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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD

@minyaaa.bsky.social

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Assist Prof at UIUC Plant Bio #NewPI. NSF Postdoc UConn EEB. PhD Harvard OEB. Erasmus MEME evobio alumna. She/Her. Lover of ALL plants. 🧪🔬🌱🌾 Development; Evolution; Evo-Devo; Microscopy; Meristems. Lived in 🇨🇳🇯🇵🇸🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇺🇸 www.minyaaa.com

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · Aug 7

I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate #MimulusPropaganda up till now:

The Moment
That
Symmetry
Breaks.

#plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬
w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 1d

Excited by this breakthrough work led by Dr. Lauren Stanley (now Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University). Lauren was able to develop for the first time floral dip/spray transformation methods in the yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus). bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just add water: A simple floral bud injection method for stable Agrobacterium‐mediated transformation in two ecotypes of Mimulus guttatus

Premise Stable transformation is the biggest barrier to studying gene function in plants. In most species, transformation requires tissue culture and regeneration methods that may be arduous and cau...

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 1d

Ran into these AMAZING Stapelia grandiflora in our conservatory today. The patterns, colors, hairs, and the smell - carrion mimic to perfection. #Stapelia #plantjoy #iamabotanist

A close up of one flower showing red hairs and petal with yellow strips

Another close up from a slightly diff angle

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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 1d

Imperial Morning Glory (Ipomoea purpurea)

This is blue. I painted on hydrochloric acid to draw a smiley to showcase the color change due to acid directly on the petals.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2d

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 1d

If you're on the job market and are working in any area of Plant Molecular Biology, check this out. We have a very strong group: Jeff Dangl, Joe Kieber, Greg Copenhaver, Jason Reed, Zack Nimchuk, and an incoming new assistant professor starting in January
bio.unc.edu/people/facul...

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Ivan Radin @radinbio.bsky.social · 1d

Here are some “leaf” or phyllid cells from moss Physcomitrium patens gametophore. Cells are expressing a green fluorescence marker that labels the vacuolar membrane. Chloroplasts' autofluorescence is in magenta.
Can you spot dividing chloroplasts?
#microscopymonday #moss #plantcells

The image shows several elongated rhomboid-shaped cells, filled with ovoid chrooroplasts in magenta, as well as a network of bubble-like vacuoles.

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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 4d

Our paper comparing stomata of the three annual Brachypodium species is out 🌾
bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 4d

Eldritch 😂😂😂😂😂

闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 4d

😎😎😂😂😂

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 5d

I posted tube-loading maps from the R script from @derekseveri.bsky.social by our centrifuges. My undergrad of >1 year recently had to use a balance tube for the first time ever. github.com/derekLS1/Bal...

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Ken Shirasu @shirasulab.bsky.social · 5d

Seeking ghosts www.science.org/content/arti...

These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how

Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi

www.science.org

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 5d

Indeed! 🤝

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 5d

Here you go dear sir 😎

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 5d

Be brave, Brent

闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 5d

Showed my students the perfectly balanced chaos I had before and I think they are both inspired and scared lol. #newpi 🧪

a pic of tube arrangement of 11 tubes in the centrifuge but it did not look balanced at all (although it is). the 11 tubes were broken down into 3+2+6 groups and within each group it's perfectly balanced on its own.

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 5d

What a beautiful story - thank you for sharing!

闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 6d

They do look fake!! But the fact that they are not just made them extra special 😁

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 7d

I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are!
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."

Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 13d

🍀🔬

MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 6d

Always so lovely to see Hoya flowers 🤍
#iamabotanist #plantjoy

a close up of hoya infloresence with a ball of pink little five-petaled flowers that's crimson in the middle.

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 6d

Look at those spuuuurs 🤩

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 6d

A white nonnative Corydalis in PK’s garden

#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to April 8 🌿

White flowers with long spurs rising behind them

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to participate and talk about how quantitative imaging analyses using #MorphographX helped see things that I didn’t know! #MGX 🌱🧪

Mingyuan Zhu @mingyuanzhu.bsky.social · 8d

🌱 Join us for our upcoming workshop Quantifying Plant Morphogenesis: 4D Insights with MorphoGraphX!
Learn how to quantitatively analyze plant confocal imaging data using MorphoGraphX.

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 9d

The dramaaaaa 😂

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 9d

Ferns would like a word.

Chromosome number diversity found in animals and plants. (a) The bulldog ant, Myrmecia pilosula, 2n = 4 (from Crosland & Crozier, 1986) (b) The lycaenid butterfly, Lysandra atlantica, 2n = ca. 440 (from de Lesse, 1970) (c) Brachycome dichromosomatica, 2n = 4) (d) Adder's tongue fern Ophioglossum reticulatum 2n = ca. 1440 (from Ninan, 1958). Scale bar = 10 μm.

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