To kick off Season 2, Ivan and Liz talk with Guillaume Lobet, Assistant Professor at the Forschungszentrum J\xfclich and the Universit\xe9 Catholique de Louvain. He was also a graduate student at UCL and took three postdoctoral positions in Germany and Belgium before returning and starting his faculty position in 2016. His work focuses on development of image analysis and phenotyping tools to help researchers improve their scientific workflow. He won the Plant Cell Teaching Tools in Plant Biology competition in 2015 and is an Academic Editor at Plant Direct.\n\n-----\nRead more about this episode: \nhttps://plantae.org/taproot-s2e1-phenotyping-roots-without-pulling-up-your-own-with-guillaume-lobet/\n-----\n\n-----\nSHOW NOTES\n-----\n\nRoot system markup language: toward a unified root architecture description language, Lobet et al. 2015\nhttp://www.plantphysiol.org/content/167/3/617\n\nhttps://figshare.com/\n\nGuillaume\u2019s personal webpage\nhttp://www.guillaumelobet.be//\n\nRecent eLIFE community essay about \u201cmandatory\u201d research training abroad\nhttps://elifesciences.org/articles/30183\n\nFind us on Twitter\n\n@guillaumelobet\n@ehaswell\n@baxtertwi\n@taprootpodcast