Magdalena Bezanilla, associate professor of Biology, is among 12 "Emerging Scholars" profiled in the Jan. 5 issue of the magazine . Bezanilla, who joined the faculty in 2005, studies the biology of plant cells to discover how they grow. "My lab is interested in understanding how molecules inside the cell help to shape the cell and give the cell its final form," she says in the profile, which notes that she and her colleagues recently pioneered a technique they call multigene silencing to simultaneously silence genes in a multicellular organism. Last year, Bezanilla received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.