The Taproot Podcast
1) 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 earned his Bachelors in Biochemistry from East China Universit...Show More
2) Taproot 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 Spring Harbor Laboratory. Jason is also lead for CyVerse Educat...Show More
3) 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 her Bachelor’s degree from Dickinson College, her Master’s deg...Show More
4) 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. Olivier did his PhD on KNOX homeobox genes in 2003, and the...Show More
5) 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 Dior Kelley, an assistant professor in the Genetics, Deve...Show More
6) 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 completing his PhD at the University of California Ri...Show More
S5E5: STARTing Out as a PI, Pivoting During COVID, and Advocating for Change
40:55 | Feb 23rd, 2021
7) 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, Missouri to do a postdoc with Blake Meyers at The D...Show More
8) 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 of Zimbabwe, she received her Ph.D. in Plant Mole...Show More
9) 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 PhD from the University of California, Irvine and h...Show More
10) 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 rise of the pandemic and the civil uprising against...Show More