College of Albemarle students with their cultures. With Mrs.H and their Professor, Dr. Buabeng

Sterilizing African violet leaves

Cutting and plating leaf explants

Potato nodal and microtuber formation

Horticulture students of COA #ECSU. They placed African violet 🪴 leaves into sterile plant tissue culture for new shoots🧪🧫🌱. Also did potato micropropagation 🟣🥔. Will take cultures back to their lab and collect data. Thanks to Mrs. H for media prep. #ECSUVikingsScience #collab #plantscience

Undergrads in General Botany doing a CURE (course-based undergrad research experience)

Doing plant tissue culture

Cutting seedling leaf explants of corn

All undergrads cut two plates each

CURE set up in General Botany #ECSU. #undergradsinthelab are testing the effects of an amino acid and sugars on somatic embryogenesis in corn 🌽 seedling leaves 🧫. A chance for them to be part of a research project funded by NSF. Data will be taken for 1 month. #plants #ECSUVikingsScience

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#YankeeNationalParty #YNP #willimanticct #CT #Connecticut #CampusNews #ECSU

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Opportunity creates freedom.
Freedom creates legacy. “

-Damola Adamolekun, CEO of Red Lobster during Elizabeth City State University's 181st Commencement

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Thea ready to pour plant tissue culture medium

Thea and Lab Tech Jacqueline

Thea conducting corn tissue culture

Thea completing first PCR

The Lab welcomes 👍🏼#undergrad Thea J. #ECSU. She is part of our corn 🌽 NSF grant. We are improving regeneration from seedling tissues and introducing morphogenic factors using Agrobacterium🧬🧫🦠🌱. Thea is supervised by Lab Tech Jacqueline and peer mentored by Nicole. #ECSUVikingsScience #plant

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"H-O-MEC-O-M -I-NG, it's homEComing ya'll!"
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Undergrads Carmen S. and Ainya F. (part-time greenhouse lab techs). Did everything including research on medicinal properties

Medicinal plants in greenhouse

Also growing course and research plants for seed collection

Praying Mantis in greenhouse

Restarted the Medicinal Plant of the Month display in the lobby of Jenkins Science Center #ECSU. Thanks 👍🏼👍🏼to undergrads Carmen and Ainya (GH lab techs 💻⚕️💊), and ECSU for the repairs🔨. Our trusty praying mantis is on guard (IPM 🐞🐛. #ECSUVikingsScience #hbcu #plants

It’s homEComing! #VikingPride #ECSU

Loving all the homecoming vibes this season! Community, connection, and celebration are exactly what we need right now. Counting down the days until my alma mater’s homecoming; it’s almost that time! 💙🤍
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Experiment on seed germination (fresh vs dry wts; seeds germinated for a week so data collection at unscheduled times)

Light vs chlorophyll on starch production; setting up respirometers with germinating vs dry seeds; histology of plant organs

Plants and results

Completed the classical plant experiments in General Botany #ECSU. Undergrads collected data on fresh/dry wt. ⚖️ of seeds 🌰 for a week; histology🔬 of plant organs; light ☀️vs chlorophyll on photosynthesis ⚗️🧪🌱; respiration (germinating vs dry seeds 🌰). #ECSUVikingsScience #hbcuexcellence

Undergrads loading their first vertical gels. Whatever method it takes 👍🏼. Looked at effects of 2 denaturation times on fish proteins

Undergrads making own dilutions of sucrose and salt

Results on effects of different sucrose and salt solutions on plasmolysis in red onion epidermal cells

Loading vertical protein gels 👍🏼👍🏼 #ECSU. Undergrads in Molecular Biology looked at fish 🐟 proteins (Edvotek). All the ohs and ahs 🙄😃 when General Botany undergrads see their first plasmolysed epidermal cells (red onion 🔴🌰 in different conc. of sucrose🍬 and salt🧂). #ECSUVikingsScience

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Undergrads in General Botany

Testing for macromolecules under watchful eyes of TA (seniors Carmen and Ashna: bottom pic)

Making LB media in Molecular Biology

LB media w/o activated charcoal. Final results of macromolecules tests.

Expts. have started in earnest #ECSU. Macromolecules tests ⚗️🧪🎨 with control (water) and unknown sol'n (General Botany); and making LB media 🧫 (Molecular Biology). Added some activated charcoal ⚫️ for #agarart 🔴🔵🟣🟢. Idea 💡 from @atinygreencell.bsky.social. #ECSUVikingsScience #hbcuexcellence

Undergrads in BIOL 499: Biological Research, in front of the oak tree, by the Library, on the campus of #ECSU

This oak tree has been sequenced. They will annotate the chloroplast and possibly mitochondrial/nuclear genomes

Our project on the oak 🌰 tree 🌳 by the Library continues #ECSU. Biological Research undergrads will be annotating the chloroplast genome. Part of the ACTG project of Dr. Alex Harkess (HudsonAlpha Inst.). Last fall, we sequenced HMW DNA 🌱🧪🧬 (excellent quality 👌). #ECSUVikingsScience #hbcu

Plant nodal cultures

Nodal culture under the laminar flow hood

Still enjoy 👍🏼 doing plant nodal cultures 🌱🧫 after almost 30 years #ECSU. The laminar flow hood is humming, my music 🎶 is playing in the background but still a silence 🔕as no talking (increase in contamination🦠🍄). The interplay between the forceps and the scalpel..... #perfect 💐 #plants

Petunia leaf explants transformed with auxotrophic Agrobacterium. RUBY reporter gene expression 🔴

👏👏 to auxotrophic Agrobacterium. 5th week of culture and no sign of Agro overgrowth. Less antibiotics also needed in selection media 🧫. Great for #undergrad labs. Will transform most of my plant plasmids 🧬 into these strains 🦠🧪. Petunia leaf explants 🌱 transformed with RUBY🔴. #ECSU #plant

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HBCUs Establish Credit for Prior Learning Models Four administrators from historically Black institutions across the country share promising practices for implementing credit for prior learning policies.

Quote of the day: “What we realized is that if you really want to continue to grow your enrollment, high school graduates cannot be the only population you serve." Farrah Ward, provost/VCAA, Elizabeth City State Univ., N. Carolina. buff.ly/PTtaHw9 This is transfer students' era! #AcademicSky #ECSU

Ainya and Carmen in renovated greenhouse

Re- started plant collections in the greenhouse

Extrakta sage. Students took pictures of every plant

Hyssop. Maintaining data on germination rate, days to flowering, and seed set

Our Greenhouse is back 🙌. Thanks to #ECSU for all the renovations 💐. We have re-started our plant collections 🪴. Thanks 👍🏼👍🏼 to undergrads, Ainya and Carmen for planting, etc 🌸🌼🌻🌺. Will bring back the Medicinal Plant of the Month in the lobby. #ECSUVikingsScience #hbcu #plants

Police investigate fatal shooting on ECSU campus The N.C State Bureau of Investigation is investigating a fatal shooting on the Elizabeth City State University campus early Sunday morning.

Guns are the mortal enemies of a good time

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We lit!! #ECSU #VikingFest #D9 #GreekLife

Horticulture students from the local Community College (Albemarle) with their Professor, Dr. Buabeng.

Placing African violet leaves into tissue culture. Under the watchful eyes of Lab Tech, Mrs. Henderson

Cutting sterile leaves of African violet

Placing potato into media for microtuber formation. Dr. Buabeng also did some cultures.

The Lab welcomed Horticulture students from COA (annual event now) #ECSU. They placed their African violet 🪴 into sterile 🧫 culture (leaf 🍃 explants). They also started purple 🟣 potato 🥔 microtuber formation. They will observe in their lab (will visit a few weeks later). #ECSUVikingsScience

Jacqueline sterilizing corn seeds; and moving them to new media

Somatic embryos from corn developing into shoots and roots.

Nothing like that feeling of anticipation and then relief when an expt. works for the first time 🎆 #ECSU. Jacqueline was successful in developing somatic embryos and plants from mature corn 🌽 seedling leaf slices. Will be used in CUREs for General Botany and Molecular Biology. ##ECSUVikingsScience

Police investigating shooting near ECSU in Willimantic A shooting was reported near the campus of Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic.

Police are investigating a shooting that happened just steps away from an #ECSU dorm.

Happy Founder's Day to my alma mater!! #ECSU

Mrs. Jacqueline H. back in the lab

Welcome, Mrs. Jacqueline H. #ECSU. She will be the Lab Tech on the new NSF grant (factors affecting maize 🌽 regeneration 🧬🧪🧫, etc.). Jacqueline was a part-time lab tech and an #undergradresearcher. Great to have her back in the lab 👍🏼👍🏼. #ECSUVikingsScience #hbcu

Undergrads in the Plant Genetics and Molecular Biology Teaching and Research Lab.

Montly lab meeting and Cupcake 🧁 Thursday.

Middle and high school students from the Biotech Club.

Happy Fall 2024 #ECSU. Some undergrads said hello, stayed awhile, and a few goodbye 😭. Projects in PTC and transformation started, continued, and some completed 🧬🧪🧫🍃🪴🌽. We welcomed undergrads from BIOL 499. Ended the term with students from the local Biotech Club. #ECSUVikingsScience #plant

Dr. Young, part of collaborative grant that will study morphogenic factors on maize regeneration

Thanks to NSF for this opportunity #ECSU. Looking forward to working with Andrea G. @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social, @bas-bargmann.bsky.social, and Dave J. @cshlaboratory.bsky.social 🧬🧪🧫🌽👍🏼👍🏼. #ECSUVikingsScience

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