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!

Funky Floral Phenotypes!

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

Mansfeld lab first worm compost harvest! 🪱 🪱 🪱

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!

Nothing makes me happier than pre-med students loving drawing plant anatomy 🍅🌱!!! My new lab course at WashU is going great 😃

How your email finds me 🌴🌴🌴🌴

Lab holiday potluck and Secret Santa! Happy holidays everyone!

Cool variation in Tomato x wild tomato F2s plants

Let me help

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!

Here's a bioA trace from my old cucumber samples - this is run with a plant specific chip. Looks like 28S is just under 4000 nt and 18S just under 2000. Peak under 200 is small RNA zone. I think the peaks I selected on the TapeStation are right? We'll run a gel on Monday and see I guess...

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?

Elsevier:

There's a lot of folks here already! I feel like I'm late to the party....