The Taproot
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.Podcasts
S6E5: Transforming plants and the culture of publishing
Published: Jan. 24, 2023, 2:30 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 54 seconds
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Taproot S6E4: Can We Force Academic Structures to be Inclusive?
Published: Jan. 17, 2023, 2:30 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 22 seconds
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Taproot S6E3: Classroom Cosplay: Applying Creative and Scientific Approaches to Teaching
Published: Jan. 10, 2023, 2:30 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 33 seconds
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Taproot S6E2: The tension between robustness and efficiency in biological and human systems
Published: Dec. 20, 2022, 2 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 33 seconds
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Taproot S6E1: May I have your attention, please? Searching for causal mutations and for institutional support.
Published: Dec. 13, 2022, 2 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 36 seconds
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S5E5: STARTing Out as a PI, Pivoting During COVID, and Advocating for Change
Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 1:44 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 55 seconds
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S5E4: Interacting with Plants, Pathogens, and the Public
Published: Feb. 16, 2021, 1:58 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 20 seconds
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S5E3: Pre-stressed Conditions: Epigenetics and Life as a Black Academic
Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 2:04 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 44 seconds
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S5E2: Multiculturalism Matters in the Rhizosphere - and in Academia
Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 11:50 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 53 seconds
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S5E1: Finding Strength in Diverse Scientific Communities
Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 12:57 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 17 seconds
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S5E0: Season 5 Teaser
Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 5:35 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 7 seconds
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S4E8: Convergent Evolution of Caffeine and Divergent Careers
Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 5:28 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 13 seconds
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S4E7: Milestone-Based Decision-Making In and Out of the Lab
Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 1:40 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 19 seconds
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S4E6: Staying Afloat - Time Management in a Sea of Obligations
Published: Jan. 21, 2020, 1:35 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 54 seconds
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S4E5: Navigating Experimental and Situational Panic
Published: Jan. 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 41 seconds
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S4E4: Graduate Interviews Demystified
Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 1:25 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 52 seconds
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S4E3: How to mastermind experimental designs and and your graduate applications
Published: Aug. 27, 2019, 12:27 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 10 seconds
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S4E2: The GRExit and how we choose who goes to grad school
Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 12:28 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 31 seconds
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S4E1: Identifying the Principle Components: Gender Dimorphism in Flowers and Consciously Building a Happy and Rewarding Career in Science
Published: Aug. 13, 2019, 11:38 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 1 second
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S3E6: Opening Channels of Communication Between Cells and Scientists
Published: March 26, 2019, noonDuration: 29 minutes 18 seconds
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S3E5: Simon Says: Captivate the public with snazzy videos of plant defense, send plants to space, and embrace curiosity-driven science
Published: March 19, 2019, noonDuration: 35 minutes 57 seconds
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S3E4: Challenging Environments: Sunflowers, Drought, and Making Waves as an Early Career Scientist
Published: March 12, 2019, noonDuration: 40 minutes 49 seconds
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S3E3: Answering Complex Questions with a Complex Community
Published: Dec. 18, 2018, 1:44 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 38 seconds
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S3E2: The World According to Dan: truth, Stats, and SNPs
Published: Dec. 11, 2018, 3:35 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 40 seconds
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S3E1: Changing the Shape of Microbes and Mentoring
Published: Dec. 4, 2018, 2:47 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 51 seconds
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S3E0: Season 3 Starts Next #TaprootTuesday!
Published: Nov. 27, 2018, 2:45 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 51 seconds
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S2S3: Getting Ready for Season 3
Published: June 29, 2018, 2:09 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes
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S2E6: Graduate Student Mental Illness; A Wild Type Phenotype?
Published: May 1, 2018, 1:54 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 14 seconds
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S2E5: Evolving Approaches: Herbicide Resistance in Weeds and What Men Can Do to Fight Gender Discrimination in Science
Published: April 24, 2018, 1:59 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 41 seconds
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S2E4: Understanding Biological Networks and When to Break the Circuit with Ross Sozzani
Published: April 17, 2018, 1:15 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 35 seconds
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S2E3: Spiraling out of Silence; Speaking up for Science and Scientists with Kevin Folta
Published: April 10, 2018, 2:04 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 49 seconds
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S2E2: Minding the Gap with Elizabeth 'Toby' Kellogg
Published: April 3, 2018, 3:28 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 30 seconds
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S2E1: Phenotyping Roots without Pulling up Your Own with Guillaume Lobet
Published: March 27, 2018, 11:46 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 10 seconds
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S2E0: Join us for Season 2
Published: March 20, 2018, 1:46 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds
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S1E7: Sessile: Measuring Mentoring and other Bleeps with Brian Dilkes
Published: Dec. 5, 2017, 1:51 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 31 seconds
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S1E6: Population genetics, authorship lists, work/life balance and raining cockroaches with Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
Published: Aug. 22, 2017, 12:59 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 47 seconds
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S1E5: Finding GLOry- The Power of New Technology To Spur Innovation with José Dinneny
Published: Aug. 15, 2017, 12:57 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 50 seconds
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S1E4: Embracing Uncertainty in Science and Science Careers with Siobhan Braybrook
Published: Aug. 8, 2017, 2:41 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 15 seconds
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S1E3: Academia, Industry, and Pivoting on Projects with Luca Comai
Published: Aug. 1, 2017, 2:31 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 43 seconds
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S1E2: Normalizing Nomenclature and The Idealism of Youth with Carolyn Lawrence-Dill
Published: July 25, 2017, 1:14 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 35 seconds
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Taproot Episode 1, Season 1: Extreme Open Science and the Meaning of Scientific Impact with Sophien Kamoun
Published: July 17, 2017, 7:56 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 15 seconds
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Introduction to The Taproot
Published: July 12, 2017, 5:22 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 13 seconds
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