Chelsea Specht: People Behind the Science

November 13, 2015

Fascinating podcast on a learning and research journey

 

Listen to the podcast:

 

stitcher.com/podcast/people-behind-the-science/e/318-science-in-bloom-studying-floral-development-and-evolution-41182067

Associate Professor Chelsea Specht recently completed a wide-ranging interview with the popular podcast series "People Behind the Science."

In the October 2015 podcast she talks about the development of her research interests and how she followed the path that ultimately led to the work she is doing today.

In addition to being Associate Professor and Organismal Biologist in the Department  of Plant and Microbial Biology, Specht is also Associate Professor in Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley and Curator of Monocots at the University and Jepson Herbaria.

​She is also :
Associate Editor, AoB PLANTS; aobpla.oxfordjournals.org
Chair, Esau Award, Botanical Society of America; botany.org
Fellow, California Academy of Sciences; calacademy.org/scientists/academy-fellows
Council of the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology; evodevopanam.org

Important Links:

Chelsea Specht's Lab: spechtlab.berkeley.edu