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Dior Kelley

@diorkelley.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Iowa State University. Plant developmental geneticist, loves auxin and roots

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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Good morning from the field 😎🌽
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Applications to join the ROOT & SHOOT SI-MI mentor training close Monday July 20!! Last chance! rootandshoot.org/simi2026/ This is a fantastic free online course, running from late August through late Nov. If you're at #PlantBio2026 ask me about it, but don't delay!
Applications are NOW OPEN for the SI-MI mentoring course. Applications close on July 20. www.rootandshoot.org/SIMI2026
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We found some corn in Ottawa 🙌🏻🌽
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#Pollen longevity and viability dataset: an integrated resource for plant research and #conservation A Community Resource by Louise Winther, Conny Bruun Asmussen Lange and Sergey Rosbakh nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience
The most common methods to estimate pollen viability.
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
40 years of auxin
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Had a wonderful time celebrating my postdoc advisor, Mark Estelle yesterday. Happy retirement Mark!
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American Association for the Advancement of Science @aaas.org · 21/05/2026
"While an unconventional background is not necessarily disqualifying, it does require greater scrutiny of the nomination by Congress.” AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh urges the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions to hold an open hearing before voting to confirm James O'Neill.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
There's still time to submit an abstract for consideration for the 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions Be quick - the deadline is midnight PDT (UTC-7), 20 May! www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps #PlantScience
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Forest interactions
Explore plant interactions in forest environments at all levels from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology.Abstract submission now open - deadline 20 May 2026…
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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A SAUR gene enhances maize drought resilience by promoting silk elongation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A SAUR gene enhances maize drought resilience by promoting silk elongation - Nature
The Small Auxin Up RNA (SAUR) protein ZmSAUR72 in maize (Zea mays) promotes silk growth via regulation of H+-ATPase activity, and is a key determinant of the anthesis-silking interval and thus resilie...
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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Reimagining Plant Science Training in the Era of Generative AI: A Global Perspective academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
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Reimagining Plant Science Training in the Era of Generative AI: A Global Perspective
Abstract. In recent years, a deluge of big and diverse datasets from hundreds of plant species coupled with spectacular innovations in artificial intellige
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Tired of translating everything to B73 IDs just to run GO enrichment? Introducing FETA: a one-stop functional enrichment tool for all 26 maize NAM genomes. Includes multiple ontology types, RNA-seq integration, and paper-ready figures. Led by Olivia Haley. feta.maizegdb.org
feta.maizegdb.org
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Big congrats to Dr. Callwood and Mr. Faith Olusegun who just earned their graduate degrees in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from ISU! So proud of you.
Dr. Callwood and Dr. Kelley, Spring 2026 CommencementDr. Kelley and Mr. Faith Olusegun, Spring 2026 Commencement
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Community resource: Structure and sequence evolution in the pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) pangenome Bird, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience
Macrosynteny and genome structure across the Brassicaceae.
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
First first-author pub mugs for Jodi and Clarice!! I’m so lucky to have awesome grad students 🤓💚🌽
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
As an elected Member-at-Large for AAAS Section Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources (O) I am working to support the AAAS mission to advance science and serve society! @aaas.org
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
NAASC has funding for US-based trainees to attend ICAR 2026 in Singapore. Applications are due tomorrow! www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/icar-funding
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Excited to join the Editorial Board of @plosbiology.org, the #PLOS flagship journal in the Life Sciences, that's blazing a trail in support of selective, equitable #OpenScience and reaching global audiences to help advance science faster 📝 🤓 🌱
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Dolf Weijers @dolfweijers.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!
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Full Professor and Chair Laboratory of Biophysics
We are looking for a Full Professor in the Biophysics chair group, part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Does the winter weather have you day dreaming about the beach? Register for AUXIN 2026 and join us in the Algarve, Portugal on Oct 4-8th for all things auxin :) This meeting only happens every four years, so don't wait...
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Lars Østergaard @larsostergaard.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk
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Satyaki PRV @satyakirv.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Some cool stuff from the Comai lab.
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Sterility and structural variation in an arabidopsis pedigree carrying a ring minichromosome - Chromosome Research
Circular minichromosomes could be useful tools for plant biotechnology, yet their long-term structural stability, heritability, and effects on phenotype remain poorly understood. In this study, we rep...
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Not a delight when it ruins all your pollinations 🫠😱 Iowa humor 🌽😂
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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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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Before this #PlantBio2025 thread closes: two exciting opportunities now open for early-career plant scientists. 1. Plantae Fellows program, apply by Aug 31 plantae.org/2026fellowsa... 2. @theplantcell.bsky.social Assistant Features Editor program, apply by Sep 15. blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
AUXIN 2026 logo competition! Please re-post. Deadline for submissions is Tuesday July 15th. Prize is free registration worth €500+ Auxin2026: auxin2026.info Send submissions to geraint@aab.org.uk @larsostergaard.bsky.social @luciastrader.bsky.social @dolfweijers.bsky.social
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Vandepoele lab @vandepoelelab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We are hiring! If you have experience in plant genomics + AI, or promoter engineering + synthetic biology, check out our two open postdoc positions (computational + wetlab): www.vandepoelelab.be/Jobs please re-share RT #ERC
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Jobs | Vandepoele Lab
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Field of dreams 🌽
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
www.cals.iastate.edu/news/2025/io...
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Iowa Soybean Research Center announces leadership transition
On July 1, 2025, Iowa State University Associate Professor of Agronomy Mark Licht and Professor of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology Steve Whitham will join the Iowa Soybean Research Center...
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
www.design.iastate.edu/news/new-atl...
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Iowa State students, Atlantic residents to unveil new mural on former YMCA building at July 2 ribbon-cutting event  – College of Design
Iowa State University College of Design
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🚨 1 month left! #JXB75 abstract submission and travel grant deadlines are fast approaching! 📅 Deadline: July 22 🌍 Join us in September in lovely Edinburgh 🏰 for a celebration of 75 years of the Journal of Experimental Botany! 🔗 bit.ly/JXB75?utm_sou... #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
Journal of Experimental
Botany 75th Anniversary
Symposium
17th-19th September 2025
Edinburgh
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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Dinner was delicious 🐟 🦪 🍷 #keepswimmingupstream
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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
📣The Plant Cell is recruiting Assistant Features Editors. The application period opens now and runs through September 15, 2025!🌱 👉Application information can be found at this link: blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce... #plantscience
Image Text: The Plant Cell. Call for Assistant Features Editors. Deadline for applications: September 15, 2025. Featuring The Plant Cell logo.
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Remember, tomorrow (Thursday) at 2pm, join us in the anatomical theatre for a great discussion about "Building a diverse community through effective teaching & mentoring" #ICAR2025
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FASEB @faseborg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Last chance to save $150 and get the latest in protein kinases and phosphorylation at #PrPSRC. Join us in Scottsdale at a gorgeous resort overlooking the mountains. Save your space and register: buff.ly/BvsZmQm
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Association of Applied Biologists @aabiologists.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Matyas Fendyrch introduces his auxin work #ICAR2025 A reminder AAB are organising Auxin2026 and the logo design competition is OPEN…. a free registration for the successful designer! 🤩 @diorkelley.bsky.social @larsostergaard.bsky.social auxin2026.info
Auxin logo competition advert
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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Interested in Postdoc Research here in Oxford? Many projects possible using long-term population studies of birds, field & lab experiments with insect consumers, phenology of trees all in Wytham woods & based in new Biology building marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...
Field team in Wytham Woods May 2025Image of the new Biology Building, completed, and opening from August 2025Lunch with the field team to celebrate another successful season - May 2025
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We have no boxes, no banners, but we have Pablo! Come by the @theplantcell.bsky.social booth (back of the main reception hall on the right ) today (Tuesday) at 6pm to meet Pablo Manavella, our new Editor in Chief 🌱 #ProTip it's always a good idea to meet the editor!
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Meet the editor 
PABLO MANAVELLA 
Tuesday 6pm
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We will be at ICAR 2025 presenting the latest updates in the Arabidopsis Informatics Session, June 19 from 1400-1530 in the Concerthall. Swing by our booth for some special swag. #TAIR #ICAR2025 #arabidopsis
View of Concertzaal at ICAR2025 venue
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
#ICAR2025 attendees! Stop by @theplantcell.bsky.social booth next week to learn about the Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce... 6pm Tuesday, meet the Editor-in-Chief, Pablo Manavella. 6pm Wednesday, meet the rest of the editors, including some current AFEs! See you!
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The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors | Plant Science Today
Are you an early career researcher passionate about plants and science communication? The Plant Cell is accepting applications for new Assistant Features Editors (AFEs) to begin in 2026 and 2027.
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Şuayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
It‘s about to start - such an amazing venue for #ICAR2025
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Association of Applied Biologists @aabiologists.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Our second logo design competition of the week is now live! 🌱Auxin-artistes: Enter a logo for #Auxin2026 and the winner will receive free registration for our conference in Portugal next October! 🗓️Submission deadline: 15th July > auxin2026.info #plantscience #sciart
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
📜 75 years on since our very first issue, JXB continues to publish cutting-edge photosynthesis research ☀️🌱 ☀️🌱 Start exploring the new Photosynthesis Virtual Issue on now ⬇️ 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social @oxfordacademic.bsky.social 🧵2/2
Emerging leaves of a lime (Tilia) tree. The leaves are a fresh and vibrant green and the reddish-brown buds are also visible.
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
And speaking of 75 years... 🎉 don’t miss #JXB75! We’re celebrating 75 years of the Journal of Experimental Botany with a special symposium in Edinburgh, Sept 17-19 🏛️🌿 There may even be birthday cake... 🎂👀 Stellar speakers & travel grants 👉 🔗 bit.ly/JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
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Lucia Strader @luciastrader.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Biomolecular condensates are critical for organizing cellular contents, but most studies focus on phase separation driven by salt, pH, or temperature. But what if intracellular movement also matters? Here, we explore motility-induced condensation in the cell. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Active transport enables protein condensation in cells
The force generated by active transport modulates protein condensation.
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Sheril Kirshenbaum @sheril.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Where to go for a PhD? Change of interest from non-US students. Source: Economist, 2025 www.economist.com/science-and-...
Change of interest from non-US students.
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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The human proteome with direct physical access to DNA @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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The human proteome with direct physical access to DNA
Zero-distance photo-crosslinking reveals direct protein-DNA interactions in living cells, enabling quantitative analysis of the DNA-interacting proteome on a timescale of minutes with single-amino-aci...
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Getting involved as an organiser of one of our Workshops is easy. We focus on the logistics, so you can focus solely on the science. Watch this video to hear from previous organisers. youtu.be/eShrxWQbx3Q The deadline to propose a topic for our 2027 Workshops is Friday 30 May. bit.ly/42GXN0G
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Why propose a topic for one of our Workshops?
YouTube video by The Company of Biologists
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American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
📣#PlantBio2025 daily highlight: Vegetative & Reproductive Development Concurrent Session!🌱 Learn more and register now!👉https://buff.ly/k7oIzj8 #plantscience
Image Text: Vegetative & Reproductive Development. Sunday, July 27, 2025. 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM. Dior Kelley, Yun Zhou, Patrick Thomas, and Brad Nelms. Iowa State University | Purdue University | Penn State | University of Georgia
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
⚠️🌽 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌽⚠️ How does auxin mediate the growth–stress trade-off in maize? Gonzales & Kelley unpack auxin’s role in abiotic stress responses, from drought to heavy metals 🌡️🚰 📖 Read: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... @cfgonzales.bsky.social @diorkelley.bsky.social‬ #PlantScience 🧪
Auxin plays a role in numerous abiotic stress responses in maize. Solid lines represent literature-supported relationships. Dashed lines represent unknown pathways. Auxin acts as a negative regulator of heat, salinity, and drought stress. During heat stress, auxin signaling is impaired while auxin biosynthesis is promoted. Both salt and drought stress can promote or repress auxin transport in a tissue-specific manner and increase auxin biosynthesis. Drought stress regulates auxin signaling in a tissue-specific manner. Auxin is a positive regulator of cold, heavy metal, and waterlogging stress. Cold stress represses auxin biosynthesis and transport. Some auxin-responsive transcription factors are also regulated by cold but need further study. Heavy metal stress inhibits auxin biosynthesis but increases auxin transport. Waterlogging stress induces auxin biosynthesis. The direct roles of auxin pathways in light stress and/or nutrient stress responses in maize are not well established.
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