Charlie Anderson
@candersonlab.bsky.social
Husband. Dad. Plant cell biologist working on solutions for a sustainable future. Striving to effect positive change. Triathlete. Musician. Views are my own.
Less than two weeks to apply for a tenure-track faculty position in plant biology in the amazing Biology Department at Penn State! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Plant Biology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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August 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Less than two weeks to apply for a tenure-track faculty position in plant biology in the amazing Biology Department at Penn State! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
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Latest episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast!
It was a wonderful discussion with Venky about his recently published paper @plantphys.bsky.social on root hair & mechanical stress.
Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/4Mhh...
Article: academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
It was a wonderful discussion with Venky about his recently published paper @plantphys.bsky.social on root hair & mechanical stress.
Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/4Mhh...
Article: academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
July 25, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Latest episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast!
It was a wonderful discussion with Venky about his recently published paper @plantphys.bsky.social on root hair & mechanical stress.
Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/4Mhh...
Article: academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
It was a wonderful discussion with Venky about his recently published paper @plantphys.bsky.social on root hair & mechanical stress.
Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/4Mhh...
Article: academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
Excited to learn new science and connect with science friends in Ottawa at #PlantBio2026!
July 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Excited to learn new science and connect with science friends in Ottawa at #PlantBio2026!
Happy 50th Birthday to Shaver's Creek Environmental Center, from me and a few of the animals we saw there this afternoon: a bright eastern bluebird, a sweet fawn, and a proud pileated woodpecker! @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
May 24, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Happy 50th Birthday to Shaver's Creek Environmental Center, from me and a few of the animals we saw there this afternoon: a bright eastern bluebird, a sweet fawn, and a proud pileated woodpecker! @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
Looking forward to connecting, learning, brainstorming, and developing plans for action at the Penn State Climate Solutions Symposium - Partners for a Resilient Pennsylvania and the World! #pennstate #climateaction
May 18, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Looking forward to connecting, learning, brainstorming, and developing plans for action at the Penn State Climate Solutions Symposium - Partners for a Resilient Pennsylvania and the World! #pennstate #climateaction
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Peer review crisis — this seems to make sense: A transparent universal credit system to incentivize peer review
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May 14, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Peer review crisis — this seems to make sense: A transparent universal credit system to incentivize peer review
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Penn State Biology is hiring! We have an opening for a tenure-line faculty position in plant biology - if you'd like to pursue awesome science in a supportive and interdisciplinary community of researchers, consider applying! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Plant Biology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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April 30, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Penn State Biology is hiring! We have an opening for a tenure-line faculty position in plant biology - if you'd like to pursue awesome science in a supportive and interdisciplinary community of researchers, consider applying! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
Mentees sometimes ask "how many peer review assignments should I take on per year?", and I share good advice I got from Andrew Read: review around three times as many articles as you want to publish per year, since editors typically ask for three reviewers per article. Sounds logical to me!✍️🧠👨🎓
April 22, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Mentees sometimes ask "how many peer review assignments should I take on per year?", and I share good advice I got from Andrew Read: review around three times as many articles as you want to publish per year, since editors typically ask for three reviewers per article. Sounds logical to me!✍️🧠👨🎓
Check out this wonderful 90 second video highlighting our group's research and teaching in the Penn State Eberly College of Science - a big thank you to Michelle Bixby and the ECOS communications office! #PlantCellWalls 🪴 🔬 🤓 www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Dd...
Faculty in 90- Charles Anderson
YouTube video by Penn State Eberly College of Science
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February 13, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Check out this wonderful 90 second video highlighting our group's research and teaching in the Penn State Eberly College of Science - a big thank you to Michelle Bixby and the ECOS communications office! #PlantCellWalls 🪴 🔬 🤓 www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Dd...
Mushrooms - they're not just tasty and nutritious, but can also make woody biomass more digestible! Thrilled that this work, spearheaded by undergrad Hannah Klatte and brought to publication by Niroshan Siva, in collab with Swathi Kothattil and John Pecchia, is out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Sequential cultivation of oyster and shiitake mushrooms on willow enhances biomass degradability - Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
Natural or man-made catastrophes, such as asteroid strikes, super-volcano eruptions, or nuclear war, could create environments with low sunlight and temperatures, severely disrupting agriculture and r...
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January 26, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Mushrooms - they're not just tasty and nutritious, but can also make woody biomass more digestible! Thrilled that this work, spearheaded by undergrad Hannah Klatte and brought to publication by Niroshan Siva, in collab with Swathi Kothattil and John Pecchia, is out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) wishes you a Happy New Year - here's to being courageous, colorful, and kind in 2026!
January 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM
This keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) wishes you a Happy New Year - here's to being courageous, colorful, and kind in 2026!
Today I am contemplating cacti: resilient, prickly, and alluring. Here's a lovely example from the Phipps Conservatory, a gem in the heart of Pittsburgh.
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Today I am contemplating cacti: resilient, prickly, and alluring. Here's a lovely example from the Phipps Conservatory, a gem in the heart of Pittsburgh.
Are you interested in pursuing groundbreaking research and gaining world-class training in plant biology in a supportive community amidst the beauty of Happy Valley? Consider applying to the the Plant Biology PhD Program! Applications due December 1: www.huck.psu.edu/graduate-pro...
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Are you interested in pursuing groundbreaking research and gaining world-class training in plant biology in a supportive community amidst the beauty of Happy Valley? Consider applying to the the Plant Biology PhD Program! Applications due December 1: www.huck.psu.edu/graduate-pro...
Really nice story by Amber Dance about the dynamic nature of the plant cell wall! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular cross talk help in creating better crops?
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October 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Really nice story by Amber Dance about the dynamic nature of the plant cell wall! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Penn State Biology is hiring! We have an opening for a tenure-line faculty position in neurobiology - if you'd like to pursue awesome science in a supportive and interdisciplinary community of biologists, consider applying! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Neurobiology Tenure Track Faculty Position
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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September 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Penn State Biology is hiring! We have an opening for a tenure-line faculty position in neurobiology - if you'd like to pursue awesome science in a supportive and interdisciplinary community of biologists, consider applying! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
It took me a while to track down a photo, but I'm very proud of Leila Jaafar for defending her PhD thesis on stomatal biomechanics and cell walls! Leila is off to make amazing bean plants in her postdoc, with one of my former postdocs (aka I am old!) 😆
July 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It took me a while to track down a photo, but I'm very proud of Leila Jaafar for defending her PhD thesis on stomatal biomechanics and cell walls! Leila is off to make amazing bean plants in her postdoc, with one of my former postdocs (aka I am old!) 😆
Want to learn about how to translate your awesome plant science into everyday impacts? Come to our workshop at Plant Biology 2025, From Seed to Tree: How Policy Can Help Plant Science Discoveries Grow into Companies in the Emerging Bioeconomy, 11:15-12:45 on Tuesday July 29 in 203AB!
July 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Want to learn about how to translate your awesome plant science into everyday impacts? Come to our workshop at Plant Biology 2025, From Seed to Tree: How Policy Can Help Plant Science Discoveries Grow into Companies in the Emerging Bioeconomy, 11:15-12:45 on Tuesday July 29 in 203AB!
Seeds that are spread by drones in reforestation projects often die - we're exploring new strategies to help them survive and thrive! Kudos to Anuleka Dutta in my group for writing this blog piece, and to Kevin Sliman at @ieepennstate.bsky.social for editing.
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Why drone-planted forests can struggle to take root—and a nature-inspired solution
As deforestation accelerates, reforestation efforts face a major hurdle: most scattered seeds don’t survive. New bio-inspired research is developing natural seed coatings to help seeds withstand tough...
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May 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Seeds that are spread by drones in reforestation projects often die - we're exploring new strategies to help them survive and thrive! Kudos to Anuleka Dutta in my group for writing this blog piece, and to Kevin Sliman at @ieepennstate.bsky.social for editing.
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Proud to be attending Penn State's Climate Solutions Symposium, featuring keynote speaker Nemonte Nenquimo (on right), who has helped protect the Amazon rainforest from destruction; acting together with courage and kindness, we can build a better future for everyone.
May 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Proud to be attending Penn State's Climate Solutions Symposium, featuring keynote speaker Nemonte Nenquimo (on right), who has helped protect the Amazon rainforest from destruction; acting together with courage and kindness, we can build a better future for everyone.
Congratulations to Alec Paradiso on graduating with a combined undergraduate and masters degree in Biotechnology! Alec co-authored multiple papers in my lab, always with a smile. Best of luck to Alec as he embarks on the next stage of his scientific career at Moderna!
May 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Congratulations to Alec Paradiso on graduating with a combined undergraduate and masters degree in Biotechnology! Alec co-authored multiple papers in my lab, always with a smile. Best of luck to Alec as he embarks on the next stage of his scientific career at Moderna!
Very proud of Quentin Hays on the successful defense of his PhD thesis - solving some of the mysteries of Rhamnogalacturonan-II, a beautifully complex pectic polysaccharide! Here he is between his co-advisor, Arnaud Lehner, and me at GlycoMEV at the University of Rouen.
May 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Very proud of Quentin Hays on the successful defense of his PhD thesis - solving some of the mysteries of Rhamnogalacturonan-II, a beautifully complex pectic polysaccharide! Here he is between his co-advisor, Arnaud Lehner, and me at GlycoMEV at the University of Rouen.
Thrilled to share that as of July 1 I'll be chairing Penn State's Plant Biology graduate program - I'm grateful to Teh-hui Kao for guiding the program over the last 26 (!) years, and look forward to supporting learning and discovery for our future leaders in plant biology!
March 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Thrilled to share that as of July 1 I'll be chairing Penn State's Plant Biology graduate program - I'm grateful to Teh-hui Kao for guiding the program over the last 26 (!) years, and look forward to supporting learning and discovery for our future leaders in plant biology!
I'm standing up for science today! #standupforscience
March 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I'm standing up for science today! #standupforscience
📣 Scientists and supporters of science: here's an opportunity to make our collective voice heard! #standupforscience rallies on March 7: standupforscience2025.org
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
March 7, 2025. Washington DC and Nationwide. Because Science is for everyone.
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February 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
📣 Scientists and supporters of science: here's an opportunity to make our collective voice heard! #standupforscience rallies on March 7: standupforscience2025.org
My brother Dan (also a cell biologist) and I co-wrote a piece about the importance of funding scientific research - check it out! medium.com/@danieljames...
Scientific research has vastly improved Americans’ health and prosperity — reducing funding now…
Charles T. Anderson, PhD and Daniel J. Anderson, PhD
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February 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
My brother Dan (also a cell biologist) and I co-wrote a piece about the importance of funding scientific research - check it out! medium.com/@danieljames...