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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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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

Eldritch 😂😂😂😂😂

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

😎😎😂😂😂

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Indeed! 🤝

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

Here you go dear sir 😎

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

Be brave, Brent

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

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 · 1d

What a beautiful story - thank you for sharing!

闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 4d

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 · 10d

🍀🔬

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Look at those spuuuurs 🤩

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

🌱 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 · 5d

The dramaaaaa 😂

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 5d

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

Yep it’s gonna be hella confusing segregation 😅

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

And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯

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

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ my daily dose of aquilegia is completed

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 8d

Friday Flower 006: Aquilegia 🌸🦋

Columbines vary in stamen number, making them a powerful model for how floral whorls expand.

Darwin marveled at their long nectar spurs, which co-evolve with hawkmoth tongues to reward pollinators that brush the stamens ✨

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Merissa Huei-Hsuan Tsai @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social · 8d

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

Science Magazine @science.org · 8d

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 9d

Applying to Grad School: Q&A Panel

Thinking about grad school in botany or the plant sciences? Join us for a free virtual #Botany360 Q&A next Thur, Oct. 9 at 4:30 p.m. ET. Panelists from diverse institutions will answer your questions about the application process.

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Flyer titled “Applying to Grad School: Q&A Panel.” Background of pale pink and white flowers with a mauve overlay. Text reads:
“Are you interested in applying to a graduate program in botany or the plant sciences? Join us for an informational 1-hour panel on October 9th at 4:30 p.m. U.S. Eastern (virtual). Panelists will represent a diversity of institution types and backgrounds and will be available to answer attendee questions. Register using the QR code below!”
Box at bottom: “Sponsored by the BSA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.”
Logos of the Botanical Society of America and Botany360 appear at the bottom left, with a QR code at the bottom right.

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 10d

aw I love those. And how the seeds will dangle in the wind too