My first grad student submitted her dissertation today! It's mainly her accomplishment, but I'm going to pop a bottle of bubbly and celebrate tonight myself 🍾. Congrats almost-Dr. @JanetMansaray!

Can we get some hype in the chat for @hartung_eli for his service the past two years as a BSA student representative 🔊🔊🔊🔊 I’ll miss working with him, but the bird must fly the nest! #botany2024 #PoaceaePoppa @ajayibenmi and I have big shoes to fill!

One more #WomenInSTEM and #QueerInSTEM doctor, hooded yesterday! #IAmABotanist Thanks to my advisor @silva_lcr and everyone, past and present, in the @SPA_research Lab for making my degree an incredible adventure.

Big ups to Johanne Storgan - BSA director of conferences - involved with 25 botany conferences!! She has kept conferences running smooth like butter. We’ll miss her as she transitions into retirement💯💯 #botany2024 #johannekeepsthesauceflowing

#Botany2024 has been an uplifting experience. I am very grateful to have been a PLANTS mentor along with @anaifrs mentoring Amaya in her first conference! Looking forward to next year!

It’s an honor to be a PLANTS peer mentor again this year at #Botany24! I was a PLANTS mentee back in 2016 and watching how the program has grown/helped so many of us is truly inspiring. Shoutout to my amazing PLANTS Pod @DavidWickell and Rose! @Botanical_

Not only is @L_DBall doing a great job moderating the Phylogenomics section (Gallery Overlook D) at #Botany24 but she gave an EXCELLENT talk about her dissertation work linking pollination syndromes to biogeographic patterns in Hillieae (Rubiaceae) #LagoLab #proudlabmate

Hey #Botany2024- don’t sleep on @L_DBall’s talk tomorrow Wednesday at 2pm in the Phylogenomics: Evolutionary Relationships session in Gallery Overlook D. It’s a beautiful, synthetic talk in her dissertation research on Hillieae (Rubiaceae) evolution! #LagoLab

Congrats to the 21 scientists selected for our 2024 Graduate Research Grants! Katherin Arango-Gómez @LSU (Advisor: Laura Lagomarsino) for Phylogenetics and biogeography of a clade of Neotropical blueberries. #Botany2024

To round out our 3-weeks of #LagoLab talks, ⁦@L_DBall⁩ rocked her ⁦@lsubiograds⁩ last week and ⁦@JanetMansaray⁩ gave an excellent presentation of her dissertation work at the ⁦⁦@GradLSU⁩ conference today! They did so well 💕.

First time at #SACNAS #2023NDiSTEM Conference & it’s been a great experience! Winning an award for best oral research presentation in the STEM Education & Learning section has made it even more special 🥳😃

The @NSF #PRFB workshop for Broadening Participation 2022 cohort in #2023NDiSTEM was a great success! Thanks to the POs for developing essential workshop to improve our career prospects!

Now is @JanetMansaray from @LSU_BioSci talking about offensive language on natural history collection! Very cool and eye opening research #2023NDiSTEM @SACNAS

@saltyecoevo @JanetMansaray will be there (and the whole LAGNiAppE postbacc crew).

Twinning two days in a row!!! What are the odds? ...actually pretty good... ;p LOVE #Botany2023 @BryTheBotanist

...and do jazz hands! ;p 💖 @BryTheBotanist

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The taxonomy of #Centropogon subgenus Centropogon is non-monophyletic but the #biogeography is pretty clearly structured, with many dispersals into the Northern Andes and Central America from the Central Andes. Go @JanetMansaray! #botany2023 #LagoLab

The #LagoLab crew is in Bogota, ready for the #PhylogenomicsInTheAndes workshop! @elanorfuller_ @JanetMansaray and Kathe are ready for it! (Me? I’ll get there!)

#taxonomistappreciationday Here are some of the species (images) I've helped describe and the higher-level revisions/descriptions I've published with many co-authors. Hug a taxonomist this week. Actually talking about this slide for a Curatorial Methods class @lsu today.