At the time of us having Dr. Arif Ashraf as a speaker at our cafe, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Facette lab here at UMass Amherst. Since then he has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at Howard University where he just started his own lab! At Howard he is investigating how the cells of a plant work together to make big changes in the plant’s ability to grow, bend, and sense water. This buds off his post-doctoral work, where he was looking at how cellular polarity is involved in asymmetrical cell division and how this effects the plant at large.

Missed the panel? No problem, here is a recording:

Mini Movers and Shakers: A Panel on Cell Biology