"We were told it was never going to happen. That it was foolish to even ask for one removal. We were asking for four." - Brook Thompson BBC bbc.com/future/article…

It was an honor to reconnect and be recharged with inspiration! I'm deeply grateful to have had you not only as my professor but also as a guiding influence. Proud to be an alum of College of Science at RIT and RIT/NTID! Forever a tiger 🐅

Watercolor lichens

Super happy to announce that I've moved to NYU Abu Dhabi as an Associate Professor to continue my group's work on the ecology and (epi)-genomics of responses of trees to global changes 🍐🍑🥭🍎. So exciting to be part of the NYU Abu Dhabi community! Stay tuned for the next news! 😀

NEW REVIEW OUT Fungal pathogens (in fact, not only fungi and not only pathogens!) manipulate the microbiota of their plant hosts during infection. We reviewed the processes involved, focusing on effector proteins with selective antimicrobial activities. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are hosting a GRFP workshop and we need help from the community! Students who received GRFP - you can be a mentor too! Sign up and use your experience and expertise to help more students to get supported! 🤗🌱

Today, the European Research Council (ERC) announced the award of 494 Starting Grants to young researchers across Europe. Hannah Schneider from Leibniz IPK is one of the scientists who will be funded with 1.5 million euros in the next five years. ➡️Read more: tinyurl.com/4wwjba86

Now, this is an antique! (Although my first ICAR was 1997, no t-shirts then)

Harvesting the first greenhouse experiment of the Locke Lab today and tomorrow! Processing that first plant this morning and seeing the Bradyrhizobium nodules felt so good——research students were equally excited. Maybe I actually can do this whole research & teaching gig?

Congratulations to Leonie Luginbuehl on receiving an #ERCStG for her project maxSYMize. The grant will support her research on harnessing mechanisms for plant carbon delivery to symbiotic soil fungi for sustainable food production. 👉 tinyurl.com/yc4uac89 #PlantsAtCambridge

September is #DeafAwarenessMonth! Check out grad student Eric Heinze’s profile where he shares what it’s been like to move from a hearing institution to a deaf one, and back again! themindhears.org/2024/08/28/pro…

Excited to be attending the careers panel at #NoCaSS2024. What a fabulous event organised by our students John Innes Centre JIC Student Voice 👏👏

Incredibly proud to share this work, almost 6 years in the making, out in Science Magazine!!! 🎇 We've known for over a century that eukaryotes of all kinds anticipate the seasons (think: hibernation, flowering, reproduction), but what about bacteria?🦠 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Read Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Disovery Fellow Luísa’s Luísa Tupinambá Jabbur (ʒabuʁ) thread about her latest research publication in Science Magazine - Photoperiodism in cyanobacterium (aka the #IceBucketChallenge 🦠🧊) ⬇️

Glad to see this summary of one of the best talks I've seen this year, by Dr. Ebony McGee at #PlantBio2024. Check it out. "Lack of Minoritized Inclusion in STEM: Beyond Mentoring to Meaningful Change." plantae.org/lack-of-minori…

What a privilege to kick off #NoCaSS2024 this morning. I loved sharing my work on starch in wheat and its wild relatives 🌾 Looking forward to another day of cool science and interesting discussions tomorrow 🌱🦠

Read our latest paper PNASNews! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… The first #DeepLearning project in our lab led by Lauren Gillespie Lauren Gillespie who directly uses remote sensing images to map 2000 plant species We named it #deepbiosphere! UC Berkeley HHMI Stanford University @CarnegieScience

Looking forward to talking all things @Plants4Space on Sunday with Dr Shane Huntington OAM!

Our team member ⁦Andre Kuhn⁩ just started his own lab at the ⁦SILS⁩ In Amsterdam. A wonderful step, and we are both proud and sad to see him leave. Andre will be hiring soon, and is a great scientist and mentor! Watch out for opportunities

Earthworms have ‘completely scrambled’ genomes. Did that enable their ancestors to leave the sea? | Science | science.org/content/articl…