Bassham lab

High school science bowl.

Fun fact: My dog Texas is in the photo with me. I love taking him on trips and exploring new places together.

New lab member: Ananya Pandravada. I am an undergraduate biology student at Iowa State University interested in plant genomics, plant stress biology, and crop improvement.

By bridging our fundamental research in Arabidopsis with crop physiology in maize, I’m uncovering how the mother plant’s internal recycling system, maternal autophagy, is the primary driver of grain yield and seed quality.

New lab member profile: Xia Wan, postdoctoral fellow. As a Postdoc in the Bassham Lab, I study how autophagy (cellular recycling) powers plant growth and reproduction.

Please RT‼️@meo0205 & us are looking for a #postdoc to explore #regeneration & #autophagy across kingdoms of life.Please spread the word & get in touch if interested. health-life-sciences.de/opportunities/…

It will be fun!

On this day in 1969, the Queen took to the skies for the first time. The Boeing 747 launched the era of the jumbo jet and changed air travel forever. Have you flown on the Queen of the Skies?

Cool postdoc opportunity.

Join us in Montpellier in July.

@cholubaz Looking like great performance. Question is, could I get the airplane out and started before either the plane or I freeze up?

Some pretty amazing Density Altitude today in Chicago

Congratulations to James C. Schnable (@szintri) of @UNLincoln, winner of the 2026 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences for breakthroughs in plant genomics and quantitative #genetics that are reshaping modern agriculture! nasonline.org/award/nas-priz… #NASaward @FoundationFAR

@Ana_CanoDelgado Congrats Ana!

Happy to share!! 🌱

@MCCCANM I’m actually impressed. I don’t think my husband even knows where his hat is any more.

Back to airlines… I hate the hat. You know the one, the “bus driver” or “wheel cap” hat. 50 years old is not far away, I have a full head of hair & it’s not grey…I like to show it. The military / my family also taught me we don’t wear hats inside, and that’s a tougher habit to break than you might think. So, I “forget” the hat in my car. Not needed. The uniform is full of little markers that I’m a pilot…at some point it’s all overkill & silly. Like a North Korean General covered in medals. However… This trip back east – where the temperature in EWR is 26° w/ a wind chill of 10° – called for wearing our new uniform “Tech Jacket”. It’s almost like a trench coat, nearly down to my knees, and has no markings on it at all. Just very dark, midnight blue. The collar stands up & has a hood zipped inside. Very warm. To my surprise, I like it. Sorry, no pictures of me, but friends…I have found a uniform combo where I’m happy to wear the hat. The brim is pulled down low, not tilted up. You can smile & not look aggressive this way, but tilting it up looks goofy, like it’s party time. When there are not an abundance of other markers of your position, the hat makes sense & works…it’s not a peacock thing. So…the trench with just a bit of tie showing & the hat is a perfect combo. It is, so far, the only time I’ve found that I don’t hate the hat.

@christen_rexing Hoping for a better 2026 for all of us.

Happy Thursday & Happy New Year! 2025 was terrible, it ended with a friend suffering a horrible tragedy. I’m holding them in my heart. Let’s hope 2026 is a year of new beginnings & the gentleness that we all deserve. Wishing ease, love, & joy to you.

@CaliJ98 It’s a holiday, just not called Boxing Day.

Just discovered Americans don’t have Boxing Day….its not even a holiday? Truly a backwards nation

@szintri Dang

Regents voted. I work at a university that will no longer have Statistics.

@PracheeAC Same. Problem for another year though.

January me is gonna be so pissed about all this circling back I’m committing to

@jzux Nope, still too cold.

does anyone else feel like airplanes used to be really cold and now they’re always a little too warm

@ladymufon @biggabreakfast1 @Met4CastUK @UKWX_ @StormchaserUKEU @UKsnow_updates @Netweather @BBCWthrWatchers No way. I grew up there.

@biggabreakfast1 @Met4CastUK @UKWX_ @StormchaserUKEU @UKsnow_updates @Netweather @BBCWthrWatchers Thorngumbald. It’s sticking to cars, grass, leaves.. but that’s it so far.

I live on the East coast of Yorkshire.. and we have snow, in November! A sign of things to come?🤞🏽❄️☃️🥶🩵