Trevor Nolan obtained his Ph.D. in Genetics and Genomics from Iowa State University in 2018 where he worked with Dr. Yanhai Yin to study how plants balance brassinosteroid-mediated growth and drought responses. He then joined Philip Benfey’s lab at Duke University as an NSF PGRP postdoc. His work leverages time-series single-cell RNA sequencing to unravel the interplay between cell identity and hormone signaling in Arabidopsis roots. In the future, he aims to elucidate the molecular intricacies of the switch from proliferation to differentiation and the orchestration of root growth, utilizing innovative techniques such as single-cell genomics, 3D spatial transcriptomics, and large-scale CRISPR screening.