Tal Nawy

Tal Nawy focused on the stem cell niche of plant roots for his PhD work in the lab of Philip Benfey, first at New York University and then at Duke University. He studied domain specification in the early plant embryo at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as a postdoc with Wolfgang Lukowitz, and subsequently worked on root tip regeneration with Kenneth Birnbaum at the New York University Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. He joined Nature Methods in May of 2011 and became Senior Editor handling the areas of genetics, genomics, stem cell biology and microbiology.