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Arif Ashraf

Arif, plant biologist and host of the podcast, will talk to lead author of a recently published plant biology paper. The guest will simply explain the story of the publication, answer questions from the host, and share personal experience and details related to the article. As an audience, you will tune in to the episode with an expectation that you will know the story of the paper without reading it. Besides, you can keep listening the podcast during your experiment, walking outside, in your car and wherever possible.

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  • Avg 22 min
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  • S4 · E11
    Saturday · 26 min

    S4E11 | Avilash Singh Yadav | Growth directions across cell layers

    No Time To Read podcast S4E11 Growth directions across cell layers Guest: Avilash Singh Yadav, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst Previously: Fleming postdoctoral associate, Roeder lab, Cornell University X: @Morpholosophist BlueSky: @morpholosophist.bsky.social Host: Arif Ashraf, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia X: @aribidopsis BlueSky: @aribidopsis.bsky.social

  • S4 · E10
    August 22 · 18 min

    S4E10 | John Hodge | Phenotyping grass stomata

    No Time To Read podcast S4E10 Phenotyping grass stomata Guest: John Hodge, Post-doctoral Associate, Andrew Leakey’s lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign BlueSky: @jghodge.bsky.social Host: Arif Ashraf, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia X: @aribidopsis BlueSky: @aribidopsis.bsky.social

  • S4 · E9
    July 25 · 23 min

    S4E9 | Vyankatesh Zambare | Root hair & mechanical stress

    No Time To Read podcast S4E9 Root hair & mechanical stress Guest: Vyankatesh Zambare, Graduate student, Anderson Lab , The Pennsylvania State University X: @Venky_Zee Host: Arif Ashraf, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia X: @aribidopsis BlueSky: @aribidopsis.bsky.social

  • S4 · E8
    July 18 · 23 min

    S4E8 | Greg Gregory | Temperature signal & cell wall thickening

    No Time To Read podcast S4E8 Temperature signal & cell wall thickening Guest: Greg Gregory, Hazen Lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst BlueSky: @backinbrach.bsky.social Host: Arif Ashraf, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia X: @aribidopsis BlueSky: @aribidopsis.bsky.social

  • S4 · E7
    July 11 · 17 min

    S4E7 | Kirk Amundson | Cis-regulatory sequence evolution

    No Time To Read podcast S4E7 Cis-regulatory sequence evolution Guest: Kirk Amundson, USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow, Bartlett Lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst X: @KirkAmundson BlueSky: @kirkamundson.bsky.social Host: Arif Ashraf, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia X: @aribidopsis BlueSky: @aribidopsis.bsky.social

  • S4 · E6
    July 4 · 18 min

    S4E6 | Penelope Lindsay | CLAVATA receptors in maize

    No Time To Read podcast S4E6 CLAVATA receptors in maize Guest: Penelope Lindsay, Research Associate, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University Previously: Postdoctoral fellow, Dave Jackson’s lab, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory BlueSky: @penlindsay.bsky.social Host: Arif Ashraf, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia X: @aribidopsis BlueSky: @aribidopsis.bsky.social

  • S4 · E5
    March 29 · 17 min

    S4E5 | Laura Lee | Cell cycle during plant regeneration

    No Time To Read podcast S4E5 Cell cycle during plant regeneration Guest: Laura Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lab website: https://www.lauraleelab.com/ Host: Arif Ashraf, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia X: @aribidopsis BlueSky: @aribidopsis.bsky.social

  • S4 · E4
    January 31 · 15 min

    S4E4 | Heather Meyer | Phase separation in plants

    No Time To Read podcast S4E4 Phase separation in plants Guest: Heather Meyer, Assistant Professor of Biology, Syracuse University X: @Dr_Heatherini Host: Arif Ashraf, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia X: @aribidopsis BlueSky: @aribidopsis.bsky.social

  • S4 · E3
    Dec 27, 2025 · 22 min

    S4E3 | Ajeet Chaudhary | FERONIA & cell wall integrity 

    No Time To Read podcast S4E3 FERONIA & cell wall integrity Guest: Ajeet Chaudhary, Postdoc, Wang and Xu lab, Carnegie Institute for Plant Science, Stanford X: @Ajt_chaudhary BlueSky: @ajeetchaudhary.bsky.social Host: Arif Ashraf, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia X: @aribidopsis BlueSky: @aribidopsis.bsky.social

  • S4 · E2
    Dec 13, 2025 · 55 min

    S4E2 | Sagar Bashyal | CLE peptide and symbiosis

    No Time To Read podcast S4E2 CLE peptide and symbiosis Guest: Sagar Bashyal, Müller lab, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies X: @SagarBashyal11 BlueSky: @sagarbashyal.bsky.social Host: Arif Ashraf, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia X: @aribidopsis BlueSky: @aribidopsis.bsky.social

  • S4 · E1
    Nov 29, 2025 · 43 min

    S4E1 | Natanella Illouz-Eliaz | Drought Recovery-Induced Immunity (DRII)

    No Time To Read podcast S4E1 Drought Recovery-Induced Immunity (DRII) Guest: Natanella Illouz-Eliaz, Ecker lab, Salk Institute for Biological Studies X: @NatanellaE BlueSky: @natanellae.bsky.social Host: Arif Ashraf, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia X/BlueSky: @aribidopsis

  • Nov 22, 2025 · 46 sec

    S4 is coming soon

    Season 4 of the No Time To Read podcast is starting soon. Thanks for your support as an audience.

  • S3 · E7
    Oct 19, 2024 · 27 min

    S3E7 | Hailong Yang | Translational landscape in a maize microRNA biogenesis mutant

    No Time To Read podcast S3E7 Translational landscape in a maize microRNA biogenesis mutant Guest: Hailong Yang, Bartlett lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst Previously at Beth Thompson’s lab, East Carolina University Twitter/X: @hailongcorn Host: Arif Ashraf, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Howard University Twitter/X: @aribidopsis

  • S3 · E5
    Aug 24, 2024 · 19 min

    S3E5 | Joseph Gallagher | GRASSY TILLERS1 (GT1) and SIX-ROWED SPIKE1 (VRS1) homologs share conserved roles in growth repression

    No Time To Read podcast S3E5 GRASSY TILLERS1 (GT1) and SIX-ROWED SPIKE1 (VRS1) homologs share conserved roles in growth repression Guest: Joseph Gallagher, US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Twitter/X: @Joe_P_Gallagher Host: Arif Ashraf, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Howard University Twitter/X: @aribidopsis

  • S3 · E4
    Jul 6, 2024 · 27 min

    S3E4 | Muthappa Senthil-Kumar | Combined plant stress database

    No Time To Read podcast S3E4 Combined plant stress database Guest: Muthappa Senthil-Kumar, Principal Investigator, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), India Twitter/X: @SCIPdatabase Host: Arif Ashraf, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Howard University Twitter/X: @aribidopsis

  • Feb 28, 2024 · 1 min

    Season 3 is coming soon

    Season 3 of the No Time To Read podcast is starting soon. Thanks for your support as an audience.

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