C-SPIRIT
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The Center for Sustainable Plant Innovation and Resilience Through International Teamwork (C-SPIRIT) is an NSF Global Center that unites researchers from 5 countries to address agricultural challenges and develop sustainable solutions. https://c-spirit.org
🎉 Congrats to C-SPIRIT Member Toshinori Kinoshita for being named on Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list — celebrating scientists whose work is in the global top 1% by citations! 🌍📊
Learn more ➡️ en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/article...
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Learn more ➡️ en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/article...
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January 8, 2026 at 6:58 PM
🎉 Congrats to C-SPIRIT Member Toshinori Kinoshita for being named on Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list — celebrating scientists whose work is in the global top 1% by citations! 🌍📊
Learn more ➡️ en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/article...
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Learn more ➡️ en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/article...
#plantscience
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🌎 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌎
Climate change reshapes plant–microbe interactions by linking temperature perception with pathogen stress. Thakur & Yang explore the underlying cellular mechanisms and strategies to engineer climate-resilient crops
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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Climate change reshapes plant–microbe interactions by linking temperature perception with pathogen stress. Thakur & Yang explore the underlying cellular mechanisms and strategies to engineer climate-resilient crops
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
December 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
🌎 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌎
Climate change reshapes plant–microbe interactions by linking temperature perception with pathogen stress. Thakur & Yang explore the underlying cellular mechanisms and strategies to engineer climate-resilient crops
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Climate change reshapes plant–microbe interactions by linking temperature perception with pathogen stress. Thakur & Yang explore the underlying cellular mechanisms and strategies to engineer climate-resilient crops
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
🎉 Congrats to C-SPIRIT members Byeollee Kim, Hackwon Do, Jun Hyuck Lee, Tae-Jin Oh, & colleagues on their new announcement!
They share the complete genome of Rahnella sp. PAMC25559, a cold-adapted, plant growth-promoting bacterium from an Alpine glacier. ❄️
🔗 doi.org/10.1128/mra....
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They share the complete genome of Rahnella sp. PAMC25559, a cold-adapted, plant growth-promoting bacterium from an Alpine glacier. ❄️
🔗 doi.org/10.1128/mra....
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January 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM
🎉 Congrats to C-SPIRIT members Byeollee Kim, Hackwon Do, Jun Hyuck Lee, Tae-Jin Oh, & colleagues on their new announcement!
They share the complete genome of Rahnella sp. PAMC25559, a cold-adapted, plant growth-promoting bacterium from an Alpine glacier. ❄️
🔗 doi.org/10.1128/mra....
#plantscience
They share the complete genome of Rahnella sp. PAMC25559, a cold-adapted, plant growth-promoting bacterium from an Alpine glacier. ❄️
🔗 doi.org/10.1128/mra....
#plantscience
We are wishing our colleagues, collaborators, and friends a joyful holiday season and a bright start to the new year! Thank you for being part of the C-SPIRIT community and for advancing sustainable plant innovation with us. Happy holidays!
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December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
We are wishing our colleagues, collaborators, and friends a joyful holiday season and a bright start to the new year! Thank you for being part of the C-SPIRIT community and for advancing sustainable plant innovation with us. Happy holidays!
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We are SO excited to announce that, along with the launch of our new website, PMN 17 is live!
PMN 17 is our largest release & includes 583 single-species databases, including updated versions of 155 databases from PMN 16!
You can use PMN 17 now and check out our updated website here: plantcyc.org
PMN 17 is our largest release & includes 583 single-species databases, including updated versions of 155 databases from PMN 16!
You can use PMN 17 now and check out our updated website here: plantcyc.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We are SO excited to announce that, along with the launch of our new website, PMN 17 is live!
PMN 17 is our largest release & includes 583 single-species databases, including updated versions of 155 databases from PMN 16!
You can use PMN 17 now and check out our updated website here: plantcyc.org
PMN 17 is our largest release & includes 583 single-species databases, including updated versions of 155 databases from PMN 16!
You can use PMN 17 now and check out our updated website here: plantcyc.org
C-SPIRIT is representing at the 2025 Integrated Crop and Pest Management Update for Agribusiness hosted by Michigan State University Extension!
If you're on MSU's campus today, stop by and see us in the STEM Building outside of room 1130!
#plantscience
If you're on MSU's campus today, stop by and see us in the STEM Building outside of room 1130!
#plantscience
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
C-SPIRIT is representing at the 2025 Integrated Crop and Pest Management Update for Agribusiness hosted by Michigan State University Extension!
If you're on MSU's campus today, stop by and see us in the STEM Building outside of room 1130!
#plantscience
If you're on MSU's campus today, stop by and see us in the STEM Building outside of room 1130!
#plantscience
🌿 CSU Plant Adaptation Symposium | Feb 5, 2026
Explore complexity across scales in plant science & agriculture, from genetics to agroecology & global evolution.
⏰ Key deadlines:
Speaker abstracts: Dec 19
Poster abstracts & registration: Jan 21
🔗 agsci.colostate.edu/plant-adapta...
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Explore complexity across scales in plant science & agriculture, from genetics to agroecology & global evolution.
⏰ Key deadlines:
Speaker abstracts: Dec 19
Poster abstracts & registration: Jan 21
🔗 agsci.colostate.edu/plant-adapta...
#PlantScience
December 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🌿 CSU Plant Adaptation Symposium | Feb 5, 2026
Explore complexity across scales in plant science & agriculture, from genetics to agroecology & global evolution.
⏰ Key deadlines:
Speaker abstracts: Dec 19
Poster abstracts & registration: Jan 21
🔗 agsci.colostate.edu/plant-adapta...
#PlantScience
Explore complexity across scales in plant science & agriculture, from genetics to agroecology & global evolution.
⏰ Key deadlines:
Speaker abstracts: Dec 19
Poster abstracts & registration: Jan 21
🔗 agsci.colostate.edu/plant-adapta...
#PlantScience
🎤 Upcoming C-SPIRIT Member Talk!
C-SPIRIT member Gaurav Moghe will be organizing & speaking in a workshop at PAG 33. The workshop starts Jan 13 at 6:20 pm PST, & his talk will highlight how AI & phylogenomics are improving plant enzyme annotation.
🔗 plan.core-apps.com/pag33/event/...
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C-SPIRIT member Gaurav Moghe will be organizing & speaking in a workshop at PAG 33. The workshop starts Jan 13 at 6:20 pm PST, & his talk will highlight how AI & phylogenomics are improving plant enzyme annotation.
🔗 plan.core-apps.com/pag33/event/...
#plantscience
December 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🎤 Upcoming C-SPIRIT Member Talk!
C-SPIRIT member Gaurav Moghe will be organizing & speaking in a workshop at PAG 33. The workshop starts Jan 13 at 6:20 pm PST, & his talk will highlight how AI & phylogenomics are improving plant enzyme annotation.
🔗 plan.core-apps.com/pag33/event/...
#plantscience
C-SPIRIT member Gaurav Moghe will be organizing & speaking in a workshop at PAG 33. The workshop starts Jan 13 at 6:20 pm PST, & his talk will highlight how AI & phylogenomics are improving plant enzyme annotation.
🔗 plan.core-apps.com/pag33/event/...
#plantscience
The MSU Plant Resilience Institute's 2025 Annual Report is now live!
PRI launched our NSF Global Center in January of 2025, and many of our C-SPIRIT members at MSU are a part of PRI, furthering the Institute's discoveries.
Read the report: plantresilience.msu.edu/about/annual...
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PRI launched our NSF Global Center in January of 2025, and many of our C-SPIRIT members at MSU are a part of PRI, furthering the Institute's discoveries.
Read the report: plantresilience.msu.edu/about/annual...
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December 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The MSU Plant Resilience Institute's 2025 Annual Report is now live!
PRI launched our NSF Global Center in January of 2025, and many of our C-SPIRIT members at MSU are a part of PRI, furthering the Institute's discoveries.
Read the report: plantresilience.msu.edu/about/annual...
#plantscience
PRI launched our NSF Global Center in January of 2025, and many of our C-SPIRIT members at MSU are a part of PRI, furthering the Institute's discoveries.
Read the report: plantresilience.msu.edu/about/annual...
#plantscience
📬 Our November and December 2025 C-SPIRIT Newsletter is out!
This issue includes a new Stakeholder Board Summit blogpost, recent member publications, upcoming events. and more!
Read it here:
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Subscribe to receive future newsletters:
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This issue includes a new Stakeholder Board Summit blogpost, recent member publications, upcoming events. and more!
Read it here:
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December 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
📬 Our November and December 2025 C-SPIRIT Newsletter is out!
This issue includes a new Stakeholder Board Summit blogpost, recent member publications, upcoming events. and more!
Read it here:
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Subscribe to receive future newsletters:
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This issue includes a new Stakeholder Board Summit blogpost, recent member publications, upcoming events. and more!
Read it here:
👉 qrco.de/bgWYdD
Subscribe to receive future newsletters:
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We had a great time at the 2025 Great Lakes EXPO! We are so grateful for all of the growers and industry partners we were able to meet and connect with. See you next year! #GLEXPO
December 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We had a great time at the 2025 Great Lakes EXPO! We are so grateful for all of the growers and industry partners we were able to meet and connect with. See you next year! #GLEXPO
December 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
🌍 It is World Soil Day! 🌱
This UN observance highlights why healthy soil is vital for sustainable agriculture and global food security — the very challenges C-SPIRIT is working to address through our research.
🔗 Learn more: www.un.org/en/observanc...
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This UN observance highlights why healthy soil is vital for sustainable agriculture and global food security — the very challenges C-SPIRIT is working to address through our research.
🔗 Learn more: www.un.org/en/observanc...
#plantscience
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🌍 It is World Soil Day! 🌱
This UN observance highlights why healthy soil is vital for sustainable agriculture and global food security — the very challenges C-SPIRIT is working to address through our research.
🔗 Learn more: www.un.org/en/observanc...
#plantscience
This UN observance highlights why healthy soil is vital for sustainable agriculture and global food security — the very challenges C-SPIRIT is working to address through our research.
🔗 Learn more: www.un.org/en/observanc...
#plantscience
🎉 Congratulations to C-SPIRIT Director Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social) for receiving the 2025 MSU NatSci Research Leadership Award, a huge recognition of her impact on plant resilience research!
Learn more: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/202...
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Learn more: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/202...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
🎉 Congratulations to C-SPIRIT Director Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social) for receiving the 2025 MSU NatSci Research Leadership Award, a huge recognition of her impact on plant resilience research!
Learn more: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/202...
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Learn more: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/202...
#plantscience
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🚨 Hiring alert! MSU's Plant Resilience Institute is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to advance discovery of new regulatory metabolites driving plant stress responses. #PlantSciJobs
Join us as we push the boundaries of plant resilience research: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Join us as we push the boundaries of plant resilience research: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
December 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🚨 Hiring alert! MSU's Plant Resilience Institute is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to advance discovery of new regulatory metabolites driving plant stress responses. #PlantSciJobs
Join us as we push the boundaries of plant resilience research: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Join us as we push the boundaries of plant resilience research: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Come see us at the Great Lakes EXPO next week! Check out our booth location here: glexpo2025.expofp.com?center-for-s...
#GLEXPO #plantscience
#GLEXPO #plantscience
Come see us and @c-spirit.org next week at #GLEXPO! The Great Lakes EXPO brings together growers, industry professionals, and agricultural scientists in one of the largest specialty ag trade shows in North America. Learn more and register at glexpo.com. 🧑🌾
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Come see us at the Great Lakes EXPO next week! Check out our booth location here: glexpo2025.expofp.com?center-for-s...
#GLEXPO #plantscience
#GLEXPO #plantscience
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📣 Check out the Journal of Experimental Botany's newest special issue 📣
🍅 Tomato - Issue 21 of 2025 🍅
📘 Guest edited by Yves Gibon, Diane Beckles, Sonia Osorio & Hiroshi Ezura
🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb...
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social @dianemariabeckles.bsky.social
🍅 Tomato - Issue 21 of 2025 🍅
📘 Guest edited by Yves Gibon, Diane Beckles, Sonia Osorio & Hiroshi Ezura
🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb...
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social @dianemariabeckles.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
📣 Check out the Journal of Experimental Botany's newest special issue 📣
🍅 Tomato - Issue 21 of 2025 🍅
📘 Guest edited by Yves Gibon, Diane Beckles, Sonia Osorio & Hiroshi Ezura
🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb...
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social @dianemariabeckles.bsky.social
🍅 Tomato - Issue 21 of 2025 🍅
📘 Guest edited by Yves Gibon, Diane Beckles, Sonia Osorio & Hiroshi Ezura
🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb...
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social @dianemariabeckles.bsky.social
The PCA and C-SPIRIT Single Cell Curation Effort is now live 🌱
Together with @plantcellatlas.bsky.social, we curated 186 single cell plant papers covering 55 species & 6.5M cells to support the EBI Single Cell Expression Atlas.
Explore the list: www.plantcellatlas.org/scea-papers....
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Together with @plantcellatlas.bsky.social, we curated 186 single cell plant papers covering 55 species & 6.5M cells to support the EBI Single Cell Expression Atlas.
Explore the list: www.plantcellatlas.org/scea-papers....
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Together with @c-spirit.org, the PCA has curated 186 single cell plant papers to help with ingestion into the EBI's Single Cell Expression Atlas!
You can view this list of papers here: www.plantcellatlas.org/scea-papers....
You can view this list of papers here: www.plantcellatlas.org/scea-papers....
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The PCA and C-SPIRIT Single Cell Curation Effort is now live 🌱
Together with @plantcellatlas.bsky.social, we curated 186 single cell plant papers covering 55 species & 6.5M cells to support the EBI Single Cell Expression Atlas.
Explore the list: www.plantcellatlas.org/scea-papers....
#plantscience
Together with @plantcellatlas.bsky.social, we curated 186 single cell plant papers covering 55 species & 6.5M cells to support the EBI Single Cell Expression Atlas.
Explore the list: www.plantcellatlas.org/scea-papers....
#plantscience
🎉 Congrats to So-Ra Han, Tae-Jin Oh, & Jun Hyuck Lee on their new paper 🔬🌱
They characterize a GH16 beta agarase from Antarctic Gelidibacter and show how polysaccharides influence its activity, advancing C SPIRIT goals for sustainable agriculture 🌍
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ca...
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They characterize a GH16 beta agarase from Antarctic Gelidibacter and show how polysaccharides influence its activity, advancing C SPIRIT goals for sustainable agriculture 🌍
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ca...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🎉 Congrats to So-Ra Han, Tae-Jin Oh, & Jun Hyuck Lee on their new paper 🔬🌱
They characterize a GH16 beta agarase from Antarctic Gelidibacter and show how polysaccharides influence its activity, advancing C SPIRIT goals for sustainable agriculture 🌍
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ca...
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They characterize a GH16 beta agarase from Antarctic Gelidibacter and show how polysaccharides influence its activity, advancing C SPIRIT goals for sustainable agriculture 🌍
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ca...
#PlantScience
🎉 Congrats to Motoaki Seki and Toshinori Kinoshita as well as their colleagues on their new paper in New Phytologis on TCP3 and cell expansion in Arabidopsis!
The work supports the C SPIRIT mission to advance plant resilience and sustainable agriculture. 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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The work supports the C SPIRIT mission to advance plant resilience and sustainable agriculture. 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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November 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🎉 Congrats to Motoaki Seki and Toshinori Kinoshita as well as their colleagues on their new paper in New Phytologis on TCP3 and cell expansion in Arabidopsis!
The work supports the C SPIRIT mission to advance plant resilience and sustainable agriculture. 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
#PlantScience
The work supports the C SPIRIT mission to advance plant resilience and sustainable agriculture. 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
#PlantScience
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Among the cracked earth & blinding sunlight of California's Death Valley, one native plant not only survives — it thrives.
Read the story of how this plant helped @rheelab.bsky.social scientists reveal a blueprint for engineering heat-resilient crops: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...
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Read the story of how this plant helped @rheelab.bsky.social scientists reveal a blueprint for engineering heat-resilient crops: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...
#PlantScience
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Among the cracked earth & blinding sunlight of California's Death Valley, one native plant not only survives — it thrives.
Read the story of how this plant helped @rheelab.bsky.social scientists reveal a blueprint for engineering heat-resilient crops: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...
#PlantScience
Read the story of how this plant helped @rheelab.bsky.social scientists reveal a blueprint for engineering heat-resilient crops: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...
#PlantScience
🔔 C-SPIRT Member Talk Tomorrow! Featuring Dr. Cobus Smit from the University of York 🧬
📣 Title: Untangling the threads that shaped plant biosynthetic gene clusters
🗓️ When: Friday, November 21 | 12-1 pm ET
🔗 Zoom: ubc.zoom.us/j/6739059915... (passcode 784447)
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📣 Title: Untangling the threads that shaped plant biosynthetic gene clusters
🗓️ When: Friday, November 21 | 12-1 pm ET
🔗 Zoom: ubc.zoom.us/j/6739059915... (passcode 784447)
#PlantScience
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🔔 C-SPIRT Member Talk Tomorrow! Featuring Dr. Cobus Smit from the University of York 🧬
📣 Title: Untangling the threads that shaped plant biosynthetic gene clusters
🗓️ When: Friday, November 21 | 12-1 pm ET
🔗 Zoom: ubc.zoom.us/j/6739059915... (passcode 784447)
#PlantScience
📣 Title: Untangling the threads that shaped plant biosynthetic gene clusters
🗓️ When: Friday, November 21 | 12-1 pm ET
🔗 Zoom: ubc.zoom.us/j/6739059915... (passcode 784447)
#PlantScience
Congrats to Hatem Rouached (@hatem-rouached.bsky.social), Hui-Kyong Cho, Nadia Bouain, Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social ), & team on their new paper showing how plants sense low phosphorus & delay flowering thru bGLU25 & GRP7🎉
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.de...
📰 msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...
#PlantScience
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.de...
📰 msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...
#PlantScience
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Congrats to Hatem Rouached (@hatem-rouached.bsky.social), Hui-Kyong Cho, Nadia Bouain, Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social ), & team on their new paper showing how plants sense low phosphorus & delay flowering thru bGLU25 & GRP7🎉
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.de...
📰 msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...
#PlantScience
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.de...
📰 msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...
#PlantScience
C-SPIRIT is excited to see Nicola Patron & Robert VanBuren (@bobvanburen.bsky.social) serving as discussion leaders at the 2025 Plant Genomes, Systems Biology & Engineering meeting! 🌱✨
📍 Dec 3-6, 2025 | Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Event info: meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
#cshlplant #plantscience
📍 Dec 3-6, 2025 | Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Event info: meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
#cshlplant #plantscience
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
C-SPIRIT is excited to see Nicola Patron & Robert VanBuren (@bobvanburen.bsky.social) serving as discussion leaders at the 2025 Plant Genomes, Systems Biology & Engineering meeting! 🌱✨
📍 Dec 3-6, 2025 | Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Event info: meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
#cshlplant #plantscience
📍 Dec 3-6, 2025 | Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Event info: meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
#cshlplant #plantscience