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Ally Angermeier

@allyangermeier.bsky.social
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PhD @ UAB 🐉 Postdoc @ Danforth Plant Science Center 🌿 Using cool microscopes to study small RNAs in maize anther development 🔬🌽

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American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The NSF BIO Plant Biology Act (H.R.7949) would strengthen investments in plant and microbial research—helping drive innovation and protect U.S. agriculture. Learn why it matters and how to take action 👉 buff.ly/xRu6Eqz #PlantScience #SciencePolicy
A graphic with text that reads "ASPB Advocacy and Science Policy Update. Call to action: Support the NSF BIO Plant Biology Act. Strengthening U.S. Leadership in Plant Science."
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
For the night is dark and full of RNAses
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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Meet our CSTM Member of the Month! @allyangermeier.bsky.social is a microscopy expert who focuses on vitrifying cyanobacteria to optimize cryo-EM workflows and uses hybridization chain reaction to study the spatiotemporal localization of phasiRNAs in plants.
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Ally Angermeier @allyangermeier.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A fun, whimsical image I made from maize anthers ☺️🦋
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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
#HappyFluorescenceFriday! #microscopycommunity- 🎉 Winners of the BINA Image Contest! 1st Place: Frederic Bonnet – Hexagonal Vision: Compound Eye and Sensory Crown 2nd Place: Nat Prunet – Allergy Season 3rd Place: Arlen Ramírez Corona – Blue, Red and Fish People’s Choice: Mahgol Darvishmolla
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Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Early embryonic developmental pathways are activated during regeneration phase in Xenopus 🐸 --by Aniket Kshirsagar, Rachel Ronan, Ana Lúcia Rebelo, Siobhan McMahon, Abhay Pandit, and Gerhard Schlosser www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Xenopus #regeneration #DBfeature
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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🌱 aspbofficial.bsky.social presented @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social Kevin Cox, PhD, the Eric E. Conn Young Investigator Award in recognition of his contributions to plant pathology and spatial biology research & commitment to meaningful outreach and service. Congrats Kevin! loom.ly/jIIgq2o
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Keith Duncan @cygnusplantxray.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
This is fantastic! I'm very lucky to work with excellent scientists like Dr. Kevin Cox @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social. Here's our foray into XRM imaging of the duckweed species Wolffia australiana. Thanks KC for this awesome collaboration! @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social
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Justin Conover @conjustover.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The Conover Lab is open! I am so excited to join a group of talented, caring, and creative folks at the @danforthcenter.bsky.social, all in service of improving the human condition through plant science.
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Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
#DBfeature The establishment of the anther somatic niche with single-cell sequencing by Blaine Marchant, Virginia Walbot www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ally Angermeier @allyangermeier.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Highlight of my evening, feeding blackberries to a turtle in the yard😍🐢
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Keith Duncan @cygnusplantxray.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I'm thrilled to co-chair this session at ASPB on X-ray imaging in Plant Biology, lab-based and synchrotron. #PlantBio2025 @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Along with “fund science save lives” we also need the slogan “fund science save the economy”. I’m afraid many voters here aren’t interested in saving lives.
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Ally Angermeier @allyangermeier.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🧪 My PhD research is now published in @naturecomms.bsky.social! If you're interested in non-canonical Wnt signaling during convergent extension, check it out! We developed a novel model suggesting that Dvl2 oligomerization modulates a binding switch from Vangl2 to Fz7. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dact1 induces Dishevelled oligomerization to facilitate binding partner switch and signalosome formation during convergent extension - Nature Communications
The action of non-canonical Wnt signaling during tissue morphogenesis remains unclear. Here, the authors find that Dact1 promotes oligomerization of Dvl to couple its binding partner switch from Vangl...
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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Meet @kmurphyphd.bsky.social, our Director of Phenotyping, 2025 #NAPPN Early Career Award winner, mentor to the next generation of plant scientists, & proud advocate for the #STL innovation community 🌱 Get to know her in this new video via #STLMade: thestl.com/work/seeding...
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Seeding Solutions
As part of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, plant biologist Katie Murphy addresses global challenges through the meticulous study of plants and shares her life and work as a scientist via soc...
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Katie Murphy, PhD @kmurphyphd.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Thank you to the Maize Genetics Meeting - yesterday we had an advocacy session, followed by Stand Up for Science walk-out. We are missing our USDA colleagues, who were not allowed to attend the meeting!
Crowd of people standing outside the Union Station Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri in a Stand Up for Science Walkout.
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Kevin Cox Jr @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Some of my postdoc work has been "exposed" today in @theplantjournal.bsky.social! 😁🎉🔬 We developed ExPOSE - a method to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. Here's a quick🧵of the details: @meter76.bsky.social @lily-oconnor.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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ExPOSE: a comprehensive toolkit to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems
This method provides a robust approach for performing expansion microscopy in plant protoplasts for imaging single-cell and subcellular compartments at greatly enhanced resolution.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Maize Genetics Meeting stands up for science!
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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
DC is STANDING UP FOR SCIENCE
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#standupforscience2025
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Frank Hochholdinger @hochholdingerf.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Travel permits of all US government employees (USDA, NSF) have been revoked shortly before the the maize meeting affecting: - The chair of the meeting - The winner of the most prestigious McClintock award - A plenary speaker - Two short talk presenters - 22 scientists presenting posters. #MGM2025
First slide of the maize meeting.
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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Every February, @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social puts together a list honoring one Black plant scientist for each day of #BlackHistoryMonth. Read his full article via @plantaeofficial.bsky.social and meet all 28 scientists: loom.ly/AMg1m_4
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2025 Black History Month: Black Plant Scientists Spotlight | Plantae
An initiative originated by Kevin Cox Jr., PhD, Plantae carries on Kevin’s tremendous effort of bringing visibility to several exceptional scientists and their work across the science community.
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Ally Angermeier @allyangermeier.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I'm extremely grateful and excited to work with Tessa and Kirk on improving plant cryo-preparation techniques to achieve even better electron microscopy images and reveal new insights about the inner workings of plant cells. 🌱🔬 This study is generously funded by the NSF PGRP 😊🧪
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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, Tessa Burch-Smith, PhD, and Kirk Czymmek, PhD, are setting out to develop imaging procedures that would allow scientists to view the intricate world of plant cells with more precision than ever before. Read more: loom.ly/V-3XXZQ
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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🎉 Advanced Bioimaging Laboratory Manager Anastasiya (Nastia) Klebanovych, PhD, received two awards in @bioimagingna.bsky.social’s 2024 Image Contest! Her quinoa pollen grain image won second place & her hellebore pollen grain earned an honorable mention. Congrats, Nastia!
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leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽‍🏫 🇳🇮 @leslie-bern.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Sent a DM the other day like "Yeah, I'll help!" and now I'm co-authoring press releases for an honest-to-god nationwide science protest, like WHAT #standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Stand Up For Science 2025 Announces National Day of Action:
March 7, 2025

WHAT: A rally to defend science as a public good and central pillar of social progress.

WHY: Science is for everyone–and benefits everyone. When the federal government supports scientific research through taxpayer funding, it fuels innovation, creates jobs, and sustains the world we live in. From purified water to the polio vaccine to the cell phone you might be reading
this on, science has significantly impacted our lives in countless ways.

We’re mobilizing to keep science free from interference and censorship by government officials. We’re also mobilizing because attacks on diversity, equity, inclusion, and access are attacks on science, and vice versa. Science is at its best when it includes everyone and when it stands to improve people’s lives. It’s time–as ever–to stand up for science, for everyone who does it, and for everyone who benefits from it. 

WHO: Everyone! If your life is better because of science, this rally is for you.

WHERE: Washington, DC & state capitals nationwide

WHEN: March 7, 2025

Forthcoming details about local rallies: www.standupforscience2025.org

Press contact: standupforscience2025@gmail.com
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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How Ironic that on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Woman's portraits have been taken down at NIH and Women is a forbidden word that if found in your NSF grant could get it revoked. #womeninstem
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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The Danforth Center celebrates #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, which honors women’s brilliant contributions to science and recognizes the ongoing need to address the gender gap in STEM fields.
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Keith Duncan @cygnusplantxray.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I'm trying to stay positive and push imaging boundaries. The latest fascinating project is XRM imaging of Marchantia colonized by a mycorrhizal fungus. I'm sure there are false positives in this quick manual segmentation, but certainly some cool AMF structures as well. A satisfying first scan.
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Ally Angermeier @allyangermeier.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A layoff of 25-50% NSF staff members AND a possible 66% budget cut? This is terrifying. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation
“This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…
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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Using the top-tier imaging capabilities of the Danforth Center’s Advanced Bioimaging Laboratory, researchers have identified a new tool that could help soybean farmers protect their crops from a common costly pest.   🔬Learn more: loom.ly/E1Pxnk0
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Harnessing nature to defend soybean roots
The microscopic soybean cyst nematode (SCN) may be small, but it has a massive impact. This pest latches onto soybean roots, feeding on their nutrients and leaving a trail of destruction that costs fa...
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Kevin Cox Jr @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Honored and excited to be giving a plenary talk at @aspbofficial.bsky.social in Milwaukee later this summer! 🙌🏾🙏🏾
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Ally Angermeier @allyangermeier.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I have no words www.science.org/content/arti...
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EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders
Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review
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Kevin Cox Jr @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Alright so to brighten the mood... Who's ready for another iteration of 28 Days, 28 Black Plant Scientists/Botanists? 💪🏾🌱 For those that want more background here's a link from last yr. While I search through names myself, I'm happy to hear any nominations via DM/email! plantae.org/2024-black-h...
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2024 Black History Month: Black Plant Scientists Spotlight | Plantae
An initiative originated by Kevin Cox Jr., PhD, Plantae carries on Kevin’s tremendous effort of bringing visibility to several exceptional scientists and their work across the science community.
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Ally Angermeier @allyangermeier.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is upsetting... www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Kevin Cox Jr @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The last part of my PhD work was published yesterday in Nature Communications!! We found a TAL effector that targets three genes to confer bacterial blight of cotton disease. Congrats to all the other co-authors on this paper! 🎉🙌🏾 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Activation of three targets by a TAL effector confers susceptibility to bacterial blight of cotton - Nature Communications
Newly evolved Xanthomonas citri pv. malvacearum isolates triggers recent bacterial blight outbreaks in cotton. Here, the authors show that a recently evolved TALE, Tal7b, activates host susceptibility...
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Ally Angermeier @allyangermeier.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
A pity post for my poor cat, Maverick, who was adopted in Birmingham, AL and is absolutely suffering in the cold of St. Louis. No vent is safe if the furnace is on 😬🐱
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Ally Angermeier @allyangermeier.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The 2025 Maize Genetics Meeting is being held at Union Station in St. Louis, MO from March 6th-9th! Travel award application deadlines are quickly approaching - most are due on Dec. 2nd, 2024. Check out this link for more conference info! documents.maizegdb.org/maizemeeting...
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Keith Duncan @cygnusplantxray.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Exploring new territory, using X-ray microscopy to study the lichen Xanthoria, thrilled to be collaborating with Nick Talbot. Still want to improve the contrast but making good progress. @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social
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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thanks to MOBOT's Members' Board, @mobotmuseum.bsky.social's holiday tree is completely corn-filled! Check out the maize tree and trimmings on your next visit 🌽🎄
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Ally Angermeier @allyangermeier.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I figure I'll introduce myself on here! My name is Ally and I study the localization of phasiRNAs and associated protein machinery in developing maize anthers! I use an imaging technique called hybridization chain reaction (HCR) to target mRNAs and small RNAs for high-res imaging 🔬🌽
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Eliver Ghosn @eliverghosn.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Here are other resources of *free* science illustrations: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, inkscape.org, biogdp.com They still look like BioRender style thou.
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Ally Angermeier @allyangermeier.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Found a small RNAs group if you want to follow or be added @pbaldrich.bsky.social 😊 go.bsky.app/HgPCPen
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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#TheSacredCrop #KernelsOfCulture #MaizeAroundTheWorld Artist Waleska Font's THE SACRED CROP is an exploration of the cultural & spiritual significance of corn in Pre-Columbian Latin America. SISTERHOOD portrays the sacred trinity of 🌽 in Aztec culture: Huixtocíhuatl, Chalchiuhtlicue & Chicomecóatl.
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39 North STL @39northstl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Are you in the #STL #agtech, #agrifood, #plantscience and/or #sustainability scene? Follow others using this starter pack! If you'd like to be added, DM us. go.bsky.app/MxfEHdo #StLouis #plant #science #agriculture #innovation
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Ally Angermeier @allyangermeier.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Ready for a fun, new scientific space with significantly less toxicity 😊🔬
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