Katie Murphy, PhD
@kmurphyphd.bsky.social
Director of Phenotyping & Principal Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
New paper - build a Raspberry Pi phenotyping chamber for imaging and temperature sensing! Thanks to Malia Gehan and her team for leading this work. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Raspberry Pi–powered temperature monitoring of growth chamber microclimates
Premise
While controlled environments are desirable for growing and measuring plants, growth chambers and greenhouses typically have microclimates that impact plant growth, development, and stress r.....
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September 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
New paper - build a Raspberry Pi phenotyping chamber for imaging and temperature sensing! Thanks to Malia Gehan and her team for leading this work. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Applications open now for our Pivot 2 Plants program! Please share widely, 1 year paid opportunity to transition to careers in plant and data science. www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
Pivot to Plants: Training Program for Plant and Data Science | Danforth Plant Science Center
The Pivot2Plants Fellows Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science or data science but have limited research experience.
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September 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Applications open now for our Pivot 2 Plants program! Please share widely, 1 year paid opportunity to transition to careers in plant and data science. www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
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Congratulations to Danforth Center Associate Member Tessa Burch-Smith! 🎉 She will become President of American Society of Plant Biologists in October of this year.
📣Congratulations to our incoming President-elect, Tessa Burch-Smith, and Elected Member of the Board of Directors, Patricia León! Tessa and Patricia will begin their next cycles of service to ASPB on October 1, 2025.
#PlantScience #WeAreASPB
#PlantScience #WeAreASPB
July 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Congratulations to Danforth Center Associate Member Tessa Burch-Smith! 🎉 She will become President of American Society of Plant Biologists in October of this year.
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💐 Stop and smell the science! Our #BioanalyticalChemistryFacility is featured in the new #SmellingtheBouquet: Plants and Scents in the Garden exhibition at @mobotmuseum.bsky.social! Follow your nose to @mobotgarden.bsky.social to discover how plants’ scents influence insects, ecosystems, & people!
June 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
💐 Stop and smell the science! Our #BioanalyticalChemistryFacility is featured in the new #SmellingtheBouquet: Plants and Scents in the Garden exhibition at @mobotmuseum.bsky.social! Follow your nose to @mobotgarden.bsky.social to discover how plants’ scents influence insects, ecosystems, & people!
I am excited to emcee this event - join us, it's FREE and the science is great!
🧠🌍 May 15: Join @DanforthCenter for Conversations: BIG IDEAS—where scientists pitch solutions to real-world challenges & YOU vote! Free & open to the public.
🕔 5:15 PM Reception | 🕕 6 PM Program
Register: www.danforthcenter.org/event/conver...
#BigIdeas
🕔 5:15 PM Reception | 🕕 6 PM Program
Register: www.danforthcenter.org/event/conver...
#BigIdeas
April 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I am excited to emcee this event - join us, it's FREE and the science is great!
We are lucky to have Russell as a colleague! The Bioanalytical Chemistry Facility works with both internal and external users - get your metabolite and proteomics analyses done here.
An undergrad research project analyzing alkaloids in native prairie plants sparked a permanent plant chemistry fascination in Russell Williams, PhD. Now director of our Bioanalytical Chemistry Facility, he delivers crucial data to scientists at the Danforth Center & beyond. loom.ly/nPv8cmU
Russell Williams, PhD: Exploring the Chemistry Behind Plants’ Untapped Potential - Danforth Plant Science Center
As a kid growing up in rural Oklahoma, Russell Williams, PhD, spent countless hours outdoors. He developed an early fascination with the natural world thanks to time spent hunting, fishing, and garden...
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April 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
We are lucky to have Russell as a colleague! The Bioanalytical Chemistry Facility works with both internal and external users - get your metabolite and proteomics analyses done here.
Tess has been an awesome addition to our team, I am proud to be a co-PI on this great training program!
Introducing the 2025 Pivot to Plants cohort! The Pivot to Plants fellowship program provides hands-on research experience for professionals who are eager to transition to the plant, data, and life sciences.
Meet the fellows: loom.ly/TFCXdyg
Meet the fellows: loom.ly/TFCXdyg
A New Path to Plant Science: Introducing the First Pivoting to Plants Fellows - Danforth Plant Science Center
Making a career change isn’t easy, and professions that require research experience can make it especially daunting to take that step. That’s where the Pivoting to Plants fellowship program comes in, ...
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April 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Tess has been an awesome addition to our team, I am proud to be a co-PI on this great training program!
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This is a devastating and essential read. Here is a gift link for those without subs. The part about outside perceptions of scientists compared with almost a blue-collar reality is spot on (without even mentioning meager salaries). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
April 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This is a devastating and essential read. Here is a gift link for those without subs. The part about outside perceptions of scientists compared with almost a blue-collar reality is spot on (without even mentioning meager salaries). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
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Our newest PlantCV Quarterly Newsletter is here, with great updates and highlights! Check it out, and subscribe to get it in your inbox: preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...
PlantCV April Newsletter
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April 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Our newest PlantCV Quarterly Newsletter is here, with great updates and highlights! Check it out, and subscribe to get it in your inbox: preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...
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The PlantTech Jam is a FREE hands-on science, tinkering, and robotics fun for the whole family.
This is an interactive event with a tour of Danforth Center scientific facilities & prairie.
#PlantTechJam
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This is an interactive event with a tour of Danforth Center scientific facilities & prairie.
#PlantTechJam
loom.ly/bSnbPtY
PlantTech Jam 2025 - Danforth Plant Science Center
The PlantTech Jam is hands-on science, tinkering, and robotics fun for the whole family. This interactive event features science innovation and technology related activities for all ages. Learn more a...
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April 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The PlantTech Jam is a FREE hands-on science, tinkering, and robotics fun for the whole family.
This is an interactive event with a tour of Danforth Center scientific facilities & prairie.
#PlantTechJam
loom.ly/bSnbPtY
This is an interactive event with a tour of Danforth Center scientific facilities & prairie.
#PlantTechJam
loom.ly/bSnbPtY
New paper from my team! Set up your own cost-effective photo studio to easily capture, label, and transfer images, then analyze those images in @plantcv.bsky.social ! Video protocol coming soon. app.jove.com/t/67619/imag...
Imaging and Analysis for Quantifying Maize (Zea mays) Abiotic Stress Phenotypes
Read this JoVE article on Imaging and Analysis for Quantifying Maize (Zea mays) Abiotic Stress Phenotypes
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March 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New paper from my team! Set up your own cost-effective photo studio to easily capture, label, and transfer images, then analyze those images in @plantcv.bsky.social ! Video protocol coming soon. app.jove.com/t/67619/imag...
New paper alert! We found huge oil droplets in the guard cells of a high oil tobacco variety. The stomata of these tobacco plants have a smaller aperture, which increases leaf temperature and decreases transpiration. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Excessive leaf oil modulates the plant abiotic stress response via reduced stomatal aperture in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)
Understanding the response of future crops to adverse conditions, including high temperatures, is crucial. We describe the impact of high temperature stress on a high lipid producing biofuel tobacco ...
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March 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New paper alert! We found huge oil droplets in the guard cells of a high oil tobacco variety. The stomata of these tobacco plants have a smaller aperture, which increases leaf temperature and decreases transpiration. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I'm honored #STLMade profiled me and our Phenotyping Facility! I'm proud to work and live in St. Louis, and represent the great work our team is doing at the Danforth Center.
Meet @kmurphyphd.bsky.social, our Director of Phenotyping, 2025 #NAPPN Early Career Award winner, mentor to the next generation of plant scientists, & proud advocate for the #STL innovation community 🌱
Get to know her in this new video via #STLMade: thestl.com/work/seeding...
Get to know her in this new video via #STLMade: thestl.com/work/seeding...
Seeding Solutions
As part of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, plant biologist Katie Murphy addresses global challenges through the meticulous study of plants and shares her life and work as a scientist via soc...
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March 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I'm honored #STLMade profiled me and our Phenotyping Facility! I'm proud to work and live in St. Louis, and represent the great work our team is doing at the Danforth Center.
A huge congrats to Erin for winning the Maize Genetics Early Career Award! We are lucky to have the Erin joining @danforthcenter.bsky.social this summer as a joint faculty member.
March 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A huge congrats to Erin for winning the Maize Genetics Early Career Award! We are lucky to have the Erin joining @danforthcenter.bsky.social this summer as a joint faculty member.
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Some of my postdoc work has been "exposed" today in @theplantjournal.bsky.social! 😁🎉🔬 We developed ExPOSE - a method to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. Here's a quick🧵of the details: @meter76.bsky.social @lily-oconnor.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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ExPOSE: a comprehensive toolkit to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems
This method provides a robust approach for performing expansion microscopy in plant protoplasts for imaging single-cell and subcellular compartments at greatly enhanced resolution.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Some of my postdoc work has been "exposed" today in @theplantjournal.bsky.social! 😁🎉🔬 We developed ExPOSE - a method to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. Here's a quick🧵of the details: @meter76.bsky.social @lily-oconnor.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Congrats @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social , his expansion microscopy method is a big deal folks!
Big paper out from @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social! source.washu.edu/2025/03/brin...
Bringing expansion microscopy to plants
Biologist Kevin Cox, in Arts & Sciences, has discovered a low-cost way to more easily study the detailed makeup of plant cells. The ultimate goal is to help grow better crops, improving food security.
source.washu.edu
March 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Congrats @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social , his expansion microscopy method is a big deal folks!
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On #InternationalWomensDay, nominate a female scientist for the next FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award. Deadline is 15 May 2025:
www.embo.org/the-embo-com...
#WomeninScience #ForAllWomenAndGirls 🧪
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#WomeninScience #ForAllWomenAndGirls 🧪
The EMBO communities – FEBS|EMBO Women in Science Awardees – EMBO
Outstanding female life scientists and role models.
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March 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
On #InternationalWomensDay, nominate a female scientist for the next FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award. Deadline is 15 May 2025:
www.embo.org/the-embo-com...
#WomeninScience #ForAllWomenAndGirls 🧪
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#WomeninScience #ForAllWomenAndGirls 🧪
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Women in research need the credit & recognition they deserve for the amazing contributions they make.
Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science are open for applications - take a look 👇🏻 & help spread the word
#WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪
@natureportfolio.nature.com
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Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science are open for applications - take a look 👇🏻 & help spread the word
#WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪
@natureportfolio.nature.com
www.nature.com/immersive/in...
Nature Awards Inspiring Women in Science
Celebrating and supporting the achievements of women in science, and all those who work to encourage girls and young women to engage with STEM subjects and stay in STEM careers around the world.
www.nature.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Women in research need the credit & recognition they deserve for the amazing contributions they make.
Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science are open for applications - take a look 👇🏻 & help spread the word
#WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪
@natureportfolio.nature.com
www.nature.com/immersive/in...
Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science are open for applications - take a look 👇🏻 & help spread the word
#WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪
@natureportfolio.nature.com
www.nature.com/immersive/in...
Thank you to the Maize Genetics Meeting - yesterday we had an advocacy session, followed by Stand Up for Science walk-out. We are missing our USDA colleagues, who were not allowed to attend the meeting!
March 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Thank you to the Maize Genetics Meeting - yesterday we had an advocacy session, followed by Stand Up for Science walk-out. We are missing our USDA colleagues, who were not allowed to attend the meeting!
Can't wait for our field trip to the Sachs Museum tomorrow for the Maize Genetics Meeting!
#KernelsOfCulture #MaizeAroundTheWorld
🌽🖼️: Andi Kur
Welcome to the Maize Genetics Meeting attendees in St. Louis right now! Thanks to scientists Dr. Sherry Flint-Garcia and @kmurphyphd.bsky.social for their generous contributions to the exhibition @mobotmuseum.bsky.social @mobotgarden.bsky.social
🌽🖼️: Andi Kur
Welcome to the Maize Genetics Meeting attendees in St. Louis right now! Thanks to scientists Dr. Sherry Flint-Garcia and @kmurphyphd.bsky.social for their generous contributions to the exhibition @mobotmuseum.bsky.social @mobotgarden.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Can't wait for our field trip to the Sachs Museum tomorrow for the Maize Genetics Meeting!
Thank you to the speakers, moderators, and attendees (in-person and virtual) of NAPPN Annual Meeting 2025! I've been inspired by great new technologies, applications, and stellar trainee presentations this week. 🌱
February 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Thank you to the speakers, moderators, and attendees (in-person and virtual) of NAPPN Annual Meeting 2025! I've been inspired by great new technologies, applications, and stellar trainee presentations this week. 🌱
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~290 participants at our Annual @nappn.bsky.social meeting this year! This is a virtual conference with in-person activities at several 'hub' sites @danforthcenter.bsky.social, MSU, Winnepeg/Manitoba, NCSU, UMN, and Corteva. #CelebrateScience @noahfahlgren.bsky.social @kmurphyphd.bsky.social
a cartoon drawing of a potted plant with a smiling face
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a potted plant with a smiling face
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February 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
~290 participants at our Annual @nappn.bsky.social meeting this year! This is a virtual conference with in-person activities at several 'hub' sites @danforthcenter.bsky.social, MSU, Winnepeg/Manitoba, NCSU, UMN, and Corteva. #CelebrateScience @noahfahlgren.bsky.social @kmurphyphd.bsky.social
We are HIRING! Join us as a Data Scientist or Postdoc working on geospatial (UAV/satellite) analysis and PlantCV development. See details in the job ads.
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Data Scientist I - Phenotyping/Data Science
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February 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We are HIRING! Join us as a Data Scientist or Postdoc working on geospatial (UAV/satellite) analysis and PlantCV development. See details in the job ads.
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Meet the Danforth Center’s next President! We’re thrilled to welcome world-renowned plant geneticist @gilesoldroyd.bsky.social to the Danforth Center this October.
February 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Meet the Danforth Center’s next President! We’re thrilled to welcome world-renowned plant geneticist @gilesoldroyd.bsky.social to the Danforth Center this October.