Yan Zhou
@cndkczy.bsky.social
Ph.D., Plant Geneticist, Plant Scientist Researcher on Corn Canopy/Root Architecture @ISU, Cat Lover, Nerd and Kendo Trainee.
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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...
The Moment
That
Symmetry
Breaks.
#plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬
w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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...
The Moment
That
Symmetry
Breaks.
#plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬
w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Can’t believe the embryo rescue medium our technician made back to 2023 still works 😂
August 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Can’t believe the embryo rescue medium our technician made back to 2023 still works 😂
ISU learning program system is so poorly organized that they actually made another training program to show you how to use their website and it took 30 minutes to watch.
August 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
ISU learning program system is so poorly organized that they actually made another training program to show you how to use their website and it took 30 minutes to watch.
My entire summer is for this moment, so sweet.
August 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
My entire summer is for this moment, so sweet.
This kind of “knocking off a single gene improves both disease resistance and yield” fantasy always amuses me. How could thousands of years of evolutions and selections fail to find that? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A WRKY transcription factor confers broad-spectrum resistance to biotic stresses and yield stability in rice | PNAS
Plants are subject to attack by diverse pests and pathogens. Few genes conferring
broad-spectrum resistance to both insects and pathogens have been...
www.pnas.org
June 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This kind of “knocking off a single gene improves both disease resistance and yield” fantasy always amuses me. How could thousands of years of evolutions and selections fail to find that? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The deers wondered in my field during weekend had carefully avoided all my plants. Amazing.
June 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The deers wondered in my field during weekend had carefully avoided all my plants. Amazing.
The maize community needs your help!
June 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The maize community needs your help!
I was making a purchasing plan for lab PCR supplies today. Compared with the time when I was a first-year graduate student, almost everything gets 30%-100% more expensive now. How could genotyping costs keep getting lower and lower? Do they buy supplies from China too?
May 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I was making a purchasing plan for lab PCR supplies today. Compared with the time when I was a first-year graduate student, almost everything gets 30%-100% more expensive now. How could genotyping costs keep getting lower and lower? Do they buy supplies from China too?
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ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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April 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
1/n
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
1/n
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Plant Science Research Weekly April 25 plantae.org/plant-scienc... (2/2) Cryptic giant virus infection; A fungal switch between ally and aggressor; Stopping citrus greening with peptide therapy; A mechanosensitive ion channel helps parasitic plants clamp down.
April 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Plant Science Research Weekly April 25 plantae.org/plant-scienc... (2/2) Cryptic giant virus infection; A fungal switch between ally and aggressor; Stopping citrus greening with peptide therapy; A mechanosensitive ion channel helps parasitic plants clamp down.
No spring tea imported from China this year.🥲 Guess this is not a totally lose? At least they can still import tea from Japan and India @cedarwarman.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
No spring tea imported from China this year.🥲 Guess this is not a totally lose? At least they can still import tea from Japan and India @cedarwarman.bsky.social
One dead, one survived.
April 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
One dead, one survived.
Zeavolution slack group brought tremendously help to my phd research. A lot of fun researches and inspiring discussions every week. I would highly recommend to join.
Nearing 400 members on our Zeavolution slack! Want to interact with other members of the maize genetics community? We have a weekly webinar on maize diversity/evolution as well. DM me and I'll share a link to join the slack.
March 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Zeavolution slack group brought tremendously help to my phd research. A lot of fun researches and inspiring discussions every week. I would highly recommend to join.
Reposted by Yan Zhou
Nearing 400 members on our Zeavolution slack! Want to interact with other members of the maize genetics community? We have a weekly webinar on maize diversity/evolution as well. DM me and I'll share a link to join the slack.
March 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Nearing 400 members on our Zeavolution slack! Want to interact with other members of the maize genetics community? We have a weekly webinar on maize diversity/evolution as well. DM me and I'll share a link to join the slack.
Nope Microsoft, you have not fixed your stupid codes.
March 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Nope Microsoft, you have not fixed your stupid codes.
If you lost your PhD offer during this crazy federal funding crisis and would be interested in studying corn genetics. Feel free to shoot our lab a mail. We are recruiting and will be happy to chat. Don’t worry about the application DL of 25 fall, genetics PhD program here at ISU is very supportive.
February 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If you lost your PhD offer during this crazy federal funding crisis and would be interested in studying corn genetics. Feel free to shoot our lab a mail. We are recruiting and will be happy to chat. Don’t worry about the application DL of 25 fall, genetics PhD program here at ISU is very supportive.
No, your genes do not improve the yield under high density. 60K and 85K per Ha (~24K and 34K per acre) are already high planting densities. I'm sick of the over-claimed findings in these paper.
February 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
No, your genes do not improve the yield under high density. 60K and 85K per Ha (~24K and 34K per acre) are already high planting densities. I'm sick of the over-claimed findings in these paper.
Reposted by Yan Zhou
Attention Attention Attention
If anyone knows clinicians or patients who have knowledge of pediatric patients with the very rare cancer interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS) or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytoc sarcomas please contact Sri
If anyone knows clinicians or patients who have knowledge of pediatric patients with the very rare cancer interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS) or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytoc sarcomas please contact Sri
It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
February 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Attention Attention Attention
If anyone knows clinicians or patients who have knowledge of pediatric patients with the very rare cancer interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS) or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytoc sarcomas please contact Sri
If anyone knows clinicians or patients who have knowledge of pediatric patients with the very rare cancer interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS) or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytoc sarcomas please contact Sri
Diversity panel for genetics mapping…wait what? I can’t use this term because it’s triggering “DEI”? Fine, how about using “global collections of germplasm population” for genetic mapping? It works? Good. I don’t like censorship, regardless it is from left or right.
February 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Diversity panel for genetics mapping…wait what? I can’t use this term because it’s triggering “DEI”? Fine, how about using “global collections of germplasm population” for genetic mapping? It works? Good. I don’t like censorship, regardless it is from left or right.
An ideal office for me: A big window to get enough sunshine to keep body synthesizing Vitamin D; A big table to put all of my trash; Three sides of walls with white boards to write.
January 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
An ideal office for me: A big window to get enough sunshine to keep body synthesizing Vitamin D; A big table to put all of my trash; Three sides of walls with white boards to write.
You can easily distinguish python and R user by how they model the n. 🤣
January 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
You can easily distinguish python and R user by how they model the n. 🤣
Hello friends, I need advice on the plants that are safe to grow with cats…my kitten just bites off the last new shoot from a ZZ plant that I carefully maintained for eight months. :(
January 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Hello friends, I need advice on the plants that are safe to grow with cats…my kitten just bites off the last new shoot from a ZZ plant that I carefully maintained for eight months. :(
Campus is closed today due to extreme cold weather. Yet, we will have 30 precious transgenic plants to be transferred to a greenhouse 5 minutes walk from our building…
January 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Campus is closed today due to extreme cold weather. Yet, we will have 30 precious transgenic plants to be transferred to a greenhouse 5 minutes walk from our building…