Two great conferences our group attended this past week: #PAG33 an international plant agriculture genomics conference and #TICA Digital Frontiers, a sunflower family-focused exploration of international collaborations and cutting-edge science. Plus a fantastic tour of the herbarium and labs at BRIT

🌻 A seasons greetings to our Compositae community and beyond! www.compositae.org

📣 The latest issue of the journal published by The International Compositae Alliance (TICA) is out! Check it out at: www.compositae.org/capitulum_04...

🌻 Sharing this preprint where we assembled 3 new chromosome-level genomes, including the first for Asteraceae's South American sister Calyceraceae! Asteraceae uses all the tricks when it comes to being the most ecologically successful family of flowering plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

ACRE had a fantastic time at Ag Day on the Hill, sharing our latest research and educational programs at the University of Memphis. With agriculture and forestry as Tennessee's top industry, we're proud to contribute to this vital part of our state's economy. Thank you to Farm Bureau for hosting!

This is one of our newest endeavors in conservation, biodiversity, and agriculture. Check out acre.institute

Great training session on collecting and preserving plants for the University of Memphis Herbarium (MEM)

We love plants! Especially edible ones! At Kemmons Wilson Culinary Institute, at the University of Memphis, they are growing an assortment of herbs and lettuces in the hydroponics lab. Some have been used in HPRM 2012 Introduction to Culinary class. Yum!#universityofmemphis#plants#herbs#vegetables

🚨🌻 TICA (compositae.org) is excited to announce the TICA Talks 2025 webinar series! Our first webinar of the year will be Monday (2/24) at 11am PST featuring @jennifermandel.bsky.social, Mauricio Bonifacino, and Ilse Breitwieser. We hope to see you there! Registration: forms.gle/KfQg5L7diWFZ...

🚨 New Issue Alert! 🚨 Latest edition of CAPITULUM, official journal of The International Composite Alliance: articles on styles in the family and Taraxacum in Australia, the late Charles Jeffrey: synantherologist AND cucurbitologist plus the latest TICA updates www.compositae.org/capitulum_03...

Also great talks in this session from Paige Ellestad (@jennifermandel.bsky.social’s lab) on comparative genomics across the Asterales and @zach-meharg.bsky.social (Harkess lab) on Dahlia genomics/cultivation!

🌻🚜🌻 Daily Memphian story about ACRE the new Institute for Agricultural & Conservation Research & Education @uofmemphis.bsky.social dailymemphian.com/article/4855... Our mission is to train the next generation of scientists and leaders in conservation and agriculture check us out acre.memphis.edu

🌻Herbarium training for the community with Sam Drewry, Danny Frimpong, and @erikarmoore11.bsky.social

Did you know we have entered into a new partnership with The Daily Memphian? Look for the MWN 5-day forecast in Monday's #EarlyWord, a weekend forecast on Thursdays, plus periodic articles of interest. The first, a winter outlook piece, appears to have been well received)! 👇

The sky is currently not blue. But the future is bright! MWN is an all-digital local weather provider focusing solely on the Memphis metro, and we've been going strong for over 20 years! With time, we'll increase our pace here. For now we're in all the usual places! #FirstPost