Plantae Presents - Elizabeth Haswell and Naomi Nakayama

In this video, invited guests Elizabeth Haswell and Naomi Nakayama join our global plant science talk series to discuss their research.

Elizabeth Haswell's talk is titled "Mechanosensitive ion channels in the green lineage" Dr. Haswell a Professor and HHMI Scholar at Washington University in Saint Louis. She was an undergraduate at the University of Washington, did her PhD at UCSF, and completed postdoctoral studies at Caltech before moving to Wash U. She is a Senior Editor at The Plant Cell and, along with Ivan Baxter, co-hosts the TapRoot podcast. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms that underlie the perception and transduction of mechanical signals in plants. @ehaswell



Naomi Nakayama's talk is titled "Forms and functions of the dandelion diaspore: how to fly and tune the flight" Dr. Nakayama is a senior lecturer in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College, London. She got her PhD in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University, and was a postdoc at , a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and is now a group leader and ​Royal Society University Research Fellow at Imperial. Her work is very interdisciplinary and research in her Biological Form + Function group looks at a variety of plant systems, from trees to seeds, to understand how plants sense and respond to living signals and the resilience of living architecture. @nakayama_naomi