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diorkelley.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Iowa State University. Plant developmental geneticist, loves auxin and roots
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Having a great time hosting Courtney Hollender for our Crop Bioengineering Center seminar today πŸŒΈπŸŽπŸ’πŸ‘

So happy to have Aman Husbands in Ames today for our seminar speaker! πŸŒ±πŸ€“πŸŽ‰

!! INPPO 2025 Early Bird Registration Extended !! Due to request, we have extended the early bird deadline to March 7th 2025. Check out www.inppo2025.org to register today! Multiple travel awards available for trainees & abstract selected talks available for everyone!

Congratulations to the 27 new #EMBOYoungInvestigators! πŸŽ‰ www.embo.org/press-releas...

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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 The Slate Plant Ecology Lab @ Ohio State University is seeking a Full-Time Senior Research Technician w/ plant ecophysiology experience to manage seed-based laboratory research projects. $17.31 - 22.77/hr Deadline: Feb 28 🌎🌾πŸ§ͺπŸŒ±πŸŒΏπŸπŸŒ²πŸŒ³πŸ„πŸͺ΄πŸ₯Ό #GenerationRestoration #JobAlert #PlantScience

Post-Doctoral Research Associate Position at University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Cropping Systems research https://employment.unl.edu/postings/95373 #PlantJobs

This is going to be such a great meeting!

Making plant tissue accessible for cryo-electron tomography https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.14.638237v1

Who needs a vibratome when a good chefs knife will do?

After an extensive search, the Danforth Center has named Giles Oldroyd, PhD, its next President. @gilesoldroyd.bsky.social is a renowned plant geneticist & one of only a few hundred scientists elected to both the UK @royalsociety.org & the US @nasonline.org. www.danforthcenter.org/news/interna...

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

Delighted to unveil the poster and speakers list of the Mechanism of Plant Development meeting. 2 keynotes by @bradylabs.bsky.social & @nikogeldner.bsky.social to honour the legacy of P. Benfey & J. Chory. Congrats to @minyaaa.bsky.social for her beautiful Mimulus image. ➑️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a

Join the EMBO-FEBS Course 26-30 May 2025 in Blois, France on: - Organelle-microbe conflicts - Host-pathogen communication - Compartmentalization during infection - Metabolic control of and manipulation by pathogens Register by March 1st! meetings.embo.org/event/24-hos...

Internationally recognized plant scientist named next President of the Danforth Plant Science Center Congratulations Giles!

ATTENTION If you are on a study section that was scheduled to meet, please post or DM me with information regarding: 1. The name of the study section 2. The scheduled date 3. Whether the meeting actually occurred THANK YOU

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

We are looking for motivated post docs. Projects on Alzheimer’s and Synucleinopathy. New mouse models, combined lightsheet/15.2T MRI and high throughput cognitive testing using touchscreens. Perfect for a recent graduate in Neurosciences or related field. Come work with us in πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸ‘ŠπŸ˜€πŸ§ͺ please share.

Egg white protein (ovalbumin) produced in transgenic potatoes. Stored in tubers, straightforward to harvest and extract. Scalable. rdcu.be/d9XLg

Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.

To US colleagues who have lost or are in imminent danger of losing their jobs: please DM whether we can accommodate your research.

Brilliant and hard working former postdoc from my lab (plant and microbial molecular genetics) was just laid off from her job at the USDA. She is looking for job. You would love to have her in your lab. Pls share. Pls let me know if you have position

From the chaos of mutations.. flowers emerge 🌹 Happy valentines day everyone!

πŸ“…New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: 25th Conference of the Austrian Society of Plant Biology🌱 πŸ‘‰ https://eventform.plantae.org/plantae.calendar/detail/1405/1748491200000 #PlantScience

A single-cell and spatial wheat root atlas with cross-species annotations delineates conserved tissue-specific marker genes and regulators: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

🌿 BSA Undergraduate Research Awards – Now Open! 🌿 Undergraduate students, apply for a $500 award to support your botanical research! Application Deadline: March 15, 2025 (Midnight PT) For more information, visit: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAawards #BSAundergraduates #UGSRA #IamaBotanist

🌱Several BSA Sectional Student Travel Awards (STAs) are now open! Each Section has different requirements & award amounts, so check them all out via the Awards Schedule: botany.org/home/awards.... Questions? Email [email protected]. #BSAStudentAwards #BSAsections #IamaBotanist #Botany2025

Call for Nominations: BSA Impact Award ✨🌿 The $1000 #BSAImpactAward honors individuals, groups, or institutions that have made a lasting impact in fostering a more inclusive and welcoming environment in the botanical sciences. Deadline: May 1, 2025 botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAImpactAward

Calling all botanical scientists! Abstract submissions for Botany 2025 – Botany without Barriers are NOW OPEN! Join us July 26-30 in Palm Springs, CA, & share your research with 1,000+ colleagues. Submission Deadline: April 14, 2025. Submit today: www.xcdsystem.com/botany/abstr... #Botany2025

I'm not sure how to explain how financially devastating this will be for universities. This is, literally, catastrophic for universities and for science in the United States.

Happy to see that our Cell wall integrity #CWI & #ATG8ylation #preprint found a home @natureplants www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats Jose, Peng, Alessia & everyone involved. Stay tuned for exciting updates on this story…

Did you know that BSA gives out over $125,000 in awards each year? 🌿 Grad students, apply for a $1500 Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA), including the J.S. Karling & A.J. Harris GSRAs. Deadline: Feb 17, 2025. Apply now: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAawards #BSAstudents #IamaBotanist

A necessary discussion!

Deadline approaching! Submit your abstracts for our call for papers on #stomata: https://www.newphytologist.org/news/view/353 Deadline: 14 February 2025 #PlantScience

🌿 BSA & ASPT offer a $1,000 grant for projects that connect the botanical sciences with the public & policymakers! Proposal Deadline: March 1, 2025 Open to all active members. For more information and to apply, visit: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAawards #BSApublicpolicy #IamaBotanist

πŸ†• Our #LatestIssue is online now! πŸ“š https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698137/2024/245/6 🌱 Genomic secrets of invasive #plants 🌱 Pot vs field #experiment trade-offs 🌱 Centromere #diversity: impact on plant karyotypes & reproduction Read more πŸ‘‡πŸ§΅

πŸ“œ A green lifetime biosensor for calcium that remains bright over its full dynamic range πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ Franka H van der Linden, @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social, et al. πŸ“” @elife.bsky.social πŸ”— elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... #️⃣ #Microscopy #Calcium #Biosensor #Bioimaging #Fluorophores

Do you work in the interface of Physics and Biology? Come and join us @Leeds and Harrogate for the @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social conference this year. And if Plants is your system of choice stay 1d to the Plant Biomechanics meeting. International attendees Welcome! www.iop.org/events/uk-pl...

Towards targeted #engineering of promoters via deletion of repressive cis-regulatory elements πŸ“– nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... πŸ‘† A #Commentary by Flora Zhiqi Wang & Krishna K. Niyogi on this article by Wang et al. πŸ‘‡ πŸ“– nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

🚨SAVE the DATE!🚨 Auxin 2026 October 4-8 2026 Portugal πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Ή auxin2026.info Logo Design Competition is now live! πŸ‘€ @diorkelley.bsky.social @larsostergaard.bsky.social

Nominations for Arabidopsis Community awards are still open today! www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/community-aw...

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genome editing and imaging πŸŒ±πŸ…πŸ§¬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mrdpm5yf

ASPB SURF applications close Feb 7 - awesome opportunity to support UG plant bio research! aspb-surf.secure-platform.com/a

If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!) royalsociety.org/grants/newto...