Since I started as Features Editor at ASPB, I have mentored over 500 early-career plant scientists! (Conviron Scholars, Plantae Fellows, and Assistant Features Editors). I'm so happy to have had this opportunity and to watch the plant community thrive. You're all in my little green heart 💚

BREAKING: NEB Luna Universal One-Step RT-qPCR Kit that does qPCR directly from RNA works very well! #newPI #qPCR

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!) link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! 🌾 🔬 🌺 🧬 🌵 🧪 Deadline: June 30, 2026 Link to registration form forms.gle/tbmUxaw2vmEn... Cost: €350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event) For details re payment and abstracts see form or homepage raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

Crustose lichen mix: Candelariella (yellow), Rhizocarpon (dark grey) Dimelaena (off white) and Acarospora (brown). Photo covers about 6cm, left to right. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Moss (Physcomitrium patens) protoplasts (wallless cells) transformed with chloroplast envelope protein tagged with mGFP (green). The chlorophyll autofluorescence is in magenta. The protrusions of the chloroplast envelope are called stromules. #microscopymonday, #plantcells, #plantmicroscopy, #moss

🔊A long time ago in a microscopic galaxy far, far away.... 🎬Episode IV - A NEW MICROSCOPE 🔬 "It is period of cellular rebellion. Arabidopsis root cells have won first victory against the dark forces of DNA damage" Thanks to @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social and new i3 spinning disk @the.3i.social

Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Successfully inserted anime in my plant bio lecture! 💅 Throwback to the good old time that I transcribed subtitles for many anime for two years at the end of my undergrad, now I'm telling a room of undergrads the plants and anime that I love. I love my job! #ib103 #anime #plantjoy

I'm in love. #WildflowerHour Agamous Galanthus.

Perks of teaching intro plant biology, my office now is packed with a variety of plants! Please appreciate my Selaginella terrarium muhahahaha #ib103 #plantjoy #iamabotanist

Lightning is so 2025 - it's time for glowing trees, instead ⚡🌲. Today for @science.org : www.science.org/content/arti... #lightning #trees #storm #science #nature #physics

Super cool snapdragon update: I cut off the apical meristem of my tricot snapdragon and initially its first leaves from lateral meristem were paired, but now each branch throwing triplets, and three branches per node! A TRUE tricot bodyplan! @thebiologistisn.bsky.social @minyaaa.bsky.social

Exactly unprofessoring.substack.com/p/reject-the...

Registration is NOW OPEN for the second installment of the Plant Cell Atlas Imaging Workshop Series: Introduction to 2D and 3D Segmentation with MorphoGraphX. You can learn more and register here: www.plantcellatlas.org/events

Been a busy, but productive week here at UIUC with the first successful Setaria HCR FISH attempt in the books!! Big thanks to @minyaaa.bsky.social for providing the lab space that made this project possible, looking forward to more with some actual target genes in the near future!

What could be more satisfying than this ? ✨️Congrats to all the authors ✨️ Could not be more proud of you 🥹 Credit: Camila Goldy @camilagoldy.bsky.social

Delighted to share our new preprint: "Evolution of moss leaf-like organs through variations in deeply conserved developmental principles." Led by Ph.D. student Wenye Lin from my lab @irbv.bsky.social , in collab. with Yoan Coudert (ENS Lyon) and Richard Smith (JIC). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If anyone wants to print their own falcoponic parts, here is a short writeup with links to other materials. Enjoyyyyy. www.printables.com/model/451575...

If you like flowers, molecular mechanisms, friendky meetings and the Côte d'Azur, register to the 'Flower meeting' at the presqu'ile de Giens in June (15th-19th) www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/FlowerWo...

Here comes the year of horse!!!!! Let’s go, fight, thrive!!!! 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎 #chinesenewyear #lunarnewyear #yearofhorse

A Postdoctoral Associate position is available in the Roeder Laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY with a focus on researching Polyploidy. Apply by March 1. Please spread the word. apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...

Happy Valentine’s Day from the “love vine” - a parasitic plant parasitizing other plant parasites! #ValentinesDay

Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions. Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social

Decided to transplant some plants in the greenhouse in between meetings - pure therapy session that I didn’t know I needed! #newPI

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Final phase of #TattooYourResearch, working with the original XRM scan data of the young soybean flower used by the brilliant and talented Adriana from Self Inflicted Studios (St. Louis).

This week in @science.org, a celebration of plant pangenomes. A pangenome analysis for massively polyploid sugarcane species, and one for Brassica rapa giving insight into subspeciation. What's all the fuss about pangenomes? Pamela and Douglas Soltis explore this in an insightful Perspective(1/4)

I thought NSF PRFB is back but it turned out it's NSF AI PRFB is here. Regardless, if you're interested in evo-devo in flowers, definitely reach out - we will put some AI in to get real work done! #PRFB #postdoc

This semester so far has been INSANELY busy so I haven't been on the bench for a very long time. Finally found some time to squeeze in some PCR today, while grabbing my pipette, I noticed this little sticker hidden behind it and instantly I'm like 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 #newPI

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Out First Release in @science.org this week: A feedback loop allows two shoot stem cell populations to respond differently to environmental conditions: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JAIVZX... Excited to share my latest work in @newphyt.bsky.social. Here, we used TurboID proximity labeling with CLAVATA receptors FEA3 and BAM1D in maize meristems to better understand the signaling pathways important for meristem regulation. #PlantScience

8 meters and not a tree?!?!? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

First day of class! Ran word cloud with my students and I'm more than entertained lol 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽

Sphagnum moss Imaged live on the FV4000, a new, paradigm shifting, laser scanning confocal microscope from Evident LifeScience (aka Olympus). Green is from the Hyaline Cells and the red from the [chloroplasts in the] Chlorophyllose cells #sciart #microscopes #moss (scale noted in the Alt-text)

Slime mold, Badhamia utricularis - about 1.5cm wide. NWT, Canada. #slimemould #fungifriends

SO EXCITED!!!

Happy winter solstice to everyone from my beautiful hometown Chengdu (where gingko leaves are still hanging on the branches shockingly)!

Join us! We are going to have a ton of fun this summer with 2 week projects on plant and animal morphogenesis! @maizel-lab.org is leading a module. For my section we are going to live image developing leaves.

Check our new preprint! How the petal identity gene PhDEF behaves differently in the epidermis and mesophyll, in petunia flowers (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We 💚 the Stranger Plants—and now they’re on #BSAswag! The shirts feature bold illustrations by BSA’s own Catrina Adams, with a list of each species by common & scientific name on the back. BSA members (exp. 2026+) get 10% off—email [email protected] for code. www.bonfire.com/store/bsa-wi...

Lichens on a stick. Left to right - Vulpicidia, Xanthoria (I think), Physcia, and Hypogymnia. Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

The 2026 Guarda Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology is now accepting applications. Amazing place, amazing course, amazing opportunity for early grad students. tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...

A resurrection study of scarlet monkeyflower populations across the species' range finds relatively little adaptive response to a seven-year drought event, showing that evolutionary rescue is not as predictable as we might hope 🌿 buff.ly/L8o4hhr

Ran into a delightful paper on AJB @botsocamerica.bsky.social:"The gas bubbles produced by male flowers of H. verticillata came from the gas produced by branches under light. These bubbles can help ascending male flowers bypass the obstacles in water and reach the surface to complete pollination" 🧪🌸

Thrilled to have our paper out in @science.org. Cell division guides plant cell wall formation. Does the reverse hold? We show that bimodal pectin methylesterification, via PME5 mRNA nuclear sequestration, influences plant cell division and cell plate orientation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Perfect time for #FluoresenceFriday as I’m finallllly back to the scope this week. 🔬🌸🧪 (Progress for #newPI setting up a new lab: a lot is happening everyday, but at the same time nothing is happening lol)

This distal gill tip is giving full branchial art vibes for #FluorescenceFriday 🦓🐟 — who knew oxygen exchange could be this pretty. 🔴 kdrl:mCherry highlights the vasculature ⚪ fgf10b:nEOS marks the pillar cells #Zebrafish #DevBio #SciArt