So many bugs to clean off! Guess summer is here. First time landing on the grass this year.

Congratulations to PhD student Vishadinie on a Dale W Young and WE Loomis travel award to attend the ASPB meeting in July.

Woo hoo! I’ll be there. 2026wac.com

The Hull City Homecoming on Ferensway this Afternoon #hull #football #hcafc #premierleague #photography

It’s a win!

Airplane is fixed, hurray.

New paper from former postdoc Yan Bao published in Science Advances. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

PhD student William representing at the Loomis Plant Biology Symposium.

New article out in NAR from our long term collaboration with the MacIntosh lab. We develop a new assay to measure RNA transport into vacuoles and show that the RNA helicase SKI2 is required for transport. The work was led by former PhD student Brice Floyd. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Had a wonderful time at the Plant Center Symposium at the University of Georgia his week. Amazing group of students. plantsymposium.uga.edu

Congratulations to PhD student William Agbemafle on winning a poster prize!

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Plant Energy Management: Molecular mechanisms of growth and stress response 👉 buff.ly/B506upx #PlantScience

We are hiring! We’re excited to recruit a postdoc to our lab at UC Davis to work on plant immune engineering and single-cell analyses of plant pathogen interactions. Apply by June 1. Please repost. www.coakerlab.org/postdoctoral...

"5th International Conference on Plant Proteostasis – Proteostasis 2026" More details: https://proteostasis-26.sciencesconf.org/ #Events

Ping is hiring for her new lab.

ASPB announces Anna Amtmann (University of Glasgow) as the next Editor-in-Chief of Plant Physiology, succeeding Yunde Zhao. Anna brings a strong vision for scientific rigor, inclusive publishing, and innovation in scholarly communication. bit.ly/4sQzpGY

San Diego

San Diego Air and Space Museum.

I am saddened to learn that Ralph Quatrano has passed away. He was a great inspiration to many young moss researchers. We will miss him. engineering.washu.edu/news/2026/Ra...

Ready for the high school science bowl.

New lab member: Ananya Pandravada. I am an undergraduate biology student at Iowa State University interested in plant genomics, plant stress biology, and crop improvement.

⚡🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL 🌱⚡ 🔎 The Energy Management guest editors Wahl, Hanson & Menand dive into reviews and research exploring the plant energy management machinery as a central hub for stress resilience, development, and crop improvement 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Crosswind landing practice.

New lab member profile: Xia Wan, postdoctoral fellow. As a Postdoc in the Bassham Lab, I study how autophagy (cellular recycling) powers plant growth and reproduction.

One of my favorites.

@hanhtkvu.bsky.social @embl.org & we are looking for a #postdoc to study #regeneration x #autophagy across kingdoms of life. Pls spread the word & get in touch if you are interested www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...

"Postdoctoral fellowship on autophagy and autoimmunity in plants at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden *Application Deadline: 2/28/2026" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=168031b.pdf #PlantSciJobs

Night flying.

Join us in Montpellier in July. pem26.cnrs.fr

Yayayayayayayayay

It warmed up above zero so I’m going flying. Wish me luck!

NSF needs to hear from you. Among other points, I suggested: keep politics out of science; stop using the threat of cancelling scientific grants to try to control universities; increase NSF funding for fundamental research. Pls send around. Deadline is January 27. Thanks www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

Waiting for “Somewhere” at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis last night.

Finished. Now Xmas is really over.

Botanical blues.

My department (EEOB at Iowa State) is hiring! See isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

I love Christmas lights 😁

Des Moines Botanical Garden holiday lights.

Ah, memories. 14 years ago today.

Rest in peace,Gad. You will be greatly missed.

So glad our park is open again.

Remembering days in Anchorage.

Rest in peace my friends

Thankful to be able to talk to my husband, and crying for the families who have lost their loved ones. May they rest in peace.

Most of you likely know that NTSB Board Member Todd Inman gave a briefing on the UPS crash today. They do have both black boxes.which is excellent news. /1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw6C...

@plasmidsaurus.bsky.social you guys OK over in Louisville?

Live now at the 2025 WIA Annual Symposium! We are honored to have Dr. Jay Debnath, MD @DebnathLabUCSF kicking off the event with his keynote speech: “Autophagy-dependent proteostasis and breast cancer metastasis.” Excited to learn from his groundbreaking insights. #WIA2025meeting

Looks interesting.

Post doc position available in an awesome lab.

Flight to Northwood. Loving the wing view in this image.