This year, ASPB President Rob Last did an experiment aimed at increasing the value of the President’s Letters. Four of these letters were accompanied by essays from community members of all career stages. Two were co-authored. The idea was to explore the topics of President’s Letters more fully and include more voices. A general theme is how to increase our future individual and collective success.
Below is a full list of Rob’s president’s letters and associated collections.
#ASPBForward: Where We Are Going, 1st President’s letter by Robert Last
- Securing the Future of Plant Biologists, 2nd president’s letter by Robert Last
- From Whole Plant Physiology to Food Security: A Career Journey by Melissa D. Ho
- A New Approach To Graduate Professional Development; Lessons Learned from a Leadership Retreat by Levi Bauer
- Financial security by Andrew D. Hanson
- U.S. Students Are Experiencing Food Insecurity, So What Can We Do To Help? by Sterling Field
- Have We Reached Peak Security? Response to Rob, Andrew and Sterling by Mary Williams
- Useful Resources by Robert Last
- Gazing into the Crystal Ball: Next-Gen Careers, 3rd president’s letter by Robert Last, co-authored by Laura Grapes and Andrew Hanson
- Fantastic collaborations and how to find them, by George Kantor
- Reflections on my move from academia to a startup, by Christy Gault
- Know thyself: the guide to shaping your career trajectory, by Emily Wrenbeck
- Get the ball rolling!, by Guillaume Beaudoin
- How come approaching questions knowing little helped my career a lot? by Ron Milo
- A new approach to graduate professional development; lessons learned from a leadership retreat, Levi Bauer
- Synthetic biology: Improving photosynthesis, by Steven Burgess
- Plantae webinar: Plant synthetic biology 101 discussion with Steven Burgess, Arjun Khakar, Aileen Mastouri, Brynne Stanton, June Medford, Andrew Hanson
- Zombie donkeys and the modern science PhD degree, by Andrew Hanson
- Into the Second Century: ASPB 2024 ,4th president’s letter by Robert Last
- SURFing with ASPB by Lauren Pope
- Serving and SURFing at ASPB by Jonathan Monroe
- Journey with the ASPP/ASPB by Jane Shen-Miller
- Scientists, put down your pipettes and get involved with ASPB! by Lucas Vanhaelewyn
- Big Challenges Require Broad Thinking 5th president’s letter by Robert Last
- What if plant scientists were as diverse as the plants we study? by Jennifer Nemhauser and Elizabeth Haswell
- Diverse plants, diversity in botany by Paul Sokoloff
- The two-body problem by Gaurav Moghe
- Evolving from a focus on mentee to cultivating a mentoring ecosystem by Beronda Montgomery
- Underrepresented objects in plant biology: The clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae by Susann Auer
Be the Change – 6th and final President’s Letter by Robert Last and Mary Williams