Katie Murphy, PhD
Director of Phenotyping & Principal Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
- New paper - build a Raspberry Pi phenotyping chamber for imaging and temperature sensing! Thanks to Malia Gehan and her team for leading this work. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Don't want to set up your own chamber? We offer Raspberry Pi imaging in our Phenotyping Core Facility as a service for academic and industry researchers!
- Applications open now for our Pivot 2 Plants program! Please share widely, 1 year paid opportunity to transition to careers in plant and data science. www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDCongratulations to Danforth Center Associate Member Tessa Burch-Smith! 🎉 She will become President of American Society of Plant Biologists in October of this year.
- 📣Congratulations to our incoming President-elect, Tessa Burch-Smith, and Elected Member of the Board of Directors, Patricia León! Tessa and Patricia will begin their next cycles of service to ASPB on October 1, 2025. #PlantScience #WeAreASPB
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhD💐 Stop and smell the science! Our #BioanalyticalChemistryFacility is featured in the new #SmellingtheBouquet: Plants and Scents in the Garden exhibition at @mobotmuseum.bsky.social! Follow your nose to @mobotgarden.bsky.social to discover how plants’ scents influence insects, ecosystems, & people!
- I am excited to emcee this event - join us, it's FREE and the science is great!
- 🧠🌍 May 15: Join @DanforthCenter for Conversations: BIG IDEAS—where scientists pitch solutions to real-world challenges & YOU vote! Free & open to the public. 🕔 5:15 PM Reception | 🕕 6 PM Program Register: www.danforthcenter.org/event/conver... #BigIdeas
- We are lucky to have Russell as a colleague! The Bioanalytical Chemistry Facility works with both internal and external users - get your metabolite and proteomics analyses done here.
- An undergrad research project analyzing alkaloids in native prairie plants sparked a permanent plant chemistry fascination in Russell Williams, PhD. Now director of our Bioanalytical Chemistry Facility, he delivers crucial data to scientists at the Danforth Center & beyond. loom.ly/nPv8cmU
- Tess has been an awesome addition to our team, I am proud to be a co-PI on this great training program!
- Introducing the 2025 Pivot to Plants cohort! The Pivot to Plants fellowship program provides hands-on research experience for professionals who are eager to transition to the plant, data, and life sciences. Meet the fellows: loom.ly/TFCXdyg
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDThis is a devastating and essential read. Here is a gift link for those without subs. The part about outside perceptions of scientists compared with almost a blue-collar reality is spot on (without even mentioning meager salaries). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
- Great summary - please share www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDOur newest PlantCV Quarterly Newsletter is here, with great updates and highlights! Check it out, and subscribe to get it in your inbox: preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDThe PlantTech Jam is a FREE hands-on science, tinkering, and robotics fun for the whole family. This is an interactive event with a tour of Danforth Center scientific facilities & prairie. #PlantTechJam loom.ly/bSnbPtY
- New paper from my team! Set up your own cost-effective photo studio to easily capture, label, and transfer images, then analyze those images in @plantcv.bsky.social ! Video protocol coming soon. app.jove.com/t/67619/imag...
- New paper alert! We found huge oil droplets in the guard cells of a high oil tobacco variety. The stomata of these tobacco plants have a smaller aperture, which increases leaf temperature and decreases transpiration. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- We also share new tutorials for analysis of thermal (FLIR) images and microscopy images of stomata in @plantcv.bsky.social . Thank to my amazing postdoc advisors, Malia Gehan and Doug Allen, and all the authors who contributed to this work!
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDThe 2025 maize genetics meeting is over. Looking forward to having the 2026 maize meeting from Feb 26 to March 1 in Cologne (Köln), Germany 🇩🇪. Please already mark your calendars. #MGM2025 > #MGM2026.
- I'm honored #STLMade profiled me and our Phenotyping Facility! I'm proud to work and live in St. Louis, and represent the great work our team is doing at the Danforth Center.
- Meet @kmurphyphd.bsky.social, our Director of Phenotyping, 2025 #NAPPN Early Career Award winner, mentor to the next generation of plant scientists, & proud advocate for the #STL innovation community 🌱 Get to know her in this new video via #STLMade: thestl.com/work/seeding...
- A huge congrats to Erin for winning the Maize Genetics Early Career Award! We are lucky to have the Erin joining @danforthcenter.bsky.social this summer as a joint faculty member.
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDSome of my postdoc work has been "exposed" today in @theplantjournal.bsky.social! 😁🎉🔬 We developed ExPOSE - a method to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. Here's a quick🧵of the details: @meter76.bsky.social @lily-oconnor.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Congrats @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social , his expansion microscopy method is a big deal folks!
- Big paper out from @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social! source.washu.edu/2025/03/brin...
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDOn #InternationalWomensDay, nominate a female scientist for the next FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award. Deadline is 15 May 2025: www.embo.org/the-embo-com... #WomeninScience #ForAllWomenAndGirls 🧪
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDWomen in research need the credit & recognition they deserve for the amazing contributions they make. Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science are open for applications - take a look 👇🏻 & help spread the word #WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪 @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/in...
- Thank you to the Maize Genetics Meeting - yesterday we had an advocacy session, followed by Stand Up for Science walk-out. We are missing our USDA colleagues, who were not allowed to attend the meeting!
- Can't wait for our field trip to the Sachs Museum tomorrow for the Maize Genetics Meeting!
- #KernelsOfCulture #MaizeAroundTheWorld 🌽🖼️: Andi Kur Welcome to the Maize Genetics Meeting attendees in St. Louis right now! Thanks to scientists Dr. Sherry Flint-Garcia and @kmurphyphd.bsky.social for their generous contributions to the exhibition @mobotmuseum.bsky.social @mobotgarden.bsky.social
- Thank you to the speakers, moderators, and attendees (in-person and virtual) of NAPPN Annual Meeting 2025! I've been inspired by great new technologies, applications, and stellar trainee presentations this week. 🌱
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhD~290 participants at our Annual @nappn.bsky.social meeting this year! This is a virtual conference with in-person activities at several 'hub' sites @danforthcenter.bsky.social, MSU, Winnepeg/Manitoba, NCSU, UMN, and Corteva. #CelebrateScience @noahfahlgren.bsky.social @kmurphyphd.bsky.social
- We are HIRING! Join us as a Data Scientist or Postdoc working on geospatial (UAV/satellite) analysis and PlantCV development. See details in the job ads. www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p... www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDMeet the Danforth Center’s next President! We’re thrilled to welcome world-renowned plant geneticist @gilesoldroyd.bsky.social to the Danforth Center this October.
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDIt's Black History Month and I'm excited to bring another edition of "28 Days, 28 Black Botanists" - now posted as a blog on Plantae! Thanks to @aspbofficial.bsky.social for continuing to support this fun tradition of mine! 💪🏾👨🏾🔬🌻🌱 plantae.org/2025-black-h...
- Darwin's orchid at the @mobotgarden.bsky.social (check out the orchid show this month)! The long light green piece (center) is the nectar tube, he hypothesized a long-tongued insect must exist to pollinate. The moth was discovered many years later.
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhD🎉 Advanced Bioimaging Laboratory Manager Anastasiya (Nastia) Klebanovych, PhD, received two awards in @bioimagingna.bsky.social’s 2024 Image Contest! Her quinoa pollen grain image won second place & her hellebore pollen grain earned an honorable mention. Congrats, Nastia!
- Registration for the Danforth Center NAPPN Conference Hub closes TONIGHT! We are also hosting a FREE PlantCV workshop and FREE Bioinformatics and Beers event that week. Join us!
- It's pheno time! Join us for NAPPN Annual Meeting, virtual or at an in-person hub. We're excited to host a Danforth Center hub with additional activities, space is limited at the hub so register now! www.plantphenotyping.org/conference-h...
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhD#TransposableElements A Homage to Barbara McClintock and Hopi Zea mays, artwork series by Megan Singleton in #KernelsOfCulture #MaizeAroundTheWorld This artwork commission is sponsored by Nancy Ridenour. megansingleton.com Pix: Hopi Purple and Hopi Turquoise photograph series and art book
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDEver seen a pearl encrusted corn cob? If not, it's your lucky day! ☺🌽 This uniquely creative piece by gem artist, John Hatleberg is now viewable in the Kernels of Culture exhibition open now through March 31st at 📍 @mobotmuseum.bsky.social! 📸 Virginia Harold #MOBOTGarden
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDHave you ever seen a maize-inspired wedding ring? 💍🌽 Visit our 📍 @mobotmuseum.bsky.social to view and learn more of this interesting piece in the Kernels of Culture exhibition open now through March 31! 📸 Virginia Harold #MOBOTGarden
- NAPPN Abstracts are due TODAY! Register for the virtual conference, and check out the in-person hubs available. www.plantphenotyping.org/virtual-regi...
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDA brief #Cornfax. And since I've been lazy with my #cornfax, let's talk about lazy corn. Lazy corn is, well, a pretty apt description. Unlike the corn on the left which stands tall and proud, the lazy corn just lies on the ground. It doesn't grow straight. So what's up (or not up in this case)? 1/4
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- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDThis gorgeous Pearl Corn Cob was designed and created by jewelry artist John Nels Hatleberg. Made from historic Peruvian pearls, opals, 24K gold leaf, 18K gold wire (ca. 2024) and on view in #KernelsOfCulture #MaizeAroundTheWorld @mobotmuseum.bsky.social. More on the artist www.johnhatleberg.com
- It's pheno time! Join us for NAPPN Annual Meeting, virtual or at an in-person hub. We're excited to host a Danforth Center hub with additional activities, space is limited at the hub so register now! www.plantphenotyping.org/conference-h...
- Reposted by Katie Murphy, PhDLooking for some music to warm you up! Check out the recording of this wonderful Andean concert up on @mobotgarden.bsky.social's YouTube @mobotmuseum.bsky.social playlist now! youtu.be/E9O4B41s_fs?...
- Mark your calendars! Intillajata performs @mobotmuseum September 21! 🌽 "Harmonies of the Andes" by Intillajata Andean Ensemble | Saturday, September 21 at 11am and 1pm Immerse yourself in the mesmerizing melodies of Quechua and Aymara origin 🏔️ www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/sachs-museum...
