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Helen Brabham is a team leader at 2Blades, where her work focuses on discovering sustainable approaches for eradicating plant diseases. Helen talks to Nature Plants about her experiences in academia and industry and how researchers can bridge the gap between these two worlds.
Aster Gebrekirstos is a senior scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF). Her multidisciplinary work in agroforestry, dendrochronology and forest ecology examines how trees respond to climate change. Aster talks to Nature Plants about the importance of putting people at the heart of her research.
