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Melanie

@melaniemadrigal.bsky.social

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PhD Candidate @LSUBioSci|Dowell Lab| big fan of botrytis cinerea 😎

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Anna Jo Muhich @annajomu.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Excited to share new work from us in the @spicybotrytis.bsky.social lab on Botrytis-legume co-transcriptomics. Similar disease phenotypes between your hosts could be masking a ton of underlying transcriptional plasticity 🌱💥 academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

Graphical abstract describing experiment where 72 Botrytis cinerea isolates were inoculated onto 2 legume hosts. Lesion phenotyping revealed similar disease outcomes, but host and pathogen co-transcriptomics showed high transcriptional plasticity in both host and pathogen.

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The new issue of #AppsPlantSci is online! Highlights include a review of methods to evaluate plant nitrogen uptake, a GUI-based approach to skeletonize fungal networks & semi-automated methods to assign NatureServe conservation status ranks bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450... #botany

The cover of the March-April issue of Applications in Plant Sciences. The photo shows an achene of the endangered species Dubautia menziesii (kūpaoa) (Asteraceae) against a black background. Photo credit: Nathaniel Kingsley

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Melanie @melaniemadrigal.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Interested in learning more about how Botrytis cinerea overcomes host defenses? Check out our new preprint, where we expose a diverse population to linalool to uncover the genetic basis of resistance: doi.org/10.64898/202... ! 😎

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lsuresearch.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Melanie Madrigal, a grad student in the @lsu.bsky.social Dept of Biological Sciences in Jordan A. Dowell's lab, has an odd lab “pet”: a #fungus known as gray mold or Botrytis cinerea. She’s working to characterize its growth under different conditions - with images! youtube.com/shorts/wibIW...

Melanie @melaniemadrigal.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Super excited to have this publication out!!!!!

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Melanie @melaniemadrigal.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Geaux tigers!!! 💜

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LSU College of Science @lsuscience.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Student Spotlight: Melanie Madrigal 🌟 PhD student in Biological Sciences studying how fungal pathogens adapt to plant defenses using lab + computational work. Future Scholars Fellow, flower arranger, and scone baker outside the lab. 🔬🧪 #LSUScience

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Justin @justingambill.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

My first first author publication is now out on BioRXiv! Super excited to share a new outlook in using the entire UV-VIS spectrum when analyzing plant samples on an HPLC-DAD! Super big thanks to my lab and all those who have helped me get here! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Untargeted Metabolomics of Plant Samples using HPLC-DAD and Gaussian Mixture Models

Premise: Plants produce millions of different chemical compounds, contributing greatly to their physiology and evolutionary trajectories. Most untargeted metabolomic methods are inaccessible, either d...

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

We’re proud to announce the 2025 Phytochemical Section Presentation Awardees! 🏅 Best Presentation: Melanie Madrigal 🏅 Honorable Mention: Chase Hearn 🏅 Best Poster: Karen Campos Secenas 🏅 Honorable Mention: Abbigale Baum Learn more: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

Flyer titled Botanical Society of America – Phytochemical Section Presentation Awards, 2025 Recipients. Bright green leafy background. Four recipients are shown: Melanie Madrigal (Louisiana State University), Best Presentation; Chase Hearn (Purdue University), Best Presentation Honorable Mention; Karen Campos Secenas (University of California-Irvine), Best Poster; and Abbigale Baum (Utah Valley University), Best Poster Honorable Mention.

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Melanie @melaniemadrigal.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Excited to share my first first-author publication!! HyPhy is a Python-based tool for studying fungal hyphal networks, opening new doors to connect fungal architecture with genetic and environmental factors.

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Dr. Jordan Dowell @volatileorganic.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

#botany2025 has been such a wild ride I have to shout out @melaniemadrigal.bsky.social who won best phytochemistry talk on HER FIRST TALK EVER! for her work on GWA of Botrytis resistance to plant VOCs

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Dowell Lab @dowelllab.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The Dowell Lab is headed to #Botany2025, come check out some of our amazing talks to see what we’ve been up to!

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Dowell Lab @dowelllab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Wanna see what we’ve been up to in lab? Our undergrads have been crushing it-go check out their posters tomorrow !!!!!

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