2026 Harvest wrapped up 🌽
Great day in the field #Kenchanmane-Raju lab and #RasmussenLab @carolynplants.bsky.social @ucriverside.bsky.social

Hey #Botany2025 folks,
🎉 The Kenchanmane-Raju Lab @ucriverside.bsky.social is at its first conference together 🎉
Grad students Yuvraj & Minnie are presenting posters on chromatin accessibility 🧬 single-nuclei sequencing 🌽
Curious about our work? Let’s connect!
kenchanmanelab.com

Even more #wcsdb2025 speakers:
Richard Zayas (SDSU)
Sarah Bowling (Stanford)
Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social (UCR)
Thomas Lozito (USC)

And huge thanks to our sponsors @healthcare.nikon.com , @hcrimaging.bsky.social, @parse.bsky.social, and @socdevbio.bsky.social.

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🎉 Big congratulations to Shahan Baker for wrapping up his @ucriverside.bsky.social #NSF_REU summer project in the Kenchanmane-Raju lab under the mentorship of Yuvraj Chopra🌽

Featuring Sunil K. Kenchanmane Raju and Howard S. Judelson. Moderated by Plantae Fellows Malini Muthu Karpagamj, indranik18.bsky.social, and Nathaniel Oragbon.

Hi Fam!
Re-introducing our Co-founder Dr Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social
Since founding @plantpostdocs.bsky.social in 2019, Sunil spent 7 years shaping the community and is now leading his lab @ucriverside.bsky.social
🌱Our leadership team is expanding!
Join us 🔗 in bio!🌸

🌱 Excited to welcome Bridget Bickner to the Kenchanmane-Raju Lab @ucriverside.bsky.social 🎉
Bridget joins us from the @elenakramer.bsky.social and Hopkins Lab @harvard.edu, she’ll focus on developing new model systems to study evolution and plant resilience in a changing climate 🌿

Happy New Year 2026 from the Kenchanmane-Raju Lab🎊 @ucriverside.bsky.social
Wishing everyone peace, prosperity, and plenty of exciting discoveries ahead🌽🖥️🌱
Huge thanks to our incredible team for making 2025 an unforgettable year! #Plant #Science #Discoveries #HappyNewYear2026

A productive day for Kenchanmane-Raju Lab @ucriverside.bsky.social
We just submitted three abstracts to #Botany2025
Excited to share our latest work on comparative transcriptomes, epigenomes, and single-cell transcriptomes in environmental stress responses in grasses🌱📢🌱

Excited to share this @ucriverside.bsky.social CNAS video featuring our work! Our lab explores how environmental responses evolve—cell by cell, species by species—using single-cell and epigenomic tools in crops and their wild relatives.
🎥 youtu.be/8Q0K_3d0K6k
🌱 kenchanmanelab.com

📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on September 26 at 12:00 pm Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱

👉 Free registration at buff.ly/AAtvGQv.

#PlantScience

If you are attending #PlantBio2025 in person, you can also attend the online events.
I encourage you to attend "Fostering Inclusion in Plant Biology," Aug. 13 at 11 AM Eastern time (and recorded).
You can also buy a ticket for just the online event.
plantbiology.aspb.org/plant-biolog...

If you are attending #PlantBiology2025 in person, you can also attend the online events.
We encourage you to attend "Fostering Inclusion in Plant Biology," Aug. 13 at 11 AM Eastern time (and recorded).
You can also buy a ticket for just the online event.
plantbiology.aspb.org/plant-biolog...