I am incredibly lucky in that our research group is not only tolerant of my crazy science outreach ideas, but whole-heartedly embraces and develops them. When we started thinking about activities for the “International Fascination of Plants Day“, our PhD…
What is the scientific approach to determining if you are a plant cell biologist or not? You quantify it through your publications! Dr Martin Hodson’s approach does not only demonstrate his scientific way of thinking, but shows his humour as…
Rising like a phoenix from the ashes, “Faces of Plant Cell Biology” is back! Today’s plant cell biologist is Dr Miriam Gifford from the University of Warwick. Visit her lab website here or follow the lab on Twitter under @Giffordlab. 1) What…
This article is part of a series of blog posts written by students from Didcot Girls’ School. All posts can be found under the category STEM Club. Personally the highlight of our trip was watching Gracy shuffling/tripping around in an ankle-length…
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…
How many of these sound familiar? 1) When you open a new review about a conserved eukaryotic protein family, you first perform a whole document search for “plant” and “arabidopsis”. 2) People assume that you know the name of every…
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.…
For the new year I have started a new series called “Faces of Plant Cell Biology”. In this series I am going to post answers of plant cell biologists at all stages of their career to a set of five…
First of all, I would like to wish you a happy, healthy and successful new year 2012! When I was pondering about blog topics for 2012 I thought that it would be nice to publish short profiles of plant cell…