Happy to see my PhD student π ππ‘ππ πππ¬ππ§ presenting one of his research projects at @ndepscor.bsky.social annual conference just since he officially started 3 months in the lab!
Please share! I'm looking for a postdoc. The position is to lead one of the following projects: 1) regulation of plant specialized metabolism by cell fate, or 2) foliar embryogenesis in the succulent plant Kalanchoe.
Learn more abt projects: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/res...
What's the difference between dominance and epistasis? Two physically distinct mutations in a gene interact such that the het is identical to one of the homozygotes. If I define the gene as a locus, we call this dominance. If I define each bp as a locus, we call this epistasis.
Our labβs first field harvest at Prosper ND with our amazing folks!
Starting up our 8th year of the Zeavolution webinar series! Want to hear talks on maize genetics, evolution, phylogeny, genomics, etc? All are welcome! Join our slack with >400 people from across the maize community! DM to join the slack, and check out below for schedule or to sign up for a talk!
Amazon shipped a box of diaper to my office β¦
From my limited interviewing experience, when a reference mentions even a minor concern about a candidate, itβs worth paying attention. What may seem small could point to a larger and major issue, and itβs important to decide whether youβll be comfortable with that.
π Congratulations @shanwai1234.bsky.social and team @ndsuofficial.bsky.social!!
Fascinating work, canβt wait to dive in!
We finally get our brand new LED growth chamber today and have an alternative to waiting in line for the shared equipment!
Shipped out >120 lb packages today
Our first field season is kicking off!
Yup, we should have two fields this summer
Preparing 50 trays with 4,800 slots for our first large-scale sampling effort
Proud to see my first PhD student, Ced Fernandez, present his first project on heat stress response at the 2025 Maize Genetics Conference just after he joined our lab for 10 months!
The biggest impact I'll ever have as a professor is the people I help train. Felt wonderful to see so many current trainees and lab alumni together in one place this past weekend at the 2025 Maize Genetics conference.
Eventually, we have our own lab space today!
After intense data collection and exploring research goals, we finally held our first lab meeting in a while. Excited to see where this next phase takes us!
Really fun to reunite with my undergraduate classmates at #PAG32
The first week of 2025: a new student joined, a postdocβs visa was approved who will come soon, and our very first lab member, who greatly helped with lab setup as a student worker, will become an alumnus by the end of this month, my first experience of joy mixed with sorrow as a faculty.
Growing batches of plants for a new experiment on the Christmas Eve
I love when a thought assessment of empirical data shows that a simple concept is really really difficult (shocker).
Jim Birchler on what is and is not subfunctionalization. academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...
Thank you @ndsurca.bsky.social for your support and helping us drive innovation!
Just your regular reminder how awesome this review on inbreeding depression is. www.nature.com/articles/nrg...
Leaves on a wild barley are much glossier than those on barley cultivars
The Big 10 Impact Research clip on our lab's corn science played during the Nebraska/Wisconsin game. Also we beat Wisconsin. Coincidence? ...probably yes... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nm8...
A neat bit we found out in revisions (now submitted). Our full data set shows that TF binding site variation explains >50% of Va for 60% of traits. But many of our binding site variants were epigenetic -- methylation changes that impact TF binding.
Our first emasculation work in spring wheats
