We are hiring a postdoc or a PhD student to join our group at the University of Würzburg! Teaming up with Renner Lab and Ulrike Bauer to study the functional surface and digestive physiology of carnivorous plants. Any Qs, please get in touch! dropbox.com/s/m0n1i9un16wu…

This is why I love #Botany2021 - learning about things I would never have considered! Kadeem Gilbert is enlightening us on variation and causes of variation in the pH of the phylloplane (leaf surface) across plants. CRAZY COOL! #EcoPhysKids

Great timing, my latest paper Renner Lab "Acid or base? How do plants regulate the ecology of their phylloplane" is now up in its final fully formatted version: doi.org/10.1093/aobpla…. You can still see the talk I gave on it at #Botany2021 (Abstract 453). Leaf surface pH!

Catching up on talks from the morning, and learning about variation in phylloplane pH from Kadeem Gilbert- They presented an awesome breadth of work and it is quite thought provoking re: floral pH manipulation. Added academic.oup.com/aobpla/article… to the reading list!

Join us in welcoming Dr. Kadeem Gilbert to KBS as an assistant professor in the MSU College of Natural Science Department of Plant Biology. Very excited to have Kadeem and the Gilbert Lab here at KBS! More: buff.ly/3s2smfQ Kadeem Gilbert

So happy for Dr Kelli Hoover and Dr Flor Acevedo, who are being celebrated by Entomological Society of America for their entomological achievements 💪🏽🤩🪲well deserved! #WomenInSTEM

Yunjia Liu is a grad student in the Huck's Plant Biology program. Her PhD mentor is Tanya Renner (Renner Lab), Assistant Professor of Entomology. huck.psu.edu/plantbio

Vector Biology position coming very soon at Penn State! Tenure Track- Assistant/Associate Professor

I am looking to hire a postdoc, see: careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5090…

"The project will result in an understanding of how pathogen populations withstand different types of membrane disruption, and in turn, which treatments could be used in combination to mitigate these effects.” — Kevin Hockett, assistant professor of microbial ecology

An article appearing on the Smithsonian Magazine website today quotes Renner Lab of the Huck's Center for Parasitic and Carnivorous Plants: smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…

UPDATE: The digestive systems of carnivorous plants Kenji Fukushima (福島 健児) Kadeem Gilbert Renner Lab #PlantSci doi.org/10.1093/plphys…

[New Review] We discuss the digestive capacities of carnivorous plants in comparison to those of animals. Congrats to co-first authors matt.freund and Doro, and to great collaborators Kadeem Gilbert Renner Lab Victor A. Albert and others not on Twitter! academic.oup.com/plphys/advance…

Review of carnivorous plant digestive systems with Kenji Fukushima (福島 健児) , Renner Lab , Victor A. Albert, and others now fully formatted: doi.org/10.1093/plphys…

Learn about genome evolution in floral nectar bacteria today at #Evol2022 ⁦Vivianna Sanchez⁩ is speaking at 5:15 in room 21! Fun collab with ⁦Renner Lab⁩ ⁦Rachel Vannette⁩ ⁦

It's out in First Look in Phytobiomes Journal! Hanareia, PhD put in a heroic effort to develop disease suppressive phyllosphere micro communities through serial passaging. #phyllosphere #plantdisease psuPPEM Huck Institutes One Health Microbiome Center tinyurl.com/3auewzh5 1/4

Jim Tumlinson left us with one last, special article to enjoy and learn from - his autobiography. 🐛 Complex and Beautiful: Unraveling the Intricate Communication Systems Among Plants and Insects annualreviews.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

It was great presenting in-person again this year. More to come on the microbial half next year!

Our review paper "The digestive systems of carnivorous plants" is now featured in the issue cover of Plant Physiology . Look at this amazing sundew catching damselflies! This spectacular photo was taken by coauthor Andreas Fleischmann.

SNEAK PEEK! 🥀We're going to be delving into the gruesome world of carnivorous plants and finding out how geneticists are planning to put carnivory genes in our crop plants 🍅 Subscribe now to be the first to listen: geneticsunzipped.com/how-to-listen