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dr. kelsey wood

@klsywd

6 months

Everyone's concerned about "Big Lettuce", but what about Giant Bremia? 🧐 #BigLettuce #Scifie

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@klsywd

2 months

Why do we grade student assignments instead of making them revise and resubmit until they are satisfactory?

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@klsywd

5 months

Ok this is kinda neat: If you give a scientific paper it will generate a network of references and citations!

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Why is my plasmid laughing at me @plasmidsaurus

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3 years

Did you know you can use PowerPoint Presenter View while screen sharing in Zoom so you can see your notes? Here is how to do this lifesaving technique: Share Screen -> Advanced -> Portion of Screen -> Presenter View -> Green box around slide #Zoom #PowerPoint #PhDChat

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May I present to you my agar art of the structure of green fluorescent protein (GFP), painted with bacteria genetically engineered to express the protein! #meta Thanks @ATinyGreenCell for the E. coli and @Colemanomonas for the super bright free use GFP! #fuGFP #SciArt

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@klsywd

8 months

My pretties! Plant cells expressing red, orange, yellow, and green fluorescent proteins by confocal microscopy.

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2 years

@jessejanderson Reward yourself before doing something not after. Our brains don't really believe in the future.

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@klsywd

3 years

It's official! So happy to announce that I will be joining the USDA in Salinas, CA as a Research Plant Pathologist in August! I'll be studying pre-plant disease control of strawberries and leafy greens to find alternatives to chemical fumigants. 😊🍓🥬🌱

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@klsywd

1 month

Does anyone have more nice side by side examples of how crops have changed over time due to breeding? Need em for my plant breeding lecture tomorrow!

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2 months

wait a minute ppl were breeding animals and plants for specific features hundreds (thousands?) of years before Darwin or Mendel so… they had a theory of evolution? what was the pre-Darwinian understanding of heritable mutation and selection that enabled this?

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@klsywd

2 years

It's because they aren't paid enough

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@Nature

2 years

Even high-profile scientists are struggling to recruit qualified postdoctoral researchers

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@klsywd

2 years

Hey Twitter! Can you send any exciting looking postdoc positions in my way? The USDA job did not work out for me, unfortunately. Looking for genomics, bioinformatics, and biochemistry of plant-fungal interactions. Background in pathogens, but interested in beneficials #HireMe

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@klsywd

5 months

no because I've always thought LB broth smelled like it would make a nice soup 😭 genius artwork by @lab_shenanigans

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@klsywd

7 months

Is crying a normal part of bioinformatics y/n

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@klsywd

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Finally got my hands on a little @BigPurpleTomato and it's absolutely gorgeous 😍 #PurpleTomato

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@klsywd

3 months

I'd like to study flower anatomy more, but there's the stigma

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@klsywd

4 years

@_WhatRiot Pretty terrifying that we live in a country where police can just make shit up, arrest (or kill) you for no reason, and suffer zero consequences.

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@klsywd

7 years

Lettuce cell rainbow #plantbow #confocal #microscopy

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@klsywd

3 years

Hey Twitter! I will soon be hiring a Biological Science Lab Technician to work with me at the USDA. If interested, please email me with your CV and brief cover letter at kelsey.wood @usda .gov Position description [PDF]:

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@klsywd

5 years

Plant cell pumpkin by @Lorena_B_Parra #SciencePumpkins #Halloween

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@klsywd

7 years

PSA: Now that grad students are recognized as employees in the state of CA, we qualify for food stamps. Enroll here!

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@klsywd

6 years

@holly @DaniRabaiotti This is my fave. A Facebook post of a *printed* tweet #tweetception

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@klsywd

4 years

@standardtuber My mom wanted to name me a gender neutral name, so I wouldn't face discrimination in case I wanted to be a doctor or something. Her first choice was Jordan, they ended up going with Kelsey which was gender neutral in 1988! And I ended up getting a doctorate 😅

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@klsywd

8 months

Should I be embarrassed or proud as a plant pathologist for growing such a healthy colony of powdery mildew on my squash plants 😅

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@klsywd

8 months

Let's not make "Senior Postdoc" Positions a thing? Or at least have them pay more?? Requirements: Must have a PhD *and* 2 years post-doc experience Salary: £37,099 to £42,978 (in London!)

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@klsywd

2 months

@evilsmaug :( we also need lower student-faculty ratios!

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@klsywd

6 years

Rosalind Franklin pumpkin complete with B-DNA X-ray diffraction pattern (by @klsywd ) #GhostInTheGenome @genomecenter #Halloween

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@klsywd

4 years

It only took 6 years + 2 weeks of quarantine, but I finished writing my dissertation today!!! Will still have revisions to do and such, but I'm celebrating anyway by sharing a delicious beer with an amazing friend who also just finished her dissertation! #PhDone #QuarantineLife

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@klsywd

1 month

THE FREAKIN AURORA IN DAVIS!?!!!!

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@klsywd

4 years

The #NSFGRFP awardees were announced today. If you submitted but didn't receive a fellowship, DO NOT take it personally. The majority of the people who applied did not get it and unfortunately the @NSF does not have enough funding for all of the amazing grads who applied. #GRFP

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@klsywd

1 year

Plant Twitter: what happened to my sage leaf? Some sort of insect? Looks brown in the photo but it's actually a beautiful red color

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@klsywd

3 years

I have an interview for a dream job tomorrow that I need to prepare for but I'm having an anxiety attack!! 😵 Please send good vibes 🤞! Calm down tips also welcome!

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@klsywd

1 year

Finally started listening to @Ologies podcast and🤯 This is not a boring science podcast! Scientists and non-scientists alike will be entertained and learn new cool things! @alieward is hilarious and the guests are fantastic.

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@klsywd

2 years

Come work with me @USDA_ARS in Salinas! Now hiring a Biological Science Laboratory Technician in plant pathology & soil microbiome of strawberries and leafy greens. For full description click the linked PDF: Apply here by 3/14:

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@klsywd

4 years

Finally officially published in @PLOSPathogens : Effector prediction and characterization in the oomycete pathogen Bremia lactucae reveal host-recognized WY domain proteins that lack the canonical RXLR motif

Effector prediction and characterization in the oomycete pathogen Bremia lactucae reveal host-rec...

Author summary There is a molecular battle that takes place during infection of plants and animals by pathogens. Some of the weapons in the pathogen’s arsenal are known as “effectors;” these are...

journals.plos.org

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@klsywd

4 years

Start writing your papers *before* all your experiments are done. It will help you realize what experiments you still need to do. #AcademicChatter #PhDAdvice #AmDissertating

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@klsywd

3 months

When you wake up early at 7:30am and @plasmidsaurus has already emailed your sequencing results from the samples you dropped off yesterday

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@klsywd

4 years

I am giving the @ucdplantsci seminar next week on my dissertation research, "Effector prediction and resistance gene identification in the lettuce-lettuce downy mildew pathosystem", please PM me for Zoom link if you are interested! Wed Nov 18 @ 12:10 PST

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@klsywd

5 months

One important lesson I like to teach my undergrads is that every mistake is a learning experience and a very normal part of science 😅

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@klsywd

2 months

Has anyone used Waddington's epigenetic landscape drawing as an album cover yet cuz if not I call dibs

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@klsywd

10 months

Wait how did I miss this in 2020? (Auto)-Bioluminescent flowers made by expressing a fungal luciferase pathway. Beautiful and super useful as a reporter for plant genetics and synbio!!!

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@klsywd

3 years

Hey Twitter! I've uploaded all the videos from my 2020 NSF-GRFP course to YouTube, please RT and share widely with #NSFGRFP applicants everywhere! #GRFP #GRFPtips

NSF-GRFP Course (2020)

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@klsywd

3 years

My tribute to the many faces of @Kyle_MacLachlan in Twin Peaks: The Return. #TwinPeaks #TwinPeaksHalloween #PumpkinCarving #Doppelg änger #HappyHalloween @mfrost11

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@klsywd

7 months

Hello benthi, my old friend

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@klsywd

11 months

Come see me at my poster P289 on Wednesday @ISMPMI - or come find me anytime with the mini-poster that I printed onto my tote bag 😅 #2023ISMPMI

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@klsywd

11 months

There might be LABS on Venus?Anyone know if they are hiring???

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11 months

BREAKING 🚨: Phosphine gas has been found again in Venus’s atmosphere This gas is only known to be produced from living organisms or artificially in a lab. A STRONG indicator of life on Venus 😳

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@klsywd

4 years

My undergraduates are going to learn some bioinformatics during the upcoming quarantine - anyone know of great online resources for beginning bioinformatics (esp for pop gen)? And good online Python for Bioinformatics courses? #bioinformatics #researchduringCOVID

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@klsywd

5 years

The @michelmorelab celebrating the acceptance of the Bremia genome paper in Nature Comms! Very happy that it will finally be published! 🎉🧬

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@klsywd

11 months

@dustychipura I still don't know how to tie my shoes 😅 and I watched the Little Mermaid or Cinderella literally every day for months when I was little. Did you also get reprimanded constantly for having a messy room??

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@klsywd

6 months

Merry Christmas from my lettuce leaf RUBY agroinfiltration tree 🎄 #ScienceArt #Plantmas

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@klsywd

5 years

I'm super excited to present my research on plant-microbe interactions in Holland this Monday @UtrechtUni ! Thanks @guidopmi for the invite😊

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@klsywd

9 years

The Great Wave of Microbes! Via @ASMicrobiology #sciart @casettron @phylogenomics http://t.co/PyFOmJu5FF

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@klsywd

6 years

An oomycete valentine ❤️ #sciencevalentines

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@klsywd

3 years

I'm pleased to announce that our preprint for EffectorO: motif-independent prediction of effectors in oomycete genomes using machine learning and lineage specificity, is now online on @biorxiv #EffectorO

EffectorO: motif-independent prediction of effectors in oomycete genomes using machine learning and...

Oomycete plant pathogens cause a wide variety of diseases, including late blight of potato, sudden oak death, and downy mildew of many plants. These pathogens are major contributors to losses in many...

www.biorxiv.org

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@klsywd

3 years

Is perfection too much to ask for?

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@klsywd

1 year

Ok so I thought we had cloned a lot of genes for agroinfiltrations...until I saw this. They cloned 436 R genes and tested them against 57 effectors. The results support the idea that non-host resistance is mediated by a network of NLRs. Very nice work!

Nucleotide‐binding leucine‐rich repeat network underlies nonhost resistance of pepper against the...

Nonhost resistance (NHR) is a robust plant immune response against non-adapted pathogens. A number of nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins that recognize non-adapted pathogens have...

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@klsywd

5 years

Added some sunflowers to my graduation cap #GoPlants 🌻 #UCDavisGrad

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@klsywd

5 years

This shop has other plant diseases available as shirts, stickers, mugs, etc. The drawings are by Margaret Senior for Australia's Dept of Agriculture and they are most excellent #SciArt #SciApparel #SciArtTweetstorm #BotanicalIllustration

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@klsywd

4 years

Why are there so many pathogen effectors and so many host NLRs? Because we only see the tip of the iceberg. Excellent review by Hans Thordal-Christensen: "A holistic view on plant effector-triggered immunity presented as an iceberg model"

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@klsywd

6 years

Discovered a way to do agroinfiltrations twice as fast!

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@klsywd

5 years

I will be giving a webinar next week on the #NSFGRFP ! Senior undergrad and 1st-2nd year grad students register here for free: Everyone else please RT to spread the word! Thanks :) #GradFellowships #GRFP #PhDChat

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@klsywd

5 months

So stoked to be teach an Intro to Plant Science course this semester!! Please send me all your favorite and surprising #PlantFacts 🌱

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@klsywd

4 months

why does this make sense to me

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@klsywd

5 years

this is my "expressionist" painting - the blue "paint" is made by catalysis of a colorless substrate by an enzyme named GUS that I expressed in lettuce leaves using a bacterium (Agrobacterium) which injects DNA into plant cells #SciArt #SciArtTweetstorm #PlantArt

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@klsywd

5 years

Feeling cute, might graduate with a PhD later today 👩‍🎓 👩‍🔬 #PhD #notquitedone #butstillveryhappy

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@klsywd

3 years

Selling all my #Robinhood stock because fuck them! I'm taking my $9.97 elsewhere!

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@klsywd

8 months

@joelatallah @mbeisen So someone should be fired as editor of a scientific journal because they...(checks notes) oppose genocide? Absurd

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@klsywd

7 months

Infiltration results are in - RUBY looked great on every leaf, fuGFP was blinding. HR only looked good on about half the leaves tho so @albalmuth was right (per usual :) Important to remember that good protein expression (RUBY, GFP) doesn't always ≠ good HR signal

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@klsywd

7 months

Hello benthi, my old friend

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@klsywd

2 months

Finally saw the light of my bioluminescent petunia from @light_bio You can definitely see it glowing by eye in a dark room, appears more blueish white than in the night mode photo. Unlike anything I've ever seen before. Definitely worth it!

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@klsywd

5 years

If I get to 2k followers by the end of #ICMPMI2019 I will get this years logo as a tattoo :)

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@klsywd

3 years

I'm prepping for my new job at the USDA where I will be doing a lot of #metagenomics and #microbiome analysis of soil. Crowdsourcing advice for useful lab equipment or software! Please comment if you have suggestions :D

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@klsywd

4 years

@Dev14e So I guess UCSC doesn't want graduate students anymore? Who's gonna teach the classes and do research???

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@klsywd

30 days

Call me Norman Borlaug for how tiny my corn is (lighter for scale)

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@klsywd

2 months

@georgemporter Well I only have 20 students in my class @SantaRosaJC - another advantage of community colleges over universities :)

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@klsywd

1 year

Last night I went to a concert and today I am at a science symposium and when the first talk ended I accidentally yelled 'Ow-Ow!' instead of politely clapping 😅

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@klsywd

6 years

Applications are open for Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships from @USDA_NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative! Due July 19, 2018! Tell your post-qual and graduating PhD friends in #plantscience or #agriculture ! #gradfellowships

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@klsywd

1 year

So excited to have my EffectorO paper accepted by @MPMIjournal 😊🍾 I did a Twitter summary when the preprint came out, will link to that thread below and also explain what revisions we made in this version 🧵

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@klsywd

1 year

Published today in @MPMIjournal First Look: EffectorO: motif-independent prediction of effectors in oomycete genomes using machine learning and lineage-specificity"

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@klsywd

4 months

Obsessed with this fuGFP that I got from @ATinyGreenCell And don't worry, I'm wearing my UV safety goggles 😎

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@klsywd

1 year

Behold my pretties! E. coli expressing various chromoproteins from @ATinyGreenCell - white light, UV light no filter, UV light yellow filter, green light red filter

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@klsywd

10 months

All I want for my birthday today is for people to read (and cite!) my paper: 🎂

EffectorO: Motif-Independent Prediction of Effectors in Oomycete Genomes Using Machine Learning and...

Oomycete plant pathogens cause a wide variety of diseases, including late blight of potato, sudden oak death, and downy mildews of plants. These pathogens are major contributors to loss in numerous...

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@klsywd

4 years

Richard called an impromptu @michelmorelab meeting to announce: we got funded! With a USDA grant to explore novel methods for gene editing in lettuce! 🥬 🥂 #LettuceEdit

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@klsywd

6 months

My rainbow lettuce cells for #FluorescenceFriday

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@klsywd

7 years

Lettuce cell rainbow #plantbow #confocal #microscopy

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@klsywd

4 years

I do science everyday, but whenever I use a microscope I feel wayyy more science-y 🔬

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@klsywd

3 years

Congrats to everyone who just found out that they were accepted to a PhD program! It might be a good time to ask when grads in your program get their first stipend payment. It may have changed by now, but I came to @UCDavis Sept 1st but didn't get paid until November 1st 😱

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@klsywd

5 years

Two of my undergrads tried out the #BetterPosters design by @mikemorrison for their posters at the Undergrad Research Conference #URC19 - I think they turned out fantastic!

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@klsywd

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Thank you @BritMycolSoc and #OMGN19 for the poster prize! And thanks to @mikemorrison for the template and feedback on the poster design #betterposter

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@klsywd

4 years

My brother thinks I should get the first figure from my dissertation as a tattoo when I finish. Thoughts?

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@klsywd

2 years

I know Twitter is dying, but I just re-submitted my 2nd first author paper from my dissertation!!! 🍾

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@klsywd

5 years

It was my undergrad Natalie’s last day in the @michelmorelab today 😭 She will be starting her PhD in the Plant Biology Grad Group @ucdavis this fall and I couldn’t be more proud! 🌱

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@klsywd

4 years

So @ucdavis has ZERO full time psychiatrists to serve 35,000 students?!? During a pandemic? How is this ok??? #MentalHealthMatters #UCDavis

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@klsywd

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And here it is! Effector prediction in Bremia lactucae reveal host-recognized WY domain proteins that lack the canonical RXLR motif in @biorxiv_plants by @klsywd @RJuGil @KIGFletcher + a few stellar undergrads #downymildews #myfirstpreprint

Effector prediction and characterization in the oomycete pathogen Bremia lactucae reveal host-rec...

Pathogens infecting plants and animals use a diverse arsenal of effector proteins to suppress the host immune system and promote infection. Identification of effectors in pathogen genomes is founda...

www.biorxiv.org

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@klsywd

3 years

Happy #Pride ! I am bisexual and polyamorous and proud to be both. I am also so proud of all my LGBTQIA+ siblings and especially trans people of all types, who are so beautiful and brave 💖

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Using RoseTTAfold to see what my protein might look like: Is it shaped like circle or a horseshoe? P Pretty neat that we can predict protein structure more accurately than ever before from just raw sequence. #ProteinFoldingProblem #Solved #DeepLearning

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@klsywd

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Should I write my dissertation in LaTeX, Markdown, Word, or other? (My advisor will only edit/comment word documents) All thoughts and advice welcome! #PhDChat #Dissertating #LaTeX

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Love to see downy mildew on the cover of any magazine! Does that make it a model organism😅? Beautiful cover image of Arabidopsis downy mildew pathogen reproductive structure by @MahmutTor

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As part of the #50YearsofCell , our focus issue on Immunology is out! ⁠ ⁠ This issue brings Cell’s 50th anniversary celebrations straight to your lymph nodes with reviews, perspectives and more thought-provoking articles on topics ranging from innate immunity to plant immune

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The @michelmorelab Halloween costume: Genomics Strikes Back! UC Davis Genome Center Halloween Symposium #GhostInTheGenome #Halloween ⁠ ⁠

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1 year

Oomycete effectors are often single exon - I noticed this during my PhD thesis when doing bioinformatics on Bremia and it seems to be common knowledge - but does anyone know *why* ? @KamounLab ?

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It is that time of year again - the #NSFGRFP application is open and I will be giving my webinar on what you need to know about the fellowship (including my tips on preparing a winning application!). Register for the webinar here: and please share widely!

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@klsywd

3 years

Being vaccinated does NOT mean you can just hop aboard a luxury cruise ship sailing across the Atlantic and fall in love with a poor artist only to not share your floating piece of wood with him when the unsinkable ship inevitably crashes.

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@klsywd

4 years

Nothing like completing a Very Nice looking figure :)

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