🌱📚Excited to share my journey and experiences in academia, the ups, downs, and everything in between! Hope it sparks good conversations! @plantaeofficial.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social @plantpostdocs.bsky.social @plantgrads.bsky.social

Join AGROSAVIA & BTI for a workshop on how pangenomes are transforming genomics, breeding & agriculture! Oct 1, 2025 | 9–4 US / 8–3 COL For students, postdocs & researchers in #PlantScience. Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4e70c4...

Drinking too little water doesn't just cause thirst-it could heighten how your body reacts to stress, with links to higher cortisol, heart risk, and mood disorders journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

For last 10 years - we have worked with thousands of organizations around the world helping support them in integrating foldscope programs. To bring in a new cohort of organizations - we are re-launching “fast and curious” 2025 edition - apply and get a Foldscope trainer and Foldscopes for free!

Glad to see their findings support our previous results on genic DNA methylation across Arabidopsis accessions. We further demonstrated that duplicate paralogs with contrasting methylation states show different evolutionary trends within the population! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 20+ fully-funded positions in the Autumn Call which is now open. Have a look at what our campus has to offer: www.vbcphd.at

I know about the Freshamn 15, but no one told me about the Assistant Professor 15...

Congrats to @ehlawrence-paul.bsky.social a stellar postdoc in my group bsky.app/profile/kenc...

Honored to be selected as a Sahyadri Outstanding Postdoc by @plantpostdocs.bsky.social !

Honored to have been selected for this award! 😊 Happy national postdoc appreciation week everyone!

Happy to announce @plantpostdocs.bsky.social #Sahyadri #OutstandingPostdoc 2025 during National Postdoc Appreciation Week #NPAW2025 🎉Congratulations!! Erica Lawerence-Paul, PSU Penelope Lindsay, OSU Elena Perry, LBNL @ehlawrence-paul.bsky.social @penlindsay.bsky.social

Mentors needed for BSA’s GRFP Workshop! 🌱 The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Workshop for Plant Researchers is returning in 2025. With NSF’s 2026 GRFP deadline set for Oct 27, we’re looking for mentors to guide student applicants. Learn how you can help! mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...

🌱📚Excited to share my journey and experiences in academia, the ups, downs, and everything in between! Hope it sparks good conversations! @plantaeofficial.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social @plantpostdocs.bsky.social @plantgrads.bsky.social

🚨 Applications are open for the 2026 JXB Editorial Internships! 🚨 🌱 Designed for ECRs, you will gain behind-the-scenes publishing experience, write commentary pieces & join the JXB Editorial Board meeting next year 👩‍💻✈️ Deadline: 30 Sept 2025 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns #PlantScience 🧪

🌱 Excited to welcome Bridget Bickner to the Kenchanmane-Raju Lab @ucriverside.bsky.social 🎉 Bridget joins us from the @elenakramer.bsky.social and Hopkins Lab @harvard.edu, she’ll focus on developing new model systems to study evolution and plant resilience in a changing climate 🌿

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC! This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu

out today: my labmate Shubham developed a super clever new technique to profile TF-DNA interactions with unprecedented resolution of low-affinity binding sites, revealing patterns in how these sites are organized in the genome to modulate TF occupancy: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spread the word 😃 Our department has an open position at the Assitant Professor level 🌱

Almost 10 years ago Smith and Baum's textbook introduced me to Phylogenetic Comparative Methods. We now have our own review on PCM! Come for history, traits and spicy takes! We welcome any comments/ concerns/ jokes! @tribblelab.bsky.social @crothfels.bsky.social and MRM! doi.org/10.32942/X28...

Wonderful talk by @kenchanmane.bsky.social @ucriverside.bsky.social on single cell sequencing and elegantly using the maize root developmental circuit for functional validation @faseborg.bsky.social #PDevSRC. It was an excellent opportunity to see my friend Sunil after a while and catching up.

🎉 Big congratulations to Shahan Baker for wrapping up his @ucriverside.bsky.social #NSF_REU summer project in the Kenchanmane-Raju lab under the mentorship of Yuvraj Chopra🌽

3/ Awardee @laura-gunn.bsky.social is tapping into the powerful carbon-fixing abilities of a special plant🌱 to improve photosynthesis. Her work has enormous potential to transform how we sustainably grow food 🌎. 🍾 Congrats Dr. Gunn! @cornellcals.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout Devaki Bhaya

New preprint from the lab. We mapped the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation and show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Plant Postdocs co-founder Sunil recently highlighted the initiatives Plant Postdocs and Plant Grads at Plant Biology 2025 Extended (check it out!). @kenchanmane.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social @plantgrads.bsky.social

In just 2 years, three Sahyadri Outstanding Postdocs have launched faculty careers! Big congratulations to Maryam on her position at EIU. Proud to have played a small part in her journey. Applications for 2025 awards & FFA are open (deadline Aug 29) tinyurl.com/4mk3nyu6

Thrilled to see the success of the Sahyadri Future Faculty Academy! 🎉 Congratulations to Prasad, an exceptional scientist, on landing a faculty position at Kansas State University! It was an honor to support him. Applications for 2025 award and FFA are now open (deadline Aug 29) tinyurl.com/4mk3nyu6

Looking forward to sharing my latest science 🌽 and connecting with the West Coast Developmental Biologists! 🌱 #WCSDB2025 #DevBio

Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out! Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate #MimulusPropaganda up till now: The Moment That Symmetry Breaks. #plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬 w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Final Program announced for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA).: tinyurl.com/2cfa8keo

I'm so thrilled that this paper is now out in American Journal of Botany! This paper marks a couple of exciting firsts for me - it is the first chapter of my dissertation and my first first-author publication 🎉. I hope folks enjoy reading it and become fans of personate flowers in Penstemon!

The BSA awarded more than $140,000 in awards (research, travel, hardship) to its membership this year!! @botsocamerica.bsky.social 💚💚

Very proud to share our latest preprint: postdoc/LRSF fellow Yue Rui studies the mechanisms regulating attachment of the cell wall to the plasma membrane. The Cellulose Synthase Complex and REMORINs determine the extent of attachment and root osmotic stress tolerance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

We had a fantastic time at #Botany2025 🌱 Cool talks, collaborator meetings, new ideas… all we need is more $💵 So we headed straight to the funding gods - casino - because if we can't win over reviewers at NSF, NIH, maybe we can win over roulette 🎲 Turns out, slot machines are worse than Reviewer2 😂

Yo #Botany2025, heads up for #Botany2026 in Tucson: we will be about one week later than this year. Right here at the Star Pass Resort, August 1-5. Get ready for the lazy river. #plantpeopleFTW

Super excited to present my work on cell-type resolution gene expression and co-expression to understand the functional breadth of core regulators 🌽 First talk in the Development and Structure session tomorrow morning #Botany2025 Our lab posters are also up! Yuvraj #P145 Minnie #P50

Hey #Botany2025 folks, 🎉 The Kenchanmane-Raju Lab @ucriverside.bsky.social is at its first conference together 🎉 Grad students Yuvraj & Minnie are presenting posters on chromatin accessibility 🧬 single-nuclei sequencing 🌽 Curious about our work? Let’s connect! kenchanmanelab.com

Announcing the opening of applications for the Sahyadri Outstanding Postdoc Award & Future Faculty Academy for Fall 2025! This is an excellent opportunity for plant biology postdocs soon to be on the job market. Application link: tinyurl.com/4mk3nyu6 Past awardees: tinyurl.com/2rw3xyv7

One of my favorite non-plant labs to follow, @mydennis.bsky.social, continues to amaze! Their latest work shows the role of human-specific duplicate genes in brain evolution 🧓🧠🧬 🎉 Congrats, Megan and the team! #GeneDuplication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @cellpress.bsky.social

I'm recruiting via ISU's new EPSCOR Grad Training Program! If you want to write an NSF GRFP this Fall and come to ISU, let's connect. Students who get an Honorable Mention this year (or did in the last 3 years) are eligible. Program funding rates are same as GRFP! Apply: etap.nsf.gov/award/8257/o...

#AwardHighlight!🏆 Steffi Raju, graduate student from @shivaprasadpv.bsky.social's lab was one among the ten Early Career Researchers to receive the travel award by @aabiologists.bsky.social to attend the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research at Ghent, Belgium 🎉Congratulations Steffi!

Remembering and grateful for the teachers and mentors who shaped me. And also thankful for my trainees, past and present, some of whom introduced me to a day set aside honor those same guides. Happy Guru Purnima!

Just a reminder that the abstract deadline for a short talks at the West Coast SDB meeting is coming up next week! Links to abstract submission, registration, and the preliminary program can be found here: www.sdbonline.org/wcsdb2025 #wcsdb2025

The Danforth Center is gaining two outstanding scientists whose unique expertise will support our mission: conjustover.bsky.social & erinsparks.bsky.social, who is a joint hire with Mizzou, are joining our faculty. Read all about their focus areas & more in the full news release: loom.ly/QuMW7XE

After many years of PhD, I finally defended my thesis! The project had lots of ups and some downs but beside the "science," this post is more for the "human" side of my PhD and what I have learnt and have not learnt 1/7

Applying to Biology PhD programs this year? Let us help! At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials! Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...

📣Congratulations to our incoming President-elect, Tessa Burch-Smith, and Elected Member of the Board of Directors, Patricia León! Tessa and Patricia will begin their next cycles of service to ASPB on October 1, 2025. #PlantScience #WeAreASPB