🚨Happening Tomorrow 🚨
Plant Science Postdocs, Senior Grad Students, and ECRs: don't forget to join us next TOMORROW, Tuesday, April 14th from 2-3 pm PT / 4-5 pm CT / 5-6 pm ET for our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social webinar "What's new with NSF?" 🌾 🧪 🌱
Registration: tinyurl.com/PlantPostdocsApril14
Exciting news! @plantpostdocs.bsky.social
invites you to join our upcoming webinar, “What’s new with NSF?” on Tuesday, April 14th from 2-3 pm PT / 4-5 pm CT / 5-6 pm ET 🌿
We are excited to have Diane Jofuku Okamuro and Pankaj Jaiswal - Program Directors, NSF BIO join us for this session.
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...
If you're on the job market and are working in any area of Plant Molecular Biology, check this out. We have a very strong group: Jeff Dangl, Joe Kieber, Greg Copenhaver, Jason Reed, Zack Nimchuk, and an incoming new assistant professor starting in January
bio.unc.edu/people/facul...
It's that time of year again!
If you or someone you know is thinking about applying to MS/PhD programs, I recommend checking out this website, structured from our fall-semester-only class AGR 490: Gateways to Graduate School!
#GradSchool #PhD #GradSchoolAdmissions #GatewaystoGradSchool
North Carolina officials rescued dozens of people after Tropical Depression Chantal dumped up to 10 inches of rain in parts of the state, bringing significant flooding that inundated homes, closed highways, trapped drivers and pushed rivers up to near historic levels. https://trib.al/4BqheAM
ROS regulation of stigma papillae growth and maturation in Arabidopsis thaliana
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Anisotropic diffuse growth in Arabidopsis thaliana stigma papillae
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The student paper here has been doing a better job of covering the university than the local paper for years. Well, they noticed and…
Primary Author Katelin Burrow received her PhD from Purdue yesterday! HIRE KATELIN!!!! She's looking for a postdoc.
A BRASSINOSTEROID INSENSISTIVE 1 receptor kinase ortholog is required for sex determination in Ceratopteris richardii (Katelin M Burow , Xi Yang , Yun Zhou , Brian P Dilkes , Jennifer H Wisecaver) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
I’m happy that our commentary is out! (It would be wonderful if this made a difference!)
In defense of funding foundational plant science academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
Excited to share the latest publication from the Iyer-Pascuzzi Lab! Dr. Kathe Rivera-Zuluaga led the work on this project, titled "Pleiotropic phenotypes of the tomato diageotropica mutant enable resistance to Ralstonia solanacearum"
#PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantSignalling
My thesis defense is tomorrow at 1 ET! Message me for a zoom link ✨
MLO-mediated Ca2+ influx regulates root hair tip growth in Arabidopsis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04....
📜 MLO-mediated Ca2+ influx regulates root hair tip growth in Arabidopsis
🧑🔬 @siennaogawa.bsky.social, @sakessler.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantRoots #PlantSignaling #FERONIA #RootHairs #PlantCalcium
Missing @keilaj.bsky.social this year but at least we have her pistil and pollen!
The plant reproduction groups have a Spring Fest booth! Come to site 10 for fun flower activities!
Is there anything these MLO proteins can't do? Another great collection of insights from Sharon Kessler's lab and lead author @siennaogawa.bsky.social
For those of you who have experience in applying to academic positions, how many people gave you feedback on your materials? 🧪 🌱
📍Indianapolis, IN
List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.
SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
First slide of the maize meeting.
Travel permits of all US government employees (USDA, NSF) have been revoked shortly before the the maize meeting affecting:
- The chair of the meeting
- The winner of the most prestigious McClintock award
- A plenary speaker
- Two short talk presenters
- 22 scientists presenting posters.
#MGM2025
Purdue Undergraduate Research Experiences for Plant Biology and Data Science (PURE-PD) REU Program - Deadline March 7th
There’s a google doc trying to keep track of funding/grad school admission/hiring freezes & status please share 🧪 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
This image shows some of the 2024 GSRA winners and the text: BSA Graduate Student Research Awards. Applications Now Open! $1500 Research awards. Deadline: February 17. 2025. It also has a QR code that goes to: https://botany.org/home/awards/awards-for-students/bsagraduatestudentresearchawards.html
Did you know that BSA gives out over $125,000 in awards each year?
🌿 Grad students, apply for a $1500 Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA), including the J.S. Karling & A.J. Harris GSRAs.
Deadline: Feb 17, 2025.
Apply now: botany.org/home/awards/...
#BSAawards #BSAstudents #IamaBotanist
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
Alright so to brighten the mood...
Who's ready for another iteration of 28 Days, 28 Black Plant Scientists/Botanists? 💪🏾🌱
For those that want more background here's a link from last yr. While I search through names myself, I'm happy to hear any nominations via DM/email!
plantae.org/2024-black-h...
Join us for our second annual cookie decorating party! Today at noon!
An undergrad in the lab said the same thing last week!
