@minyaaa.bsky.social
Assist Prof at UIUC Plant Bio #NewPI. NSF Postdoc UConn EEB. PhD Harvard OEB. Erasmus MEME evobio alumna. She/Her. Lover of ALL plants.
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Development; Evolution; Evo-Devo; Microscopy; Meristems.
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@minyaaa.bsky.socialThank you! Itβs hard to elaborate on many things with a 2000 word limit but hopefully you find some interesting points. :)
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@minyaaa.bsky.socialHeya I put together a bunch of things that i have been thinking about over the past a few years into this insight piece and look forward to any discussion this may lead to πΈπ
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@aabiologists.bsky.socialReposted by @minyaaa.bsky.social#auxin2026 D2 progressing nicely.
Great talk from @minyaaa.bsky.social about floral and leave development in Monkey-flowerβ¦.
@botsocamerica.bsky.socialReposted by @minyaaa.bsky.socialPetal to the metal: The slow road to automating large-scale #phenology labeling for #herbarium specimens
New in #AppsPlantSci by @er1ngrady.bsky.social, @djli.bsky.social, @rdinnager.bsky.social, Rob Guralnick, et al.
doi.org/10.1002/aps3... @floridamuseum.bsky.social @usa-npn.bsky.social #botany
@stressedbranch.bsky.socialReposted by @minyaaa.bsky.socialNew preprint out from my time as a postdoc in @jenncoughlan.bsky.social lab!
In a range-wide survey of M. guttatus, we found a lack of stomatal regulation in response to drought, which led to our inability to draw predictions from other known trait-associations
@minyaaa.bsky.social@homeobox.bsky.social I think Brent designed something like that?
@philippebatut.bsky.socialReposted by @minyaaa.bsky.socialπ§¬π¬ Why are enhancers transcribed and how does that impact gene regulation? Iβm really excited to share our new paper in @science.org showing that noncoding RNAs control the timing of gene activation in embryos. With Mike Levine #ScienceResearch @columbiamed.bsky.social
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@philippebatut.bsky.socialReposted by @minyaaa.bsky.social2/ To see this with our own eyes, we turned to live imaging β and to the HOX genes. We visualized, in real time, the transcription of an endogenous eRNA (magenta spots) produced by a distal enhancer of the HOX gene Scr (green, in trans) in individual nuclei (grey) of live fly embryos:
@atinygreencell.bsky.socialReposted by @minyaaa.bsky.socialFeeling proud of where SpliceCraft is at right now. Still got more details to add and UI jank to solve, but powerful af and open source. Made, with love, for this community. Enjoy.
@bpucker.bsky.socialReposted by @minyaaa.bsky.socialExcited to share our new paper is out in TPJ! π±
"Out of the blue: family-wide loss of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Cucurbitaceae"
We explore the anthocyanin biosynthesis gene loss through comparative genomics:
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#Evolution
@mariemonniaux.bsky.socialReposted by @minyaaa.bsky.socialWe have written a review on MADS-box genes expression in developing floral organs, which has been under-explored as compared to their early role to specify floral organ identity.
Congrats to Emma DΓ©sert for her first review article as a PhD student! #proudPI @rdplab.bsky.social
@minyaaa.bsky.social"embrace AI to reveal the hidden beauty in your data." or embrace AI to hallucinate data
@w-noah-brett.bsky.socialReposted by @minyaaa.bsky.socialwww.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
Am I the only one who thinks this is AI?
@botsocamerica.bsky.socialReposted by @minyaaa.bsky.socialπΏ Congratulations to our 2026 Katherine Esau Award recipients, Angelique Acevedo (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Andrea Appleton (Harvard University), for their outstanding presentations in developmental & structural botany at Botany 2026!
@minyaaa.bsky.socialCute!!!!
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@mads100tist.bsky.socialReposted by @minyaaa.bsky.socialYou know what's also interactive? Reading the paper. Talk to your colleagues about the paper you just read. Tell them why you loved it. Tell them why you hated it. And even better: invite the authors to talk about their paper π§ͺ
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