Tessa Burch‐Smith.

Tessa joined New Phytologist as an Advisor in 2022.For more information on Tessa, visit https://www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/principal-investigators/tessa-burch-smith/ ORCID: Tessa Burch-Smith https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5994-4343 Why did you decide to pursue a career in research? One recent I New Phytologist i paper that I enjoyed was 'Structural and functional relationships between plasmodesmata and plant endoplasmic reticulum-plasma membrane contact sites consisting of three synaptotagmins' (Ishikawa I et al i ., 2020) from the Shimada group. Keywords: intercellular trafficking; microscopy; Nicotiana benthamiana; plant viruses; plasmodesmata EN intercellular trafficking microscopy Nicotiana benthamiana plant viruses plasmodesmata 2155 2157 3 08/22/22 20220915 NES 220915 What inspired your interest in plant science?. [Extracted from the article]