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

Look at those spuuuurs 🤩

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

🌱 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 · 3d

The dramaaaaa 😂

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

Yep it’s gonna be hella confusing segregation 😅

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 3d

And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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

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Neil Pederson @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social · 7d

And, now the finale of the Unbrella Magnolia seed pod season

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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment.

#iamabotanist

Details (+ application portal) here:

lnkd.in/eVsbe7K5

Photos of past Burpee postdocs with some of our great students at Bucknell.

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

Speaking of #GRFP, it's upsetting to see my student's reviews (finally came out). The main critic: they didn't think he can do a plant bio project bc he didn't study plant bio in undergrad. Sure he did a year of post-bac in plant bio and now in a plant bio PhD program but obviously nothing matters 🤷‍♀️

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Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 9d

Every single one of these leaves is a bug.

It’s a display case containing 20 or so bugs that look like leaves, at the Montreal Insectarium. Most of the bigs are brown, but some are light teal. The glass is labeled “Just like a bug” in English and French.

Zoom in on a whole bunch of brown not-leaves arranged naturalistically on a branch.

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 9d

The new #NSF #GRFP application now excludes 1000’s of students, including those who were told they could apply this year, or who planned to apply next year.

We have a new specific petition urging #NSFGRFP undo this harmful action. If you are impacted sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 10d

Now out in @plantphys.bsky.social
"Illuminating Growth: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Joanne Chory"
A summary of the recent Joanne Chory Symposium, which featured talks and photos from her former mentees.
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
(Photo shows an excited Joanne on a roller coaster).

A young woman with dark hair is on a roller coaster. She is looking over her shoulder at the camera behind her, clearly screaming. Whether she is screaming from fear, excitement, or both is unclear.

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 11d

My 5th time seeing @russiancircles.bsky.social.
Flawless performance as always. Truly one of my all time favorite bands!

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 12d

Looks like the solicitation finally posted! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 12d

Ok I might have jinxed it sorri 😂

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 12d

!!!! Ok this rate is def beyond stochasticity 👀👀👀👀

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 12d

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io

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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 14d

Late to the party, but I'm so excited about the first paper from our lab: ✨Unique genetic bases of repeated life-history divergence associated with high altitude adaptation in Mimulus perennials ✨

This work was led by the ABSOLUTE ROCKSTAR Hongfei Chen!

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 15d

Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones.

If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.

BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 19d

#HappyFluorescenceFriday!

#microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications!

Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD

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