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Lauren Carneal @laurencarn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Me and my poster had a busy week last week! I presented at the Penn State Gamma Sigma Delta Research Expo and the university’s Graduate Exhibition. I had so much fun talking about my science and learning about others! 🧬

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Lauren Carneal @laurencarn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Excluding an entire cohort nationwide from one of the biggest graduate fellowships in the country is so disheartening and such a disservice to the future of science. This announcement coming one month before the deadline (also announced just a month early) is barring so many qualified applicants

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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

A week later and prospective applicants are still awaiting the instructions for this year's #NSFGRFP. I checked in with NSF today and was told "I don’t have anything for you at the moment." #GradSchool

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The first Masters student defense in the lab! Congrats to Aylha Pferschy!! #NewPI 🧪 Her lab art contribution is her gel picture of the mutants she worked so hard to make 🧫 We keep a signed-by-her copy for us and sign one for her to take!

Two women smiling. One is holding a framed gel electrophoresis image

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

New from the Carter Lab! Led by @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social, we sequenced almost twice as many complete genomes as were available for the endofungal Mycetohabitans genus. Unsurprisingly, they are a little weird, giving us insight into endosymbiotic genome changes 🧬 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

So proud of Taylor's growth at UNC Charlotte and with our lab. Very awesome project that introduced 🐝 to our lab and expanded our fungi culture collection with local isolates. science.charlotte.edu/2025/05/01/r...

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Rooted in Curiosity: Taylor Yonemura’s Journey through Growth, Grit and Fungi at UNC Charlotte - Klein College of Science

Taylor Yonemura researched in Morgan Carter's biology lab, studied fungi and bees in the Botanical Gardens, and started the Mycology Club at UNC Charlotte.

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Lauren Carneal @laurencarn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

So grateful for a PI who pushes me out of my comfort zone and suggested I volunteer to judge for our undergrad symposium. I was hesitant- I feel like I was just the undergrad giving the presentation! I learned a lot and it was nice to see what’s going on around the university. A great experience! 🧬🔬

Name tag with the words “The 2025 Undergraduate Exhibition JUDGE”

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The GRFP was already brutally competitive and underfunded given the talent applying. To me, this is a clear snapshot of the reality we face, as we try to play the game without acknowledging how much the game has changed.

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

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Lauren Carneal @laurencarn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Going to recruitment events as a first year grad student is so crazy. Like that was me only a year ago and I’ve already come so far🥹

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Lauren Carneal @laurencarn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Camera roll of a plant pathology PhD student 😅

Camera roll screenshot in which almost every picture is of Arabidopsis leaves

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Lauren Carneal @laurencarn.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

First publication I’m included as an author on made the cover of The Plant Journal🥹🌱 incredibly grateful for the mentorship I received at the Boyce Thompson Institute which turned out to be my most impactful experience to date doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Seasonally appropriate lab supplies. There is also a candy corn version 🤓

A clear tub filled with orange small tubes, topped with green tubes. A black jack o lantern face has been drawn on the tub

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