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Aman Husbands

@husbandslab.bsky.social

Assistant Professor, Univ of Pennsylvania. Plant developmental biology, robustness, evolution, transcription factors, Bajan rum, LFC

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Agree. And each narrative naturally suggests different questions and next directions. It’s a big responsibility!

11.02.2026 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This was a fun project for which Mattie @mschwall95.bsky.social visited our lab to try root live imaging. Of course the roots wouldn't grow during the week she was here until the last day, but she got it to work when she got back. Cool results.

09.02.2026 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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09.02.2026 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for the invitation, Sunil! Very nice to be back. Also, it was 79 degrees in Riverside and Philly was like 0 degrees, so….yeahπŸ˜‚

09.02.2026 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Agree!!

09.02.2026 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, I didn’t think about the patent side of things… A different set of constraints

09.02.2026 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Act2 and Ubi10 are my go-to strong promoters

09.02.2026 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We’re playing the game now…. Two clues solved

09.02.2026 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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09.02.2026 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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09.02.2026 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Carolyn! Very nice to be back in my old stomping grounds πŸ˜„

07.02.2026 05:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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….. I was told I was the best PI…….

05.02.2026 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to share our latest review on hydrosignaling: moisture-dependent molecular pathways that help plants grow towards water. Insightful review of the literature and discussion of moisture sensing mechanisms by Will Dwyer and @hhtormar.bsky.social. Enjoy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

04.02.2026 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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What’s funny is, when I first saw this movie I was like β€œa media baron as a villain?? Laaaame”. Now… prophecy πŸ₯΄

04.02.2026 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels.

The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research.

The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.

03.02.2026 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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🀯

03.02.2026 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Given the described activators of cambium growth, we reasoned repressors were needed to balance the system. Here they are! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Discovery: Xing, Jingyi, Emma, Riikka, Anne-Maarit, Julia, Qing, Hanan, Raluca, Joanna, Yuqi, Wiki
#plantscience #plantdev

02.02.2026 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem? From tiny mosses to giant redwoods, around 450,000 species of land plants show a huge variety of forms, yet all land plants develop from stem cells in proliferative meristems. What makes a meristem? T...

It was good to catch up on my reading for this dispatch in Current Biology. Sjoerd Woudenberg in the Weijers lab, Wallner et al. In the Dolan lab and Flores Sandoval et al. In the Bowman lab have done a great job! Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?: www.cell.com/current-biol...

02.02.2026 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve always thought corporate fines should be a percentage of gross profits. If the crime is particularly bad, tack on a percentage fine on CEO and board stock profits

02.02.2026 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œtriggers tension”… media speak reaching new lowsπŸ˜’

01.02.2026 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’€with a diddy jump scare for good measure

31.01.2026 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does the noncoding genome actually carry more genetic information than coding seqs? Motivated by this question we mutated every bp in the 10kb MYC locus. Results are even more exciting: Decoding the MYC locus reveals a druggable ultraconserved RNA element www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

31.01.2026 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6
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Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...

Absolutely delighted that our paper on epigenetic dynamics during plant aging is out today in Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

29.01.2026 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

Awesome!

29.01.2026 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Effects of exogenous brassinosteroid manipulation on bean stem morphology and anatomy.

Effects of exogenous brassinosteroid manipulation on bean stem morphology and anatomy.

XTH genes impact growth habit determination of twining common bean vine revealed by brassinosteroid treatment

Hunt et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FVDTFB...

28.01.2026 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œβ€¦is there another page with the rest of the money or….?”

29.01.2026 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Woo hoo! And such a beautiful picture 😍

26.01.2026 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
image of a maize inflorescence meristem that is labeled by the plasma membrane marker PIP2-CFP and BAM1D-YFP.

image of a maize inflorescence meristem that is labeled by the plasma membrane marker PIP2-CFP and BAM1D-YFP.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JAIVZX...

Excited to share my latest work in @newphyt.bsky.social. Here, we used TurboID proximity labeling with CLAVATA receptors FEA3 and BAM1D in maize meristems to better understand the signaling pathways important for meristem regulation. #PlantScience

26.01.2026 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

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