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. After com...
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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 about the story behind the science with one of the authors.
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 St Louis, M...
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. A native...
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 received his P...
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 simultaneous r...
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 got in the ...
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 Botany at the...
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 Science. Kelly g...
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 with John Lam...
Taproot 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 and experi...