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!
Ben Mansfeld
@bmansfeld.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at @WUSTLBio. Using genomics to study the intersection of Plant Defense, Circadian Rhythm and Development with genomics. I ❤️ dataviz (he/him/his) BenMansfeldLab.com
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...
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...
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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!
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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...
Plant cells are totipotent, meaning individual cells have the potential to develop into a full organism, a property unique to the zygote for animals. However, in most species for most cells, plant cells are not spontaneously totipotent, since they must be treated with specific hormone combinations to unlock their totipotency. Species within the Kalanchoe genus is unique as they spontaneously develop foliar embryos that are fully realized plantlets with shoot and root from notches along the edges of leaves. We speculate that the progenitor cells that give rise to these foliar embryos are totipotent, and we are using single cell techniques to identify & characterize them. In addition to being a fundamental process for plant biology, we foresee unlocking totipotency has many biotechnological applications, such as faciliating genetic transformation and the development of synthetic organs of biomanufacturing.
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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
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
Undergrads in my new NextGen Genetics course @WashU are finding amazing phenotypes diverging in a solanum F2 population! Next stop Bulk Segregant Analyses!
I've been sick with the flu for the past few days and just getting back to reading things. I'm so confused... What's going on? Is the NSF a paramilitary organization now?
Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll
The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky. Tell us about your experience.
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Embarrassingly realized I used the word "impact" 19 times in a two page proposal. My wife (and in-house copy editor) tells me it's not even a fricking VERB!!!
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Nothing makes me happier than pre-med students loving drawing plant anatomy 🍅🌱!!! My new lab course at WashU is going great 😃
Acadia is hiring an Assistant Professor, Tenure Track in Biopharma and Animal Physiology which closes February 3, see details here (and let me know if you have any questions about Acadia!) Please share: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
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Lab holiday potluck and Secret Santa! Happy holidays everyone!
If @beckybart.bsky.social is on Bluesky there are no excuses for anyone else! Follow her for great MPMI and genomics!
Ok I'll use this as an excuse for a 1st-ish post: Congratulations 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 to the two new PhD Candidates in my lab! Emmily and Sherlyn worked so hard to pass their exams. So *thankful* to have my whole team together and ready to do science!
Love a morning cup of coffee? New research published this week in Nature finds that the coffee-drinker microbiome is clearly distinct from non-drinkers. In an analysis of over 22,000 metagenomes across the US and UK, authors found a strong association between coffee consumption and microbiome.
Ok let's try Bluesky for science advice.... We just bought a dept TapeStation and I assumed it would run exactly like a BioAnalyzer, but it seems it can't get accurate RIN scores from tomato leaf RNA? Anyone else see this? RIN=5.7?
Opening for an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology, and Microbiology at Iowa State University. The focus for the position is the broad area of host-microbe interactions involving plants or insects. The URL is: go.iastate.edu/OU4OMR
Assistant Professor in Host-Microbe Interactions
Position Title: Assistant Professor in Host-Microbe Interactions Appointment Type: Faculty Job Description: Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: Applicants are invited to apply for a tenure-track f...
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“Every night I was working: grant, grant, grant,” Karikó remembered, referring to her efforts to obtain funding. “And it came back always no, no, no.” By 1995, after six years on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, Karikó got demoted. #Nobelprize2023 www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/t...
There's a lot of folks here already! I feel like I'm late to the party....
