闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD

hehehe thank you :D

An unconventional Rubisco small subunit underpins the CO2-concentrating organelle in land plants In many algae, photosynthesis is boosted by biophysical CO2-concentrating mechanisms, which pack the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco into liquid-like organelles called pyrenoids. Engineering C3 crops with a...

Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Omg so excited to see this out!!!!!!!!!

a slide introducing GA, when the researchers found the GA mutant, they called them "foolish seedling". Then on the right corner I inserted Kagura from Gintama saying "お前ら　馬鹿ですか”

Successfully inserted anime in my plant bio lecture! 💅 Throwback to the good old time that I transcribed subtitles for many anime for two years at the end of my undergrad, now I'm telling a room of undergrads the plants and anime that I love. I love my job! #ib103 #anime #plantjoy

A snowdrops flower with endlessly repeating petals.

I'm in love. #WildflowerHour
Agamous Galanthus.

I know I was amazed by the creativity!

My hand holding the glass showing the bottom is irregular and fits the wood below, which also has burnt marks on

And I absolutely love this terrarium, a surprise find from a local plant shop! Glass blown then pressed on wood while it’s still hot, so two of them fit perfectly

A glass terrarium setting on a piece of wood and inside the glass there are two diff selaginella species, one very red one very green

Top view of the terrarium

Perks of teaching intro plant biology, my office now is packed with a variety of plants! Please appreciate my Selaginella terrarium muhahahaha #ib103 #plantjoy #iamabotanist

Haha it was accurately named then! Whenever I tried out a new plant id app, I always use pics of zz and Zamia to get a baseline evaluation of the app. It’s not an easy test

Zamia cosplayer 😂😂😂

In a first, researchers film treetops glowing during thunderstorms Glimmer sparked by electrical fields detected in nature for the first time

Lightning is so 2025 - it's time for glowing trees, instead ⚡🌲. Today for @science.org : www.science.org/content/arti... #lightning #trees #storm #science #nature #physics

If it’s the case of what I imagined, it should be kinda heritable even though with redundancy from other pathways. But if it’s something environmental, then it will be a chance of luck… 🥲😳

Ah i see! In many case, yes, but meristem size is also regulated by multiple pathways to triple insure the size and domains are right, so it could be something in the not that important pathway that can enlarge it a little bit but still can't go crazy because other things are still intact.

Then we can also imagine the meristem will get bigger and bigger too with time 👀 it will be cool if it happens since it’s slow and subtle unlike may other meristem mutants

I also love the whorls on the main branches kinda alternative in position too 🤩

Wow the second pic showed those baby axillary branches opposite too! I wonder whether they will change too?! This is very cool!! My tricot phenotypes normally don't persist on side branches!!

Super cool snapdragon update:

I cut off the apical meristem of my tricot snapdragon and initially its first leaves from lateral meristem were paired, but now each branch throwing triplets, and three branches per node! A TRUE tricot bodyplan!

@thebiologistisn.bsky.social @minyaaa.bsky.social

Exactly

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Promotional image for the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: Introduction to 2D and 3D Segmentation with MorphoGraphX. The promo has a purple background behind text over a green plant cell graphic with a black background. It also includes the details for the webinar including the date/time.

Promotional image for the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: Introduction to 2D and 3D Segmentation with MorphoGraphX. The promo has a purple background behind text over a green plant cell graphic with a black background. It also includes the webinar's full abstract description.

Registration is NOW OPEN for the second installment of the Plant Cell Atlas Imaging Workshop Series: Introduction to 2D and 3D Segmentation with MorphoGraphX.

You can learn more and register here: www.plantcellatlas.org/events

Been a busy, but productive week here at UIUC with the first successful Setaria HCR FISH attempt in the books!! Big thanks to @minyaaa.bsky.social for providing the lab space that made this project possible, looking forward to more with some actual target genes in the near future!

So looking forward to reading it!! Congrats!!

ONLINE COVER Maximum-intensity projection of a confocal image of epidermal cells from the Thale cress roots, where four colors stain different cell parts. Goldy et al. demonstrate that the protein actin allows cells to override standard division rules by stabilizing the orientation of spindles, which segregate chromosomes during mitosis. This uncovers a previously under-appreciated role for actin cytoskeletons, providing new insight into how division orientation is controlled to ensure robust tissue architecture during plant growth. Credit: Camila Goldy

What could be more satisfying than this ?

✨️Congrats to all the authors ✨️

Could not be more proud of you 🥹

Credit: Camila Goldy @camilagoldy.bsky.social

Delighted to share our new preprint: "Evolution of moss leaf-like organs through variations in deeply conserved developmental principles."
Led by Ph.D. student Wenye Lin from my lab @irbv.bsky.social ,
in collab. with Yoan Coudert (ENS Lyon) and Richard Smith (JIC).
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

this made my day after a verryyyy looong day thank youuuu! 💚

If anyone wants to print their own falcoponic parts, here is a short writeup with links to other materials. Enjoyyyyy.

www.printables.com/model/451575...

Need to figure out the visa situation but I'm on it!

Yes!!! :D

If you like flowers, molecular mechanisms, friendky meetings and the Côte d'Azur, register to the 'Flower meeting' at the presqu'ile de Giens in June (15th-19th)

www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/FlowerWo...

Chinese calligraphy in gold saying best luck with year of horse in a red background

Here comes the year of horse!!!!!
Let’s go, fight, thrive!!!! 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎 #chinesenewyear #lunarnewyear #yearofhorse

Thanks! :)