Meng Lu

On my way to the fascinating unknown world. 🌿Evolutionary biology PhD student @SBSatEd @DarwinTrustOfEd🌿 Plant lover & nature enthusiast

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

Many thanks for such a nice intro of me 😊

[Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh @TheBotanics]

Meng Lu is a working on a PhD to evaluate the extent and consequences of natural hybridisation in British native plants. She’s interested in plant evolution and diversification and has travelled all over the world in this pursuit of knowledge.

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

A GREAT lab fieldwork day 🌿👀with some enthusiastic duck learners 🦆

Thank you so much @alex_twyford, @YanqianD, @edavies_4, Grace, Emily, Brianna, and Beth for making this day special! 🌟

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

So delighted to hear all the brilliant questions from our undergrad participants! Yay love for plants🌿💚🌳

[Gatsby Plant Science Education Programme @GatsbyPlantScEd]

Tonight’s #GPSSS23 Next Steps Panel sharing PhD experiences:
(L-R)

🌱Katie Long - @JohnInnesCentre

🌱@anoop333pathi - @plantsci

🌱Meng Lu (@Bio_Stars) - @TheBotanics & @SBSatEd

🌱Arran Horne - @UofGlasgow

🌱Stephanie Smith - @CENTA_Team

Any advice for our undergrads?
👇👇👇

[Alex Twyford @alex_twyford]

I'm advertising a @darwintreelife postdoc to work at @EdinburghUni @SBSatEd on comparative #plant genomics! 16 months to use chromosomal level genome assemblies to investigate genomic diversity in British native flowering plants. Collab with @RBGE_Science. 🌲☘️🌼 Please RT.

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

Collecting for the Plant ID session this afternoon! @GatsbyPlantScEd

[Gatsby Plant Science Education Programme @GatsbyPlantScEd]

The GPSSS wouldn't be the same without the awesome practical sessions!

Leading the Plant Systematics & ID practical is @jen_farrar, @milneorchid & Meng Lu (@SBSatEd).
🔎🪻
FYI Meng has an awesome blog about her journey into a plant science PhD: https://t.co/L37o4pCxMw
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[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

The first 🌿plant day🌿 of Field Ecology! Hooray!!! @SBSatEd

In my eyes (as a demonstrator), our enthusiastic undergrads were like ↓

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

After a whole day of SNP calling, I was just preparing dinner, opened the oven, and told my partner: “Put the quiche on this level.”

He looked at me, lovingly, and then said: “You just told me to put the quiche on this directory.”

Me: lol

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

Wholeheartedly agree!!
His views on evolution, the magic of superior nature, and the despicable poaching...
His voice is full of great passion and admiration to plant; LOVE this vid
「This Tiny Succulent Will Teach You How Plants Evolve https://t.co/dIgAgL4CKo via @YouTube」

[Matthew Hartfield @mathyhartfield]

Job alert! I was recently awarded an ERC Consolidator grant and I will soon be advertising a post-doc to investigate the maintenance of genetic variation in self-fertilising species, to be based @SBSatEd. Interested? Feel free to DM or email me!

[Darwin Tree of Life Project @darwintreelife]

📣 Work in #genomics? Will you peer review our #GenomeNote publications @WellcomeOpenRes?

With 70,000 species coming, we need plenty of help. And it's ideal for early careers or PhD researchers getting started with #peerreview 📑

Sign up via this form 🔽
https://t.co/hB3m6WufBO

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

So excited that our paper got included in Feb highlights 😊 many thanks to all of my coauthors @FraderaSoler @FelixForest1 @TimBarraclough9 @ol1grace and my Kew’s colleagues who helped on this project again @Paul_Rees_ @aurelie_grall 💚 (photo: Crassula rupestris at Kew)

[Botanical Society of America @Botanical_]

The latest #AJB is now online---so check out these issue highlights! https://t.co/pXqBjSTzff #botany #genetics #climatechange #evolution #moss @wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol @Bio_Stars @FraderaSoler @FelixForest1 @TimBarraclough9 @ol1grace @icyjava @DSchiedea

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

@BenKuhnhaeuser @OxfordEnvRes @KewScience @BillJBaker @Chomicki_G @SidonieBellot @w_eiserhardt BIG congrats to you Ben!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎊🎉🎈

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

It’s so great to see my master thesis project published! Millions of thanks to all my coauthors, my colleagues at Kew, the whole AJB team, and reviewers for their invaluable help and support!!🌿🌵🌱

(Photo: Crassula pyramidalis at RBG Kew, living collection)

[Botanical Society of America @Botanical_]

Evidence linking life-form to a major shift in diversification rate in #Crassula (new #AJB research by @Bio_Stars, @FraderaSoler, @FelixForest1, @TimBarraclough9 & @ol1grace) https://t.co/4fFYVsKDPt #botany #Crassulaceae #evolution @wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol

[Darwin Trust of Edinburgh @DarwinTrustOfEd]

We brought back our Darwin Trust socials since the pandemic. Our students had the chance to have some food and fun. There was so much inclusion and diversity in the room 🥳!

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

@botAna_Bedoya @NewPhyt Big congratulations to you Ana !!!🎉 So happy for you❤️❤️❤️ (sorry for this super late reply - haven’t been on Twitter for a while)

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

@alex_twyford I didn’t know they’re already flowering 😲

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

Great excitement in running into the elegant living expression of my sequence data 🌿🧬👀😍
#wateravens #geumrivale

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

A great 6-day workshop by @edgenome on Intro to Python! 🐍
It was so helpful, enjoyable and informative - really taught me to start to think like a disciplined programmer.
Many thanks to all the organisers and particularly our chief demonstrator Tim Booth👏🏻
#scicomic

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

https://t.co/MfcMeNMuVQ