Informational Interview with Dr. Miguel Vega-Sanchez, Regulatory Affairs Pipeline Strategy Manager, Insect Control and Genome Editing at Bayer
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Jonathan Lombardino, Conviron Scholar
Perhaps for some of you the looming prospect of where your career as a research scientist will take you has been a daunting and stressful thought-process. Lucky for us, I have enlisted the help of Dr. Miguel Vega-Sanchez, a scientist whose diverse career path…
Informational interview with Kevin Tran, Biotech Process Development Associate, Orchard Therapeutics
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy John Tran, Conviron Scholar
Interviewer: John Tran, PhD Candidate in Plant Biology at MSU
Interviewee: Kevin Tran (Process Development Associate)
Masters – Biology in Stem Cell Research
B.S. – Biology in System Physiology
Academic meets Industry
John Tran sits down with Process…
Informational interview with Dr. Fawad Shah, President and CEO, Minnesota Crop Improvement Association
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Carl Branch, Conviron Scholar
Dr. Shah, currently the head of the Minnesota Crop Improvement Association, has been involved in plant sciences and agriculture in a variety of roles all across the country. I've gotten to know him a little bit as a student in a seed science class this fall, and I…
Informational Interview with Dr. Justin Runyon, US Forest Service Research Scientist
Careers in Plant ScienceBy Shealyn Malone, Conviron Scholar
Informational Interview with Matthew Ross, Director of Continuing Education at Longwood Gardens
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Jen Schmidt, Conviron Scholar
Name: Matthew Ross
Position:Director, Continuing Education at Longwood Gardens
Degrees: Bachelor of Science, Horticulture Science, Master of Science, Horticulture Science
I had the opportunity to interview Matthew Ross, the Director of Continuing Education at…
Informational Interview with Dr Eloy Caballo Ponce
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Ángel Vergara Cruces, Conviron Scholar
I interviewed Dr Eloy Caballo Ponce, technician in the phytopathology department at the seed company Rijk Zwaan. During our conversation, we talked about academia, industry and career paths for life science graduates.
The first thing I wanted to ask…
Informational Interview with Dr. Susan McCarthy, USDA Knowledge Services Division (KSD)
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Matthew Fabian, Conviron Scholar
1. Please describe your path to a career in plant science, from undergraduate (or earlier) studies to your current role. What are some particular challenges, experiences, or milestones that you’d care to share?
After one course correction in my…
Informal interview with Dr. Chia Sin Liew, core facility bioinformatician, University of Nebraska
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Yen Ning Chai, Conviron Scholar
Dr. Chia Sin Liew is a bioinformatician working for the bioinformatics core facility at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Her jobs include maintaining the computing servers and providing bioinformatics services to the researchers at UNL. She obtained her Bachelor…
Informational Interview with Dr. Robert Gaeta, Plant Biotechnology team leader, Bayer Crop Science
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Alex Clarke, Conviron Scholar
Background
Robert did his undergraduate at SUNY Cortland before moving to California to work as a technician in molecular biology. He pursued a Master’s degree at Fresno State, where he worked with C. elegans and performed plant transformations with nematode…