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While you are here, please check out this postdoc opening for my lab: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Plant pathogen bacterium replaced its ancestral antibacterial secretion system with a new functional one, revealing bacterial adaptability.
This work highlights evolutionary innovation in microbial competition, crucial for understanding pathogen survival and plant disease dynamics.
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Excited to be on the @bsky.app and hoping to reconnect with all my followers and followees from Twitter/X
Congratulations Chenxin!!
An honour to be on this list! Iโm just one of many, many early career life scientists across the globe who have benefited from the support of the Company through its storied 100 year history โค๏ธ
Around 40 researchers stand in the lobby of UMN Cargill Hall in front of a large window and large agave plant.
Yoonjung Lee presents a slide on barley disease resistance evaluations.
Organizers Jonathan and Rebecca pose with attendees Felipe and Lucia, all holding their traditional Uruguayan matรฉ cups with bombilla straws
The 2025 Bacterial Leaf Streak Initiative Meeting has already led to so much learning and synergy, and we're only halfway through! Thank you to our visiting colleagues from Ohio State, @ndsuplantpathology.bsky.social, @sdstate.bsky.social, Colorado State, USDA, Manitoba, and INIA Uruguay ๐พ
One of the best plant disease meeting! Interactive sessions, career panel, international plenary speakers and researchers of bacterial leaf streak disease.
Thank you very much for being best host :)
Day 3 at BLS meeting @umnplantpath.bsky.social. Proud of my PhD students Muhammad Ahmad and @tapishpwr.bsky.social whose talks on BLS host resistance in wheat were outstanding! Proud mentors Karl Glover, @shysol4u.bsky.social. @sdstate.bsky.social. Moment with a fellow Plant Pathologist- Borlaug!
Last week we @plantpath.bsky.social, Mural lab, & Toporek lab celebrated graduate student appreciation week bringing togather plant protection and genomics groups at @sdstate.bsky.social A loud shoutout to Sachin, Israel, Riya, and Nikhil. Awesome combination of Food,Fun,Gifts & Graduates.
Fantastic 4th annual bacterial leaf streak research initiative meeting at @umnplantpath.bsky.social
Day1-Pathogen Biology and career development panel (Academia, industry and government representations) next year @sdstate.bsky.social will host it!
SDSU Plant Pathology Graduate Students!
Graduate student appreciation today and everyday!! @sdstate.bsky.social
In US, MN ranks #1 in oats; #3 in spring wheat; #9 in barley. $380M in #wheat exports alone.
Scientists are needed to support farmers producing these crops!
What's the future of #agriculture if we dismantle #AgriculturalScience research?
#PlantScience #USDA-ARS #AttackOnScience #PlantPathology
US plant science peeps: this is a *very* informative summary of the current state of plant science funding, and a call for your stories to help @aspbofficial.bsky.social make their case with public officials. Please re-skeet!
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blog.aspb.org/research-imp...
Attention Attention Attention
If anyone knows clinicians or patients who have knowledge of pediatric patients with the very rare cancer interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS) or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytoc sarcomas please contact Sri
1/19 ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ #๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ธ๐ผ๐ถ๐๐บ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฎ: During the years of famine in the mid-to-late 1920s in Russia, Russian agricultural scientists were pressured to produce new crop varieties. Trofim Lysenko was the Scientist who jumped at the chance and made the biggest promises. #Pseudoscience #Propaganda
A portrait of Daisy Roulland-Dussoix from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Roulland-Dussoix
Do you know Daisy Roulland-Dussoix? She is one of the discoverers of restriction enzymes, whoโs findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies. Accordingly, the finding was rewarded with a #NobelPrize. But the prize didnโt go to her.
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An NSF prize postdoc let me fund and help develop an audio course aligned with national standards for 3rd-5th grade science classrooms to use for free.
Now current fellows canโt even get their next paychecksโฆ
www.sciencepodcastforkids.com/universe
I think some people hear โgrantsโ and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
โPausingโ grants means people donโt eat.
Fun time in lab: Keyence BZ-X800 demo by Conor. I guess everyone likes it!
It's not always as simple as "one TALE, one S-gene" - very cool work from @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social and the team showing a single TALE targets 3 distinct cotton genes (2 SWEETs and a pectin lyase) to maximize virulence.