New paper - build a Raspberry Pi phenotyping chamber for imaging and temperature sensing! Thanks to Malia Gehan and her team for leading this work. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Raspberry Pi–powered temperature monitoring of growth chamber microclimates

Premise While controlled environments are desirable for growing and measuring plants, growth chambers and greenhouses typically have microclimates that impact plant growth, development, and stress r.....

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Applications open now for our Pivot 2 Plants program! Please share widely, 1 year paid opportunity to transition to careers in plant and data science. www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...

Pivot to Plants: Training Program for Plant and Data Science | Danforth Plant Science Center

The Pivot2Plants Fellows Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science or data science but have limited research experience.

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Congratulations to Danforth Center Associate Member Tessa Burch-Smith! 🎉 She will become President of American Society of Plant Biologists in October of this year.

American Society of Plant Biologists@aspbofficial.bsky.social · last yr.

📣Congratulations to our incoming President-elect, Tessa Burch-Smith, and Elected Member of the Board of Directors, Patricia León! Tessa and Patricia will begin their next cycles of service to ASPB on October 1, 2025. #PlantScience #WeAreASPB

💐 Stop and smell the science! Our #BioanalyticalChemistryFacility is featured in the new #SmellingtheBouquet: Plants and Scents in the Garden exhibition at @mobotmuseum.bsky.social! Follow your nose to @mobotgarden.bsky.social to discover how plants’ scents influence insects, ecosystems, & people!

I am excited to emcee this event - join us, it's FREE and the science is great!

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center@danforthcenter.bsky.social · last yr.

🧠🌍 May 15: Join @DanforthCenter for Conversations: BIG IDEAS—where scientists pitch solutions to real-world challenges & YOU vote! Free & open to the public. 🕔 5:15 PM Reception | 🕕 6 PM Program Register: www.danforthcenter.org/event/conver... #BigIdeas

We are lucky to have Russell as a colleague! The Bioanalytical Chemistry Facility works with both internal and external users - get your metabolite and proteomics analyses done here.

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center@danforthcenter.bsky.social · last yr.

An undergrad research project analyzing alkaloids in native prairie plants sparked a permanent plant chemistry fascination in Russell Williams, PhD. Now director of our Bioanalytical Chemistry Facility, he delivers crucial data to scientists at the Danforth Center & beyond. loom.ly/nPv8cmU

Tess has been an awesome addition to our team, I am proud to be a co-PI on this great training program!

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center@danforthcenter.bsky.social · last yr.

Introducing the 2025 Pivot to Plants cohort! The Pivot to Plants fellowship program provides hands-on research experience for professionals who are eager to transition to the plant, data, and life sciences. Meet the fellows: loom.ly/TFCXdyg

This is a devastating and essential read. Here is a gift link for those without subs. The part about outside perceptions of scientists compared with almost a blue-collar reality is spot on (without even mentioning meager salaries). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)

Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

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Karolin Luger@nucleosomepolice.bsky.social · last yr.

Great summary - please share www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Our newest PlantCV Quarterly Newsletter is here, with great updates and highlights! Check it out, and subscribe to get it in your inbox: preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

The PlantTech Jam is a FREE hands-on science, tinkering, and robotics fun for the whole family. This is an interactive event with a tour of Danforth Center scientific facilities & prairie. #PlantTechJam loom.ly/bSnbPtY

PlantTech Jam 2025 - Danforth Plant Science Center

The PlantTech Jam is hands-on science, tinkering, and robotics fun for the whole family. This interactive event features science innovation and technology related activities for all ages. Learn more a...

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New paper from my team! Set up your own cost-effective photo studio to easily capture, label, and transfer images, then analyze those images in @plantcv.bsky.social ! Video protocol coming soon. app.jove.com/t/67619/imag...

New paper alert! We found huge oil droplets in the guard cells of a high oil tobacco variety. The stomata of these tobacco plants have a smaller aperture, which increases leaf temperature and decreases transpiration. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excessive leaf oil modulates the plant abiotic stress response via reduced stomatal aperture in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)

Understanding the response of future crops to adverse conditions, including high temperatures, is crucial. We describe the impact of high temperature stress on a high lipid producing biofuel tobacco ...

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The 2025 maize genetics meeting is over. Looking forward to having the 2026 maize meeting from Feb 26 to March 1 in Cologne (Köln), Germany 🇩🇪. Please already mark your calendars. #MGM2025 > #MGM2026.

I'm honored #STLMade profiled me and our Phenotyping Facility! I'm proud to work and live in St. Louis, and represent the great work our team is doing at the Danforth Center.

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center@danforthcenter.bsky.social · last yr.

Meet @kmurphyphd.bsky.social, our Director of Phenotyping, 2025 #NAPPN Early Career Award winner, mentor to the next generation of plant scientists, & proud advocate for the #STL innovation community 🌱 Get to know her in this new video via #STLMade: thestl.com/work/seeding...

A huge congrats to Erin for winning the Maize Genetics Early Career Award! We are lucky to have the Erin joining @danforthcenter.bsky.social this summer as a joint faculty member.

Erin Sparks@erinsparks.bsky.social · last yr.

Sparks Lab at the Maize Meeting 2025!

Some of my postdoc work has been "exposed" today in @theplantjournal.bsky.social! 😁🎉🔬 We developed ExPOSE - a method to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. Here's a quick🧵of the details: @meter76.bsky.social @lily-oconnor.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ExPOSE: a comprehensive toolkit to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems

This method provides a robust approach for performing expansion microscopy in plant protoplasts for imaging single-cell and subcellular compartments at greatly enhanced resolution.

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Congrats @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social , his expansion microscopy method is a big deal folks!

meter@meter76.bsky.social · last yr.

Big paper out from @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social! source.washu.edu/2025/03/brin...

On #InternationalWomensDay, nominate a female scientist for the next FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award. Deadline is 15 May 2025: www.embo.org/the-embo-com... #WomeninScience #ForAllWomenAndGirls 🧪

The EMBO communities – FEBS|EMBO Women in Science Awardees – EMBO

Outstanding female life scientists and role models.

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Women in research need the credit & recognition they deserve for the amazing contributions they make. Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science are open for applications - take a look 👇🏻 & help spread the word #WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪 @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/in...

Nature Awards Inspiring Women in Science

Celebrating and supporting the achievements of women in science, and all those who work to encourage girls and young women to engage with STEM subjects and stay in STEM careers around the world.

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Thank you to the Maize Genetics Meeting - yesterday we had an advocacy session, followed by Stand Up for Science walk-out. We are missing our USDA colleagues, who were not allowed to attend the meeting!

Can't wait for our field trip to the Sachs Museum tomorrow for the Maize Genetics Meeting!

Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden@mobotmuseum.bsky.social · last yr.

#KernelsOfCulture #MaizeAroundTheWorld 🌽🖼️: Andi Kur Welcome to the Maize Genetics Meeting attendees in St. Louis right now! Thanks to scientists Dr. Sherry Flint-Garcia and @kmurphyphd.bsky.social for their generous contributions to the exhibition @mobotmuseum.bsky.social @mobotgarden.bsky.social

Thank you to the speakers, moderators, and attendees (in-person and virtual) of NAPPN Annual Meeting 2025! I've been inspired by great new technologies, applications, and stellar trainee presentations this week. 🌱

~290 participants at our Annual @nappn.bsky.social meeting this year! This is a virtual conference with in-person activities at several 'hub' sites @danforthcenter.bsky.social, MSU, Winnepeg/Manitoba, NCSU, UMN, and Corteva. #CelebrateScience @noahfahlgren.bsky.social @kmurphyphd.bsky.social

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We are HIRING! Join us as a Data Scientist or Postdoc working on geospatial (UAV/satellite) analysis and PlantCV development. See details in the job ads. www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p... www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

Data Scientist I - Phenotyping/Data Science

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Meet the Danforth Center’s next President! We’re thrilled to welcome world-renowned plant geneticist @gilesoldroyd.bsky.social to the Danforth Center this October.

It's Black History Month and I'm excited to bring another edition of "28 Days, 28 Black Botanists" - now posted as a blog on Plantae! Thanks to @aspbofficial.bsky.social for continuing to support this fun tradition of mine! 💪🏾👨🏾‍🔬🌻🌱 plantae.org/2025-black-h...

2025 Black History Month: Black Plant Scientists Spotlight | Plantae

An initiative originated by Kevin Cox Jr., PhD, Plantae carries on Kevin’s tremendous effort of bringing visibility to several exceptional scientists and their work across the science community.

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Darwin's orchid at the @mobotgarden.bsky.social (check out the orchid show this month)! The long light green piece (center) is the nectar tube, he hypothesized a long-tongued insect must exist to pollinate. The moth was discovered many years later.

🎉 Advanced Bioimaging Laboratory Manager Anastasiya (Nastia) Klebanovych, PhD, received two awards in @bioimagingna.bsky.social’s 2024 Image Contest! Her quinoa pollen grain image won second place & her hellebore pollen grain earned an honorable mention. Congrats, Nastia!

Registration for the Danforth Center NAPPN Conference Hub closes TONIGHT! We are also hosting a FREE PlantCV workshop and FREE Bioinformatics and Beers event that week. Join us!

Katie Murphy, PhD@kmurphyphd.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's pheno time! Join us for NAPPN Annual Meeting, virtual or at an in-person hub. We're excited to host a Danforth Center hub with additional activities, space is limited at the hub so register now! www.plantphenotyping.org/conference-h...

#TransposableElements A Homage to Barbara McClintock and Hopi Zea mays, artwork series by Megan Singleton in #KernelsOfCulture #MaizeAroundTheWorld This artwork commission is sponsored by Nancy Ridenour. megansingleton.com Pix: Hopi Purple and Hopi Turquoise photograph series and art book