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Renner Lab

@RennerLab

We study the evolution of chemical and structural defense in plants and insects.

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Joined July 2020
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SNEAK PEEK! 🥀We're going to be delving into the gruesome world of carnivorous plants and finding out how geneticists are planning to put carnivory genes in our crop plants 🍅 Subscribe now to be the first to listen: geneticsunzipped.com/how-to-…
Photo of sundew plant. Genetic Shop of Horrors. We find out how geneticists are stealing ideas from carnivorous plants to help protect our crops.

ALT Photo of sundew plant. Genetic Shop of Horrors. We find out how geneticists are stealing ideas from carnivorous plants to help protect our crops.

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Our review paper "The digestive systems of carnivorous plants" is now featured in the issue cover of @PlantPhys . Look at this amazing sundew catching damselflies! This spectacular photo was taken by coauthor Andreas Fleischmann.
Plant Physiology (@PlantPhys) profile picturePlant Physiology@PlantPhys1 Sep 2022
The September 2022 issue of Plant Physiology – a Focus Issue on Evolution of Plant Structure and Function -- is now online! @ASPB @OxUniPress academic.oup.com/plphys/issu… #PlantSci
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It was great presenting in-person again this year. More to come on the microbial half next year!
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Jim Tumlinson left us with one last, special article to enjoy and learn from - his autobiography. 🐛 Complex and Beautiful: Unraveling the Intricate Communication Systems Among Plants and Insects annualreviews.org/doi/epdf/1…
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It's out in First Look in @PhytobiomesJ! @hanareiaehau put in a heroic effort to develop disease suppressive phyllosphere micro communities through serial passaging. #phyllosphere #plantdisease @psuPPEM @huckinstitutes @PSUmBiome tinyurl.com/3auewzh5 1/4
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Learn about genome evolution in floral nectar bacteria today at #Evol2022 ⁦@viviannasanchie⁩ is speaking at 5:15 in room 21! Fun collab with ⁦@RennerLab⁩ ⁦@rachelvannette⁩ ⁦
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Review of carnivorous plant digestive systems with @kfuku0502 , @RennerLab , @plantgenomes, and others now fully formatted: doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac2…
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[New Review] We discuss the digestive capacities of carnivorous plants in comparison to those of animals. Congrats to co-first authors @mattfreund5 and Doro, and to great collaborators @GilbertKadeem @RennerLab @plantgenomes and others not on Twitter! academic.oup.com/plphys/adva…
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Image from Kenji Fukushima (福島 健児) (@kfuku0502)
Image from Kenji Fukushima (福島 健児) (@kfuku0502)
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UPDATE: The digestive systems of carnivorous plants @kfuku0502 @GilbertKadeem @RennerLab #PlantSci doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac2…
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An article appearing on the @SmithsonianMag website today quotes @RennerLab of the Huck's Center for Parasitic and Carnivorous Plants: smithsonianmag.com/science-n…
How Carnivorous Plants Evolved

How Carnivorous Plants Evolved

Botanists are beginning to trace the origins of their gruesome appetites

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I am looking to hire a postdoc, see: careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/50…
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psuPPEM@psuPPEM20 Jan 2022
"The project will result in an understanding of how pathogen populations withstand different types of membrane disruption, and in turn, which treatments could be used in combination to mitigate these effects.” — Kevin Hockett, assistant professor of microbial ecology
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USDA grant to support study at Penn State on antimicrobial tolerance in plants psu.ag/3FNGApQ
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Vector Biology position coming very soon at Penn State! Tenure Track- Assistant/Associate Professor
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Yunjia Liu is a grad student in the Huck's Plant Biology program. Her PhD mentor is Tanya Renner (@RennerLab), Assistant Professor of Entomology. huck.psu.edu/plantbio
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So happy for Dr Kelli Hoover and Dr Flor Acevedo, who are being celebrated by @EntsocAmerica for their entomological achievements 💪🏽🤩🪲well deserved! #WomenInSTEM
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National society to recognize two Penn State entomologists | via @penn_state news.psu.edu/story/668789/20…

National society to recognize two Penn State entomologists | Penn State University

Two entomologists in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences will receive prestigious awards from the Entomological Society of America during its 2021 annual meeting Oct. 31 to Nov. 3. Kelli...

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Join us in welcoming Dr. Kadeem Gilbert to KBS as an assistant professor in the @MSUNatSci Department of Plant Biology. Very excited to have Kadeem and the Gilbert Lab here at KBS! More: buff.ly/3s2smfQ @GilbertKadeem
Dr. Kadeem J. Gilbert smiles while holding a Nepenthes mindanaoensis pitcher plant while in the field on Mount Hamiguitan in the Philippines.

ALT Dr. Kadeem J. Gilbert smiles while holding a Nepenthes mindanaoensis pitcher plant while in the field on Mount Hamiguitan in the Philippines.

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Catching up on talks from the morning, and learning about variation in phylloplane pH from @GilbertKadeem- They presented an awesome breadth of work and it is quite thought provoking re: floral pH manipulation. Added academic.oup.com/aobpla/arti… to the reading list!
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This is why I love #Botany2021 - learning about things I would never have considered! @GilbertKadeem is enlightening us on variation and causes of variation in the pH of the phylloplane (leaf surface) across plants. CRAZY COOL! #EcoPhysKids
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Great timing, my latest paper @RennerLab "Acid or base? How do plants regulate the ecology of their phylloplane" is now up in its final fully formatted version: doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plab0…. You can still see the talk I gave on it at #Botany2021 (Abstract 453). Leaf surface pH!

Acid or base? How do plants regulate the ecology of their phylloplane?

Plants alter external environmental conditions in many ways. Well-known is the fact that roots alter the pH of the surrounding soil. However, less apprecia

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We are hiring a postdoc or a PhD student to join our group at the University of Würzburg! Teaming up with @RennerLab and Ulrike Bauer to study the functional surface and digestive physiology of carnivorous plants. Any Qs, please get in touch! dropbox.com/s/m0n1i9un16wu8g…
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