In this episode, Ivan and Liz talk with Carolyn Lawrence-Dill, an Associate Professor of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology as well as Agronomy at Iowa State University. We discuss a paper from her grad school days that has a great back story about how to bring a large number of people together to agree on a common system of nomenclature. It turns out that it’s both important and challenging to do and we had a great conversation touching on egos, politics and grad student projects.

Read more about this episode: https://plantae.org/blog/taproot-podcast-s1e2-normalizing-nomenclature-and-the-idealism-of-youth-with-carolyn-lawrence-dill/

SHOW NOTES:

Lawrence et al., 2004 http://jcb.rupress.org/content/167/1/19.long

Maize GDB https://www.maizegdb.org

Carolyn’s website https://dill-picl.org

Ron Vale shows animation of kinesin walking (start at 25:00)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RUHJhskW00

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