Botany One is a weblog produced by The Annals of Botany Company. The aim of the weblog is to alert plant scientists around the world to interesting and topical news about plants drawn from a wide variety of sources that include Annals of Botany, AoB PLANTS and in silico Plants, but also other scientific journals. This wider support of Botany is the company’s way of fulfilling its mission as a non-profit organization of promoting increased understanding of plant biology, as it has for over 100 years.
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Editors
Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra
Carlos (he/him) is currently a PhD student at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) studying the germination ecology of the Brazilian Cerrado, the largest and richest savannah in the world. He discovered his passion for writing when he was part of the Plantae Fellow’s class of 2020. As a result, he has written almost a hundred summaries for Plantae’s Newsletter about different seed science papers, Carlos also aims to use this position to highlight researchers from historically excluded groups and spread the word about the high-quality science they do.
Sarah Covshoff
Sarah is a plant molecular biologist passionate about communicating the science of the natural world to lay people and experts alike. She is particularly interested in the intersection between people and plants. Sarah is also fascinated by plant survival strategies in extreme environments such as deserts. Sarah previously worked as a PhD student and postdoctoral fellow in the field of C4 photosynthesis and now focuses on science communication.
Alun Salt
Alun is Not A Botanist. He was an ancient historian / archaeologist studying ancient science for a PhD, when he started working with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science at Leicester. This eventually led to him helping teach mathematics to biologists, which brought him to the attention of the botanists. He handles the mechanics of the site, so if you see an error it's best to contact him.
Email: webmaster@botany.one
Writers
Nigel Chaffey
Nigel is a botanist and former Senior Lecturer in Botany at Bath Spa University (Bath, near Bristol, UK). As News Editor for the Annals of Botany he contributed the monthly Plant Cuttings column to that august international botanical organ - and to Botany One - for almost 10 years. He is now a freelance plant science communicator and Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University. He continues to share his Cuttingsesque items - and appraisals of books with a plant focus - with a plant-curious audience. In that guise his main goal is to inform (hopefully, in an educational, and entertaining way) others about plants and plant-people interactions, and thereby improve humankind's botanical literacy. Always interested in discussing potential writing projects.
Liam Elliott
Liam Elliott has never been good enough at Latin to be able to claim to be a botanist, but can legitimately claim to be a researcher in Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford. He did his undergraduate degree at Cambridge before moving to Oxford to do his PhD, focussing on control of membrane trafficking in plant cells (in a nutshell, how what gets where in a plant cell). His main interests are in how membrane trafficking contributes to growth and division of plant cells but he is broadly excited by most aspects of plant cell and molecular biology, which he will likely be talking about on Botany One.
Juniper Kiss
Juniper Kiss (@GOESbyJuniper) is currently an MPhil student at the University of Exeter, focusing on controlling Fusarium wilt of bananas with biocontrols in Latin America. As a marine biology turned plant biology undergraduate, she published student articles in GOES magazine and has been big fan of social media, ecology, botany and fungi. Along blogging and posting, Juniper loves to travel to developing countries and working with farmers.
Guillaume Lobet
Guillaume’s passion for plants started during his bio-engineering studies at the UCLouvain in Belgium. He is currently an Assistant Professor between the Forschungszentrum Juelich and the UCLouvain since September 2016. Guillaume is passionate about Open Science, teaching and science communication in general.
Michela Osnato
Michela is a Plant Molecular Biologist working at the University of Urbino. Beyond the bench, she has participated in different outreach initiatives to promote scientific culture and foster equal opportunities for women in STEM. Among others, she developed her own science communication project (Secret Life of Plant Biologist) by combining photography, audiovisuals and writing in different languages.
Anne Osterrieder
Anne Osterrieder (@anneosterrieder on Twitter) works as a public engagement coordinator at the University of Oxford, UK. A plant cell biologist by training, she loves the Golgi apparatus, lasers and cats. She has her own blog at Plant Cell Biology.
William Salter
William (Tam) Salter is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Sydney Institute of Agriculture at the University of Sydney. He has a bachelor degree in Ecological Science (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in plant ecophysiology from the University of Sydney. Tam is interested in the identification and elucidation of plant traits that could be useful for ecosystem resilience and future food security under global environmental change. He also has an active interest in effective scientific communication.
Rachel Shekar
Rachel has served as lead manager of both Global Change Biology and GCB Bioenergy for over ten years and has been instrumental in the success of both journals. Rachel has overseen the development of GCBB as a fully open access online journal and the social media that has been a major part of promotion of both journals. Rachel has also served as coordinator of the Crops in silico project and organization.
Laura Skates
Laura Skates is a botanist and science communicator from Western Australia. Her research focuses on the unusual nutritional ecology of carnivorous plants in their natural habitats, and her passions include conservation, botanical art, floral fashion, and literally anything else plant-related. You can find her on Instagram @floraskates.
Ian Street
Ian Street (@IHStreet on Twitter) is a plant scientist, science writer who blogs at The Quiet Branches. He is also a cohost of The Recovering Academic Podcast, and an Associate Editor at The POSTDOCket, the newsletter of the National Postdoc Association, and most recently, a Virtual Lab Manager at HappiLabs.
Lorena Villanueva Almanza
Lorena is a Mexican plant biologist passionate about plants and writing. When she was Academic Editor of Botany One, Lorena worked with botanists, plant scientists and journalists to write stories that can help people notice and appreciate plants.
Erin Zimmerman
Erin Zimmerman is a botanist turned science writer and sometimes botanical illustrator. She did her PhD at the University of Montréal and worked as a post-doctoral fellow with the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture. She was a plant morphologist, but when no one wanted to pay her to do that anymore, she started writing about them instead. Her other plant articles (and occasional essays) appear in Smithsonian Magazine, Undark, New York Magazine, Narratively, and elsewhere. Read her stuff here at www.DrErinZimmerman.com.