Madison Plunkert (she/her)
Evolutionary genetics in monkeyflower. Plant biology PhD student at Michigan State University.
- Proud of MSU 💚🤍 www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/l...
- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)I am looking to hire a postdoc interested in combining genetics and evolution to understand why telomeres vary so much in plants. My group has been developing Mimulus a genetic model for studying plant telomeres and we have really cool research brewing. Please check ad for detail. Deadline is 12/31.
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- Check out our new preprint on monkeyflower salt spray adaptation, with coauthors @pcdurant.bsky.social, Katherine Egeler, and @davidlowry.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Game-changer for evolutionary genetics!
- Excited by this breakthrough work led by Dr. Lauren Stanley (now Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University). Lauren was able to develop for the first time floral dip/spray transformation methods in the yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus). bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)The new #NSF #GRFP application now excludes 1000’s of students, including those who were told they could apply this year, or who planned to apply next year. We have a new specific petition urging #NSFGRFP undo this harmful action. If you are impacted sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
- Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
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- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
- Stop by the community table at Hooked in Lansing tomorrow to speak out for science funding! We'll be there from 9am-2pm.
- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate #MimulusPropaganda up till now: The Moment That Symmetry Breaks. #plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬 w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)We’re hiring for a major role in the US, an investigative journalist to cover what’s happening with science in the US and beyond. This is extremely important territory for us. 🧪 workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795 The Guardian :: Senior Science Investigative Reporter
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- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)Hi #evol2025, our paper came out yesterday and I'd love to chat about it. We used an underused tool for studying parasite local adaptation, the Host Reciprocal Transplant, to study switchgrass and its fungal rust. doi.org/10.1111/nph....
- See my newest op-ed for the Baltimore Sun about how cuts to science funding harm Maryland. Now is the time to call your members of congress to protect the NIH and NSF! www.baltimoresun.com/2025/06/23/a...
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- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net
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- Science funding is not government waste - see my opinion piece in the Lansing State Journal about why cuts to science funding are bad for Michigan. @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/opinio...
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- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)We have a new paper out today, where, among other things, we find evidence that a locally adaptive chromosomal inversion likely trapped an even older inversion along its path to becoming the supergene it is today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely
- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)Join us on Wednesday, March 5, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month features Maya Wilson Brown on Capsella genetic variation and Nomar Waminal on the Crocus panrepeatome! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb
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- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)Hi, scientists. You're seeing what we all are: USAID illegally blown up, 20 yr olds dumping code into the Treasury's seven-trillion-dollar payment system, Senators and House members joining protests at Treasury today... It's a lot. It's a national crisis. What should you do now? 🧵 🧪 1/x
- Many thanks to the MSU PRI for funding this project and supporting Sylvie's and my work! #MimulusPropaganda
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- Yellow monkeyflower in Mammoth Lakes, CA
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- This course is the coolest!
- Seventh edition of Go_Belowground course on practical assessment of moprhological and anatomical traits on belowground organs and their importancy: Go belowground! 2025 klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/go-belowgrou...
- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)There's a super fun story about these spurless Columbines! Pollinators mainly visit flowers for nectar, but these nectarless populations were very stable, and this study found both molecular & biological basis for these supposedly disadvantageous forms. 🧪 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Aquilegia coerulea var. coerulea, the spurless form of our Colorado Blue Columbine syn. Aquilegia coerulea var daileyae, blooming at Reynolds Park #nativeplants. Lacks nectar spurs to reward pollinators. #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 14 🌿
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- Come hear about life history evolution on small spatial scales in monkeyflowers tomorrow in Life History IV! Cool purple rhizomes will make an appearance. #Evol2024
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- So excited to share our review of molecular mechanisms of underground storage organ development! A pleasure working with coauthors who helped this geneticist learn plant morphology: @jesusgm.bsky.social, Yesenia Madrigal, Adriana Hernández, and Carrie Tribble! authors.elsevier.com/a/1j5q04tPF3...
- Reposted by Madison Plunkert (she/her)📣 Introducing 📣 microPublications in Ecology and Evolution! Please help support this effort by spreading the word and submitting and reviewing papers! #evolution 🌎 🌍 🌏 🧪 #PlantScience #conservation
- An extremely cool new paper led by my good friend and mentor Xi Luo! Xi and coauthors showed that two regulators, SIMPLE LEAF1 and SALAD, act independently on the same downstream gene to give a strawberry leaf its separate leaflets and its serrations. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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