2026 Program – Southern ASPB Section
Registration open for 87th Annual Southern ASPB conference March 13-15th in Lafayette LA.
Travel awards available. @aspbofficial.bsky.social @aspb-pui.bsky.social @ecps.bsky.social @plantphys.bsky.social @theplantcell.bsky.social
southern.aspb.org/2026-annual-...
03.02.2026 20:44 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Image Text: Plant BLOOME 2025 ASPB's Plant Biology Learning Objectives, Outreach Materials & Education Grant. Grant Submission deadline: April 24, 2026. Apply Now! Featuring ASPB and BLOOME logo.
🚨Opportunity Alert: ASPB wants to share and fund your plant curriculum materials! Receive up to $8500 to create and disseminate classroom activities & labs that support teaching the Principles for Teaching Plant Biology.🌱
👉 Learn more and apply by April 24: buff.ly/21u2H27!
#PlantScience
04.02.2026 12:15 — 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
An AI-driven pipeline for the discovery of hidden peptides in plant proteomes: the CLE family as a case study https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.31.703007v1
03.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
BSPP MSc/MRes Bursary, up to £4,000 to support postgraduate study in plant pathology.
www.bspp.org.uk/funds/mscmres/
#PlantPathology #PostgradFunding #BSPP
03.02.2026 12:30 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Join us in Toulouse !!
03.02.2026 22:35 — 👍 9 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
🎙️☘️🔬
New episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast of this year!
I had a wonderful discussion with Heather about her Cell Reports paper.
Podcast: tinyurl.com/a9vcteru
Article: tinyurl.com/4dhxuye2
31.01.2026 19:23 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Multiple protein structure alignment at scale with FoldMason
Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...
FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social.
📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason
💾 github.com/steineggerla...
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Cool SEO trick! Although it looks like Google scholar ranks articles based on citations not views alone. That exercise may work for URLs to lab websites though.
29.01.2026 23:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Unequal web presence?
29.01.2026 23:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Exactly what these legumes (and students) need! 👏🏽👏🏽
28.01.2026 22:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🧪🌱 Our paper on Genomics of Botanical Collections for the #TeachingTools collection of @theplantcell.bsky.social is out! 🎉 A wonderful publishing experience because we made a great team producing the paper but also thanks to the invaluable help of @plantteaching.bsky.social with the editing.
24.01.2026 15:28 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
A slide from the Teaching Tool. What are botanical collections?
Types of collections. Herbaria, Living Collections, Seed, pollen, and spore banks; DNA and tissue banks; Palnological collections, Digital Collections, Ethnobotanical collections.
New Teaching Tool!
blog.aspb.org/new-teaching...
Check out the latest unit in the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology series, “Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections: Opportunities and Challenges,” by M. Deglialberti, C. Paleni, F. Fainelli, C. Lambertini, & Silvia Manrique. @tank-silvia.bsky.social
24.01.2026 12:52 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Ané Lab
Jean-Michel Ané
2 postdoc openings in my lab:
anelab.wisc.edu/join-us.html
One for a maize geneticist and one for a bacterial geneticist
Picture featuring @manishbiotechie.bsky.social, @balptekin.bsky.social and @sairamnagalla.bsky.social. The first two left my lab over the last few months to start their own labs!
18.01.2026 23:50 — 👍 15 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 2
NAASC has funds to support 4 travel awards for U.S. students & postdocs that work on Arabidopsis and want to attend ICAR 2026-Singapore!
👍 The deadline to apply is February 10
👍 please read eligibility criteria before applying
Application information here:
www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/icar-funding
14.01.2026 01:05 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Now accepting proposals for field trips that take plant health science beyond the meeting room and into working systems, active research sites, and real-world challenges.
Submit by February 20: https://bit.ly/3LJFYe3
#planthealth2026 #plantpathology
12.01.2026 21:46 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
😂 Hilarious! But to me the woman with the dark brown hair and the woman with the fringe look Asian! I feel seen!
16.10.2025 15:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This paper and resources on teaching CRISPR in plant biology are available for anyone who needs them! So glad to have completed this manuscript with 16 (!) graduate and undergraduate students in my class.
16.10.2025 15:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Developing a. CRISPR-based gene editing course in Plant Biology" says the screen. Sonali stands in front of the screen
Adapting the course for advanced agriculture/ biology majors
Mary talking about science communication.
A group of 18 happy biologists.
I had a wonderful time participating in the teach-the-teachers CRISPR course co-organized by Sonali Roy, held at the beautiful MIT campus. The participants were HBCU faculty & local high school biol teachers. Lectures in the morning and labs in the afternoon, thanks to Maxine & Masami. 👍👍🧬 #PlantSci
09.07.2025 17:21 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
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Preprint: Calcium-triggered apoplastic ROS bursts balance gravity and mechanical signals to navigate soil
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Movie: Gravitropic response visualized using auxin sensor (R2D2) in control (top panel) and NADPH oxidase inhibitor (VAS2870) (bottom panel)
11.01.2025 22:35 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Oh no! This is really sad. He was truly a lovely human.
30.12.2024 22:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Creating culture of support in plant sciences – ROOT & SHOOT
Creating a culture of support in plant sciences
rootandshoot.org/creating-cul...
Being seen as our whole selves & having those selves acknowledged & respected is foundational to establishing an effective, productive relationship, especially when there's a power differential. @root-shoot.bsky.social
23.11.2024 10:15 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Exploring plant-virus interaction. ASPB Planate Fellow 2025; Assistant Feature Editor for MPMI journal of APS.
Cell adhesion, cytoskeletal regulation, Wnt signaling & wherever science leads us + wildflowers & my own idiosyncratic views. First gen college grad
Diversity, equity & Inclusion are core American Values
https://peiferlab.web.unc.edu
A #PlantSci #postdocs community supporting advancement to the next career stage. Tweets by the leadership team. To join visit http://plantpostdocs.com
Postdoctoral researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory studying how sorghum’s genetics shape its response to nutrient stresses, because feeding the future starts in the genome :)
Plant cell biologist, interested in endocytosis, autophagy, plant-virus interactions, and all things microscopy 🌱🔬🦠
Scientist Exploring Plant Stress Responses on Earth and Beyond.
Asst. Prof. at Ohio University
Alumni: UW-Madison, Montana State University, ITU
Assistant Professor @ UMass Dartmouth. Interested in actin, amoebae, microscopy, and sciart. she/her
katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science
Postdoc at Penn State studying plant development, ecophys and genetics 🌱🐾🔬
PhD student at DBT-NIPGR, India.
Interested in Plant development biology, Interplay of phytohormones and abiotic stress responses
#NIPGR #Womeninscience
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Connecticut studying functional trait tradeoffs in bromeliads 🍍 Also involved in genomics and systematics of the sunflower family 🌻🥬🌼
ermoore-pollard.com
PhD student of Stegmann Lab at Ulm University
Interested in Phytopathology and Receptor signaling
Formerly: TU Munich and ZMBP Tübingen
🌱 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Postdoc @slcuplants.bsky.social; Jones Group; Alumnus @Schaller Lab at Uni-Hohenheim; 🍅 Systemin🐛;Plant immunity; Phosphoproteomics; R coding; She/her; 🐶🐱lover adopt a 🦜
Mitogen-activated protein kinases, Cytoskeleton, ROS, Polarity, Biotechnology, Molecular Cell Biology, Development, Advanced microscopy, Plant-microbe interactions, Proteomics, Gene-editing, Stress
https://www.prf.upol.cz/en/department-of-biotechnology/
Postdoc in starch at the John Innes Centre 🥔 Honorary Fellow at the University of East Anglia 📓 PhD from the Plant Science Lab at Cranfield University 🥭
PhD student at the John Innes Centre
🍃Studying leaf morphogenesis 🍃
PhD Researcher of the Medfly microbiota at UEA.
• Researching host-microbe symbioses in Tephritid flies.
• Also a big fan of statistics, modelling and general programming #RStats.
• Other interests are teaching, scientific outreach and engagement.
Molecular and Cell Biologist - Interested in Plant Adaptation to Environment - Innovative, Sharp and Fun Science
Plant Sciences | Post Doctoral Research Associate @ Institute of Genomic Biology, UIUC | Interested in understanding plants' response to abiotic stresses using network biology and modeling tools.
Postdoctoral scientist @phimresearch.bsky.social) & @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social
Biochemical/structural studies of proteins to understand plant disease/immunity & improve crop health 🌾🌱
She/her. Views my own.
Plant Pathology Research Lab, National Taiwan Normal University
Plantae Fellow @plantaeofficial.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social
