On Tuesday, April 26th, at 1 PM EST one of our members, Ian Street, will be featured in the Member Spotlight on Trellis – AAAS’s new platform for general scientific communication and collaboration. This is an hour long series that highlights activities of members and gives them a chance to discuss their work. Ian is currently a Research … Read more
Recently, we’ve been profiling first authors of Plant Cell papers that are selected for In Brief summaries. Here are the first-author profiles from the April issue of The Plant Cell. Kimberley Tilbrook, featured first author of UV-B perception and acclimation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Current Position: OCE Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIRO Agriculture, Black Mountain, ACT, Australia. … Read more
The National Alliance for Broader Impacts (NABI) offers a community of practice to develop sustainable and scalable institutional capacity and engagement in K-16+ broader impacts activity. NABI supports communicating science and broadening participation in research to improve the world. NABI and NSF interface closely, including at this Summit. Click here for the 2016 Summit Twitter … Read more
The 2016 Planet Forward Summit at George Washington University features mayors, public and private sector leaders, journalists, academics, students, innovators and entrepreneurs. Together these participants spend two full days (April 21-22) discovering and discussing the stories, innovations and people who will transform our cities in the coming decades. The Summit also features the winners of … Read more
Location: Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Current job/title: Director of Plant Systems Biology One word that describes how you work: enthusiastically. I’m conscious of the fact that I’m lucky that I get to do something I’m passionate about. Favorite thing you do at work: Learn Favorite plant: Arabidopsis (boring I know, but … Read more