1/2 Usually the sentiment behind #plantsgiving is to try to incorporate as much plant taxonomic diversity into your meal in one night. I did NOT make this a goal. Just cooking simple good food for me and ten others AND YET I am impressed by the diversity we served up!

Last few days to apply for a ROOT & SHOOT travel award to attend a 2025 plant confernce. Conditions apply, see the blog post for full details.

Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41... New from the Ecker lab in collaboration with the Hibberd lab. Congrats all!

We are at a planning retreat at HHMI and they made us Root & Shoot cupcakes! ❤️

Spent the week at @hhmi.bsky.social Headquarters strategizing with ROOT & SHOOT. What resources can we share across plant bio societies? How do we ensure the sustainability of recently implemented changes? How do we safely collect data on our memberships so we can identify community needs?

Intro! I'm Román. Postdoctoral researcher studying the evolutionary origins of the auxin response pathway. I think evolution can teach us about how molecular pathways evolve, facilitating the engineering of proteins to understand functions, create synbio tools, and modify development.

Mark Estelle @mestelle.bsky.social and I are co-chairing this wonderful conference on plant hormones next year, with help from the amazing Brad Binder. It will take place right here in Fort Collins, Colorado. More info at www.ipgsa2025.org. #IPGSA2025 #PlantScience

We will be hosting 3rd Full Circle Symposium for Native Biologists hosted at UCSF in April 2025! We aim to build community and provide meaningful opportunities for Native scientists. If you are a Native biologist who is interested plz fill this out to stay up to date: forms.gle/AN7nfkhdB3Fv...

Here's a short survey by Joanna Kacprzyk and @ucdflowerpower.bsky.social about why and how you chose plant biology as your field of study. Please fill out and share 💚 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

That’s a smart strategy for pathway discovery #plantscience #natprod www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Forgot to share! I've received an Arabidopsis community award and will be giving a talk at ICAR about my work. www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/...

Wading into bluesky to celebrate #LisH domains! Did you know they do more than dimerize? They are also potent repressors of transcription. Román Ramos Báez @sensitiveroots.bsky.social, Jennifer Nemhauser and I explored this in our last paper.

Happy Black History Month! To Black folks in plant science, we have number of resources on "Front and Center Plant Science" which I want to boost! frontandcenterplantscience.wildapricot.org/directory

I’m organizing a session with @cvoiniciuc on “New Methods to Accelerate Plant Synthetic Biology” at ICAR SD this year @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social !We want to give you a spot to talk about how you're building and learning with plants, so make sure to submit your abstracts!

We have an exciting opportunity to join us as an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Molecular Plant Biology! Establish or maintain your own collaborative, supportive research group and offer innovative teaching to students. Deadline to apply is 1 March ➡️ bit.ly/3OgnqQO #plantsci

Still time to apply! Nominations from academics are also welcome! Do not miss the opportunity and Apply today for the Research Excellence Awards in Plant Sciences. See flier for details

Sometimes I just want to live my life in secret but then I remember that me posting the silliest things on Twitter is what got me speaking opportunities and other really awesome science opportunities the last few years. So cheers to sharing!

Hi! I'm Romi. I've finally decided to make my profile here. I love plants, yeast, evolution, ASR ... currently obsessing over the evolutionary origins of the nuclear auxin response.