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Name:
Jane Geisler-Lee
Title: Research Professor
Place of Work or School: Southern Illinois University of
Carbondale
Research Area: Plant Biology
Member since: 1992
1. Why
has being a member of ASPB been important?
ASPB helps me keep myself updated in the field.
2. Was
someone instrumental in getting you to join ASPB?
No.
3. What
would you tell colleagues to encourage them to join?
ASPB membership helps one to have role models, to nurture one’s
knowledge in plant biology, and to have friends and colleagues
in plant biology.
4. Have
you enhanced your career using ASPB job postings or through networking
at an ASPB function?
It’s been quite helpful.
5. Have
you had any success at finding candidates as a result of a job
posting at the meeting or on our online Job Bank?
I am not yet in a position to hire people.
6. Do you
read print journals? If so, where do you usually read them?
I read my subscriptions, like Science, at home. Nowadays, I browse
most of the time.
7. What
do you think is the next “big thing” in plant biology?
Integration of all fields (i.e., systems biology) to study and
manipulate metabolism.
8. What
person, living or deceased, do you most admire?
My late grandmother, kind and gentle as a person and with tremendous
curiosity about plants. She was able to grow orchids from seeds,
which I brought from Honolulu, to flowering!
9. What
are you reading these days?
Journal e-alerts, Faculty 1000, articles and books on positive
thinking, and comics.
10. What
are your hobbies?
Gardening, reading, traveling, and learning foreign languages.
I can’t speak a second one, but I have tried to learn three
in the past 10 years! I have lived on three continents and enjoyed
different cultures, natural wonders, and habitats.
11. What
is your most treasured possession?
My own diaries, which remind me of my past and to be humble.
12. What
do you still have left to learn?
Too much.
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