Me and my poster had a busy week last week! I presented at the Penn State Gamma Sigma Delta Research Expo and the university’s Graduate Exhibition. I had so much fun talking about my science and learning about others! 🧬

We are excited to present the accepted paper on the Mycetohabitans pangenome now in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social! 🧬🦠 Thanks to @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social for leading and collaborators: @raw937.bsky.social @andrabuchan.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

Excluding an entire cohort nationwide from one of the biggest graduate fellowships in the country is so disheartening and such a disservice to the future of science. This announcement coming one month before the deadline (also announced just a month early) is barring so many qualified applicants

A week later and prospective applicants are still awaiting the instructions for this year's #NSFGRFP. I checked in with NSF today and was told "I don’t have anything for you at the moment." #GradSchool

The first Masters student defense in the lab! Congrats to Aylha Pferschy!! #NewPI 🧪 Her lab art contribution is her gel picture of the mutants she worked so hard to make 🧫 We keep a signed-by-her copy for us and sign one for her to take!

New from the Carter Lab! Led by @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social, we sequenced almost twice as many complete genomes as were available for the endofungal Mycetohabitans genus. Unsurprisingly, they are a little weird, giving us insight into endosymbiotic genome changes 🧬 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So proud of Taylor's growth at UNC Charlotte and with our lab. Very awesome project that introduced 🐝 to our lab and expanded our fungi culture collection with local isolates. science.charlotte.edu/2025/05/01/r...

So grateful for a PI who pushes me out of my comfort zone and suggested I volunteer to judge for our undergrad symposium. I was hesitant- I feel like I was just the undergrad giving the presentation! I learned a lot and it was nice to see what’s going on around the university. A great experience! 🧬🔬

The GRFP was already brutally competitive and underfunded given the talent applying. To me, this is a clear snapshot of the reality we face, as we try to play the game without acknowledging how much the game has changed.

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

Going to recruitment events as a first year grad student is so crazy. Like that was me only a year ago and I’ve already come so far🥹

Camera roll of a plant pathology PhD student 😅

First publication I’m included as an author on made the cover of The Plant Journal🥹🌱 incredibly grateful for the mentorship I received at the Boyce Thompson Institute which turned out to be my most impactful experience to date doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

Helper NLRs Nrc2 and Nrc3 act codependently with Prf/Pto and activate MAPK signaling to induce immunity in tomato - @NingZhang_PhD et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Seasonally appropriate lab supplies. There is also a candy corn version 🤓