To kick off Season 2, Ivan and Liz talk with Guillaume Lobet, Assistant Professor at the Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Université 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.

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Read more about this episode:

https://plantae.org/taproot-s2e1-phenotyping-roots-without-pulling-up-your-own-with-guillaume-lobet/

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SHOW NOTES

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Root system markup language: toward a unified root architecture description language, Lobet et al. 2015

http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/167/3/617

https://figshare.com/

Guillaume’s personal webpage

http://www.guillaumelobet.be//

Recent eLIFE community essay about “mandatory” research training abroad

https://elifesciences.org/articles/30183

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