S6E5: Transforming plants and the culture of publishing
In this episode, we speak with Yunde Zhao, a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California San Diego. Yunde ea...
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The Taproot
The Taproot is the podcast that digs beneath the surface to understand how scientific publications are created. In each episode, we take a paper from the plant biology literature and talk ab...
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20 of 43 episodesTaproot S6E4: Can We Force Academic Structures to be Inclusive?
In this episode, we speak with Jason Williams, Assistant Director of Inclusion and Research Readiness at the DNA Learning Center at Cold Spr...
Taproot S6E3: Classroom Cosplay: Applying Creative and Scientific Approaches to Teaching
In this episode, we speak with Jennifer Robison, an Assistant Professor of Biology at Manchester University in Indiana. Jennifer received he...
Taproot S6E2: The tension between robustness and efficiency in biological and human systems
In this episode, our guest is Olivier Hamant. Olivier is a PI at INRAE in the Plant Reproduction and Development laboratory in Lyon, France....
Taproot S6E1: May I have your attention, please? Searching for causal mutations and for institutional support.
Taproot S6E1: May I have your attention, please? Searching for causal mutations and for institutional support. In this episode, our guest is...
S5E5: STARTing Out as a PI, Pivoting During COVID, and Advocating for Change
In this episode, our guest is Aman Husbands. Aman is originally from Canada and got his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto....
S5E4: Interacting with Plants, Pathogens, and the Public
This week’s podcast is a conversation with Dr. Kevin Cox. Kevin earned his PhD at Texas A&M University before returning to his hometown of S...
S5E3: Pre-stressed Conditions: Epigenetics and Life as a Black Academic
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Thelma Madzima, Assistant Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Washington, Bothell...
S5E2: Multiculturalism Matters in the Rhizosphere - and in Academia
This week’s podcast is a conversation with Dr. Adán Colón-Carmona, Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Adán rece...
S5E1: Finding Strength in Diverse Scientific Communities
This week’s Taproot podcast episode is a conversation with Dr. Tanisha Williams A plant researcher, she was inspired this summer by the simu...
S5E0: Season 5 Teaser
It has been quite a few months since our last episode! We intended to have a new season out by now, but as you might imagine, a few things g...
S4E8: Convergent Evolution of Caffeine and Divergent Careers
In the final episode of Season 4, we talk with Todd Barkman, Professor of Biology at Western Michigan University. Todd earned his PhD in Bot...
S4E7: Milestone-Based Decision-Making In and Out of the Lab
This episode, we continue our discussions about cultivating a career with guest Kelly Gillespie, Nursery Solutions Lead at Bayer Crop Scienc...
S4E6: Staying Afloat - Time Management in a Sea of Obligations
Our guest for this episode is Dr. Holly Bik. Holly obtained her PhD in Molecular Phylogenetics at the University of Southampton, working wit...
S4E5: Navigating Experimental and Situational Panic
In this episode, we talk with Laura Klasek who is a Plant Biology Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Davis about her research...
S4E4: Graduate Interviews Demystified
In the previous episode, we talked with Dr. Scott Barolo about his research and shared tips for completing written graduate school applicati...
S4E3: How to mastermind experimental designs and and your graduate applications
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Scott Barolo about how he made a popular board game into a teaching tool, and we start a two-part discussi...
S4E2: The GRExit and how we choose who goes to grad school
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Zen Faulkes about the graduate application process, what program directors are looking for and how hard it...
S4E1: Identifying the Principle Components: Gender Dimorphism in Flowers and Consciously Building a Happy and Rewarding Career in Science
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Ambika Kamath, a behavioral ecologist and a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, about her undergraduate re...
S4E0: Teaser
This season’s theme is “Cultivating a Career”, and we’ll talk about this from both sides--ideas and advice for your own career AND for helpi...