Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Dongbo Shi
Dongbo Shi, first author of Tissue-specific transcriptome profiling of the Arabidopsis inflorescence stem reveals local cellular signatures
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), Heidelberg University, Germany
Education: PhD in Life Science from Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies, Japan (Uemura lab), based on the studies in National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB), Japan (Fujimori lab)
Non-scientific Interests: Cello, Shogi (Japanese chess), baseball
Brief bio: During my undergraduate education, Faculty of Science at Kyoto University did not ask us to choose a major, so I enjoyed a variety of scientific classes ranging from physics to geoscience. To be honest, I did not get a very nice grade in Biology at exams as biology was not nicely systemized, full of exceptions and hard to remember the details. However, when it was time to choose my own research topic, biology was most attractive to me as there are numerous questions that remain to be solved. If you ask three questions, one of the answers from professors in Biology will be “I’m not sure”.
From the last year of my undergraduate until I receive my PhD degree, I worked on morphogenesis using mouse oviduct epithelium as a model, supervised by Prof. Dr. Tadashi Uemura (Kyoto University) and Prof. Dr. Toshihiko Fujimori (NIBB). Again, I was exposed to a wide variety of science including plant and animal developmental biology at both institutes. As the grass is always greener on the other side, after I receive my degree, I changed my focus from animal to plant development and joined Prof. Dr. Thomas Greb’s group at COS Heidelberg in 2016.
During this project, I was excited to see all the talents and knowledge from all my colleagues get together and make fruitful progress. The computer skills I learned during my physics classes also unexpectedly helped my bioinformatic analysis . I really hope the research community will benefit from our dataset and methodology as we have, and I can unravel regulatory mechanisms of the secondary growth in the near future.
姓名：石 東博
目前职位: 德国海德堡大学生物研究中心 (COS) 博士后
教育经历: 日本京都大学大学院生命科学研究科 生物科学博士（2014年）
兴趣爱好：大提琴，将棋，棒球
科研经历简介：由于京都大学理学部不需要选择特定专业，我选修了不少理学部的通识课，包括物理，地理，数学等等。坦率地说，我的生物学成绩并不出色。对我来说，生物学脉络不是特别清晰，有很多的例外情况，难以一一记清。但是当我要决定课题的时候，生物学项目是众多课题中最令我感兴趣的。我觉得相当多生物学上的重要问题仍然悬而未决。假如问教授三个”为什么”的话，大概他的答案中至少有一个是“我不清楚”。
从大四到我博士毕业，我在京都大学大学院生命科学研究科的上村匡教授和基础生物研究所的藤森俊彦教授的指导下，以老鼠输卵管上皮作为材料，研究了形态建成机制。博士在读阶段，在大学院和研究所我广泛地涉猎了各个领域，包括动物和植物的发育学。2016年博士毕业后，我远渡欧洲加入了德国海德堡大学生物研究中心 Thomas Greb教授的团队，也将我的研究重心转到植物发育学。
在课题研究中，结合所有同事们的天赋与智慧，我将课题富有成效地向前推进。我很享受很这段珍贵的时光。大学物理课上学到的电脑知识也意外地帮助到了我的生物信息学分析。我希望我们的数据和方法论能对科学有所贡献，使得我们更加地接近真理。另外，希望在不久的将来我能发现新的控制次生生长的调节机制。
