New hope for the battle again citrus greening disease; an anti-microbial peptide from Australian finger lime. Another example of the need to protect biodiversity. news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/…

Started 131 years ago.. now we’re here. Thank you to Dan Walter with Aggieville Archives and the Riley County Historical Society and Museum for the pictures!

"Global trade and monoculture will lead to crop disease pandemics that jeopardize world food systems, experts warn." scidev.net/global/agricul…

Stay weird.

I can’t believe anyone would have to be told not to plant random seeds that show up in your mailbox, but I’ve also seen Facebook posts from people asking for identification of seedlings that they had randomly planted so I guess this is where we are at.

Hey. Look at us. Who woulda thought?

I feel attacked.

Today is a great reminder that the Kansas legislature is embarrassingly and dangerously dysfunctional. Republican leaders are on the verge of sabotaging the state of emergency bc they don't like the bill they wrote months ago. Every seat is up for election this year. #ksleg

Podosphaera, powdery mildew chasmothecium (brown round structure) with the ascus holding eight ascospores squeezed out (hyaline circular structure). The “feet” of the appendages also visible at 200x magnification. instagram.com/tsuelter

I fear Trump may never share with us his very excellent healthcare plan now.

Convolvulaceae gratin is my favorite.

Elizabeth Bejan peers into a telescope trained on the Jupiter and Saturn conjunction appearing just above the rooftops of her neighbors Monday night. Hobbyist Rick Wohlfarth set up his telescope on Forest Street and invited neighbors to view the planetary alignment. KCUR

I love New Year’s Eve. So much excitement! In need of a resolution? Well, here’s a list of a couple of my rules for livin’ to get you inspired. 1. Be curious, not judgmental (Thanks Walt) 2. Be a goldfish (Like Sam) 3. Let yourself enjoy that biscuit (You deserve it, Rebecca)

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Happy to share our new preprint about unexpected and complex error-prone DNA repair at on-target sites following Cas12a editing in the fungal pathogen M. oryzae🎯 Great teamwork with @ David Rowe Wei Zhang Tyler Suelter @ValentLab David E Cook biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Why are you, as a university, emailing underpaid grad students about Giving Tuesday

Last night was great night for chatting about #science and #fungi at #fungal22.

Congratulations Nar! @rajendra_nar I wish I could have been there!