Taproot S5E5: STARTing out as a PI, Pivoting During COVID, and Advocating for Change
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In this episode, our guest is Aman Husbands. Aman is originally from Canada and got his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto. After completing his PhD at the University of California Riverside, he moved to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. In 2018, he moved to The Department of Molecular…
Taproot S5E4: Interacting with Plants, Pathogens, and the Public
Blog, The Taproot Season 5, The-TaprootThis week’s podcast is a conversation with Dr. Kevin Cox. Kevin earned his PhD at Texas A&M University before returning to his hometown of St Louis, Missouri to do a postdoc with Blake Meyers at The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Kevin has won numerous awards and grants and was recently…
Taproot S5E3: Pre-Stressed Conditions: Epigenetics and Life as a Black Academic
Blog, The Taproot Season 5, The-TaprootIn this episode, we talk with Dr. Thelma Madzima, Assistant Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Washington, Bothell. A native of Zimbabwe, she received her Ph.D. in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Florida and went on to complete a postdoc with Karen…
Taproot S5E2: Multiculturalism Matters in the Rhizosphere--and in Academia
Blog, The Taproot Season 5, The-TaprootThis week’s podcast is a conversation with Dr. Adán Colón-Carmona, Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Adán received his PhD from University of California, Irvine and he did postdoctoral research at the Salk Institute and at the University of California, Davis. His research…
Taproot S5E1: Finding Strength in Diverse Scientific Communities
Blog, The Taproot Season 5, The-TaprootThis week’s Taproot podcast episode is a conversation with Dr. Tanisha Williams A plant researcher, she was inspired this summer by the simultaneous rise of the pandemic and the civil uprising against police brutality to draw Black botanists together for a social media event called #BlackBotanistsWeek.…
Taproot S5E0: Join us for Season 5 and let us know how you’ve been navigating these chaotic and unusual times!
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It has been quite a few months since our last episode! We intended to have a new season out by now, but as you might imagine, a few things got in the way. We are, however, back to working on topics and guests for Season 5 so stay tuned for new episodes this Fall!
In the meantime, we want to hear…