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Anna Pardo, Ph.D.

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Computational biologist | Genomics of plants & humans | she/her

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am currently searching for a postdoc to work on the evolution of adaptations, cold acclimation, and freezing tolerance in switchgrass. The position entails lab, growth facility, bioinformatics, and fieldwork. careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...
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Postdoctoral Scholar-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct field and laboratory experiments to understand the causes of genetic variation...
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you saw our new paper and thought "I didn't know aquatic plants use CAM!" boy do we have a fun project for you! Our lab is developing high throughput methods to screen plants for CAM. Do you work on, or know of, a plant that you think could be using CAM? Let us know! 👉 forms.gle/AyQc5KgzEYoM...
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Are your plants CAM suspicious?
Have you ever wondered if the plants you work on are... living a double life working the nightshift? We are too. Our lab is looking to identify and screen more plants for CAM activity. We are beginnin...
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
As you're making your itinerary on the #Botany2026 app, check out some of these lab presentations!!!
Flier that reads "Heyduk lab at Botany 2026" followed by a list of presentations. Posters include Dominique Pham ("Do Better or Die: Drought stress memory in an epiphytic CAM bromeliad" P120), Ed McAssey ("Plants and Civilization: An interdisciplinary approach to engaging undergraduate students in Botany" P261), and Dantony Lewis ("Comparative Analysis of the CAM genes in the Agavoideae" P27).

There is a note that says "Also check out “Belonging In Botany: Fostering Resiliency Discussion”
Come ready to share your struggles and collaboratively build solutions
Tues. 11-12, Tucson Ballroom E"

Talks listed include:
Karolina Heyduk (Mon 10:00 San Pedro 1) "Homoploid hybridization: the end of a lineage or a driver of novel phenotypes?"
Weijun Liang (Tues. 2:00 San Xavier) “YELLOW INTENSITY (YIN): a conserved gene that downregulates corolla carotenoid accumulation in Mimulus (monkeyflowers)"
G Young Kim (Tues. 8:00 San Pedro 1) “Investigation of weak Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) in Peperomia reveals initial steps toward a CAM pathway.”
Erika Moore Pollard (Tues. 8:45 San Pedro 1) “The fast and the frugal: Nitrogen tradeoffs and genomic insights into bromeliad adaptation and evolution.”
Ellie Loew Mendelson (Tues. 9:00 San Pedro 1) “Assessing photosynthetic pathways in aquatic plant species”
Claire Marino (Tues. 11:30 San Pedro 1) "Giant cubes and muddy shoes: manipulating microclimate to study Symplocarpus foetidus’ ecophysiology in situ”
David Wickell (Wed. 10:30 Tucson AB) “Facultative CAM in Littorella uniflora: linking photosynthetic plasticity to environmental change”
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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Don't write your manuscript reviews using AI. DEFINITELY do not feed someone else's manuscript into AI and have it write the review for you.
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Join us NEXT WEEK for the #Botany360 event "Exploring Non-Faculty Careers in Plant Science" May 20th at 4 p.m. Eastern. A free virtual Q&A panel with industry and non-faculty professionals sharing their career paths in botanical science. Register today at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...!
Promotional graphic for Botany 360: Exploring Non-Faculty Careers in Plant Science. The background features a close-up photograph of bright green moss. Bold white text at the top reads "Botany 360: Exploring Non-Faculty Careers in Plant Science." Below, a yellow-green banner reads "May 20th - 4 p.m. eastern - register for Zoom below." A light yellow-green text box contains the event description: "Interested in the field of botany or plant sciences but not sure what a career could look like? Come to our Q&A panel with industry and non-faculty professionals to hear about their paths and get advice for developing your own botanical career." The Botany 360 logo appears in the lower left, with a QR code linking to registration on the right. The BSA logo and text noting the event is hosted by the BSA's Early Career Professional Development Committee and the DEI Committee appear at the bottom.
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
More awards through GRFP this year! Yay!! Quick back of envelope comparison of awards by category to 2024 (skipping 2025 b/c it was weird): Life sci: 486/2599 18.5% ('26) 499/2036 25% ('24) ☹️ Eng: 914/2599 35% ('26) 532/2036 26% ('24) Comp sci: 261/2599 10% ('26) 151/2036 7% ('24) 🧪
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Nature @nature.com · 30/03/2026
Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ
IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
AI can't pay my grad students or postdocs. AI can't do our experiments, collect really any of our data, make our lab reagents, fix our broken machines as they age. I'm just so, so tired of this.
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
and @kathleenrhoades.com is on it!
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Today's accomplishment: needed to convert HOMER motif files to MEME motif files, wrote a script to do it and put it on GitHub for everyone doing motif-y things to use! Find it here: github.com/achpardo/hom... and let me know how it works for you!
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GitHub - achpardo/homer_to_meme: Script to convert HOMER .motif files to MEME-format motif files (Python).
Script to convert HOMER .motif files to MEME-format motif files (Python). - achpardo/homer_to_meme
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MSU Plant Resilience Institute @msupri.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
How comparable are plant drought studies, really? In a new @plantphys.bsky.social paper, a team of Plant Resilience Institute scientists, led by @bobvanburen.bsky.social, reanalyze hundreds of drought gene expression datasets and introduce new ML tools. #PlantScience 🔗: doi.org/10.1093/plph...
The image is an announcement for a new publication from the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. At the top, a green banner displays the title "NEW PRI PUBLICATION" in bold white text. Below is the paper title in white over a textured green background: “Variability in drought gene expression datasets highlights the need for paired physiology and community standardization.” Two circular headshot photos on the left show a man and a woman. To the right are six bar charts in a grid depicting various data related to plant resilience. Each chart has a title: "Plant age," "Environment," "Media," "Stress duration," "Mechanism of drying," and "Paired physiology datasets." Text at the bottom, states: "VanBuren et al., Plant Physiology (2026).” Logos for Michigan State University and the Plant Resilience Institute are at the bottom left.
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
If you're an #EcoEvo #PhD candidate anywhere in the world looking for project funding, consider applying for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Award. Ten proposals for $2k in research funds will be awarded. Due 13 March 2026. Please share widely! 🧪 #grants #ecology #evolution #behavior
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Student Research Award
<p>The ASN Student Research Awards support research by student members that advances the goals of the society: the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, and behavior. Each award consists of a ...
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Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
What a gift! What a beautiful gift to be required to plan for good things in the long-term. That's all. I think that's all I have for now.
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Looking for something to do next today at #PAG33? Stop by Plant Gene Expression Analysis, starting at 4:00PM in Pacific F-G!
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Very excited for this workshop!
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Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Heading to #PAG33 to present 'regulation of environment responses' in 'Plant Epigenetics for Crop Improvement' session on Mon, 01/12. Shout-out to Yuvraj & Minnie for driving comparative genomics, epigenomics & single-cell work! We are also looking for a postdoc to join our group! Details below 👇
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
#PAG33 friends, go check out postdoc in the lab Anna Pardo's talk on Monday at 4:20pm in the Plant Gene Expression Analysis Workshop. She's talking about a huge time course RNA-seq dataset from a homoploid Yucca hybrid that uses both C3 + CAM photosynthesis! @annapardo-phd.bsky.social Yucca tax:
Photo of Yucca gloriosa growing in a sand dune.
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Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
okay had to take the dog out. CONTINUING. Point 2: what do you want your audience to learn / what does your audience want to learn? Sometimes those are two different things.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Mistake I often make is worrying about the two or three most knowledgeable people in the audience and what will they think. Have to remind myself that if I present just to them I lose the other 95%.
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Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
My favorite bit of science writing advice is "Assume your audience is smart but doesn't have the vocabulary yet." I've had a ton of success with this approach! And when you treat people like they're smart but just need some definitions they often feel empowered to ask really interesting questions
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
@annapardo-phd.bsky.social is a computational biologist who studies plant genomics and abiotic stress responses. Her recent work in #G3journal identified genes related to common stress physiology responses as well as stress-related transcription factors. 9/19🧵
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The latest issue of #G3journal features a curated database of stress-responsive genes in maize across stressors from @annapardo-phd.bsky.social, @bobvanburen.bsky.social, and colleagues generated via meta-analysis of public #transcriptomic data. Learn more about this resource here: buff.ly/znaNWQg
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 10/12/2025
I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿 lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...
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Weird wet weather has Joshua trees flowering early — or late? Help the Yoder Lab map this “bonus bloom” to understand why
A flowering tree in Yucca Valley, CA, observed by iNaturalist contributor wanderingmojave on December 9. A tree with lots of flowers in Tehachapi, CA, observed by iNaturalist contributor tina9294 o…
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Latest in #G3journal: @annapardo-phd.bsky.social, Jeremy Pardo, @bobvanburen.bsky.social curated core stress-responsive genes in maize across stressors through meta-analysis of public RNA-seq data, generating a valuable resource for understanding stress tolerance mechanisms in maize. buff.ly/AfhRWHX
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Update: I will be speaking in the Plant Gene Expression Analysis workshop on Monday, Jan. 12! If you'll be at PAG this year, come hear about gene expression and faculatative CAM in a homoploid hybrid Yucca!
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
So proud that my first PhD chapter is now out in G3: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... Brief story in the thread below! ⬇️
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Stress-responsive transcription factor families are key components of the core abiotic stress response in maize
Abstract. Abiotic stresses, including drought, salt, heat, cold, flooding, and low nitrogen, are harmful to agriculture and increasing in frequency due to
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
You've probably heard how a high percentage of #Nobel laureates are immigrants. The US in particular has benefited from the influx of bright minds. @jennaahart.bsky.social ran the data for this century's Nobel prizewinners — and shows more than 30% immigrated. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Are you organizing a talk session at PAG 33? I would love to speak about my postdoc work on the genomics of variable facultative CAM photosynthesis in a hybrid Yucca species! Possible workshop topics include: hybrid genomics, abiotic stress, non-model species. Please DM me if you're interested!
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Are you organizing a talk session at PAG 33? I would love to speak about my postdoc work on the genomics of variable facultative CAM photosynthesis in a hybrid Yucca species! Possible workshop topics include: hybrid genomics, abiotic stress, non-model species. Please DM me if you're interested!
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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Interested in giving a talk at the Plant and Animal Genome conference (PAG 33) in San Diego? Together with several colleagues, we are arranging 5 interconnected sessions. To submit an abstract, please fill out this Google Form before Oct 12th, 2025: forms.gle/q7j275Di6umY...
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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The Plant Resilience Institute (PRI) at Michigan State University invites applications for multiple tenure-st...
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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
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Laura Williams @laurawilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
NSF GRFP solicitation out. App deadlines now in November. As others noted, eligibility rules for current graduate students now exclude 2nd year grad students. See the solicitation - they’ve emphasized “first year” and “less than one academic year” in grad program. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
#AppsPlantSci is planning a special issue highlighting innovative uses of target-enrichment sequence data, and we're seeking proposals! More info here: botany.org/home/publica... Deadline 30 Nov 2025‪‬ @emcassey.bsky.social @erikarmoore11.bsky.social @yannickwoudstra.bsky.social #genomics
The text at the top reads: “APPS Special Issue Call for Papers: Beyond phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data”. The image beneath the title: On the left side of the image is a large circle divided in two halves: the left side of the circle comprises four images of flowers/herbarium specimens and the right side of the circle contains the text “Target Capture.” Five dotted line arrows point from the large circle to five smaller circles on the right. Smaller circles (clockwise from top): (1) “Off Target”, (2) “Biodiversity assessments”, (3) “Population genomics”, (4) “Evo-Devo”, (5) “Species identification”. The text beneath the image reads: “Proposal deadline November 30, 2025”. The Applications in Plant Sciences logo is in the bottom left corner, and a QR code is in the bottom right corner. Image credit: Yannick Woudstra.
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Update: I am officially planning to head to PAG in January. Thanks for the advice everyone!
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Germán Martínez @german-martinez.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I am editing a collection on "plant epigenetic regulation" for BMC Plant Biology. If you think that your paper might fit there please contact me or send it through the submission system to our collection: www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...
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Call for papers - Plant epigenetic regulation
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Genomics/plant bio folks, I'd love to crowdsource some wisdom here: what 2026 conference would you recommend to a postdoc (me) working on a non-model species who wants to make the jump to industry computational biology within the next year? Thanks in advance!
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Karolina Heyduk has called BSA her scientific home since 2012 and has dedicated many years to service for the Society. Celebrate #ADayforBSA with a gift to the Endowment to give back to your Society and honor what BSA has meant to your career! Give today! crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont...
Graphic for ""A Day for BSA"" on August 27, 2025, featuring a photo of Karolina Heyduk wearing a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses perched on top. The background is blue. A quote reads:
""I grew into the scientist, mentor, and teacher I am today because of the connections I have made through the BSA, the cutting-edge research and teaching I’ve seen at the annual conference, and the community of support I found within the BSA. I am proud to be a member of such a welcoming scientific society; I dedicate a large portion of my service work to the BSA because it has meant so much to me throughout my career.""
The quote is attributed to Karolina Heyduk. At the bottom is the BSA circular logo for “A Day for BSA” and the text: Give to the BSA Endowment Today!
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Our "Joshua tree is CAM" paper is finally out: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Data collection started back in 2021, when we saw weird results in some RNAseq that made me stop and wonder if Joshua trees, long thought to be C3, were actually...CAM!
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Cryptic CAM photosynthesis in Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia, Y. jaegeriana)
Joshua trees are long-lived perennial monocots native to the Mojave Desert in North America. Composed of two species, Yucca brevifolia and Y. jaegeriana (Asparagaceae), Joshua trees are imperiled by...
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
N: Vancouver, BC E: Kruger National Park, South Africa S: Johannesburg, South Africa W: Vancouver, BC (again)
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
AI can be useful sometimes, but...I just think it's important to remember that ChatGPT is, in fact, a statistical model rather than a human-level intelligence.
Two astronauts are looking at Earth, which is labeled "AI, Machine Learning." One astronaut is saying "It's all statistics?" The other, pointing a gun at the first astronaut, says "Always has been."
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
What happens when a CAM species and a C3 species hybridize? Find out today in Comparative Genomics I at 10:15 (right after the coffee break)! #botany2025 #whambamcam #camgenda
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A highlight of the day at #Botany2025: learning about CAM in the carnivorous genus Pinguicula from Daniel Mok of @msupri.bsky.social. So cool to see hypotheses from 1991 confirmed in 2025!
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Did you see Catrina Adams' #Botany2025 plenary talk on #PlantingScience last night? She shared so much fantastic info on the program---if you'd like to read more about the program, check out this new Plant Science Bulletin article! issuu.com/botanicalsoc... #botany #plantscience #plantpeopleftw
Opening page to the Plant Science Bulletin article on Planting Science.
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Watched a few great talks at Hybrids & Hybridization I of #Botany2025 this morning - next up, Dryland Floras! If you're like me and like both hybrids and drought, check out my talk on hybrid Yuccas and drought-induced CAM on Wednesday at 10:15 (Comparative Genomics I)!
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Marc Fradera-Soler @mfraderasoler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Heading to #Botany2025? Curious how plants thrive in extreme deserts and drylands? Don't miss our Dryland Floras colloquium, we've lined up a great session! 🌵☀️ 🗓️ Monday, July 28 | 🕗 8:00am–12:00pm | 📍 Mojave Learning Center
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Lab group trip to Joshua Tree NP! #botany2025
Photo of a group of women posing in front of Joshua trees.
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Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Hello Science Feed! 🧪 I am a plant breeder and geneticist at @savannainstitute.bsky.social. I run the breeding programs in American persimmon and black locust, and I did my PhD in tart cherries at Michigan State. I specialize in weirdo genomes and the wonderful slow pace of tree breeding 🌳🧬
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Not at all jealous of my PI right now (but also incredibly happy for her! and excited to hear about her trip when she gets back 👀)
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The first chapter of my dissertation is now out on bioRxiv! Check it out if you've ever wondered how plant responses to different abiotic stresses might overlap: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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