Ben Mansfeld

These are Pennelli x Pimpi crosses 😳

Came here to say the same thing 🤣

Still eating the same Russet Burbank since 1873 🥔

Fantastic keynote & student invited talk by @cellforganized.bsky.social at our WashU Plant Microbial Bioscience retreat! Really cool work on intracellular positioning of organelles and condensates in cyanobacteria.
Was a pleasure to host you!

Yes we use the magmax kits. Don't know the price of plastics since we are still eating in to our "free" stock that came with the machine

Yeah... the kingfisher isn't as expensive as a mass-spec and with out jinxing myself, has way less repairs and moving parts. Overall very happy with it and the quality of nucleic acids it produces

Rock on! 🤘

I haven't done the math but the robot was expensive🫰. I do like it a lot tho. We're extracting hundreds of samples per experiment sometimes. So we're also saving time on human hours. Hard to beat 96 samples in an hour for DNA and 1.5 for RNA...

Funky Floral Phenotypes!

Maybe less..

We have a kingfisher robot so I think it costs about $4 per sample. Honestly we're still going through our free kits that came with the robot

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Github repo is here:
github.com/ryandkuster/...

Ragnarok: a flexible and RApid GeNe Annotation (ROcKs) pipeline deployed through Nextflow Motivation High-quality genome assemblies and pangenomes are increasingly accessible and achievable due to advances in third-generation sequencing and assembly algorithms, but genome annotation remain...

Gene annotation remains a huge bottleneck in genomics but @pomics.bsky.social & Meg Staton's group at Tennessee have put together an awesome fast and accurate pipeline! Thrilled to have contributed to this awesome team effort. Check out the preprint here 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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This semester, for our Plant & Micro Biosci Grad program, I'm developing a new course on ✨Peer Review✨ & critical thinking. Final project is a full review of a preprint!

I'd love to have a journal editor zoom with the class to share their perspective and do a Q&A.
Anyone interested?

Pls share!

Really frustrating...
Our gradute program has a one year rotation built-in. So now none of our students can be eligible once they join a lab....

Please share! I'm looking for a postdoc. The position is to lead one of the following projects: 1) regulation of plant specialized metabolism by cell fate, or 2) foliar embryogenesis in the succulent plant Kalanchoe.

Learn more abt projects: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/res...

We're having an amazing inogural #STLPlantFam25 conference! Right now Dr. Lúcia Lohmann the new director of @mobotgarden.bsky.social shares how herbariums change our understanding of the world! @39northstl.bsky.social

Sorry Li.... Maybe worth talking to the PO?

These are some super caffeinated red wigglers 🪱 ☕ hahah

Rich black compost in hand

Scooping out compost in a lab beaker

Our plastic worm compost bin in the hallway

Mansfeld lab first worm compost harvest! 🪱 🪱 🪱

Love this!

I thought those were only at night???
🥁🥁🥁🥁

I'll see myself out.....

I have so much #PlantBio2025 FOMO right now! If you are there and interested in plant-microbe interactions go check out our lab's posters 400-41 and 400-08, where postdoc Anu and grad student Emmily are presenting awesome work on how clocks and development impact defense!!! #PlantBiology25

Just saw on your bio that you are starting at MSU! That's amazing 🤩🤩🤩 congratulations happy to hop on a zoom sometime and chat about starting a lab or maybe some collabs

Do you mean at ASPB or in general? I'm sadly not there this year but always happy to connect more 😺

Highly recommend using the python wrapper of MCScanX on the jvci package. Look on conda

I got this on my feed too and was so relieved to find out they finally figured it out 😅

Exciting! My post doc Anu Dhingra was accepted for a pitch presentation there! Excited to hear all about the workshop when she gets back!

Ooo this looks so interesting

This made me lol