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Katie Murphy, PhD

@kmurphyphd.bsky.social

Director of Phenotyping & Principal Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Katie Murphy, PhD @kmurphyphd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A huge congrats to Erin for winning the Maize Genetics Early Career Award! We are lucky to have the Erin joining @danforthcenter.bsky.social this summer as a joint faculty member.

Erin Sparks on stage accepting an award with a slide of her photo in the background.

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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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Katie Murphy, PhD @kmurphyphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Darwin's orchid at the @mobotgarden.bsky.social (check out the orchid show this month)! The long light green piece (center) is the nectar tube, he hypothesized a long-tongued insect must exist to pollinate. The moth was discovered many years later.

White orchid growing on a tree, has a 1-foot long green nectar tube down the center of the image.

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Katie Murphy, PhD @kmurphyphd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

No better way to celebrate my first post here than the view from my office right now - a beautiful St. Louis sunset to end a great day of science!

pink, orange, and blue sunset overlooking a brown prairie and an orange building

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