Reminder: tomorrow (Oct. 31) is the deadline for submitting an abstract to be considered for a talk and PlantCV travel award applications for the 2026 NAPPN conference: www.plantphenotyping.org/abstracts
Posts by Margaret Frank
Come work with us!!
We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Another fern (Lygodium microphyllum) genome just published @pnas.org !
What a year for non-sed plant genomics!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!
Yesterday I talked* science with modellers, mathematicians, biochemists, cell biologists and geneticists. Sound like your kind of place? Join us!
Applications for a tenure-track or tenured Group Leader ar JIC close Monday.
(*I love chatting - if you come to JIC I *will* stop you in the corridor)
Join us for a fun webinar in an hour! For my talk, Ill be doing an overview of my thoughts on flower design. Come hanggg 💚
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
A great example of how comparative genomics across the full range of vascular plant lineages can be used as a catalyst for gene discovery!
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social
Allison was a delight to have in the lab this summer! She'll be applying to PhD programs in Plant Bio this fall...
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...
Job alert! Please share.
We're looking for an urban ecologist (PhD) to join the research team at the Holden Arboretum.
Develop an active research program while supporting stakeholders. 🌳
I'll be at #ESA2025 and happy to chat.
#AltAc #HoldenScience #UrbanEcology
holdenfg.org/career-and-i...
Did you see @racheljabaily.bsky.social new open educational resource "Biology of Plants" coloring textbook when you were at #Botany2025 ? No? WELL GO CHECK IT OUT: oercommons.org/courses/the-... Gorgeous illustrations by MGB Hurst 😍
For me, it's my MIL, and she still spends the first day "straightening up our house" 😅
Any ECR folks (esp postdocs) want to review a paper on polyploid gene expression? 🌾
Posters are going up… that can only mean one thing: the George and Helen Kohut Symposium is TOMORROW at 9:30 AM! Join us in-person or on Zoom to celebrate student research & achievement!
Info & schedule: btiscience.org/event/2025-g...
Sunflowers are full of secrets 🕵️♀️🌻 I had a blast making this for @nybg.bsky.social 's Van Gogh's Flowers exhibit, where you can see all the 🌻🌻🌻 shine through Oct. 26th!
#scicomm 🧪 #nationalsunflowerday #botany
Take a look at my amazing REU student, Allison, cross-pollinating tomatoes in the greenhouse! 🍅 🌱 @btiscience.bsky.social
youtu.be/r1o4tRv2kXM?...
If anyone wants a set, head on over to atinygreencell.com! Open source and reasonably priced. Made with love, on Long Island. 🌈🦠💚
Annual reminder that @atinygreencell.bsky.social's rainbow bacteria are BEAUTIFUL! We're getting cultures ready to make bacteria art with the high school summer program.
Ruby & Robots 😍 Not a bad bandname. #plantscience
I wrote an op-ed for my local paper (The Sentinel in Carlisle, PA) about the impact of science funding cuts.
cumberlink.com/opinion/edit...
Thank you to @cornellasap.bsky.social and @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social to get my writing out there as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative!
Promotional image for the "Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology GRC Conference" focusing on meeting the speakers. This promo includes an image of Dr. David Jackson from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory with a short bio on Dr. Jackson.
Meet The Speakers of the Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology GRC Conference!
To Apply to the GRC: lnkd.in/gvkMxuKR
To Learn More About Dr. Jacksons Research: jacksonlab.labsites.cshl.edu
If you're a scientist who's had to cut or cancel your field season because of US budget cuts, DM me here for an oped I'm working on. 🌏🧪
NIH, NSF and NASA budgets decreases substantially in FY26. https://joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/the-white-house-vision-for-dismantling
The FY26 budget will devastate our innovation driven economy. A summary in 3 parts...
Part 1 - The White House vision for dismantling science, as described in one simple plot, means slashing budgets of NIH, NASA, NSF & going back 25 years (or more).
joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/the-white-...
Single-Nucleus Transcriptomics Reveals How Tissue Context Shapes the Circadian Transcriptome of the Arabidopsis Leaf www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06....
Fantastic News!!! Congratulations, Yan!
Congratulations!!! Very exciting news!
Promotional image for the "Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology GRC Conference" focusing on meeting the speakers. This promo includes an image of Dr. Tatsuya Nobori from The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK with a short bio on Dr. Nobori.
Meet The Speakers of the Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology GRC Conference!
@tatsuyanobori.bsky.social
To Apply to the GRC: lnkd.in/gvkMxuKR
To Learn More About Dr. Nobori's Research: www.tatsuyanobori.com