It is an honor to announce the 2022 BSA Emerging Leader, Dr. Karolina Heyduk (
@kheyduk
), of the University of Hawai'i!
To learn more about Dr. Heyduk, and this award, visit:
#BSAMembers
#BSAAwards
Are you a plant scientist applying for the NSF GRFP? Join us again this year for the BSA's GRFP workshop, where you will work with other students and mentors to improve your GRFP application! Apply to join the workshop by September 12th, we hope you will join us!
*The Plant Science Bulletin has announced a Special Issue Call for Papers*
Art & the Botanical Sciences: Past, Present, & Future
Submissions should reflect all aspects of the author’s experience unifying art & science
(Proposal deadline: Feb 1 2023)
The shape of grapevine leaves is not static, it changes in response to development and the environment. One way to study the shape of leaves is to use homologous (shared) landmarks. By labeling landmarks across Vitis species, researchers can quantify differences in morphology.
Attending Botany 2020 and looking for a job, a lab to complete graduate school in, a post-doc, or an early career researcher to fill one of those positions? Check out our virtual networking/job board for Botany2020:
We have a
#Botany2020
update! Join us virtually on July 27-31 for 5 days of speakers, symposia/colloquia, poster sessions, workshops, networking events, CV review sessions & much more! Reminder: abstracts are due 5/31. See details at !
#botany
#iamabotanist
Hi
#Botany2020
, my name is Aviwe Matiwane, I am a palaeobotanist and ecologist. I've always been fascinated by nature, particularly plants and where they come from. I love the mystery behind fossil plants..In short I'm a plant detective
#BlackInNature
#blackinstem
#stem
#scicomm
The role of ontogeny in wood diversity &
#evolution
---see this new
#AJB
Review by Joyce Onyenedum &
@marcelorpace
demonstrating how developmental repatterning can drive phenotypic diversity & novelty in the complex structure of wood!
#botany
@wileyplantsci
Congratulations to Dr. Brian Atkinson (
@BrianAtkinology
) from the University of Kansas for winning the 2021 BSA Emerging Leader Award! Visit to learn more about his work and to see all of the 2021 award winners so far!
The latest
#PlantSciBull
features an AMAZING special section on Art in the Botanical Sciences!
Check out artist-scientist collaborations & accounts of what drives their curiosity & exploration, integrations of art & science in museums & more!
#botany
Congratulations to Dr. Beronda Montgomery for winning the Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award! To learn more about Dr. Montgomery, her work, and her influence on teaching visit . You can also see her Plenary Address at Botany 2021 - Virtual!
#Botany2021
Check out the amazing panelists for the April 5th
#Botany360
event - Careers in Botany: Collections and Gardens!
To register for this free virtual event visit:
Check out the Botany360 Calendar and past recordings at:
What an amazing conference! We hope you enjoyed and learned as much as we did. As a reminder,
#Botany2020
attendees can log on to the conference platform for *ONE YEAR* to access all of the content. Slides and recordings may not be shared without the permission of the author.
Today we celebrate
#BlackBotanistsWeek
by highlighting a long-time BSA member & winner of the BSA Distinguished Fellow Award, Dr. Lafayette Frederick—tireless promoter of students, inspiring teacher & chair of the Botany/Biology Dept at
@HowardU
for years!
Remember how you loved Botany 2020 and were surprised by how great an international virtual conference could be? Submit your abstract now for Botany 2021! We are welcoming talks and posters from all interested participants. Deadline is April 1.
#Botany2021
Lianas & stem flexibility: how different species attain similar biomechanical properties with alternative tissue architectures (new
#AJB
research by Caian Gerolamo, Anselmo Nogueira, Marcelo Pace & Veronica Angyalossy)
#botany
#biomechanics
@wileyplantsci
Conspicuous plant forms in tropical-alpine ecosystems are the
#rosettes
, which evolved independently in distant geographic areas, such as the
#Andes
and the
#Afroalpine
(1/6)
You asked for it - we say ok…and we have heard all the excuses - field work, spring break, the dog ate my abstract!
The deadline for
#Botany2023
— One World abstract submissions has been EXTENDED to Monday, April 10th!
For more information, visit:
Two former
#BSApresidents
were inducted into the National Academy of Sciences today. Congratulations to Elizabeth "Toby" Kellogg (
@TheKelloggLab
) and Loren Rieseberg for representing the
#botanical
sciences and making us proud.
In the interest of the health and safety of our attendees we have transitioned our conference to once again be virtual.
#Botany2021
- Virtual will take place online from July 19 – 23, 2021. Check for all conference updates!
#BSAmembers
If you use Easy Leaf Area software, you'll want to know that it's now available for iPhone! Measuring leaf area from digital images just got (even) easier
@UCDavisPlants
#iamabotanist
#AppsPlantSci
1239 botanists, from 32 countries, with 40% students...
#Botany2019
has been fantastic, but as we say goodbye to each other tonight, we're already pumped up for
#Botany2020
in Anchorage!
BSA is excited to announce that we are offering 40 GSRA awards in 2021! For more information, and to apply, visit: . Deadline is April 1, 2021, so apply today!
The Missouri Botanical Garden 2022 summer internship program is open for applications. The program offers 10-week independent research projects in subjects related to plant conservation biology, taxonomy, genetics, and ecology.
Learn more:
Comparative anatomy & genetic bases of fruit development in selected
#Rubiaceae
(new
#AJB
research by Héctor Salazar-Duque, Juan Alzate, Aura Urrea Trujillo, Cristina Ferrándiz & Natalia Pabón-Mora
#botany
@wileyplantsci
As
#Botany2020
shifts to a virtual conference, we're looking to maintain the best features of our usual conference w/ some new twists this year! The abstract deadline is now 5/31 & more details will be coming *very* soon. Stay tuned!
#botany
#iamabotanist
In contrast to the
#Andes
, other evolutionary patterns occur in isolated mountains: the Afroalpine, Southeast Asia and Hawaiian
#mountains
, show very interesting patterns and endemisms... (1/6)
🌱DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING: 2/1/23🌱
Submit proposals now to the Plant Science Bulletin Special Issue:
*Art & the Botanical Sciences: Past, Present, & Future*
Submissions should reflect all aspects of the author’s experience unifying art & science
What explains the high island endemicity of Philippine
#Rafflesia
? A species distribution modeling analysis of three threatened parasitic plant species & their hosts
New
#AJB
research by Jasper Obico et al.
#botany
#climatechange
@wileyplantsci
BSA is providing free registration to
#Botany2021
to up to 75 Community College/Tribal College and University/Minority Serving Institution faculty as part of our NSF-funded Diversity and Inclusion Initiative. Apply here (by May 30) if interested!
We are very excited to announce that we have had over 1050 abstracts submitted for
#botany2021
! Thank you to everyone for sharing your research with a talk or poster. Visit for more information and to register for Botany 2021 - Virtual!
Are you applying for the GRFP this year and studying plants? Apply for the BSA’s GRFP workshop! We will meet twice in small groups to revise application materials. Apply here (first come, first served):
#BSAstudents
#iamabotanist
We're pleased to announce the new members of the BSA's 2022-24 Early Career Advisory Board! They'll help advise & engage with the editors of
#amjbot
,
#AppsPlantSci
&
#PlantSciBull
to continue strengthening our publications. Welcome!
#botany
#iamabotanist
Mark Whitten was developing a simple, scalable protocol for genomic DNA extraction from diverse plant taxa before his untimely death 2 years ago. It's now published in
#AppsPlantSci
with coauthors Mavrodiev
@cderv
@m_gitz
@ForestGenomics
@soltislab
et al
Congratulations to our 2020 Young
#Botanist
Award Winners! These awards recognize outstanding graduating seniors in the plant sciences. The recipients were nominated by their advisors, so nominate your great students for next year!
Congratulations to all of the 2021 Graduate Student Research Award Winners!
To see all of this year's BSA award winners so far visit .
#bsastudents
#GSRAawards
As
#Botany2021
winds down, we're heartened that ~2000 of us came together from 62 countries for the largest conference on record---thanks to all of you! Don't forget, you can access all the content over the next year to catch up on what you missed.
See you at
#Botany2022
!!!