Celebrating international #WomeninScienceDay with other awesome women scientists checking out the lab cassava field site in Hawaii! Many thanks to our UH collaborators for showing us around.

Today is #GatorGivingDay! Help the FLORIDA #McNairScholars unlock a $3,000 gift by making a donation of any amount. No 🎁 is too small! Click the link to #StandUpAndHoller for UF McNair Scholars ! givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/mcna…

Plant microbiome postdoc position available in the Bart lab. danforthcenter.org/careers/

Lots of open questions for the future! Mutations in DNA polymerase δ subunit 1 mediate CMD2-type resistance to Cassava Mosaic Geminiviruses biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Congrats Dr. Ben Mansfeld @Kerri_Gilbert Dan Lin Qi Wang, others Danforth Center and collaborators at ETH and NaCRRI.

Bart Lab is seeking a postdoc to join our team. Research will focus on understanding plant-pathogen interactions within the context of variable environmental conditions. Find out more here: danforthcenter.org/careers/ #48736

Very excited that our efforts to identify the elusive CMD2 gene for Cassava Mosaic Disease resistance are finally published Nature Communications. Very proud to be part of this project – stuff like this is why I got into plant science! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Live & in person at #PlantBio2022 in Portland! Stop by my poster this evening (6-6:45, #900-086) if you'd like to chat about cassava bacterial blight, TAL effectors, and gene editing. Or if you just want to make a new friend!

Enjoying another evening of posters at #PlantBio2022!

Meet Antonio Brazelton! Antonio studies root trait diversity in Brassica oleracea, better known as Collard Greens. #BlackBotanistsWeek2022 Learn more about Antonio’s research and meet more Black scientists at the Center: loom.ly/GOhdTZ8

Meet Taraya Dwight! As an REU intern in Dr. @maliagehan’s lab, she studies the effects of heat stress on in vitro germination of quinoa pollen. #BlackBotanistsWeek2022. Learn more about Taraya’s research and meet more Black scientists at the Center: loom.ly/GOhdTZ8

Looking for an awesome postdoc to join our team and work on developing resistance to important plant viruses. Apply here: danforthcenter.org/careers/

It's #BHM so you know what that means? Yep-a thread of 28 Days of 28 Black Botanists from me for the 3rd yr in a row! 1st up, Vincent Antonio Brazelton Jr., a PhD student at @WUSTLdbbs & Danforth Center! Antonio combines root phenomics and social science to help urban farmers grow better crops.

Please retweet and check out this campaign for Black plant scientists in the UK to connect! 👨🏽‍🔬🧑🏾‍🔬🌾🌻

Wow!! 🤩 Big congrats to all the new graduates, ✨Dr. Maple Adkins-Threats ✨Dr. Kiona Elliott ✨Dr. Gervette Penny ✨Dr. Geralle Powell-Rodgers!! You all deserve it!! 🎓🥂🙌🏾 We’re so proud of you! 🎈 #abbgs #wustdbbs #dbbs #phd #phdlife #graduation

Check out our recent preprint on developing cassava with reduced bacterial blight susceptibility. Very proud of this work from my dissertation and thankful for the team that made it happen!

The Bart lab is looking for a postdoc/research scientist to work on our recently funded project. We will build synthetic microbial communities for for bioremediation! More info about the project here: darpa.mil/news-events/20… Apply here: danforthcenter.org/careers/

Check out our manuscript on how CRISPR/Cas9 editing of a sucrose transporter gene impacts disease severity & flower viability in cassava. This work was a major chunk of my PhD and I'm grateful for all of the co-authors! Becky Bart Kira @Kerri_Gilbert Marisa Yoder