Excited to share that our latest review is out! 🧪🌱🌽 Current Understanding of Cell‐Surface Immune Receptors for MAMPs and Plant Parasites in the Solanaceae Family, Leuschen‐Kohl and Iyer-Pascuzzi (2026) - Molecular Plant Pathology bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

May's #beadwork projects!

So much fun helping to organize the 5th Annual KU Center for Genomics Research Symposium! Last Friday (May 8th) was the largest research symposium in KUCG history - with 250+ attendees, 100+ posters, and 20+ talks. What a fun event!!

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a time tracking app for your computer?

So, turns out I was attempting to teach myself to code incorrectly for years. And when I figured that out, it suddenly got a lot easier. This video was pretty instrumental in helping to fix that, so I'm passing it along. www.youtube.com/watch?v=azcr...

Gas here in 📍 Lawrence, KS hit $3.99 this morning. 3 months ago, it was $2.49.

We don't hear about what happens behind the scenes until something is missing. Recently,Trump dismissed the NSB.The National Science Board, free from political interference, shapes what science gets funded. These policy decisions will have a trickle-down effect. Less funding, less innovation.🧪

The White House’s April 3 budget proposal would reduce NSF & NIH funding significantly. Our analysis shows that the U.S. stands to lose $35 billion in economic activity and 150,000 jobs nationwide. See impacts on your local community: scienceimpacts.org #SCIMaP #NIH #NSF #SciencePolicy

April's #beadwork project!

Happy weekend Fam! If you’re attending @aspbofficial.bsky.social Northeast Section meeting (25-26April) next weekend, feel free to get in touch with our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social Leadership Team Rep Dr. Sonal Sachdev @sci3ntyst.bsky.social Scan the QR to know more! See you at the Meeting! 🌱

Hi Fam! 🌱 If you’re attending @aspbofficial.bsky.social Bay Area Plant Hub (Apr 22) coming week please free to get in touch with our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social Leadership Rep Dr. Aimee Uyehara ✅ Scan the QR code to know more! ✅ See you there ✅

You know you just want to ✨️ boop ✨️ Juniper's nose!

🚨Happening Tomorrow 🚨 Plant Science Postdocs, Senior Grad Students, and ECRs: don't forget to join us next TOMORROW, Tuesday, April 14th from 2-3 pm PT / 4-5 pm CT / 5-6 pm ET for our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social webinar "What's new with NSF?" 🌾 🧪 🌱 Registration: tinyurl.com/PlantPostdocsApril14

Preprint alert 🚨 (1/10) 🧵 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘹 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺: It can promote resistance, susceptibility, or restrict cell death 🤯 So what is its actual role? We show it acts as a spatial organizer of immunity across cell types 🌱🦠 #proteostasis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hello Fam 🌱 Spring is here and we are bubbling with energy 🌸 We would love to see you participate in this fun Spring Photo Challenge 🌿 Rules are simple and get a chance to be featured on our page 🌷 Looking forward to see beautiful Spring flowers in full bloom 🌺

Plant Science Postdocs, Senior Grad Students, and other ECRs: don't forget to join us next Tuesday, April 14th from 2-3 pm PT / 4-5 pm CT / 5-6 pm ET for our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social webinar "What's new with NSF?" 🌾 🧪 🌱 Registration Link: tinyurl.com/PlantPostdocsApril14

Interesting and important work from the @gittacoaker.bsky.social and Jie Zhu labs. There is so much to learn from spatial analyses of plant-pathogen interactions!

This month's #beadwork project!

Proud to be a Purdue College of Agriculture alum!

Exciting news! @plantpostdocs.bsky.social invites you to join our upcoming webinar, “What’s new with NSF?” on Tuesday, April 14th from 2-3 pm PT / 4-5 pm CT / 5-6 pm ET 🌿 We are excited to have Diane Jofuku Okamuro and Pankaj Jaiswal - Program Directors, NSF BIO join us for this session.

🚨New Pub Alert🚨 Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, professor of Botany and Plant Pathology Department at Purdue University (my PhD advisor!), has published “Protocols in Root-Microbe Interactions" with Purdue University Press. www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...

I had a great time helping host students from the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Boys & Girls Club on their visit to KU! 🌱 I walked them through the Wagner Lab and shared what I do day-to-day. We talked about plant–microbe interactions, what it's like to be a researcher, & careers in plant science.

Nuclear winter continues

Fun Sunday afternoon with the Kansas Postdoctoral Outreach Project (K-POP)! This month,we highlighted principles uncovered by past researchers (Mendel, Curie, Darwin, etc) showcasing how today’s scientists use those principles to better understand the world around us. My station: oxygen and ozone.

Join the University of Kansas Center for Genomics on May 8th for the 5th Annual🧬 KUCG Research Symposium 🧬 📍Lawrence, KS 📅Friday, May 8th, 2026 🕘8am - 6pm CT 🧪Abstracts due March 15th 🔗 genomics.ku.edu/ku-center-ge...

Are you a postdoc in a plant-related field such as🌿 Plant Biology 🌿 Agriculture & Crop Sciences 🌿 Ecology & Environment 🌿 Plant Pathology & Protection or 🌿 Biotechnology ? We invite you to join a community of 700+ postdoctoral researchers from around the world at www.plantpostdocs.com

The #ChoctawNation has long been a strong supporter of higher education and the pursuit of advanced degrees. In 2025 alone, the Nation awarded more than $13 million in educational support - a substantial investment in Native students and their futures.

Hi, all - trying to help a student find dissertation writing fellowships applicable to eco/evo, plant biology, plant microbiome. US-based. Would appreciate any leads. TIA! 🌱

Preprint!!!! This is the result of an ongoing collaboration between us and the genomics core to make genetics cheap and easy. A synergy between library prep and analytical approaches. This one hinges on recognizing 1. that DNA molecules are shaped by evolution and 2. we have friends everywhere.

Hey #PopGen #EEB #PUI friends! Do you have a cool paper demonstrating the power 💪 of "modern" PopGen that would be exciting to upper-level undergrads? I feel like students leave the PopGen unit thinking it's some kind of dead science b/c we're limited to introducing simple models in Evol classes. 😢

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Join the University of Kansas - Center for Genomics on May 8th for the 5th Annual🧬KUCG Research Symposium🧬 📍Lawrence, KS 📅Friday, May 8th, 2026 🕘8am - 6pm CT 🧪Abstracts due March 15th

✨Scholarship Opportunity for MSW at KU✨ Students are eligible for $7000 per academic year for those admitted to our 2-year Traditional MSW program on the Lawrence campus.

🚨New Publication Alert🚨 Authors: Asher Hudson, Maggie Wagner, and Peter Balint-Kurti Maize Hybrids Exhibit Reduction in an Elicitor-Triggered Defense Response Compared to Their Inbred Parents | #MPMI apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Art meets science in the latest project from Wenting Zhu.

#Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Chief Gary Batton's statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt’s final State of the State address. Tribal sovereignty is the law. Period.

tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/foo... The Oklahoma Choctaw Tribe are making fresh produce affordable for all people using SNAP at their 2 tribal grocery stores built in identified “food deserts.” The Double Up Oklahoma program is funded through a U.S. Department of Ag grant by Hunger Free OK.

Grad student in lab just had their GRFP returned without review. But their proposal is not on ag/crops/health. What gives?? 😡

Anyone dealt with challenging an "Ineligible" determination on a GRFP proposal? A student's proposed was DQ'ed stating: "Applicants must select research in eligible STEM or STEM education fields." However, Ecology is clearly listed in the solicitation. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Any wisdom?

A great start to the semester with @jychoi.bsky.social's presentation "No end in sight, mysteries of the telomeric variation in plants"! @kubiology.bsky.social

This week...

Are you a postdoc in plant biology? 🌾🧪 We invite you to join a community of 500+ postdoctoral researchers around the world. plantpostdocs.com/join-us/

Just spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.

This new #OpenAccess commentary by Hu et al. examines the many roles of signaling peptides in #plant #growth, #development and #environmental adaptation, and explores their potential application in #crop breeding strategies. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantScience

New Year Greetings from the PlantPostdocs team to our fam🍀 This new year, join the club or refer us to your colleagues 🌱 To know more about what we do, scan the QR code or log onto plantpostdocs.com

A space for connection, support, and growth for plant science postdocs. Join the www.plantpostdocs.com community! 🌾🧪

As a member of the Leadership Team, I’m proud to share what makes the #PlantPostdoc Slack special. 🌿 It’s a vibrant community for postdocs in plant-related fields. A safe space to review materials, share opportunities, and support each other as we navigate our paths in academia and industry.

Nittak Hullo Chito Na Yukpa (Merry Christmas) and Happy Holidays to all! May 2026 bring more laughter, community, and peace. 🎄 🎁 ❄️ 🕯