Morgan Carter
@morgancarterphd.bsky.social
🌿 Asst Prof. #NewPI. Molecular host-bacterial-fungal interactions. NCSSM/NCSU/Cornell alum. Y'all means all. Views are my own. she/her
Spent a little time pretending to be a real mycologist today. 🧪🍄
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Spent a little time pretending to be a real mycologist today. 🧪🍄
Proud #NewPI watching my students give talks at the NC ASM chapter meeting today! 🦠🧪🧬
Bhuwan Abbot (@bhuwanabbot.bsky.social) and Dallas Moses
Bhuwan Abbot (@bhuwanabbot.bsky.social) and Dallas Moses
November 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Proud #NewPI watching my students give talks at the NC ASM chapter meeting today! 🦠🧪🧬
Bhuwan Abbot (@bhuwanabbot.bsky.social) and Dallas Moses
Bhuwan Abbot (@bhuwanabbot.bsky.social) and Dallas Moses
Amazing theme for the 2025 NC chapter meeting of @asm.org.
@ncatsuaggies.bsky.social doing a great job hosting!
@ncatsuaggies.bsky.social doing a great job hosting!
November 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Amazing theme for the 2025 NC chapter meeting of @asm.org.
@ncatsuaggies.bsky.social doing a great job hosting!
@ncatsuaggies.bsky.social doing a great job hosting!
Thank you to Texas A&M’s plant pathology department for inviting me to give a seminar. I had a great visit!!
Unfortunately I only took pictures of the rogue sheep statues in the hotel 🤣
Unfortunately I only took pictures of the rogue sheep statues in the hotel 🤣
October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Thank you to Texas A&M’s plant pathology department for inviting me to give a seminar. I had a great visit!!
Unfortunately I only took pictures of the rogue sheep statues in the hotel 🤣
Unfortunately I only took pictures of the rogue sheep statues in the hotel 🤣
Flo is ready to teach about spooky slime molds this morning!
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Flo is ready to teach about spooky slime molds this morning!
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween!
In today’s edition of “Glamorous Lives within the Academy,” our heroine takes on replacing the drain pump on her growth chamber so it stops leaking on the floor. #NewPI
October 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In today’s edition of “Glamorous Lives within the Academy,” our heroine takes on replacing the drain pump on her growth chamber so it stops leaking on the floor. #NewPI
True! We managed to find quite a few...
September 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
True! We managed to find quite a few...
Just carrying some mycelium-eating bugs and a mycelium brick donut across campus, don’t mind me 🙃
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Guess this is what happens when you are becoming the resident campus mycologist?
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Guess this is what happens when you are becoming the resident campus mycologist?
September 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Just carrying some mycelium-eating bugs and a mycelium brick donut across campus, don’t mind me 🙃
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Guess this is what happens when you are becoming the resident campus mycologist?
🍄
Guess this is what happens when you are becoming the resident campus mycologist?
Something surreal about seeing scientific consensus on vaccines and climate change being ignored, grants being rescinded, higher ed threatened, etc.
Every post recently at NSF is about AI.
No need to think and discover. The computer can do it for you.
Where is the human aspect of innovation?
Every post recently at NSF is about AI.
No need to think and discover. The computer can do it for you.
Where is the human aspect of innovation?
August 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Something surreal about seeing scientific consensus on vaccines and climate change being ignored, grants being rescinded, higher ed threatened, etc.
Every post recently at NSF is about AI.
No need to think and discover. The computer can do it for you.
Where is the human aspect of innovation?
Every post recently at NSF is about AI.
No need to think and discover. The computer can do it for you.
Where is the human aspect of innovation?
The mushrooms are living their best lives in my yard right now 🍄 perfect for the start of a new semester of my fungal biology class!
August 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The mushrooms are living their best lives in my yard right now 🍄 perfect for the start of a new semester of my fungal biology class!
I am proud of my #NewPI activity this summer so I want to #humblebrag about a little.
Many of my students had results, but weren't making graphs and writing like they needed to 📊.
So, at the beginning of the summer, I issued a Publishable Pieces challenge: 10 PPs for lab 🍨 outing.
They did it!
Many of my students had results, but weren't making graphs and writing like they needed to 📊.
So, at the beginning of the summer, I issued a Publishable Pieces challenge: 10 PPs for lab 🍨 outing.
They did it!
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I am proud of my #NewPI activity this summer so I want to #humblebrag about a little.
Many of my students had results, but weren't making graphs and writing like they needed to 📊.
So, at the beginning of the summer, I issued a Publishable Pieces challenge: 10 PPs for lab 🍨 outing.
They did it!
Many of my students had results, but weren't making graphs and writing like they needed to 📊.
So, at the beginning of the summer, I issued a Publishable Pieces challenge: 10 PPs for lab 🍨 outing.
They did it!
Ok one last post from #PlantHealth2025 is to kudos @plantdisease.bsky.social for the the nonalcoholic options at the bars.
There were also fun iced teas and mocktails (not pictured) at the opening and closing receptions!
There were also fun iced teas and mocktails (not pictured) at the opening and closing receptions!
August 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Ok one last post from #PlantHealth2025 is to kudos @plantdisease.bsky.social for the the nonalcoholic options at the bars.
There were also fun iced teas and mocktails (not pictured) at the opening and closing receptions!
There were also fun iced teas and mocktails (not pictured) at the opening and closing receptions!
Aloha #PlantHealth2025! Mahalo for the fun times, lovely stories, good questions, cool ideas, and tropical vibes.
#PlantHealth2026 will be in Rhode Island - hopefully we will have more folks on the skyline by then!!
#PlantHealth2026 will be in Rhode Island - hopefully we will have more folks on the skyline by then!!
August 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Aloha #PlantHealth2025! Mahalo for the fun times, lovely stories, good questions, cool ideas, and tropical vibes.
#PlantHealth2026 will be in Rhode Island - hopefully we will have more folks on the skyline by then!!
#PlantHealth2026 will be in Rhode Island - hopefully we will have more folks on the skyline by then!!
Alexi Dong brings the energy to her Melhus symposium talk on the last day of #PlantHealth2025! 🦸🦹
This comic-book style talk on peanut leaf spot is a delightfully fun take on classic plant pathology concepts. 🥜
What can change the battle of fungicide versus pathogen? Resistance loci!
This comic-book style talk on peanut leaf spot is a delightfully fun take on classic plant pathology concepts. 🥜
What can change the battle of fungicide versus pathogen? Resistance loci!
August 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Alexi Dong brings the energy to her Melhus symposium talk on the last day of #PlantHealth2025! 🦸🦹
This comic-book style talk on peanut leaf spot is a delightfully fun take on classic plant pathology concepts. 🥜
What can change the battle of fungicide versus pathogen? Resistance loci!
This comic-book style talk on peanut leaf spot is a delightfully fun take on classic plant pathology concepts. 🥜
What can change the battle of fungicide versus pathogen? Resistance loci!
Idea Cafe at #PlantHealth2025 - how do we describe microbial dynamics beyond pathogens?
Dysbiosis, pathobiome, etc.
Rethinking terms to accurately capture what we are observing during microbial interactions contributing to plant disease. 🌱🦠
Dysbiosis, pathobiome, etc.
Rethinking terms to accurately capture what we are observing during microbial interactions contributing to plant disease. 🌱🦠
August 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Idea Cafe at #PlantHealth2025 - how do we describe microbial dynamics beyond pathogens?
Dysbiosis, pathobiome, etc.
Rethinking terms to accurately capture what we are observing during microbial interactions contributing to plant disease. 🌱🦠
Dysbiosis, pathobiome, etc.
Rethinking terms to accurately capture what we are observing during microbial interactions contributing to plant disease. 🌱🦠
Daniel Maddock (@michhulin.bsky.social’s group) investigates prophage carrying a key effector protein that enables Pseudomonas bacteria to infect cherry trees.
Deleting the whole prophage reduces virulence of the bacterium on the plant (leaf and woody tissue) 🍒
#PlantHealth2025
Deleting the whole prophage reduces virulence of the bacterium on the plant (leaf and woody tissue) 🍒
#PlantHealth2025
August 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Daniel Maddock (@michhulin.bsky.social’s group) investigates prophage carrying a key effector protein that enables Pseudomonas bacteria to infect cherry trees.
Deleting the whole prophage reduces virulence of the bacterium on the plant (leaf and woody tissue) 🍒
#PlantHealth2025
Deleting the whole prophage reduces virulence of the bacterium on the plant (leaf and woody tissue) 🍒
#PlantHealth2025
Jennifer Wilson starts her Face of the Future talk looking back at the history of the corn and soybean virus lab that she now co-runs at the USDA ARS in Ohio.
A wonderful highlight of the critical work done by long standing ARS labs to help local problems faced by farmers. 🌽🧑🌾🌱
#PlantHealth2025
A wonderful highlight of the critical work done by long standing ARS labs to help local problems faced by farmers. 🌽🧑🌾🌱
#PlantHealth2025
August 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Jennifer Wilson starts her Face of the Future talk looking back at the history of the corn and soybean virus lab that she now co-runs at the USDA ARS in Ohio.
A wonderful highlight of the critical work done by long standing ARS labs to help local problems faced by farmers. 🌽🧑🌾🌱
#PlantHealth2025
A wonderful highlight of the critical work done by long standing ARS labs to help local problems faced by farmers. 🌽🧑🌾🌱
#PlantHealth2025
Diel Donne Velasco points out the risk to barley caused by Xanthomonas translucens within US.
Field surveys show that a single field can have Xtt strains with different virulence patterns.
Inoculated with tagged strains to assess (co-)colonization behavior across clades.
#PlantHealth2025
Field surveys show that a single field can have Xtt strains with different virulence patterns.
Inoculated with tagged strains to assess (co-)colonization behavior across clades.
#PlantHealth2025
August 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Diel Donne Velasco points out the risk to barley caused by Xanthomonas translucens within US.
Field surveys show that a single field can have Xtt strains with different virulence patterns.
Inoculated with tagged strains to assess (co-)colonization behavior across clades.
#PlantHealth2025
Field surveys show that a single field can have Xtt strains with different virulence patterns.
Inoculated with tagged strains to assess (co-)colonization behavior across clades.
#PlantHealth2025
Burkholderia glumae quorum sensing regulates various stress responses and secondary metabolite production - Jonas Padilla at #PlantHealth2025
August 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Burkholderia glumae quorum sensing regulates various stress responses and secondary metabolite production - Jonas Padilla at #PlantHealth2025
Maria Purnamasari introduces an oomycete causing root rot in peas. Can beneficial bacteria be used for control?
To do so, we need to test ways that microbes are communicating/contacting.
Director co-culturing of Pseudomonas with Aphanomyces shows attachment & feeding of 🦠
#PlantHealth2025
To do so, we need to test ways that microbes are communicating/contacting.
Director co-culturing of Pseudomonas with Aphanomyces shows attachment & feeding of 🦠
#PlantHealth2025
August 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Maria Purnamasari introduces an oomycete causing root rot in peas. Can beneficial bacteria be used for control?
To do so, we need to test ways that microbes are communicating/contacting.
Director co-culturing of Pseudomonas with Aphanomyces shows attachment & feeding of 🦠
#PlantHealth2025
To do so, we need to test ways that microbes are communicating/contacting.
Director co-culturing of Pseudomonas with Aphanomyces shows attachment & feeding of 🦠
#PlantHealth2025
Joanna Kud calls attention to nematode effectors, often overlooked in the plant-microbe community.
A ubiquitin ligase effector from Globodera suppresses plant immunity, but also impacts stability of other nematode proteins encoded in its genomic neighborhood.
#PlantHealth2025
A ubiquitin ligase effector from Globodera suppresses plant immunity, but also impacts stability of other nematode proteins encoded in its genomic neighborhood.
#PlantHealth2025
August 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Joanna Kud calls attention to nematode effectors, often overlooked in the plant-microbe community.
A ubiquitin ligase effector from Globodera suppresses plant immunity, but also impacts stability of other nematode proteins encoded in its genomic neighborhood.
#PlantHealth2025
A ubiquitin ligase effector from Globodera suppresses plant immunity, but also impacts stability of other nematode proteins encoded in its genomic neighborhood.
#PlantHealth2025
John Bennett tells a penicillin reminiscent discovery story of finding a Streptomyces species that has antifungal properties against key pear pathogens.
The genome for this strain is a mixture of linear and circular contigs.
Strep culture filtrate can inhibit post harvest fungi.
#PlantHealth2025
The genome for this strain is a mixture of linear and circular contigs.
Strep culture filtrate can inhibit post harvest fungi.
#PlantHealth2025
August 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
John Bennett tells a penicillin reminiscent discovery story of finding a Streptomyces species that has antifungal properties against key pear pathogens.
The genome for this strain is a mixture of linear and circular contigs.
Strep culture filtrate can inhibit post harvest fungi.
#PlantHealth2025
The genome for this strain is a mixture of linear and circular contigs.
Strep culture filtrate can inhibit post harvest fungi.
#PlantHealth2025
Sharon Doty presents on endophytic Bacillus strains that show good antifungal activity against key fungal plant pathogens and fungi that cause post-harvest decay.
#PlantHealth2025
#PlantHealth2025
August 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Sharon Doty presents on endophytic Bacillus strains that show good antifungal activity against key fungal plant pathogens and fungi that cause post-harvest decay.
#PlantHealth2025
#PlantHealth2025
Devanshi Khokhani connected genomic and virulence data in a Clavibacter nebraskensis study.
Found newer strains of this corn pathogen (>2010) were more virulent and genetically divergent than older isolates.
#PlantHealth2025
Found newer strains of this corn pathogen (>2010) were more virulent and genetically divergent than older isolates.
#PlantHealth2025
August 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Devanshi Khokhani connected genomic and virulence data in a Clavibacter nebraskensis study.
Found newer strains of this corn pathogen (>2010) were more virulent and genetically divergent than older isolates.
#PlantHealth2025
Found newer strains of this corn pathogen (>2010) were more virulent and genetically divergent than older isolates.
#PlantHealth2025
First talk of the day in the Gram positive bacteria special session!
Chang-Sik Oh dives into Clavibacter, pointing out that two plasmids in C. michiganensis carry virulence contributors. What about in other strains?
Plasmid composition differs across 88 isolates - 10 groups.
#PlantHealth2025
Chang-Sik Oh dives into Clavibacter, pointing out that two plasmids in C. michiganensis carry virulence contributors. What about in other strains?
Plasmid composition differs across 88 isolates - 10 groups.
#PlantHealth2025
August 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
First talk of the day in the Gram positive bacteria special session!
Chang-Sik Oh dives into Clavibacter, pointing out that two plasmids in C. michiganensis carry virulence contributors. What about in other strains?
Plasmid composition differs across 88 isolates - 10 groups.
#PlantHealth2025
Chang-Sik Oh dives into Clavibacter, pointing out that two plasmids in C. michiganensis carry virulence contributors. What about in other strains?
Plasmid composition differs across 88 isolates - 10 groups.
#PlantHealth2025