This is a transcript of my three minute presentation at Science Oxford’s closing down event ‘Science Oxford versus the Rest of the World’. I drew the images with the iPad app ‘Paper by Fifty Three‘. Hello. I am a plant…
The wonderful thing about the internet is that it enables us to meet new people from all over the world. I met Mateus Mondin, a plant scientist from the University of São Paulo in Brazil, through the Annals of Botany Blog. Since then…
It is with great pleasure that I can announce a new category on this blog: Plant Cell Alumni! This series will feature interviews with people who at one point were active plant cell researchers, but are now doing something different.…
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…
“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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…