ASPB and the Early Career Plant Scientists Section Presents:
Mental Health Matters –
When: February 4, 2025, at
About This Member Webinar
Mental health is something we all have to manage every day of our lives and is often something with which students and grad students struggle. Abbie will begin by sharing her own mental health journey, helping us to understand how she became a mental health advocate. We will then do some interactive, anonymous polls to assess the audience’s knowledge and experience with various mental health topics. Finally, Abbie will wrap up the session by sharing helpful resources, tips & tricks to maintain your mental health.
While all are welcome to attend, the webinar has been designed specifically for undergrads, grad students, and postdocs.
This session is being brought to you by the Early Career Plant Scientists Section (ECPS).
SPEAKER
Abigail (“Abbie”) Stack-Nothstine holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Purdue University (2013) and an M.S. degree in Plant Pathology from the University of California Davis (2016). In June 2016, she joined Bayer Crop Science (legacy Monsanto) as a Vegetable Discovery Pathology Senior Research Specialist in Woodland, CA, where she became an expert in vegetable virology and molecular plant disease diagnostics. In October 2022, Abbie relocated to St. Louis, MO and now acts as the Genotyping Innovation and Technologies Lead within Bayer’s Precision Genomics team. In this role, she scouts for new chemistry and automation technologies, completes proof-of-concept-testing, and manages relationships between Bayer and third party collaborators. Abbie is also a Bayer R&D Science Fellow, is active in the American Phytopathological Society, and is the president of the St. Louis Chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS). Outside work, you can find Abbie perfecting her macaron technique in her kitchen, travelling abroad with her husband, or curling up with her cat and a good book.
MODERATOR
Brianna D. Griffin grew up in Florida, where she graduated from Florida State University with her BS while working in Dr. Hank Bass’s maize genetics lab. She is currently a PhD candidate at Iowa State University studying plant biology with a specialization in predictive plant phenomics in Dr. Justin Walley’s lab. Her work focuses on the role of post-translational modifications in plant-pathogen interactions in maize. She is also currently the Chair for the Early Career Plant Scientists section of ASPB and serves on ASPB’s Council.
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