Gao, first author of The endosperm-specific transcription factor TaNAC019 regulates glutenin and starch accumulation and its elite allele improves wheat grain quality Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization…

Liyong Zhang, first author of Live Imaging of Microtubule Organization, Cell Expansion, and Intercellular Space Formation in Arabidopsis Leaf Spongy Mesophyll Cells Current Position: PhD Student in Dr. Chris Ambrose Lab at University of Saskatchewan Education: MSc in Biology, University of Science…

Praveen Krishnamoorthy, co-first author of Plasma membrane nano-organization specifies phosphoinositide effects on Rho-GTPases and actin dynamics in tobacco pollen tubes Current Position: Staff Scientist for Light microscopy at the Center for Cellular Imaging in Washington University in St. Louis (WUCCI),…