Former PhD candidate, current post-doc at Iowa State, Bolivar Aponte Rolon submitted a preprint of his second chapter last week!!! Way to go Boli!

Check it out to learn more about leaf endophyte communities in three closely related Mimulus: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#Mimuluspropaganda

#mimuluspropaganda

Here is the newest Ferris Lab preprint as promised on the genomic basis of divergence in photoperiodic flowering across and elevational gradient! See first author @jillmlove.bsky.social ‘s post below for the link.

Check it out folks!!!!

#Mimuluspropaganda #WomeninStem #ProudPI

a cartoon character from bob 's burgers is making a surprised face and saying yay ! ALT: a cartoon character from bob 's burgers is making a surprised face and saying yay !

Paper submitted!!!! Way to go @jillmlove.bsky.social !!!! You're on 🔥 this year !!!!!!! #ProudPI

Preprint coming soon to a screen near you... #Mimuluspropaganda

(this post is sponsored by the "Katie thinks we should celebrate anything we can right now" corporation for public expressions of joy)

New Ferris Lab preprint demonstrating adaptive plasticity in Mimulus laciniatus! See @jillmlove.bsky.social post below for the link. Check it out y’all!!!!

#Mimuluspropaganda

Huge thanks to Lanxi and @roederlab.bsky.social for writing a nice dispatch for our newest paper on Current Bio @currentbiology.bsky.social ! #mimuluspropaganda and #flowerpower FTW! 🥳🌸

Congratulations! Hooray for #MimulusPropaganda! Also tagging for the #PlantScience feed.

Very happy to share that this paper is now online on @currentbiology.bsky.social !! 🥳🧪 Check out the final published verion here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
#mimuluspropaganda

#mimuluspropaganda!!!!

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...

About damn time Kevin! 😁😁 #mimuluspropaganda

#mimuluspropaganda

It’s time to have something else work (almost) as easy as Arabidopsis 🤗 #mimuluspropaganda

And #Mimuluspropaganda on the cover! 🤗

Congrats @kewenzell.bsky.social @plantpollinator.bsky.social !!!! #Mimuluspropaganda 🥳🥳🥳

My #mimuluspropaganda (left) and grass leaf from @michaelraissig.bsky.social (right) are proud representatives of plant images in the final 15 shortlist!
But seriously, check out all the entries. They all look very incredible! 🧪🔬🌱

Incredibly excited about this meeting and so happy to see my #Mimuluspropaganda made it to FASEB! 😋🌸

A yellow Mimulus cardinals flower with red pigmentation on the ventral petal and the biggest dot is slightly heart shaped

For our #MimulusPropaganda today - here’s a ❤️ for your valentine!
(But the truth is that I’m just day dreaming about making this pigmentation pattern stable so that I can make $$$ in commercial horticulture market to fund my basic science flower research🥹)

Many thanks to the MSU PRI for funding this project and supporting Sylvie's and my work! #MimulusPropaganda

Please consider helping to get my #MimulusPropaganda on the cover of #FASEB meeting! 🤗 #plantsciences #microscopy 🧪🔬🌾🌸🌱

Cute chubby YFP expressing nucleii for #MicroscopyMonday & #Mimuluspropaganda 🧪🧬🔬

My hand with blue glove holding a branch of Mimulus, the flower of the lower node looked normal, but all the flowers made above this node have super skinny sepals and petals

A cool spontaneously mutated shoot, making super skinny floral organs 🧪🧬🍜 #mimuluspropaganda

Super interesting story!! And just like previously the YUP story in Monkeyflower #Mimuluspropaganda color & speciation (which also made the cover of Science in that issue!), the master behind another long-standing evolutionary mystery is yet again microRNA!! 🧬🧪

And.... I have the exact same version of mutant in Mimulus!! 🙀 #mimuluspropaganda

I have to participate (show off) - introducing my Mimulus mutant seedling #mimuluspropaganda

A shoot apical meristem with all cell outlines clearly visible, and a lot of hair cells surrounding the tip

Shoot apical meristem of my "pin"📌 Mimulus mutant, with plasma membranes of cells fluorescently labeled. #MicroscopyMonday #MeristemMonday #MimulusPropaganda

Fluctuating selection in a Monkeyflower hybrid zone bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

New Ferris Lab preprint on fluctuating selection in a
#Mimulus hybrid zone from @dianatataru.bsky.social
!!!!!! We find both positive and negative selection on hybrids in years with dramatically different snowpack levels.
#Mimuluspropaganda

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A screenshot of my slides showing how bilateral symmetry can be expressed in flowers

And #Botany2024 folks! If you want to learn some flower development on Monday morning, please come to my talk in Gallery Overlook F at 10:15 am! #mimuluspropaganda

Interested in living and working in Yosemite NP this summer? Do you like working outside with beautiful plants (#Monkeyflowers)?!?! Are you interested in ecology and evolution? Then apply to be a field technician in my lab this spring/summer 2024!!!! Please Repost!!!
#Mimuluspropaganda

Such a fabulous seminar on the genomics of hybridization and recombination in wild yeast today by amazing scientists and my bestie @caitismuheil.bsky.social !!!!!!

Apparently most yeast live in trees!!!!
Who knew?!?!?!?
Not me.

#bffs #yeastarecute #butnotascuteasMimulus #Mimuluspropaganda