Michelle Heeney (she/they)

Teasing apart the intricacies in the field of long-distance mobile mRNAs in plants with the @plamorf team has been fantastic and insightful-- grateful to be able to dive so deeply into these topics with such wonderful and thoughtful scientists

How is robustness maintained during sepal development? Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from @BurdaIsabella, Fridtjof Brauns, Frances Clark, Chun-Biu Li & Adrienne Roeder @Roederlab (@CornellCALS @weillinstitute): journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

It’s just a tiny bottle.. It probably doesn’t smell that bad Tiny Bottle:

Faculty position for a plant synthetic biologist. Come join us in the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell!

Huge congratulations Hannah! I can't wait to know what your group will uncover 🍅

@plamorf So excited to give this a read! Amazing work to everyone involved

📢PLAMORF #PREPRINT: Systemic mRNA transport depends on m5C methylation, nuclear mRNA export factors and developmental phase changes biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #mrna #plantsci #methylation #development #flowering #grafting

I am excited to share that I passed my PhD defense today! This has been my goal since I graduated high school and it feels surreal. #Cornell #PhDone #PhD #Soybean

Arielle Johnson wrote an amazing and very specific dark comedy musical that encapsulates the struggles of pursuing a PhD at an unnamed Ivy Leauge university in upstate NY The Minotaur: A Dark Comedy About Losing Your Mind in Grad School youtu.be/pBw5dFiLpss?si… via @YouTube

Mind-blowing preprint from @Cornell (Michael J. Scanlon) showing multiplexed transcriptomic analysis of a plant embryos with #Xenium, #Visium and #Chromium platforms from @10xGenomics! You can find it here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #plantresearch #arabidopsis #zeamays #maize

Hi all - the Nelson lab is looking for a post-doc to work on a collaborative project with the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems at Cornell. See the link for details and please forward! recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Job…

The transcription factor ATML1 maintains giant cell identity by inducing synthesis of its own (very) long-chain fatty acid-containing ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

So my @NEBiolabs RNA poster came and I feel like they're reading my mind..

@wbmei @RoederLab @Margare41291282 Thank you, Wenbin, you are one of the many people who helped me get here! I have used so many of the skills you've taught me!

@havingfern @RoederLab @Margare41291282 Big congrats @havingfern

Get yourself a group this wonderful!! I passed my qualifying exam and it's because of all of these people and so many more not pictured. Feeling very grateful ☺️

For people who are unable to reconstruct 😉

I'm having an art show! This will focus on my 35mm film photography and I would be delighted if Ithacans and Cornellians alike could make it.

@nathanbstutzman I used Photoshop to draw and then Illustrator to bring the pieces together. I did this all on the trackpad of my laptop, which I would *not* recommend. The biggest help was really having a friend with a strong background in anatomy.

@havingfern Wow, the details in these figures are awesome. Would love to know more about how (tools, approached, etc) you accomplished this!

I am so excited to share these anatomical, scientific illustrations I made for my paper! You can see how I used them in Heeney and Frank, 2023 The Plant Cell! #planttwitter #resource #scienceart #plantbiology

Wonderful list of PAID summer research opportunities for undergraduate students!! Share with any undergrads you know💯 rootandshoot.org/summer-2024-un…

New #Bryceless PhD candidate just dropped! (my first pancake passed his A exam) Bryce: I am so proud of you, and so grateful to have you in our lab. You make our science, and our lives, better. Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate! @CornellCALS gif credit: @havingfern