New Phytologist

Interview with Stéphane Maury (Université d'Orléans, France) at the 26th New Phytologist Symposium (May 2011, Nancy, France) www.newphytologist.org/symposiums/view/10 Stéphane was a poster prize winner at the symposium. His poster was entitled 'Epigenomics in poplar: the methylome of non-condensed chromatin'. In the interview he discusses his research in DNA methylation and its applications to bioenergy.

Interview with former New Phytologist Editor Steve Strauss (Oregon State University, USA) at the 26th New Phytologist Symposium on Bioenergy Trees (May 2011, Nancy, France) www.newphytologist.org/symposiums/view/10 Listen to hear some excellent advice for early career scientists on presentating a poster at a scientific conference, and what makes a good poster.

Interview with New Phytologist Interaction Section Editor Francis Martin, (INRA, France) who was the lead organiser at the 26th New Phytologist Symposium on Bioenergy Trees (May 2011, Nancy, France) http://www.newphytologist.org/symposiums/view/10 Francis discusses his highlights from the symposium, the importance of encouraging early career scientists, and the future of research in bioeneregy.

Interview with New Phytologist Editor-in-Chief Alistair Hetherington (University of Bristol, UK) from July 2012. Alistair discusses his career and his long-serving relationship with New Phytologist resulting in his appointment as Editor-in-Chief. Alistair discusses his research and its implications for environment change and food security. He also looks at the future of New Phytologist and the publishing landscape in general.

An interview with the winner of the 2014 Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science, Dr William R. L. Anderegg of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. William discusses his research and how it contributes to our understanding of the effects of climate change. He goes on to tell us how the spark for his research was seeing that the forests he had gone camping and hiking in as child were now dead or dying. His advice for early career researchers is to “start writing early and often – you’re never going to have the perfect paper or the perfect dataset!” When he’s not out in the field , William enjoys hiking, writing short stories and composing music. Listen to the full interview to also find out William’s favourite thing about his job and how the legacy of Arthur Tansley inspired him to apply the Tansley Medal. Find out more at http://newphytologist.org/tansleymedal Recording edited by Leeds Media Services http://www.leedsmediaservices.co.uk