Meng Lu
@Bio_Stars
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On my way to the fascinating unknown world. 🌿Evolutionary biology PhD student @SBSatEd @DarwinTrustOfEd🌿 Plant lover & nature enthusiast
Joined May 2015
A GREAT lab fieldwork day 🌿👀with some enthusiastic duck learners 🦆 Thank you so much @alex_twyford, @YanqianD, @edavies_4, Grace, Emily, Brianna, and Beth for making this day special! 🌟
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So delighted to hear all the brilliant questions from our undergrad participants! Yay love for plants🌿💚🌳
Tonight’s #GPSSS23 Next Steps Panel sharing PhD experiences: (L-R) 🌱Katie Long - @JohnInnesCentre 🌱@anoop333pathi - @plantsci 🌱Meng Lu (@Bio_Stars) - @TheBotanics & @SBSatEd 🌱Arran Horne - @UofGlasgow 🌱Stephanie Smith - @CENTA_Team Any advice for our undergrads? 👇👇👇
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I'm advertising a @darwintreelife postdoc to work at @EdinburghUni @SBSatEd on comparative #plant genomics! 16 months to use chromosomal level genome assemblies to investigate genomic diversity in British native flowering plants. Collab with @RBGE_Science. 🌲☘️🌼 Please RT.
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The GPSSS wouldn't be the same without the awesome practical sessions! Leading the Plant Systematics & ID practical is @jen_farrar, @milneorchid & Meng Lu (@SBSatEd). 🔎🪻 FYI Meng has an awesome blog about her journey into a plant science PhD: https://t.co/L37o4pCxMw (10/?)
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The first 🌿plant day🌿 of Field Ecology! Hooray!!! @SBSatEd In my eyes (as a demonstrator), our enthusiastic undergrads were like ↓
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After a whole day of SNP calling, I was just preparing dinner, opened the oven, and told my partner: “Put the quiche on this level.” He looked at me, lovingly, and then said: “You just told me to put the quiche on this directory.” Me: lol
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Wholeheartedly agree!! His views on evolution, the magic of superior nature, and the despicable poaching... His voice is full of great passion and admiration to plant; LOVE this vid 「This Tiny Succulent Will Teach You How Plants Evolve https://t.co/dIgAgL4CKo via @YouTube」
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Job alert! I was recently awarded an ERC Consolidator grant and I will soon be advertising a post-doc to investigate the maintenance of genetic variation in self-fertilising species, to be based @SBSatEd. Interested? Feel free to DM or email me!
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📣 Work in #genomics? Will you peer review our #GenomeNote publications @WellcomeOpenRes? With 70,000 species coming, we need plenty of help. And it's ideal for early careers or PhD researchers getting started with #peerreview 📑 Sign up via this form 🔽 https://t.co/hB3m6WufBO
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F1000 and the Wellcome Sanger Institute have developed a streamlined approach to rapidly publish the genome sequences of thousands of animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms that live on and...
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So excited that our paper got included in Feb highlights 😊 many thanks to all of my coauthors @FraderaSoler @FelixForest1 @TimBarraclough9 @ol1grace and my Kew’s colleagues who helped on this project again @Paul_Rees_ @aurelie_grall 💚 (photo: Crassula rupestris at Kew)
The latest #AJB is now online---so check out these issue highlights! https://t.co/pXqBjSTzff
#botany #genetics #climatechange #evolution #moss @wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol @Bio_Stars @FraderaSoler @FelixForest1 @TimBarraclough9 @ol1grace @icyjava @DSchiedea
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It’s so great to see my master thesis project published! Millions of thanks to all my coauthors, my colleagues at Kew, the whole AJB team, and reviewers for their invaluable help and support!!🌿🌵🌱 (Photo: Crassula pyramidalis at RBG Kew, living collection)
Evidence linking life-form to a major shift in diversification rate in #Crassula (new #AJB research by @Bio_Stars, @FraderaSoler, @FelixForest1, @TimBarraclough9 & @ol1grace) https://t.co/4fFYVsKDPt
#botany #Crassulaceae #evolution @wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol
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We brought back our Darwin Trust socials since the pandemic. Our students had the chance to have some food and fun. There was so much inclusion and diversity in the room 🥳!
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Great excitement in running into the elegant living expression of my sequence data 🌿🧬👀😍 #wateravens #geumrivale
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New on @EvolLetters EarlyView by @_Axeman_ @Dirk_Zeuss @ChazotNicolas @Kallekarlhugo @LepPhylo @ChrisWWheat et al: Butterfly dichromatism primarily evolved via Darwin's, not Wallace's, model https://t.co/IRfvq8p8wQ
#butterflies #colour #evolution
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