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Alexandra D. Gates
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Postdoc in Pitt BioSci
Plant-Microbe Interactions 🌱
Microbial Ecology + Molecular Biology 🧫
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We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes.

Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Next generation of 1001 Genomes Plus browser and data download
Please indicate all features you would like to see in a browser that displays features of completely sequenced Arabidopsis thaliana genomes
docs.google.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Thank you to everyone who attended the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference and helped make it a success! This inaugural meeting brought together 416 registrants from 55 institutions. Together, we’ve built momentum for the future of #plantscience in the Great Lakes region and beyond! #GLPSC2025
GLPSC 2025 attendees pose together on the sidewalk in front of the Grand River for a group photo
September 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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🌱 How does disease affect the soybean root microbiome? Our new study in #PlantandSoil explores differences in bacteria & fungi in healthy vs. diseased plants. Thanks Sarah Lebeis, Bridget O'Banion and @agates-phd.bsky.social for your hard work in the field! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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August 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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The role of plant receptor-like kinases in sensing extrinsic and host-derived signals and shaping the microbiome.

Mini-review by @carahaney.bsky.social and @jumpy-botanist.bsky.social‬

www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
The role of plant receptor-like kinases in sensing extrinsic and host-derived signals and shaping the microbiome
Plant receptor-like kinases (RLKs), one of the largest gene families in plants, integrate intrinsic and extrinsic signals to regulate immunity, mutualism, and interactions with microbiota. Here we dis...
www.cell.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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msupri.bsky.social
From molecular mechanisms to ecosystem dynamics, delve into biotic interactions in plant science at #GLPSC2025! 🍃 This session aims to uncover new strategies for enhancing plant health, improving crop productivity, and promoting biodiversity.

Register by August 31: research.msu.edu/glpsc2025
A GLPSC 2025 graphic promoting featured session speakers with a background image of blurred leaves and an outline of the Great Lakes. The text says, "1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference, September 12-14, 2025, Lansing, MI, USA. Biotic Interactions in Plant Science Session Featured Speakers. Learn more and register: research.msu.edu/glpsc2025.” Contained in a white box is a headshot of Adam Mott with the text, “Session Chair: Adam Mott, PhD, University of Toronto Scarborough, ‘The Evolution and Expression of Plant Cell Surface Receptors’." A blue box on the right also includes the headshots and presentation titles of the three other short talk speakers in the session, Deepak Bhandari, Aditi Bhat, and Sadie Hall.
August 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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📜 Microbiome responses to natural Fusarium infection in field-grown soybean plants

🧑‍🔬 @svbentum.bsky.social, @rlberendsen.bsky.social, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantMicrobiome #Fusarium #Agriculture
Microbiome responses to natural Fusarium infection in field-grown soybean plants
The rhizosphere microbiome influences plant health by mediating plant-pathogen interactions. Plants can recruit protective microbes in response to disease, but the consistency of this process in field...
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April 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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#StandUpforScience local rally in Pittsburgh is confirmed!

📅 March 7, 2025
⏰ 11 AM-1:30 PM
📍Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh

Follow the local rally’s Instagram @savesciencepgh for updates

Spread the word 🔥

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#StandUpForScience2025
#ScienceForAll
#ScienceNotSilence
#STEM
Join us for the Stand Up for Science local rally in Pittsburgh on March 7, 2025, from 11 AM to 1:30 PM at Schenley Plaza
February 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!
Howard University Receives “Research One” Carnegie Classification Indicating Highest Level of Research Production
The American Council of Education (ACE) today announced that Howard University has been conferred a Research One (R1) Carnegie Classification, indicating “very high research spending and doctorate pro...
thedig.howard.edu
February 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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A call to arms from Harold Varmus:

“Perhaps what’s most disheartening is what feels like the absence of widespread opposition to this unraveling.”

Let’s make some public noise!

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Opinion | American Science is Under Attack
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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carahaney.bsky.social
Our manuscript describing MYCroplanters, a high-throughput Arabidopsis phenotyping tool is out today in Plos Pathogens from first authors Melissa Chen and Leah Fulton! journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
carahaney.bsky.social Cara Haney @carahaney.bsky.social · Apr 29
Excited to share our new preprint and high-throughput tool, “Order among chaos: high throughput MYCroplanters can distinguish interacting drivers of host infection in a highly stochastic system” from Melissa Chen and Leah Fulton www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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msupri.bsky.social
Save the date for the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference, taking place Sept 12-14, 2025 in Lansing, MI! 🌱 Organized by 10 universities around the Great Lakes, #GLPSC2025 will push the boundaries of #plantscience, promote collaborations, and empower the next generation of plant science leaders!
A graphic promoting GLPSC 2025 with a background image of blurred leaves in the background and an outline of the Great Lakes. The text says, "1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference. Save the date! September 12-14, 2025, the Lansing Center, Lansing, MI. Organized by 10 universities around the Great Lakes to push the boundaries of plant science, promote collaborations, and empower the next-generation plant science leaders. Hosted by Michigan State University." The logos of the following participating institutions are at the bottom: Michigan State University, Purdue University, Illinois University, Indiana University, University of Toronto, University of Guelph, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ohio State University, University of Chicago, and the MSU Plant Resilience Institute.
February 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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What’s up coming!
Bacterial Biofilms: protect or not to protect?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM