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Happy International Women’s Day 2012!

March 8, 2012
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Happy International Women’s Day 2012!

“Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.”  Gertrude B. Elion, Nobel Laureate 1988. A few days ago, Prof Alice Roberts, the first Professor of Public Engagement, tweeted about the still shockingly low number of female professors in science. In my opinion, there are two main reasons for the low numbers of female scientists in academia. The first one is linked to inspiring girls and female...

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Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Dr Geraint Parry

February 28, 2012
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I met Geraint Parry on Twitter, where he tweets under @LiverpoolPlants about his research. Fortunately, my colleagues were able to confirm that he indeed is real and a plant cell biologist studying the nuclear pore complex. He also scored 6 out of 10 points from the “10 signs you might be a plant biologist” post, plus I awarded him two more points for having a picture of Arabidopsis thaliana as avatar. All evidence combined, Geraint immediately qualified as today’s Face of Plant Cell Biology – thanks for taking part, Geraint! :-)) Please check out Geraint’s website for more information and...

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Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Dr Nathalie Leborgne-Castel

February 21, 2012
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Nathalie LC

This post is part of the series “Faces of Plant Cell Biology”. In this series I am posting answers of plant cell biologists at all stages of their career to a set of five questions. If you are a plant cell biologist and would like to complete my questionnaire, please email me at anne@plantcellbiology.com. Seriously, please do – I am slowly but surely running out of colleagues to pester!  Today’s Face of Plant Cell Biology is Dr Nathalie Leborgne-Castel from the Université de Bourgogne in France. Nathalie was kind enough to allow us to use her fantastic tomography and plasmolysis...

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Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Dr John Runions

February 15, 2012
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John Runions

John Runions is a little bit like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – only that his two identities both have a Dr title. Most of his time he spends working, teaching and playing with the microscopes at Oxford Brookes University. But when nobody is watching, he puts on his cape of knowledge, takes his sword of science enthusiasm and leaps on air as “Dr Molecule” for BBC Radio Oxford. John’s website is like a little treasure chest, full with microscopy images and movies. You can even watch one of his presentations from the last GARNet meeting 2011 on YouTube...

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Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Dr Petra Boevink

February 7, 2012
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Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Dr Petra Boevink

If someone asked me about the three most important papers which my research is based on, I might have to think for a minute or so about two of them. But my choice for the third one (or first one, if you wish) would be very clear: “Boevink et al. 1998!”   Petra Boevink, Karl Oparka, Simon Santa Cruz, Barry Martin, Alan Betteridge, Chris Hawes (1998). “Stacks on tracks: the plant Golgi apparatus travels on an actin/ER network”. Plant Journal 15(3): 441-447.               In this study the researchers linked green fluorescent protein (GFP)...

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Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Dr David C Logan

January 31, 2012
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I will never forget the first time I met David Logan at the Botanical Microscopy Meeting in Salzburg in 2007. It was the first international conference that I attended as PhD student, and I  had to give a talk about my research. The lecture theatre was much larger than we all had thought and there was a microphone on a stand. David was talking just after me. He went to the mic, tapped it and said: “I feel like a rock star. – HELLO SALZBURG!” The reason that this made such an impression on me was because it was...

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Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Prof Pat Heslop-Harrison

January 24, 2012
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Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Prof Pat Heslop-Harrison

Welcome to today’s installment of “Faces of Plant Cell Biology”! When I sent my five questions to Prof Pat Heslop-Harrison from the University of Leicester, I got something completely unexpected and utterly brilliant back: A full video interview in a virtual studio with its own talk show host! I immensely enjoyed watching Pat talking about his research and his advice for students and I hope that you will too. To me, this is the perfect example of how blogs and social media can be used in a fun and effective way to bring your science to a wider audience....

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