Elizabeth Haswell

Elizabeth Haswell is an American biologist who is a professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Simons Faculty Scholar at the Washington University in St. Louis.

[1] Haswell works in mechanobiology, and is interested in the structure-function properties of molecular and cellular structures in plants.

Haswell was particularly interested the fundamental mechanisms that underpin the role of these channels within the pollen tubes of flowering plants.

[9] In 2017, she started The Taproot podcast, an American Society of Plant Biologists program that discusses the stories behind science.

The podcast addresses issues such as work-life balance, gender discrimination and racism.