Charlie Anderson
@candersonlab.bsky.social
Husband. Dad. Plant cell biologist working on solutions for a sustainable future. Striving to effect positive change. Triathlete. Musician. Views are my own.
Latest episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast! It was a wonderful discussion with Venky about his recently published paper @plantphys.bsky.social on root hair & mechanical stress. Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/4Mhh... Article: academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
Happy 50th Birthday to Shaver's Creek Environmental Center, from me and a few of the animals we saw there this afternoon: a bright eastern bluebird, a sweet fawn, and a proud pileated woodpecker! @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
Looking forward to connecting, learning, brainstorming, and developing plans for action at the Penn State Climate Solutions Symposium - Partners for a Resilient Pennsylvania and the World! #pennstate #climateaction
Peer review crisis — this seems to make sense: A transparent universal credit system to incentivize peer review www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Penn State Biology is hiring! We have an opening for a tenure-line faculty position in plant biology - if you'd like to pursue awesome science in a supportive and interdisciplinary community of researchers, consider applying! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Plant Biology
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Mentees sometimes ask "how many peer review assignments should I take on per year?", and I share good advice I got from Andrew Read: review around three times as many articles as you want to publish per year, since editors typically ask for three reviewers per article. Sounds logical to me!✍️🧠👨🎓
Check out this wonderful 90 second video highlighting our group's research and teaching in the Penn State Eberly College of Science - a big thank you to Michelle Bixby and the ECOS communications office! #PlantCellWalls 🪴 🔬 🤓 www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Dd...
Faculty in 90- Charles Anderson
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Mushrooms - they're not just tasty and nutritious, but can also make woody biomass more digestible! Thrilled that this work, spearheaded by undergrad Hannah Klatte and brought to publication by Niroshan Siva, in collab with Swathi Kothattil and John Pecchia, is out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Sequential cultivation of oyster and shiitake mushrooms on willow enhances biomass degradability - Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
Natural or man-made catastrophes, such as asteroid strikes, super-volcano eruptions, or nuclear war, could create environments with low sunlight and temperatures, severely disrupting agriculture and r...
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This keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) wishes you a Happy New Year - here's to being courageous, colorful, and kind in 2026!
Today I am contemplating cacti: resilient, prickly, and alluring. Here's a lovely example from the Phipps Conservatory, a gem in the heart of Pittsburgh.
Are you interested in pursuing groundbreaking research and gaining world-class training in plant biology in a supportive community amidst the beauty of Happy Valley? Consider applying to the the Plant Biology PhD Program! Applications due December 1: www.huck.psu.edu/graduate-pro...
Really nice story by Amber Dance about the dynamic nature of the plant cell wall! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular cross talk help in creating better crops?
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Penn State Biology is hiring! We have an opening for a tenure-line faculty position in neurobiology - if you'd like to pursue awesome science in a supportive and interdisciplinary community of biologists, consider applying! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Neurobiology Tenure Track Faculty Position
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It took me a while to track down a photo, but I'm very proud of Leila Jaafar for defending her PhD thesis on stomatal biomechanics and cell walls! Leila is off to make amazing bean plants in her postdoc, with one of my former postdocs (aka I am old!) 😆
Want to learn about how to translate your awesome plant science into everyday impacts? Come to our workshop at Plant Biology 2025, From Seed to Tree: How Policy Can Help Plant Science Discoveries Grow into Companies in the Emerging Bioeconomy, 11:15-12:45 on Tuesday July 29 in 203AB!
Seeds that are spread by drones in reforestation projects often die - we're exploring new strategies to help them survive and thrive! Kudos to Anuleka Dutta in my group for writing this blog piece, and to Kevin Sliman at @ieepennstate.bsky.social for editing. iee.psu.edu/news/blog/wh...
Why drone-planted forests can struggle to take root—and a nature-inspired solution
As deforestation accelerates, reforestation efforts face a major hurdle: most scattered seeds don’t survive. New bio-inspired research is developing natural seed coatings to help seeds withstand tough...
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Proud to be attending Penn State's Climate Solutions Symposium, featuring keynote speaker Nemonte Nenquimo (on right), who has helped protect the Amazon rainforest from destruction; acting together with courage and kindness, we can build a better future for everyone.
Congratulations to Alec Paradiso on graduating with a combined undergraduate and masters degree in Biotechnology! Alec co-authored multiple papers in my lab, always with a smile. Best of luck to Alec as he embarks on the next stage of his scientific career at Moderna!
Very proud of Quentin Hays on the successful defense of his PhD thesis - solving some of the mysteries of Rhamnogalacturonan-II, a beautifully complex pectic polysaccharide! Here he is between his co-advisor, Arnaud Lehner, and me at GlycoMEV at the University of Rouen.
Thrilled to share that as of July 1 I'll be chairing Penn State's Plant Biology graduate program - I'm grateful to Teh-hui Kao for guiding the program over the last 26 (!) years, and look forward to supporting learning and discovery for our future leaders in plant biology!
📣 Scientists and supporters of science: here's an opportunity to make our collective voice heard! #standupforscience rallies on March 7: standupforscience2025.org
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
March 7, 2025. Washington DC and Nationwide. Because Science is for everyone.
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My brother Dan (also a cell biologist) and I co-wrote a piece about the importance of funding scientific research - check it out! medium.com/@danieljames...
Scientific research has vastly improved Americans’ health and prosperity — reducing funding now…
Charles T. Anderson, PhD and Daniel J. Anderson, PhD
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First grant proposal of 2025 submitted today, second one going in tomorrow (both with amazing collaborators) - excited by the prospect of launching some new projects to explore the dynamics of plant cell walls! 🤞🌱🔬😀
As 2024 draws to a close, I'm incredibly grateful to the members of the Anderson Lab for expanding the boundaries of knowledge and tacking big, challenging, beneficial science together. Go team! 🤜🤛
Look what I made, just in time for the holiday season! 🦋 With help from Scholar Goggler scholargoggler.com
Are you a PhD interested in applying computer vision and ML to biology? Apply by Feb 29 for a funded postdoc position in our collaborative NSF project studying the development and dynamics of stomata! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
Lovely news article by Sam Sholtis highlighting our new collaborative project to study how grass stomata work, funded by the NSF! science.psu.edu/news/145m-ns...
Hello Bluesky! Excited to share a new story in which we collaborated with Joe Turner's group to use 3D nanoindentation of stomatal guard cells to determine their anisotropic cell wall mechanics and turgor pressure simultaneously: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar.... Check it out!
