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Thu Tran

@Thumaize

Ph.D. @Mizzou Braun lab, carbohydrate partitioning. Postdoc @CSHL Jackson lab, inflorescence meristem development. Maize lover 🌽Enthusiastic runner🏃‍♂️

 Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Joined February 2016
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NEWS & VIEWS: Balancing sweetness: regulatory insights into sugar accumulation in peach fruit (Saadia Bihmidine , Thu M Tran) doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf2… @sbihmidine @ASPB #PlantSci
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Congrats to @CaixiaGaoLab on being elected an EMBO Associate Member!!! 🥳🥳🥳 What a great recognition for her accomplishments in plant genetics and biotechnology! 🧬🌾🌱 embo.org/press-releases/outs…
Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO

Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO

Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

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First paper retracted in string of studies using the wrong medication name. retractionwatch.com/2024/09/…
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It’s National Postdoc Appreciation Week! Shout out to all of our incredible postdocs for their hard work and dedication to science. Here are some of our postdocs and their areas of study. Thank you to @amitava_immuno, @PalitShirsa, @jon_cahn, Minakshi, @Thumaize, Ankur, and Prabha!
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Our development symposium at @ASPB #plantbiology2024 is starting at 3:45 pm! Come join us. If you're attending, do share your experience.
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The Editorial Board of @PlantPhys is together ahead of #PlantBio2024 to discuss image manipulation, global #plantscience research, preparing for an OA future, and to hear from Editor-in-Chief @YundeZhao
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NEWS & VIEWS: Trehalose or Not-Trehalose: The Question of Direct vs. Indirect Transcriptional Responses to the sugar trehalose-6-phosphate (Thu M Tran, Kyle W Swentowsky) buff.ly/3yLFfCk @Kswentowsky @ASPB #PlantSci
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Thrilled to share that our genome-edited wheat was just approved by Chinese regulators and granted a biosafety certificate! We edited four cuts, resulting in three gene knockouts and a ~403kb deletion(!) to generate disease resistance with enhanced yields moa.gov.cn/ztzl/zjyqwgz/spxx…
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NEWS & VIEWS: Unlocking the Secret of Fruit Size: Tomato FW2.2/CNR Regulates Fruit Size via Plasmodesmata Callose Deposition (Thu M Tran, Kumari Billakurthi) buff.ly/4blyk0u @ASPB #PlantSci
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Come check out our Career Development Workshop featuring four amazing members of the Maize Genetics community! Huge thanks to @Thumaize, @Manwinder_97 and the @CoopMaize Membership Committee for putting this together for the third iteration. Register here: iastate.qualtrics.com/jfe/fo…
MaizeGeneticsCoop (@CoopMaize) profile pictureMaizeGeneticsCoop@CoopMaize16 Apr 2024
The MGC is hosting a Career Development Workshop on Monday May 6th, 2024 for MGC members! Registration is required, see below for more information.
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Great to see my PhD advisor Mike Freeling again, along with so many of the other amazing scientists he trained in his fifty years as a professor here in Berkeley.
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It's that time of the year! Our FREE VIRTUAL Coding Camp is back! Do you know a high school science enthusiast (grades 8-12) who is interested in learning Python? Encourage them to apply by March 22nd.
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We are currently recruiting for our annual FREE virtual Youth Coding Camp with WiSE at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory! This camp is designed for high school science enthusiasts (grades 8-12) who are interested in computer programming. Apply here: forms.gle/s8ShEGz2wR9RSNXH6
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My PhD advisor trained 76 PhD students and postdocs in his first 35 years as a professor. Seventy. Six.
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MaizeGDB@MaizeGDB24 Oct 2023
Registration is now open for the 66th Annual Maize Genetics Meeting from Feb 29 - Mar 3, 2024 in Raleigh, NC. Note that abstract deadlines are earlier than usual: Dec 22, 2023. maizegdb.org/mgc/maizemeetin…
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Study AI-driven plant phenotyping and develop highly in-demand skills while making $80-90,000/year as a postdoc with Jacob Washburn in Columbia, MO USA. Open to both US citizen and non-US citizens. Link in alt-text.
Link to apply: https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/USDA-ARS-SCINet-2023-0424

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Intercellular Communication in Plants: The Long and Short of It Plenary overview by plenary Chairs, Sessen D. Iohannes @SessenDaniel) and Matias F. Gleason (@GleasonMatias) happening now! #PlantBio2023 @CSHLsbs @CSHL_WiSE @ASPB_ARN
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The Jackson lab on Broadway, getting fired up for field season
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72 years ago today, Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock submitted her discovery of transposons, also known as "jumping genes" which cause the purple spots and streaks on corn kernels.
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Plz RT. Want to learn about “use-inspired” research? Interested in careers in or collaborations with industry or government? Then check out: Building Bridges to Use-Inspired Research and Science-Informed Practices Workshop eventform.plantae.org/planta…
Building Bridges to Use-Inspired Research and Science-Informed Practices Workshop

Building Bridges to Use-Inspired Research and Science-Informed Practices Workshop

We are delighted to invite you to participate in an NSF-sponsored workshop series that aims to build stronger connections among academic, private, and governmen

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CSHL biologists are working to crack the genetic code that allows perennial plants to survive the winters & come back each year. This code could allow biologists to breed perennial traits into crops like corn to address #climatechange and #globalhunger. cshl.edu/?p=63463&preview=1&…
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