Kevin Cox Jr
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HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow | Asst. Professor @ WashU & Asst. Member @ Danforth Center | Spatial Biology | Plant-microbe Interactions | Duckweed | YouTuber/Streamer
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Ok my other news! Excited to say that I will be a joint faculty member with
@WUSTLBio
as an Asst. Professor, & the
@DanforthCenter
as an Asst. Member starting in July 2024! My lab will use single-cell & spatial biology methods to study plant-pathogen interactions & development.
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Welp here goes. Hey guys, I'm Kevin Cox, a 2nd year postdoc at the
@DanforthCenter
! I study plant-microbe interactions to figure out how plants "get sick" by microbes. I use single-cell RNA-seq methods to determine how plant cells and microbes "talk".
#BlackBotanistsWeek
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Update: Yesterday was July 1st, meaning I'm officially an Assistant Professor at
@WUSTLBio
and an Assistant Member at
@DanforthCenter
! Feels surreal to have my dream job. Time to make this an exciting year 1 as a faculty member!
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I've been kind of quiet here for the last couple weeks. Mainly because I've been too busy snuggling and loving on this small, but mighty one. Say hello to my new son 😊
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It's
#BlackHistoryMonth
! Each day (by a thread) I'll highlight an early career black botanist/plant scientist! Check them out! First is
@KionaElliott
, a
@WUSTLdbbs
NSF fellow at the
@DanforthCenter
in
@becky_bart
lab! Kiona studies how cassava defends itself against pathogens.
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I'm curious Academia Twitter: for diplomas (B.S., M.S., PhD), do y'all have them framed and if so, how fancy of a frame did you put it in? I figured that it might finally hang up my PhD diploma somewhere and wanna see something 🤔
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Hey y'all! I'm Kevin Cox-an
@HHMINEWS
Hanna Gray Fellow at the
@DanforthCenter
. I study plant diseases at a single-cell level to figure out how plants & microbes talk to each other. I also use YouTube & Twitch for
#scicomm
and just to have fun with games! 1/2
#BlackBotanistsWeek
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It's
#BHM
! Last year I highlighted 28 Black Botanists, one each day. And I'm back at it again with another 28! Meet Patrick Thomas
@soylentSG
, a PhD Candidate at
@UCRiverside
! Patrick studies Whitefly resistance and hormone response in alfalfa. 1/28🧵
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Happy to see another year of
#BlackBotanistsWeek2022
! I'm Kevin Cox, a postdoc at the
@DanforthCenter
! I use imaging, spatial, and single-cell biology to study plant-microbe interactions in Arabidopsis and meristem development in duckweed.
#BlackBotanistsRollCall
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Outside of lab, I do outreach by visiting elementary schools to do fun science activities! I also have a YouTube and Twitch channel where I play video games or make videos to educate ppl on science! Feel free to check them out!
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Day 2 of
#BlackBotanistsWeek
is
#PlantInteractions
! Plants can get diseases from pathogens, just like us. When you have get plants/crops that get sick and die, there's less food to go around, leading to higher prices in stores! An example of this is a disease on citrus. 1/5
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In case anyone's wondering, I'm enjoying being on paternity leave to spend time with my daughter. 👨🏾🍼🥰
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Not gonna lie....never would I have thought I would ever give a day's opening speech for a major scientific conference. Guess I can mark that off my bucket list! Looking forward to day 2 at
#PlantBio20
! (Also, I cringed rewatching this btw) 😅😅
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Probably my biggest highlights of 2023 were the birth of my son and securing a faculty position. While there won't be any more new clones added (I hope 🤣), I'm excited to start my lab this year. 👨🏾🔬🧬 Wishing everyone a successful 2024!!
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Yesterday I turned 31. While being a scientist has ups and downs (and I mean A LOT of downs 😅), one thing I can consistently count on every year is the love and support from my wife and two girls.
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So here's one of my big announcements I've been meaning to share:
They say that good things come in threes so.....my wife and I will be welcoming our third child (and our first son) this late October! 😄🎉👶🏾
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Finally did a thing as a
#NewPI
: I made my lab's website!! Not 100% finished but it's complete enough that I feel comfortable to share it - happy to hear feedback!
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#NewPI
update: Lab renovations over at WashU are complete enough to start moving equipment/items in! Lots of boxes are coming my way in the foreseeable future!
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March 13th at 8:29pm, my wife and I welcomed our second daughter, coming in at 6lbs, 5oz! The smirk she has is probably letting us know that she's going to have a bit of a dramatic personality; something we're starting to notice already. 😅😅
#GirlDad
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One of my lab mates posted this pic in our lab's Slack channel. Plants never cease to amaze me! 🍎🍎
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I looked on my Google Scholar this morning and found this. Do I get a medal or plaque...or something? No?...😂😂
But wow!! 100 citations on my 1st first author paper I published while in grad school four years ago!! Hoping for a career that blesses me many more!!🥳🥳
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It's
#BHM
so you know what that means? Yep-a thread of 28 Days of 28 Black Botanists from me for the 3rd yr in a row! 1st up,
@LifeAboveAvG
, a PhD student at
@WUSTLdbbs
&
@DanforthCenter
! Antonio combines root phenomics and social science to help urban farmers grow better crops.
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Plants are powerful. What more needs to be said? S/O to
@DanforthCenter
for the shirt design!!
#PlantPower
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The Cox Lab is looking for 1-2 postdocs to join us! If you have an interest/expertise in single-cell/spatial transcriptomics, imaging, and/or plant-microbe interactions, I encourage you to apply!
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I hope the science community is paying close attention to their Black colleagues' response to the Rittenhouse verdict. We're mad, but not surprised at all.
If you haven't realized why we believe our Justice system is messed up, you need to read that last sentence above again.
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Plants really bring in a community. I love getting kids in my community excited about them. And since I'm known as "The Plant Guy" in my family & Discord community, guess who gets asked about them? 😂 1/3
#DiversePeopleDiversePlants
#BiodiversityIsPower
#BlackBotanistsWeek2021
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Is it just me or is there anyone else having trouble "getting back into the swing of things" after the holiday break (such as organizing experiments or day to day tasks)?
#AcademicChatter
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28 days, 28 Black botanists. I enjoyed highlighting different Early Career Black botanists/plant scientists each day of
#BHM
! Now, this whole "I can't find any Black botanists-" thing...🗣️ I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT! 😂😂 I just gave names that conferences should look out for!
It's
#BlackHistoryMonth
! Each day (by a thread) I'll highlight an early career black botanist/plant scientist! Check them out! First is
@KionaElliott
, a
@WUSTLdbbs
NSF fellow at the
@DanforthCenter
in
@becky_bart
lab! Kiona studies how cassava defends itself against pathogens.
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I'm honored to be part of this amazing group! Thank you
@HHMINEWS
for supporting my and the other
#HannaGrayFellows
work! We won't let you down!!!
HHMI is excited to announce the selection of 15 exceptional early career scientists as 2019
#HannaGrayFellows
to support
#diversity
in biomedical research:
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4th Black plant scientist I'm highlighting for
#BlackHistoryMonth
is Taylor Harris
@taymharris
, a
@WUSTLdbbs
grad student in
@becky_bart
lab! Taylor studies how two bacterial pathogens work together to infect cotton. She also serves on the DEI Council at the
@DanforthCenter
!
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6th plant scientist I'm highlighting for
#BlackHistoryMonth
is R. Shawn Abrahams
@Young_Eukaryote
, a grad student
@Mizzou
in
@JChrisPires
's lab! Shawn studies the evolution of plants in the mustard family (over 200 species!) and how their metabolites have diversified over time.
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A quick indoor plant photo dump! From Pothos, to Snake, to ZZ plants; I love having them around the house! 😁
Not pictured are some that are struggling 😅😂. Botanists have house plants that die too so ever don't feel bad!
#HousePlantHour
#IndoorBotany
#BlackBotanistsWeek2021
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Three dope EC Black scientists at the
@DanforthCenter
wrote a letter to
@ThePlantCell
to share our experiences in academia & suggestions to improve the culture for Black scientists to thrive. I enjoyed writing this with
@KionaElliott
&
@taymharris
! 🥳💪🏾
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5th botanist I'm highlighting for
#BlackHistoryMonth
is Dr. Tanisha Williams
@T_Marie_Wms
, a post-doc at
@BucknellU
! Tanisha's research involves how plants respond to the world around them, especially during climate change. Notably, she's the founder/chair of
#BlackBotanistsWeek
!
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#BHM
Meet Modesta Abugu
@modestannedi
, a PhD student at
@NCState
! Modesta works on sweet potato breeding and seeks to understand the mechanism of interaction of those various flavor compounds. She's also an ASPB Conviron Scholar and cofounder of
@ASPB_ARN
. 2/28🧵
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Hung out with the
@ThePlantCell
and
@PlantPhys
AFEs happy hour with this dope view in Portland!
#PlantBio2022
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Day 3 of
#BlackHistoryMonth
, I'm highlighting Dr. Morgan Halane
@themorgantrail
. Morgan is a NYC-based biologist with a speciality of studying small molecules of pathogens (effectors) and how they cause disease in plants. He's also a co-founder of
@BlkBotanistsWk
!
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Want a private network for Black, Indigenous, & Latine plant scientists to connect with each other and share resources? Join Adventitious Roots by filling out the Google form below! We're on Slack now!!
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For Day 2 of
#BlackHistoryMonth
, I'd like to highlight Roy Davis
@RoyD_pathology
, a grad student at
@TAMU
! Roy's research involves measuring a pathogen's density and movement during infection. He does this through modeling and using plant imaging tools such as unmanned aircrafts!
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Milestone as
#NewPI
: Just got the email today that I have officially hired my first person to my team. I guess it's really starting to set in now, huh?....
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My first books I was gifted from my future department. I guess I'm really about to have my own lab soon, huh....😵💫😵💫😳
#NewPI
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For
#BlackBotanistsAtWork
my day involves working with small things! I spend alot of time @ the microscopes & cryostat to cut & collect thin plant material. My goal is to map out the locations of plant genes; think of it as drawing the state borders/cities on a blank USA map! 1/2
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Thrilled to "ExPOSE" our preprint! We present ExPOSE: a comprehensive toolkit to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplasts. Great collaborative work with
@sarah_pardi
@Lily_OConnor_2
@NusinowLab
and the Advanced Bioimaging Lab!
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#BHM
Meet Kadeem Gilbert
@GilbertKadeem
, an Assistant Professor at
@michiganstateu
! Kadeem's lab is interested in the symbiotic interactions between plants and other organisms. 18/28🧵
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7th botanist I'm highlighting for
#BlackHistoryMonth
is Maya Allen
@Glossopetalon
, a grad student at
@UNM
! Maya's researches plant evolution and systematics, and she explores the evolutionary consequences of phenotypic plasticity. She's also a co-founder of
#BlackBotanistsWeek
!
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Just got my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. 💪🏾💪🏾 Also, for those that have been loving my Afro for the past year or so, y'all got about two more weeks to admire it before I hit my barber up! 😂😂😂
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Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Our family especially has something to be thankful for.....coming in March 2022!!! ♀️👶
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12th plant scientist I'm highlighting for
#BlackHistoryMonth
is Dr. Aman Husbands
@AmanHusbands
, an Asst. Professor at
@OhioState
! Aman studies the complex, yet reproducible, nature of development in plants (such as the production of flat leaves).
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I was waiting for one of these 😂😂😂
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Wearing my shirt I got from
@SimpleScienceTs
while drinking some coffee. Shirt pretty much describes a bulk of my life 😂😂
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A couple of
#NewPI
updates! Over at the WashU lab, we're MANY boxes deep from our lab equipment orders! And over at the Danforth Center, the lab made its karaoke debut at the scientific retreat! It sounds like we would've won "People's Choice" if that was a category! 😅😅
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I'm away at a conference! ....Well sort of lol 😅. Figured I would attend my first maize meeting since it's right in my backyard. Met some familiar faces last night after some great talks. If anyone at
#MGM2023
wants to catch up or meet, hit me up!
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Quick photo dump for
#PlantsInside
my home! I will point out that while I do work on plants at the lab, I still have a couple plants at home that are "stubborn" 🤣🤣. It happens to the best of us so don't feel bad if your plants are struggling!
#BlackBotanistsWeek2022
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Some of y'all may think this is exaggerated or that this is just a small sample size....it's not. 😑 I can tell you that the number of Black faculty/post-docs/students in plant biology I met in grad school can easily be counted with one hand. We got to do better.
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#BHM
Meet
Oluwatoyosi
@yoursorghumgirl
, a PhD student at the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing! Oluwatoyosi specializes in Sorghum genetics and genomics. 13/28🧵
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Quick selfie with another
@HHMINEWS
Hanna Gray Fellow
@shanice_web
, and incoming Group Leader at The Sainsbury Laboratory
@nobolly
before the meeting gets underway 😄
#2023ISMPMI
@ISMPMI
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One thing I look forward to after the New Year is me and my stunning wife's wedding anniversary. I tell you, this woman is my best friend and my number one supporter. SEVEN YEARS AND COUNTING! My success, is her success as well, cuz she's been nothing but a rock for me. 😍🥳
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#BHM
Meet
@ThePlantDoctor_
, a PhD student at
@Cornell
! Brandon is working on engineering a biofluorescent reporter system in tomatoes that would alert farmers to nitrogen and phosphorus-deficient soil conditions.
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Thanks for the write-up! Excited to step into my new role and be a bridge to these two great institutions! 😁🌱
We’re excited to announce
@K_Bioguy_Cox
as Assistant Member & joint faculty member with
@WUSTL
! 🎉
Kevin is an STL native who’s passionate about plant disease resistance research. Learn more about his cutting-edge research here:
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#BHM
Meet Cierra Sullivan
@Sullylubbts13
, a PhD student at
@ClemsonUniv
! Cierra studies the evolutionary ecology of leaf variegation in Hexastylis heterophylla and how it impacts aspects of plant performance, such as photosynthetic efficiency and reproduction. 3/28🧵
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#BlackPlantLove
is Day 3 of
#BlackBotanistsWeek
! I suck at poems and writing stories, so here's a short Haiku 😬....
Food, Oxygen, Clothes
Energy, Healing, Beauty
Plants give us so much
*mic drop*
Aight y'all have a good day. 😂😂😂
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#BHM
Meet Chazz Jordan
@chazz_jordan
, a PhD student at the
@universityofga
! Chazz studies flower color evolution and macroevolution in the genus Echinacea (coneflowers). 7/28🧵
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#BHM
Meet Josh Felton
@JoshFelton12
, an undergraduate researcher at
@ColoradoCollege
! Josh is interested in plant pollinator interactions and floral evolution. 8/28🧵
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I turned 29 today. I have my health, a beautiful wife, a hyper-active daughter, a science career that I love doing and is on the rise, and some great friends that I've met in person, Twitter, and online. Regardless of the situation we're in, I'm so grateful for those!
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#BHM
Meet Olivia Haley
@ohaley93
, a PhD student at
@KStateOlathe
! Olivia's work investigates the use of UV light to inactivate waterborne/foodborne pathogens in agricultural water and on fresh produce. 4/28🧵
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Happy 30th b-day to me!! Also, why is my "Check Knee Light" is on? 😂😂
But nah, I'm blessed to have lived for 3 whole decades! I've learned and experienced so much. My life has been good, and if God-willing, I'm just getting started. So look out! 💪🏾💪🏾🎉🎉😁😁
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Excited to join
@ThePlantCell
as an Assistant Features Editor starting in 2021! 🙌🏾😁
The Plant Cell Welcomes 2021 Assistant Features Editors
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Been traveling the last two weeks. Week 1 involved some much needed R&R in Hawaii before attending
@ASPB
#PlantBio2024
. Then Week 2 I attended a
@HHMINEWS
Hanna Gray Fellows Retreat. So much fun reconnecting with a lot of my friends/colleagues before my transition on Monday! 🤙🏾
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I'm currently the director for the Adventitious Roots Discord Server! This server provides a private network for Black, Indigenous & Latine plant scientists to connect and support each other. If you like to join this, fill out the Google form below!
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#BHM
Meet Brianna Griffin
@maizeBDG
, a PhD student at
@IowaStateU
! Brianna's work focuses on the role of post-translational modifications in plant-pathogen interactions. 6/28🧵
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To my fellow black scientists and grad students, if you don't feel motivated to work or think about your projects, YOU SHOULD NOT FEEL BAD. This is a trying and mentally draining time rn. Take care of yourself first.
#BlackLivesMatter
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Naomi Osaka's situation reminded me that we need to stop normalizing "all work, no days off" as a flex. I was guilty of that at one point in my life; even now I still am at times. We need to stop feeling guilty for taking time off. It recharges us physically and mentally.
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I've been quiet on Twitter lately cause I'm dealing with this since Sunday. 😔 Long story short, my wife and daughter were unharmed (thankfully), I have a fractured wrist, and filling out paperwork for claims is a headache. 😑😂
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#BHM
Meet Beronda Montgomery
@BerondaM
, soon to be VP for Academic Affairs & Dean of the College at
@GrinnellCollege
! Beronda's lab researches the responses of photosynthetic organisms to light. She is also the author of 'Lessons from Plants' & an expert on mentoring. 22/28🧵
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If y'all think saying "y'all" is unprofessional, then I guess some of y'all are going to be disappointed when y'all meet me. Y'all trippin. 😂😂😂
Twitter fam: How do you feel about using "y'all" in a professional setting?
I'm interested.
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#BHM
Meet Shanice Webster
@shanice_web
, a postdoc at
@DukeU
! Shanice investigates how pathogenicity affects changes in the plant microbiome and how such changes contribute to disease development. 9/28🧵
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Long thread (sorry 😂) I don't talk about her much on Twitter, but for those that don't know, I have a hyperactive 8 y/o clone 😂. From being a dad since 21 y/o, she turned me into an even more responsible and mature person while bringing lots of laughs (and headaches lol). (1/3)
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#BHM
Meet Caylyn Railey
@Caylyn_Railey
, a PhD student at
@Cornell
! Caylyn works in a lab that uses comparative and high-throughput bioinformatics approaches to investigate how plants respond to stresses. 11/28🧵
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17th botanist I'm highlighting for
#BlackHistoryMonth
is Sara Middleton
@sara_lil_plants
, a grad student at the
@UnivOxford
! Sara is interested in how climate change-driven droughts affects plant communities. She leads a lot of outreach activities such as
@BlackBritishBio
!
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#BHM
Meet Andre Hudson
@HudsonLabRIT
, Professor and Department Head at Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences at
@RITtigers
! One of Andre's lab interests is to study amino acid metabolism not only in Arabidopsis, but also in bacteria and algae. 5/28🧵
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8th plant scientist I'm highlighting for
#BlackHistoryMonth
is Jade Bleau
@jade_bleau
, a grad student
@SBSatEd
in
@SpoelLab
! Jade studies how plants regulate responses to environmental stresses by signaling via oxidants systems. Jade is also a co-founder of
#BlackBotanistsWeek
!
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#BHM
Meet
@KassamaSire
, a PhD student at
@ucdavis
! Sire utilizes computational methods and high-throughput phenotyping to uncover the traits associated with drought stress response in Theobroma cacao.
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Thanks to all committee members for an amazing week!! I've learned so much, made so many new connections, and I'm sure everyone else did as well!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾
#BlackBotanistsWeek
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I don't care how long I'm in science, I will always need to write out the M1V1 formula on a paper when making solutions. 😭😭😅😅
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#BHM
Meet Sessen Daniel
@SessenDaniel
, a PhD student at
@CSHLsbs
! Sessen uses genomic tools and computational approaches to study the genetic and phenotypic variability of biological systems in plants to figure out their evolution and adaptation. 19/28🧵
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IT'S BACK! 29 Days, 29 Black Botanists - all at once! Check out the list posted on
@plantae_org
!!
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Having
#PlantBio2023
in Savannah was a blast (outside of the humidity 😅). Really enjoyed reconnecting and networking with everyone there.
With that being said, I'm SO glad to be home for a while now after being at 3 conferences over the last 4 weeks 🤣😴
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#BHM
Meet Dawn Nagel
@nagellab2
, an assistant professor at
@UCRiverside
! Dawn and her lab works to understand how the circadian clock regulates the plant response to changing temperature. 17/28🧵
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#BHM
Meet Thelma Madzima
@thelma_madzima
, an Assistant Professor at
@UWBothell
! Thelma's lab aims to understand how epigenetic mechanisms facilitate responses to abiotic stress in maize and other plants. She also has a strong passion for DEI efforts. 26/28🧵
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9th botanist I'm highlighting for
#BlackHistoryMonth
is Dr. Brian Atkinson
@BrianAtkinology
, an Asst. Professor/Curator of Paleobotany at
@KansasUniv
! Brian recovers plant fossils from across the globe to characterize them and study their evolutionary histories.
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Now THIS is a list and I'm honored to be apart of it! Shout out to
@phdgprotein86
and
@CommOfScholars
for organizing this huge list. For all those conferences/universities saying they can't find black speakers/scientists, y'all got 0 excuses now. ✊🏾
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