Rooting of the first 'Baby with the Red 🔴 Gene' from Alice #ECSU. @atinygreencell.bsky.social. First noticeable transgenic plant with red leaves from petunia 🪴. Transformed from GV3101+RUBYRED 🧬🧪🧫🌱. Meristemoids completely red are growing much slower.#ECSUVikingsScience #hbcu

Job well done 💐 @jrtkstclair.bsky.social #ECSU. Defended her Undergrad Senior Honors Thesis 👏👏(+maintaining a great GPA + graduating 🎓 a semester early). Will be missed 😢. Agro 🧬✋️🧫 transformation of tobacco 🍃 with RUBYRED plasmid 🔴🪴 @atinygreencell.bsky.social. #ECSUVikingsScience

First attempt at making microscope slides for my microscopy analysis of the plant tissue of transgenic and control tobacco plants. #RUBYREDplasmid #betalaingene #undergraduateresearch #planttissueculture

The undergrad research lab is humming 🐝 #ECSU. Heating plant media ⚗️🧫 for Kalanchoe expt. Nodal cultures 🌱of tobacco for transformation. Planting seeds of Mimulus for floral dip 🌸. Welcome to another high school student intern 👍🏼. #ECSUVikingsScience #hbcu

Our monthly lab meeting #ECSU. Undergrads talked about their research activities for the past month and upcoming experiments 🧬🧫🌱🪴 (1 slide - good way to prepare for their next career steps 🪜). Also, cupcake 🧁 Thursday #ECSUVikingsScience #HBCU #undergradresearchers

Lively lab meeting #ECSU. Lots of questions (to each other; and from me ✋️). Undergrads are owning their research projects 👏🌱🧬🧫🧪🦠🪴. Another career step 🪜. Also, Cupcake 🧁 Thursday. #ECSUVikingsScience #hbcu

Shoot apical meristem of my "pin"📌 Mimulus mutant, with plasma membranes of cells fluorescently labeled. #MicroscopyMonday #MeristemMonday #MimulusPropaganda

This semester, undergrads in BIOL 499 #ECSU are part of the American Campus Tree 🌳 Genomes Project (Dr. Alex Harkess at Hudsonalpha, AL). They are sequencing an oak 🌰 tree. Just sent off the HMW DNA 🧬 to be sequenced. They will then learn to annotate. #ECSUVikingsScience #hbcu #PlantScience