Please, meet Dr. Cris Argueso, who will be doing a sabbatical at CRAG from March to August in the lab of Núria Sánchez Coll. You will find her in office 111 of the building. She will be delighted to discuss science, career or any other science-related topic with anybody interested in meeting her. Cris is an Associate Professor at Colorado State University, in the department of Agricultural Biology. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Biology at UNICAMP, where she also obtained her master’s degree in Plant Genetics. She earned her PhD in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology from Cornell University, and performed her postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm, Germany. Her current service and leadership roles include being an elected member of the North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC), serving in the editorial board of the scientific journal The Plant Cell, and serving as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Biological and Environmental Research Program of the US Department of Energy. Research in the Argueso lab focuses on plant hormone signaling networks, and how they contribute to the regulation of plant growth and immunity against pathogens. A recent research interest in the Argueso lab is the mathematical modeling of plant hormone crosstalk, and how it contributes to the ability of plants to grow while integrating multiple signals from the environment.