Dior Kelley
@diorkelley.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Iowa State University. Plant developmental geneticist, loves auxin and roots
Applications to join the ROOT & SHOOT SI-MI mentor training close Monday July 20!! Last chance! rootandshoot.org/simi2026/ This is a fantastic free online course, running from late August through late Nov. If you're at #PlantBio2026 ask me about it, but don't delay!
#Pollen longevity and viability dataset: an integrated resource for plant research and #conservation A Community Resource by Louise Winther, Conny Bruun Asmussen Lange and Sergey Rosbakh nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience
Had a wonderful time celebrating my postdoc advisor, Mark Estelle yesterday. Happy retirement Mark!
"While an unconventional background is not necessarily disqualifying, it does require greater scrutiny of the nomination by Congress.” AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh urges the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions to hold an open hearing before voting to confirm James O'Neill.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo agoThe largest general science group in the U.S. called on Thursday for the Senate to hold a public hearing on the nomination of Jim O’Neill to head the National Science Foundation and questioned his credentials to run one of the top funders of basic research.
There's still time to submit an abstract for consideration for the 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions Be quick - the deadline is midnight PDT (UTC-7), 20 May! www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps #PlantScience
Forest interactions
Explore plant interactions in forest environments at all levels from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology.Abstract submission now open - deadline 20 May 2026…
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A SAUR gene enhances maize drought resilience by promoting silk elongation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A SAUR gene enhances maize drought resilience by promoting silk elongation - Nature
The Small Auxin Up RNA (SAUR) protein ZmSAUR72 in maize (Zea mays) promotes silk growth via regulation of H+-ATPase activity, and is a key determinant of the anthesis-silking interval and thus resilie...
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Reimagining Plant Science Training in the Era of Generative AI: A Global Perspective academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
Reimagining Plant Science Training in the Era of Generative AI: A Global Perspective
Abstract. In recent years, a deluge of big and diverse datasets from hundreds of plant species coupled with spectacular innovations in artificial intellige
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Tired of translating everything to B73 IDs just to run GO enrichment? Introducing FETA: a one-stop functional enrichment tool for all 26 maize NAM genomes. Includes multiple ontology types, RNA-seq integration, and paper-ready figures. Led by Olivia Haley. feta.maizegdb.org
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Big congrats to Dr. Callwood and Mr. Faith Olusegun who just earned their graduate degrees in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from ISU! So proud of you.
Community resource: Structure and sequence evolution in the pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) pangenome Bird, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience
First first-author pub mugs for Jodi and Clarice!! I’m so lucky to have awesome grad students 🤓💚🌽
As an elected Member-at-Large for AAAS Section Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources (O) I am working to support the AAAS mission to advance science and serve society! @aaas.org
NAASC has funding for US-based trainees to attend ICAR 2026 in Singapore. Applications are due tomorrow! www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/icar-funding
Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Excited to join the Editorial Board of @plosbiology.org, the #PLOS flagship journal in the Life Sciences, that's blazing a trail in support of selective, equitable #OpenScience and reaching global audiences to help advance science faster 📝 🤓 🌱
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!
Full Professor and Chair Laboratory of Biophysics
We are looking for a Full Professor in the Biophysics chair group, part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
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Does the winter weather have you day dreaming about the beach? Register for AUXIN 2026 and join us in the Algarve, Portugal on Oct 4-8th for all things auxin :) This meeting only happens every four years, so don't wait...
👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk
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Not a delight when it ruins all your pollinations 🫠😱 Iowa humor 🌽😂
🌱 aspbofficial.bsky.social presented @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social Kevin Cox, PhD, the Eric E. Conn Young Investigator Award in recognition of his contributions to plant pathology and spatial biology research & commitment to meaningful outreach and service. Congrats Kevin! loom.ly/jIIgq2o
Before this #PlantBio2025 thread closes: two exciting opportunities now open for early-career plant scientists. 1. Plantae Fellows program, apply by Aug 31 plantae.org/2026fellowsa... 2. @theplantcell.bsky.social Assistant Features Editor program, apply by Sep 15. blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...
AUXIN 2026 logo competition! Please re-post. Deadline for submissions is Tuesday July 15th. Prize is free registration worth €500+ Auxin2026: auxin2026.info Send submissions to geraint@aab.org.uk @larsostergaard.bsky.social @luciastrader.bsky.social @dolfweijers.bsky.social
We are hiring! If you have experience in plant genomics + AI, or promoter engineering + synthetic biology, check out our two open postdoc positions (computational + wetlab): www.vandepoelelab.be/Jobs please re-share RT #ERC
Jobs | Vandepoele Lab
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Iowa Soybean Research Center announces leadership transition
On July 1, 2025, Iowa State University Associate Professor of Agronomy Mark Licht and Professor of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology Steve Whitham will join the Iowa Soybean Research Center...
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