New paper - build a Raspberry Pi phenotyping chamber for imaging and temperature sensing! Thanks to Malia Gehan and her team for leading this work. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Applications open now for our Pivot 2 Plants program! Please share widely, 1 year paid opportunity to transition to careers in plant and data science. www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...

Congratulations to Danforth Center Associate Member Tessa Burch-Smith! 🎉 She will become President of American Society of Plant Biologists in October of this year.

💐 Stop and smell the science! Our #BioanalyticalChemistryFacility is featured in the new #SmellingtheBouquet: Plants and Scents in the Garden exhibition at @mobotmuseum.bsky.social! Follow your nose to @mobotgarden.bsky.social to discover how plants’ scents influence insects, ecosystems, & people!

I am excited to emcee this event - join us, it's FREE and the science is great!

We are lucky to have Russell as a colleague! The Bioanalytical Chemistry Facility works with both internal and external users - get your metabolite and proteomics analyses done here.

Tess has been an awesome addition to our team, I am proud to be a co-PI on this great training program!

This is a devastating and essential read. Here is a gift link for those without subs. The part about outside perceptions of scientists compared with almost a blue-collar reality is spot on (without even mentioning meager salaries). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Our newest PlantCV Quarterly Newsletter is here, with great updates and highlights! Check it out, and subscribe to get it in your inbox: preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

The PlantTech Jam is a FREE hands-on science, tinkering, and robotics fun for the whole family. This is an interactive event with a tour of Danforth Center scientific facilities & prairie. #PlantTechJam loom.ly/bSnbPtY

New paper from my team! Set up your own cost-effective photo studio to easily capture, label, and transfer images, then analyze those images in @plantcv.bsky.social ! Video protocol coming soon. app.jove.com/t/67619/imag...

New paper alert! We found huge oil droplets in the guard cells of a high oil tobacco variety. The stomata of these tobacco plants have a smaller aperture, which increases leaf temperature and decreases transpiration. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The 2025 maize genetics meeting is over. Looking forward to having the 2026 maize meeting from Feb 26 to March 1 in Cologne (Köln), Germany 🇩🇪. Please already mark your calendars. #MGM2025 > #MGM2026.

I'm honored #STLMade profiled me and our Phenotyping Facility! I'm proud to work and live in St. Louis, and represent the great work our team is doing at the Danforth Center.

A huge congrats to Erin for winning the Maize Genetics Early Career Award! We are lucky to have the Erin joining @danforthcenter.bsky.social this summer as a joint faculty member.

Some of my postdoc work has been "exposed" today in @theplantjournal.bsky.social! 😁🎉🔬 We developed ExPOSE - a method to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. Here's a quick🧵of the details: @meter76.bsky.social @lily-oconnor.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congrats @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social , his expansion microscopy method is a big deal folks!

On #InternationalWomensDay, nominate a female scientist for the next FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award. Deadline is 15 May 2025: www.embo.org/the-embo-com... #WomeninScience #ForAllWomenAndGirls 🧪

Women in research need the credit & recognition they deserve for the amazing contributions they make. Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science are open for applications - take a look 👇🏻 & help spread the word #WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪 @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/in...

Thank you to the Maize Genetics Meeting - yesterday we had an advocacy session, followed by Stand Up for Science walk-out. We are missing our USDA colleagues, who were not allowed to attend the meeting!

Can't wait for our field trip to the Sachs Museum tomorrow for the Maize Genetics Meeting!

Thank you to the speakers, moderators, and attendees (in-person and virtual) of NAPPN Annual Meeting 2025! I've been inspired by great new technologies, applications, and stellar trainee presentations this week. 🌱

~290 participants at our Annual @nappn.bsky.social meeting this year! This is a virtual conference with in-person activities at several 'hub' sites @danforthcenter.bsky.social, MSU, Winnepeg/Manitoba, NCSU, UMN, and Corteva. #CelebrateScience @noahfahlgren.bsky.social @kmurphyphd.bsky.social

We are HIRING! Join us as a Data Scientist or Postdoc working on geospatial (UAV/satellite) analysis and PlantCV development. See details in the job ads. www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p... www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

Meet the Danforth Center’s next President! We’re thrilled to welcome world-renowned plant geneticist @gilesoldroyd.bsky.social to the Danforth Center this October.

It's Black History Month and I'm excited to bring another edition of "28 Days, 28 Black Botanists" - now posted as a blog on Plantae! Thanks to @aspbofficial.bsky.social for continuing to support this fun tradition of mine! 💪🏾👨🏾‍🔬🌻🌱 plantae.org/2025-black-h...

Darwin's orchid at the @mobotgarden.bsky.social (check out the orchid show this month)! The long light green piece (center) is the nectar tube, he hypothesized a long-tongued insect must exist to pollinate. The moth was discovered many years later.

🎉 Advanced Bioimaging Laboratory Manager Anastasiya (Nastia) Klebanovych, PhD, received two awards in @bioimagingna.bsky.social’s 2024 Image Contest! Her quinoa pollen grain image won second place & her hellebore pollen grain earned an honorable mention. Congrats, Nastia!

Registration for the Danforth Center NAPPN Conference Hub closes TONIGHT! We are also hosting a FREE PlantCV workshop and FREE Bioinformatics and Beers event that week. Join us!

#TransposableElements A Homage to Barbara McClintock and Hopi Zea mays, artwork series by Megan Singleton in #KernelsOfCulture #MaizeAroundTheWorld This artwork commission is sponsored by Nancy Ridenour. megansingleton.com Pix: Hopi Purple and Hopi Turquoise photograph series and art book

Ever seen a pearl encrusted corn cob? If not, it's your lucky day! ☺🌽 This uniquely creative piece by gem artist, John Hatleberg is now viewable in the Kernels of Culture exhibition open now through March 31st at 📍 @mobotmuseum.bsky.social! 📸 Virginia Harold #MOBOTGarden

Have you ever seen a maize-inspired wedding ring? 💍🌽 Visit our 📍 @mobotmuseum.bsky.social to view and learn more of this interesting piece in the Kernels of Culture exhibition open now through March 31! 📸 Virginia Harold #MOBOTGarden

NAPPN Abstracts are due TODAY! Register for the virtual conference, and check out the in-person hubs available. www.plantphenotyping.org/virtual-regi...

A brief #Cornfax. And since I've been lazy with my #cornfax, let's talk about lazy corn. Lazy corn is, well, a pretty apt description. Unlike the corn on the left which stands tall and proud, the lazy corn just lies on the ground. It doesn't grow straight. So what's up (or not up in this case)? 1/4

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This gorgeous Pearl Corn Cob was designed and created by jewelry artist John Nels Hatleberg. Made from historic Peruvian pearls, opals, 24K gold leaf, 18K gold wire (ca. 2024) and on view in #KernelsOfCulture #MaizeAroundTheWorld @mobotmuseum.bsky.social. More on the artist www.johnhatleberg.com

It's pheno time! Join us for NAPPN Annual Meeting, virtual or at an in-person hub. We're excited to host a Danforth Center hub with additional activities, space is limited at the hub so register now! www.plantphenotyping.org/conference-h...

Looking for some music to warm you up! Check out the recording of this wonderful Andean concert up on @mobotgarden.bsky.social's YouTube @mobotmuseum.bsky.social playlist now! youtu.be/E9O4B41s_fs?...

JOB ALERT! Join me as a Core Director for our Field Research Site, a 140 acre farm near St. Louis. Great colleagues, dream job, and a great city to call home. www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

PlantCV December newsletter is here! Check out updates and highlights, and sign up to get it each quarter in your inbox: preview.mailerlite.io/preview/9724...

No better way to celebrate my first post here than the view from my office right now - a beautiful St. Louis sunset to end a great day of science!