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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Aug 28

So honored to be a BSA spotlight this month! Thank you @botsocamerica.bsky.social for all the opportunities you give students and early career professionals to share their work and interests 🌱

You can read it here 👉 botany.org/home/careers...

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Aug 27

Sarita Munoz-Gomez joined BSA in 2020 and quickly became involved by going to the conference, joining SciComm panels, being featured on a BSA Spotlight, and receiving travel awards. Celebrate #ADayforBSA by supporting students with a gift to the Endowment!

Give today:
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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Aug 9

FREE TEACHING RESOURCE! 📣
I illustrated this poster as a project during the ComSciCon-ATL conference in 2024 on sunflowers and their unique inflorescence architecture. I am happy to share it here now! Feel free to download, use, and share!
You can also contact me for a higher resolution version 🌻

Infographic showing drawings of sunflowers and sunflower parts. There are explanations to each type of flower within the sunflower inflorescence and their function

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The CapituLab @thecapitulab.bsky.social · Aug 8

It’s been an awesome (but hectic) summer for the CapituLab! From packing and moving to Clemson to travel for conferences/talks.

Also, our new lab space is coming together amazingly (thanks to the incredible @erikales.bsky.social)! Updates on that coming soon…

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Aug 8

💕💕💕

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Aug 5

YAYYYYY!!

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Aug 4

Noo :(

Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Aug 3

Had such a great time at #Botany2025 and it made me so happy to see people excited about my stickers! 🌻Does anyone remember the 2022 ones? 😁 hopefully this will turn into a tradition!… 2026?…

A bingo card including original illustrations as stickers for the botany conference

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Aug 2

Of course I had to show my boyfriend all my new stickers 🙂‍↕️ #botany2025

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Aug 2

Take care :(

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Paige Fabre, PhD @paigethebotanist.bsky.social · Aug 2

So proud of @ca-haus.bsky.social who presented a poster at his first Botany!! #Botany2025 He’ll be applying for grad school in the Fall—drop him a message if you are recruiting new Masters students interested in flowering plant research! 🌸🌿

Two happy scientists smiling in front of a research poster.

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Aug 1

Oh this sounds so cool!!

Jay Jinsing Falk @jjinsing.bsky.social · Jul 28

Hey SICB 2026 @sicb.bsky.social! Don't forget about the Sex(es) Across Origins Symposium 🍄🦠🐌🌽

If you'd like to give a talk or poster session or poster session in our ✨complementary sessions✨, make sure to specify that in your abstract submission when you submit! (deadline, Aug 27)

S04: Sex across origins: Questioning animal-centric assumptions and developing integrative frameworks
Short title: Sex across origins

Organizers:
A. M. Aramati Casper, Colorado State University
Jay J. Falk, University of Colorado - Boulder
Karen M. Warkentin, Boston University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Sex and reproduction have evolved in diverse ways across eukaryotes, yet biological concepts of sex remain heavily shaped by human and canonical animal models. This symposium seeks to challenge narrow definitions by embracing the full complexity of sexual phenotypes, reproductive strategies, and developmental origins across taxa. By convening an interdisciplinary group of researchers working on plants, fungi, animals, and protists, we aim to identify shared principles, highlight irreconcilable differences, and stimulate new frameworks for understanding sex in biology. The symposium will foster integrative dialogue across career stages, disciplines, and organismal systems to advance a more inclusive and accurate understanding of reproductive diversity.

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thank you so much to everyone that came to see my talk and poster! It was so great connecting with so many new people and sharing my project and art!💚 all the nice comments really meant so much🌻

Photo of a woman with a projected image of a flower

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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · Jul 26

#botany2025 if you don’t feel like paying $20 plus tip for an uber to the hotel, the no. 4 bus runs once an hour from in front of the airport and can take you there for $1 cash

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The CapituLab @thecapitulab.bsky.social · Jul 24

Hey #Botany2025! Be sure to check out CapituLab talks from grad student @saristolochia.bsky.social and postdoc Vandana Gurung! And a huge thanks to @botsocamerica.bsky.social for travel support!!

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Jul 24

Come for the sticker, stay for the science ✨
If you’re going to #Botany2025 , find my poster (P74) and ask me for a sunflower sticker! 🌻🧡

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Jul 22

Moving to Clemson this fall- go tigers! (Still)

The CapituLab @thecapitulab.bsky.social · May 5

The news is out! The CapituLab is moving to Clemson University this fall 🌻 We are excited to get there and get started!

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The CapituLab @thecapitulab.bsky.social · Jul 2

We are absolutely thrilled to share this work on CLV signaling in the sunflower family! This project was only possible through the efforts and contributions of our incredible collaborators! It also represents the CapituLab’s first preprint! (more to come soon though…)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Floral innovation through modifications in stem cell peptide signaling.

Understanding how evolution shapes genetic networks to create new developmental forms is a central question in biology. Flowering shoot (inflorescence) architecture varies significantly across plant f...

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ButtPoems @buttpoems.bsky.social · Jul 17

embarrassing myself

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Jul 20

Hi, I’d love to be added if possible!

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Feb 18

Has anyone applied to the ASPT grad research award? I am hoping to find an app example since none are provided on the website 😊🌻

Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Jan 17

I love this so much :))

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Jan 16

Happy to share this here! My illustrations were featured in this great review from @thecapitulab.bsky.social last year. Make sure to check it out 🌻🌻🌻

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Jan 9

love this shirt!!

Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Jan 8

Go follow @thecapitulab.bsky.social if you don't already! more science and pretty flower pics coming your way soon🌻

The CapituLab @thecapitulab.bsky.social · Dec 10

To commemorate our move over to Bluesky, here are some throwbacks to a few of the earliest capitula grown in the CapituLab! Bidens, Helianthus and Tagetes started it all for us

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