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Plant Cell Atlas Career Panel ​Workshop
Academic Careers of the Future

Virtual Workshop
July 26, 2021

 

Objectives

Registration

A workshop featuring three academic scientists at different stages of their plant biology careers. We will start with short presentations from each scientist about their personal and professional paths and their perspectives on their future. These will be followed by a panel discussion and open Q&A about plant biology careers in academia.

You can find the video of this event here.

Career Panel Organizers and Speakers

Registration for the PCA Career Panel Workshop is now closed.

Workshop Times
PDT - 9:00am - 10:30am
MDT - 10:00am - 11:30am
CDT - 11:00am - 12:30pm
EDT - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
CEST - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
GMT+8 - 12:00am - 1:30am (7/27/2021)

Epidermal plasma membrane in green and nuclei (H2B-TFP) in blue, together with chlorophyll autofluorescence in red below in the mesophyll. Photo credit: Kate Harline (Roeder Lab)
Epidermal plasma membrane in green and nuclei (H2B-TFP) in blue, together with chlorophyll autofluorescence in red below in the mesophyll. Photo credit: Kate Harline (Roeder Lab)
Pin1-YFP (yellow) and DR5::RFP (red) in the maize shoot apex. Photo credit: Leiboff Lab
Pin1-YFP (yellow) and DR5::RFP (red) in the maize shoot apex. Photo credit: Leiboff Lab
Depth coded image of the actin cytoskeleton in root hairs from the model legume Medicago truncatula. Photo credit: Elison Blancaflor
Depth coded image of the actin cytoskeleton in root hairs from the model legume Medicago truncatula. Photo credit: Elison Blancaflor

Panelists

Headshot of Mary Gehring, PhD
Mary Gehring,
​PhD

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
​
Mary Gehring is a Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and an Associate Professor of Biology at MIT. Mary received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and performed her postdoctoral research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Her lab’s research focuses on the confluence of epigenetic dynamics and genetic conflicts during seed development and on mechanisms that maintain epigenetic homeostasis. She enjoys spending time outdoors and playing with her two children.
Headshot of Bert de Rybel, PhD
Aman Husbands,
PhD

Ohio State University
​
After receiving a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto, Aman pursued a PhD in Patricia Springer’s lab at the University of California - Riverside. Using biochemical and genetic analyses, he demonstrated that the LOB DOMAIN genes constitute a new class of plant-specific transcription factors, regulating a variety of developmental processes including brassinosteroid signaling, adaxial-abaxial polarity, and lateral root production. After receiving his PhD, Aman joined Marja Timmermans lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in NY, who has since moved to the University of Tuebingen in Germany. There he studied the molecular mechanisms that polarize the adaxial-abaxial (or dorsoventral) axis, which drives the production of flat leaf architecture. Finally, in January of 2018, Aman joined the Molecular Genetics department at Ohio State. His lab is interested in the mechanisms that govern complexity and reproducibility, two outcomes which seem in tension yet are both defining features of development.
Headshot of John Marioni, PhD
Rachel Shahan,
PhD

Duke University

Rachel Shahan is a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Philip Benfey at Duke University. Using the Arabidopsis root as a model, she is employing single-cell transcriptomics and molecular genetics to study gene regulatory networks underlying cell identity and differentiation. Prior to joining the Benfey lab in 2018, Rachel completed her thesis work at the University of Maryland where she was a USDA NIFA pre-doctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Zhongchi Liu. Her dissertation focused on the molecular regulation of fruit development in Fragaria vesca, a diploid strawberry. Looking to the future, her career goals include opening her own lab at a research-intensive institution. When not in the lab, Rachel enjoys running, trying new restaurants, and traveling.

 

Agenda

9:00 AM - 9:05 AM PDT
Introduction
9:05 AM - 9:20 AM PDT
Mary Gehring  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Associate Professor of Biology
9:20 AM - 9:35 AM PDT
Aman Husbands (Ohio State University)
Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics
9:35 AM - 9:50 AM PDT
Rachel Shahan (Duke University)
Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology
9:50 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
Q&A and Panel Discussion
Protein bodies in maize endosperm, Marisa Otegui
Electron tomographic reconstruction of protein bodies in maize endosperm. Photo Credit: Marisa Otegui
Arabidopsis cotyledon, Flavia Bossi
Reconstruction of an Arabidopsis first leaf from a six-day old seedling. Photo Credit: Flavia Bossi
Developing maize aleurone cell, Marisa Otegui
Electron tomographic reconstruction of a developing maize aleurone cell. Photo Credit: Marisa Otegui
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“The Plant Cell Atlas operates predominantly out of the Carnegie Institution for Science's Plant Biology Department located at Stanford University. Stanford sits on the ancestral land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Ohlone people. Consistent with our values of community and inclusion, we have a responsibility to acknowledge, honor, and make visible the University’s relationship to Native peoples.”
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      • Organizers
    • 2021 PCA Symposium - Dec 2021 >
      • About
      • Registration
      • Abstract Submission
      • Speakers
      • Schedule
      • Organizers
    • Spatial Metabolomics Workshop - Oct 2021 >
      • Organizers
    • Writing Accountability Group - Sept 2021 >
      • Organizers
    • Career Panel - Jul 2021 >
      • Organizers
    • ICAR 2021 Mini-Symposia >
      • Quantitative Imaging
      • Arabidopsis Algorithm
      • Quantitative Development
      • Quantitative Proteomics
      • Organizers
      • Single-cell Landscape
      • Arabidopsis Informatics
    • Spatial Proteomics Workshop - Apr 2021 >
      • Organizers
    • Single Cell Sequencing Workshop - Feb 2021 >
      • Organizers
    • Inaugural Workshop - May/Jun 2020 >
      • Organizers
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    • PB22 Travel Award
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      • 2022 Plant Physiology Focus Issue
    • PCA Videos
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    • PCA Art Exhibit >
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      • Plant Biotechnology
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      • Bowie State University
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