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PhD student Alejandro Montenegro-Montero is our featured scientist of the month. Make sure to check out Alejandro’s blog, MolBio Research Highlights, and follow him on twitter....

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For the past five years, Rachel Sussman has combined her interests in both art and science to find continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Sussman spent these past few years researching, working with biologists and traveling all over the world. Watch the following Ted Talk in which Rachel Sussman describes and present in pictures her global quest to celebrate the resilience of life by identifying and photographing these continuous-living organisms....

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Known for his work in plant aquaporins, Dr. Menachem Moshelion has published many papers concerning his research. He has been running a lab for the past five years at Hebrew University’s Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture located in Rehovot. Moshelion’s interest in science began at the age of five, “I’ve always been interested in science. I knew it, somehow… I didn’t have excellent marks [in school], but in Biology – I always got an A.” Moshelion “always knew” he wanted to be involved in the biology field. Although he started in animal science, one course in plants was enough to change his direction. After completing all of his degrees at Hebrew University, Moshelion did his post-doctorate in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium – a small city 30 kilometers from Brussels....

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