Happy New Year! And with today being January 2nd, Happy birthday to the Cox Lab! Crazy that the lab is now 2 years old - it's still a bit surreal that I have this role. I'm grateful and blessed to have a team of individuals that are talented and fun to work with. Here's to a great Year 3!

Thanks for the shout-out! If anybody wants to get an overview of expansion microscopy techniques in plants, give this a read! 🔬

Now hold on....👀

📣 JXB Issue 1 of 2026 is out now - and it’s a special one! 📣 🔬 Special Issue: Advances in Plant Cell Biology 🔬 📘 Guest edited by Federica Brandizzi, Zachary Nimchuk, Gloria Muday & Anna Stepanova 📘 🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb... #PlantScience 🧪 #JXBspecialissues

Live thread of the NSF biology virtual office hour: 🧵

Reupping this perennial #MPMI question, has an apoplastic Superoxide dismutase been cloned and proven to take RBOHD O2-• into H2O2? Or are all the models still assuming?

This is what happens to the moss (Physcomitrium patens) chloroplasts when we grow cells on β-lactam antibiotics. β-lactams inhibit the synthesis of the peptidoglycan in the chloroplast envelope, leading to their dramatic expansion. #microscopymonday #moss #plantcells #plantmicroscopy 1/3

Our plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪

Big news! Boeing awarded the Danforth Center $125,000 for STEAM + Ag enrichment at the JJK-FAN Center—covering supplies, staffing, & programming as part of Boeing’s Our Future: Tomorrow’s Innovators. Thank you, Boeing! 🌱🔬 #TeamBoeing #BoeingPartner

New and improved and open access! With @gehan @susanmeerdink from @danforthcenter.bsky.social Please check out the tools and all plasmids are available on @addgene.bsky.social thank you @darpa.mil for funding! doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

Nominations are now open for awards to be presented at the 2026 North American Plant Phenotyping Network Annual Conference. This is a great opportunity to recognize our outstanding colleague’s contributions to plant phenotyping research and innovation. mailchi.mp/ce99f293f3f6...

Please join us for the 2025 Plant Postdocs Sahyadri Symposium featuring Drs. Penelope Lindsay, Elena Perry, and Erica Lawrence-Paul. #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Maize #Rice #Microbes #Drought Next Friday, December 12 12 PM PT / 2 PM CT / 3 PM ET Register here: forms.gle/XciuCZ1FP62H...

We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor. Apps reviewed 12/15. Please spread the word! 💚⛏️ #PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬 jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141

Interested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat.... Please repost!

🧬🌱Research Specialist Position Open🌱🧬 -Please spread the words HHMI, UT Austin. NGS-based analyses/single cell biology to investigate environmental and hormonal control of plant stem cell differentiation. Requires both wet lab and bioinformatic skills. hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Last week we held the 2nd @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference in Leeds, full of 🌱science, 🌸art, African crops, careers & mentorship and talent. Highlight was seeing the impacts of our Research Excellence Awards & Studentships. So proud to honour and promote the excellence in our community 💓

I had the honour of giving a talk at the Biochemical Society conference and finally received the medal. Grateful once again to everyone who made this possible! #BiochemEvent

Very happy to see our work out examining guard cell transcriptomes over the course of a slowly developing drought. Thanks to @bradylabs.bsky.social and @kaisakajala.bsky.social for the inspiration, way back in Davis in 2013! The data are available in bar.utoronto.ca/eplant & doi.org/10.1093/plce...

It feels soo close!! Very excited to host the @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference this Friday at Leeds. Download the official program here blackinplantscience.org/bips-confere...

Excited to share the final version of our paper, where we invented a robotic device (ARM) for pain and somatosensory testing in rodents. We are excited to see many groups already getting this device in their labs through our startup company Tactorum Inc. elifesciences.org/articles/996...

This semester, for our Plant & Micro Biosci Grad program, I'm developing a new course on ✨Peer Review✨ & critical thinking. Final project is a full review of a preprint! I'd love to have a journal editor zoom with the class to share their perspective and do a Q&A. Anyone interested? Pls share!

Hey, anyone teach a grad-level writing course? Looking for inspo in your syllabi, if you wouldn't mind sharing!

Very excited for Jeannette Tenthorey! @packardfdn.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social

Haven't posted in a while. So here's a picture of my lab enjoying some large floats in celebration of my two Ph.D students passing their Qualifying Exams recently. 🙂🍨 #NewPI

Looking to host a fellow to explore regulation of duplicate genes in plant development & adaptation using single-cell & spatial transcriptomics. Ideal for candidates with backgrounds in genomics, evolution, or computational science moving to Plant Biology. Reach out if interested and eligible!

New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities. alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

My quote of the day Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality. Linus Pauling

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist Applications due Dec 1 Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

Congrats Joe!! 🎉

Happy to have started as an @hhmi.org Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! Incredibly grateful for this opportunity and am excited for some very cool new directions! We are *HIRING*, especially postdocs! Please reach out if you’re interested in uterine and pregnancy biology. Please repost!

I did it! Officially a #PhD! Yesterday, I successfully defended my dissertation "Dissecting Plant-Microbe Interactions: PAMP Recognition and Immune Evasion in Solanaceous Hosts" Special thanks to my advisor Dr. Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, my committee, mentors/mentees, friends, & family who were there.

Our new short article is online at Plant Biotech J (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...)! "Single Cell Multi-Omics Reveals Rare Biosynthetic Cell Types in the Medicinal Tree Camptotheca acuminata" Product of an NSF-EAGER award that I was co-PI from 2023-2025 (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...).

Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply! tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp

Happy to announce @plantpostdocs.bsky.social #Sahyadri #OutstandingPostdoc 2025 during National Postdoc Appreciation Week #NPAW2025 🎉Congratulations!! Erica Lawerence-Paul, PSU Penelope Lindsay, OSU Elena Perry, LBNL @ehlawrence-paul.bsky.social @penlindsay.bsky.social

The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.

I hate this for the second years who had already been working on applications. Also the USDA fellowship RFA has still not been issued for this year. It is harder and harder to find fellowships to support the newest generation of scientists. 🧪 We are shortchanging our future.

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

New OA Article: "A single-cell rice atlas integrates multi-species data to reveal cis-regulatory evolution" rdcu.be/eHce3 Chromatin accessibility in rice & related grasses: how regulatory DNA elements evolve across cell types & species; identifying potential silencers.

The postdoc position is open until filled, but I will start reviewing applicants this coming Monday. If you know someone who is looking, please share. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

What's your go-to way of doing a lab notebook? Pen and paper? Digital? What apps would you recommend for a lab that just started and needed a system for lab notebooks? Thank you!

Want to dive into the datasets from our recent @natcomms.nature.com paper? 🌱📊 Check out this step-by-step guide on how to explore and analyze the #drought #recovery #datasets with Omnibusx: Check out the paper and datasets: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Tutorial: youtu.be/YI0RVFiQnMs

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

HT SpaceM: A high-throughput and reproducible method for small-molecule single-cell metabolomics www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

How I'm feeling from having zero meetings yesterday and only one today before the Labor Day weekend 😎

Thrilled to have our spatial single-cell atlas of the Arabidopsis lifecycle in @NaturePlants. Turns out that its easy to make nice images when spatial expression of 1,000 genes is available! 1/n @natanellae.bsky.social @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @joeecker.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#JustIn on Plantae: Tips for Making Successful Oral Presentations and Crafting Effective Slides. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows @maemercado.bsky.social and Ciara O'Brien feature a six steps for building a good oral presentation using effective slides.