Day4 #MimuCourse2022 we isolated & transformed the plasmids into Agrobacteria, checked results of transient expression assay on confocal microscope. But the highlight is def UConn Dairy Bar ice cream and a great PhD defense from Dr. Vandana Gurung! #nsffunded #mimuluspropaganda

And a week has gone by fast!! Last day of #MimuCourse2022! What a awesome team! #mimulu #mimuluspropaganda #nsffunded #nsfedge

We are looking for a lab technician to help with various projects on the genetics bases and developmental mechanisms of floral trait diversification in #monkeyflowers (#Mimulus). Detailed job description please see jobs.hr.uconn.edu/cw/en-us/job/4…. Please RT!

#MimulusPropaganda We are thrilled that this paper led by the incredibly talented Mei Liang came out today, and we are very grateful to Andrea Berardi for a nice companion commentary (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…). We’re so used to thinking about phenotypic variation in terms of

New paper from Yaowu Yuan (袁耀武) lab led the incredible Mei Liang revealed how color change in #mimulus species caused by a SNP that made an additional ATG upstream of ORF - pigments got lost in translation, LITERALLY! #MimulusPropaganda on the cover of Science Advances! Amazing job Mei!

Very excited to share our newest mimulus study on Science advance. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Wow! my first tweet is for my first paper on mimulus, and the first paper on flower color. Keep going...

New Letter: "Massive crossover suppression by CRISPR–Cas-mediated plant chromosome engineering" rdcu.be/cVQOU Chromosome engineering to invert a 17.1 Mb fragment on chr. 2 in Arabidopsis: meiotic recombination could be suppressed in nearly the entire chromosome.

MY PAPER IS OUT IN Botanical Society of America !!! We characterize the development and transcriptomics of the weird and wonderful nectar spurs of bee- and hummingbird-pollinated columbine flowers. Obv marked the occasion on Science IRL🌸 youtube.com/watch?v=tkx8cL… Paper: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

I am looking for a Postdoc Research Associate/Research Group Manager to join my team for 3-5 years and help me look after a great research group focused on flower evolution and development. Please email or DM with questions and please retweet! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/36989/

Check out this poster that summarizes the major small RNA pathways in plants. Really nice artwork by Dmitry Shevela 🇺🇦!

We can now plant over 700 near-single Arabidopsis seeds per plate with a modified Ender 3 (~$200) 3D printer, the AraPrinter. Next, we will combine the AraPrinter1.0 with the 3D printer-based imaging system, Imag3D, to track germination with high temporal resolution. Stay tuned.

5 websites for drawing scientific figures: 👇 🧵

Congrats Amy.😘😘 Sooso nice work. Looking forward for the further stories for this novel phenotype 🌱.

haahaaa. Amazing Minya

For the past 6+ years, I had lots of thoughts about how floral meristems terminate to make flowers, esp from an evo-devo viewpoint. Now, these thoughts are distilled into 2000 words and I humbly share them with the community on New Phytologist. Comments & discussions are very welcome!

Iris hymenospatha ssp hymenospatha in two different colors Fars, Iran Feb 2023, Altitude 2300m

#Juglans & #Carya. #Walnuts and Hickorys: The diversity of edible nuts from the #Juglandaceae plant family.