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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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10 signs you might be a plant scientist

February 19, 2012
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10 signs you might be a plant scientist

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 plant and ask for your advice on growing vegetables. 3)   You have looked at Monstera leaves and wondered if you could use these for your expression experiments. 4)   You had a brown thumb before you were forced to care for your own plants for your experiments. 5)   When you are in a restaurant, you automatically check if the table...

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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: Prof Chris Hawes

January 10, 2012
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Prof Chris Hawes

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 questions. For obvious reasons I expect this to at first feature researchers which I know quite well, simply because I hope that they will be more willing to complete the questionnaire! However, by no means this should indicate an order of importance and I am very keen to feature as many researchers as possible. If you are a plant...

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Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Charlotte Carroll

January 3, 2012
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Charlotte

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 biologists. With this I am hoping to put faces to the general term often heard in media, “scientists have found out that…”, and show that scientists are not at all like the stereotypical eccentric mad professor in a white lab coat – well, 99% aren’t! Hopefully it will also make you realise that the information you find in text...

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