The Taproot

By Plantae / American Society of Plant Biologists

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Episodes: 81

Description

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.

Episode Date
S6E5: Transforming plants and the culture of publishing
Jan 24, 2023
Taproot S6E4: Can We Force Academic Structures to be Inclusive?
Jan 17, 2023
Taproot S6E3: Classroom Cosplay: Applying Creative and Scientific Approaches to Teaching
Jan 10, 2023
Taproot S6E2: The tension between robustness and efficiency in biological and human systems
Dec 20, 2022
Taproot S6E1: May I have your attention, please? Searching for causal mutations and for institutional support.
Dec 13, 2022
S5E5: STARTing Out as a PI, Pivoting During COVID, and Advocating for Change
Feb 23, 2021
S5E4: Interacting with Plants, Pathogens, and the Public
Feb 16, 2021
S5E3: Pre-stressed Conditions: Epigenetics and Life as a Black Academic
Feb 09, 2021
S5E2: Multiculturalism Matters in the Rhizosphere - and in Academia
Feb 02, 2021
S5E1: Finding Strength in Diverse Scientific Communities
Jan 26, 2021
S5E0: Season 5 Teaser
Sep 15, 2020
S4E8: Convergent Evolution of Caffeine and Divergent Careers
Feb 18, 2020
S4E7: Milestone-Based Decision-Making In and Out of the Lab
Feb 04, 2020
S4E6: Staying Afloat - Time Management in a Sea of Obligations
Jan 21, 2020
S4E5: Navigating Experimental and Situational Panic
Jan 07, 2020
S4E4: Graduate Interviews Demystified
Dec 10, 2019
S4E3: How to mastermind experimental designs and and your graduate applications
Aug 27, 2019
S4E2: The GRExit and how we choose who goes to grad school
Aug 20, 2019
S4E1: Identifying the Principle Components: Gender Dimorphism in Flowers and Consciously Building a Happy and Rewarding Career in Science
Aug 13, 2019
S4E0: Teaser
Aug 06, 2019
S3E6: Opening Channels of Communication Between Cells and Scientists
Mar 26, 2019
S3E5: Simon Says: Captivate the public with snazzy videos of plant defense, send plants to space, and embrace curiosity-driven science
Mar 19, 2019
S3E4: Challenging Environments: Sunflowers, Drought, and Making Waves as an Early Career Scientist
Mar 12, 2019
S3E3: Answering Complex Questions with a Complex Community
Dec 18, 2018
S3E2: The World According to Dan: truth, Stats, and SNPs
Dec 11, 2018
S3E1: Changing the Shape of Microbes and Mentoring
Dec 04, 2018
S3E0: Season 3 Starts Next #TaprootTuesday!
Nov 27, 2018
S2S3: Getting Ready for Season 3
Jun 29, 2018
S2E6: Graduate Student Mental Illness; A Wild Type Phenotype?
May 01, 2018
S2E5: Evolving Approaches: Herbicide Resistance in Weeds and What Men Can Do to Fight Gender Discrimination in Science
Apr 24, 2018
S2E4: Understanding Biological Networks and When to Break the Circuit with Ross Sozzani
Apr 17, 2018
S2E3: Spiraling out of Silence; Speaking up for Science and Scientists with Kevin Folta
Apr 10, 2018
S2E2: Minding the Gap with Elizabeth 'Toby' Kellogg
Apr 03, 2018
S2E1: Phenotyping Roots without Pulling up Your Own with Guillaume Lobet
Mar 27, 2018
S2E0: Join us for Season 2
Mar 20, 2018
S1E7: Sessile: Measuring Mentoring and other Bleeps with Brian Dilkes
Dec 05, 2017
S1E6: Population genetics, authorship lists, work/life balance and raining cockroaches with Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
Aug 22, 2017
S1E5: Finding GLOry- The Power of New Technology To Spur Innovation with José Dinneny
Aug 15, 2017
S1E4: Embracing Uncertainty in Science and Science Careers with Siobhan Braybrook
Aug 08, 2017
S1E3: Academia, Industry, and Pivoting on Projects with Luca Comai
Aug 01, 2017
S1E2: Normalizing Nomenclature and The Idealism of Youth with Carolyn Lawrence-Dill
Jul 25, 2017
Taproot Episode 1, Season 1: Extreme Open Science and the Meaning of Scientific Impact with Sophien Kamoun
Jul 17, 2017
Introduction to The Taproot
Jul 12, 2017