I am beyond excited to announce the Schomer Lab will be launching in January 2023 at the stunningly beautiful @UArizona @UAZPlantSciences! My lab will study the chemical ecology of the rhizosphere (the root-soil interface) & the role of chemosensing in plant-microbe interactions.

Exciting news! Thrilled to announce that I'll be joining @uarizona as a new faculty member in the School of Plant Sciences, starting up my dream lab! I'm looking forward to advancing the field of plant microbial ecology and making strides in DEIJ through my work. #newfaculty

🚨We are hiring a research specialist in Chicago! Our awesome tech Dziedzom is headed to med school so we are looking for a new team member to help uncover how A. baumannii causes infections. Apply by 3/13 for fullest consideration https://t.co/wrBrEXogtb

Recently graduated and *soon-to-be* graduated students should apply!

The Schomer lab is looking for a Junior Scientist! Recent graduates interested in microbiology, host microbe interactions, research experience, please consider applying through the UArizona portal: https://t.co/QV0Mx8SzjH #chemotaxis #ralstonia #microbiology

Looking for suggestions for a book 📚to share with an undergraduate peer mentoring program?

I am so grateful to my mentors & supporters over the past decade. I’m thrilled to be joining the awesome faculty in this department. I can’t believe my luck that my dream job is bringing me back to the Southwest. Looking forward to the easy access to green chile (& my family!)

Interested in functional genomics, bacterial physiology & microbial ecology of rhizosphere communities? Schomer lab is recruiting PhD students and postdocs for 2023. Please reach out--I would love to connect!

Our group will use #Ralstonia plant pathogens as a model to investigate the role chemotactic behavior plays in niche discovery. In host range. In the formation, structure, and maintenance of rhizosphere communities.

Our team will decipher the chemical language of the rhizosphere. Genomes of soil microbes encode up to dozens of chemoreceptors that interpret and respond to chemical variation in the environment. We’ll use functional genomics tools decode this chemical ecology.

The Schomer Lab will study how soil bacteria perceive complex environmental signals & integrate these signals into physiological and behavioral responses like motility & chemotaxis.

You hear US politicians disgracing themselves on TV shouting critical race theory (CRT) is a pox on all our houses, they're gonna ban it, slap it, flip it, rub it down, but have absolutely no clue what it is? Are you wondering what even is this CRT? Well, come learn. 🧵🧵 1/13

Excited to announce our next workshop, Science for the World- A culturally relevant science communication workshop. ⬇️Join us to learn from award-winning science communicator Dr. @moefeliu on March 11th, 12-1pm PST. Register: https://t.co/G5OT2TvYus Info: https://t.co/4QfpC0mYUO

Would also appreciate any insights about materials (ie types of plastic)!

Pls retweet! Looking to 3D print custom plasticware for plant-bacterial interactions. Any recommendations from Science Twitter abt best way to go abt 3D printing, or how to do it economically? Especially @UCDavis scientists abt where to get my design printed. @TLowepower

I am happy to finally be able to announce that I was awarded a @USDA_NIFA postdoctoral fellowship to continue my studies of chemotaxis @ucdavis with Becky Parales and to expand my studies of this behavior into the plant pathogen, Ralstonia solanacaerum with @TLowePower! 🌿🦠👩‍🔬

The #BlackintheIvory thread is so incredibly validating. It's constant gaslighting when you're Black in academia. You're around a lot people reading, citing, and producing "radical" philosophies but not living up to them in practice.

#BlackintheIvory Being told by a senior white faculty person that my research was too “niché” + “a theoretical” when I shared my desire to study Black women’s communication 🙄

This is what this #BlackBirdersWeek has been leading up to. Important conversations about being a Black birder. Tune in to hear from many of the @BlackAFinSTEM folks And special guests Christian Cooper- 12pm EST Drew Lanham (@1blackbirder)- 7pm EST https://t.co/lrYBJvFjq2