Rules all PIs should follow

I will file this away and return to it regularly for self assessments. I would like to be the advisor that my students want me to be. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Now is the season for initiating important hazelnut selections into tissue culture.

This was by far the best workshop I attended at PAG this year. Presenters spanned a wide spectrum of career stages and everybody was phenomenal. I left with a lot of food for thought and am still mulling what to bring from this session into my own research program. plantgene.sivb.org/hope-yet-exi...

This looks promising. I am curious to find out how to get in on the early access and to know how much per base they charge.

Students in the Irrigation and Drainage class visited my greenhouse today to do a project installing a drip system. Win-win!

I am glad that you're back, but so sorry that you had long Covid. I wish you continued improvements in your recovery and a return to full health.

Setup for using the gene gun with Dr. Bob Zemetra.

Whoohoo!!! Congrats to all the winners!!!

Richard says: Less science results in more disease

Solanum pan-genetics reveals paralogues as contingencies in crop engineering - Nature Gene duplication and subsequent paralogue diversification are major obstacles to genotype-to-phenotype predictability.

🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!

This week, it's wheat immature embryo culture!

This is amazing 😍😍 @500womensci.bsky.social has made cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH avail for download bit.ly/NSF_bystate & bit.ly/NIH_bystate if they are helpful for folks

Photo of African Violet regeneration from our very first lab experiment this term. It took a long time to get here, but here we are.

The results are in - we have embryos! Photos are mine and those of my grad student TA, Claire Kepner.

Brassica napus flower buds for this week's microspore embryogenesis lab. I hope we get haploid embryos!

It looks like I am torturing carrots at home as I test out different strategies for producing explants for the carrot embryogenesis lab.

I am very excited that I received seeds for the Green Venus non-browning Romaine lettuce. These are the first gene edited lettuce seeds that I have had that I didn't produce myself or obtain from someone I worked with personally.

Health benefits of pedestrian and cyclist commuting: evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study Background Despite active travel investment increasing, evidence of benefit is often limited to selected health outcomes and a short follow-up period, and cyclists and pedestrians are often analysed t...

Cycling to work lowers your risk of early mortality and hospitalization. Extra motivation to keep cycling during these winter months! bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/...

The first lettuce plants in my brand new greenhouse.

Being in the Hort Department at OSU has some pretty nice side benefits. First there was the corn, squash, green beans, broccoli, and hazelnuts coming out of the breeding programs after they finished the evaluations for this season and then there was this lovely surprise courtesy of the Sagili lab.

Gene behind orange fur in cats found at last After 60 years, scientists know why gingers, calicos, and tortoiseshells look the way they do

Good news for anyone who has ever taken or taught Intro Genetics! www.science.org/content/arti...

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