Marybel Soto Gomez
@yam_it_up
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Botanist & agricultural scientist interested in all things plants, especially phylogenomics and people's plants. Kew Gardens.
Joined August 2018
RT @ScienceMagazine: Plants sustain human life. A new Science study looks at the global distribution of more than 35,000 utilized plant sp….
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RT @RSADesignAwards: 🚨More judging progress to report this week. Our panel for Brief 8⃣: Tomorrow's menu have discussed brief entries. J….
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Completely mind-blown with the creativity of the entries I've judged for the Royal Society of Art Student Design Awards @RSADesignAwards. Student designs for the brief "Tomorrow's Menu" give me hope for more sustainable food systems in the future.
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Neither @Airbnb nor the host are taking responsibility for renting a Paris flat that is highly dangerous for a kid (large stairwell hole dropping to level below) and surrounded by hostile neighbors. What gives @AirbnbHelp?.
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RT @chickpeaman: Day 2 of #PlantsFor30x30 @KewScience opens with @James_Borrell and @yam_it_up presenting their Ethiopian pilot on conserva….
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Is this a tiny alien? Nope! It's a non-photosynthetic plant that derives nutrition from fungi & part of a fascinating lineage that we recently described as a new family, Afrothismiaceae, with @DrMartinCheek, Sean Graham & Paula Rudall Photo by @VMerckx
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RT @chickpeaman: Inspiring & revealing talk by @NatHistGirl Miranda Lowe CBE on #declonising Museum collections & the overlooked role of pe….
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What a privilege to hear about the past, present and future of APG from the greats who've led it from the start: Mark Chase, Doug & Pam Soltis, Peter Stevens @KewScience
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Interested in hearing about the foods we'll be eating in the future? Check out the conversation I had the pleasure of joining for this episode of the @FoodMattersLive podcast with Richard Ellis from @UniofReading and @DorothyShaverRD from @Unilever.
Which crops might feed the world in 2050?. Do climate change and political instability mean we need to re-think the foods we eat?. Featuring @yam_it_up from @kewgardens, @DorothyShaverRD from @Unilever, and Richard Ellis from @UniofReading. Full episode:
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Check out Food Forever at Kew for an engaging, artsy and thought-provoking programme on how or food choices can positively transform our planet #KewFood.
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RT @James_Borrell: Great to see superb @KewScience colleagues featured in on the news highlighting the value of agrobiodiversity @yam_it_up….
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Scientists say we need to future-proof our diets in a warming world by eating little-known plants.
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RT @CasparChater: Extremely valuable study for global food security and human health. Proud and privileged to be working with such amazing….
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Huge congratulations to @BillJBaker and the #PAFTOL team on their launch of #TreeofLifeExplorer, a massive phylogenomic dataset for angiosperms that will only continue to grow from this initial release of over 3000 samples!.
We’ve just launched the Kew #TreeofLife Explorer with a vast new public dataset for #angiosperm tree of life research .@KewScience #PAFTOL #phylogenomics #Angiosperms353 #OpenAccess.
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RT @chickpeaman: One week left to apply for our #phdopportunity w/ @gawright47 @OxZooDept & me @KewScience .Evidence for drugs in nectar a….
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Excited to share our phylogenomic study of Pandanales, a charismatic order of monocots that encompasses spectacular morphological diversity and whose evolutionary history had long remained uncertain .@EEB_POC.
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New study on phylogenomics tools for yams that I had the pleasure of working on with an amazing group of collaborators from UBC, UH, Naturalis and Kew.
A customized nuclear target enrichment panel for #phylogenomic studies in #Dioscorea. New research from Soto Gomez (@yam_it_up), Pokorny (@Calyptrochaeta), @FelixForest1, Graham et al in #AppsPlantSci @Darwin2009 @UBCBotany #iamabotanist #Botany
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"My sides are many, my angles aren't few. I'm the Dodecahedron, and who are you?". Nice little article on Plants People Planet on the many faces of plant breeding with @postdocsays et al.
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Dr. Knapp @SandyKnapp, this year's Beaty Biodiversity Lecturer at the University of British Columbia, gave a fascinating and persuasive talk last night about why plant description still matters.
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