Dr. Courtney Leisner

Faculty @VTCals in School of Plant and Environmental Sciences. Black Lives Matter. Mother and lover of beagles (and my kids).

[Dr. Courtney Leisner @cpleisner]

🌱🫐Big news! The lab is moving! Excited to join the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences at Virginia Tech in August 2023. Can’t wait to continue working on genomics of plant stress AND live only a few hours from babysitters (aka my parents 😆). @VTCals 🦃

[Virginia Tech Translational Plant Sciences Center @VT_TPSC]

In June, Ph.D. student Ishveen Kaur was invited to give a talk at a colloquial at the @Botanical_ Society of America 2024 Conference in Michigan. She was also an invited speaker for the @NewPhyt Next Generation Scientists Conference in North Carolina. Congratulations Ishveen!

[Dr. Courtney Leisner @cpleisner]

Hope scrolling is back.

[Dr. Courtney Leisner @cpleisner]

Great work by @GuillianHC_ !

[Virginia Tech Translational Plant Sciences Center @VT_TPSC]

Members of the TPSC attended the @ASPB Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ph.D. students Joseph Taylor and Guillian Hernández presented their individual posters, and Dr. Song Li gave a talk titled “Moving towards closed-loop control systems for plant production with AI and robotics”

[Dr. Courtney Leisner @cpleisner]

@Beans2Stress working on our USDA-funded project on soybean!

[Virginia Tech Translational Plant Sciences Center @VT_TPSC]

Ph.D. student Ravneet Kaur has become the first user of the new elevated carbon dioxide growth chambers in the basement of @virginia_tech's Latham Hall. She will be growing soybean plants in elevated carbon dioxide to investigate the impact on seed nutrient content.

[Al Kovaleski @AlKovaleski]

We're hiring! Postdoc opportunity to work with me and Amaya Atucha @UWMadisonPAS . More details here: https://t.co/wVn79W3ugA (please share!)

[Dr. Courtney Leisner @cpleisner]

It is official!! So fun to hood my first PhD student.

[Virginia Tech Translational Plant Sciences Center @VT_TPSC]

Friday shout-out to Dr. Collin Modelski, a member of the Leisner Lab @cpleisner, who celebrated a successful Ph.D. defense this month. Dr. Modelski also had a first-author paper accepted in The Plant Journal! 👏🎓

[Dr. Courtney Leisner @cpleisner]

First student to pass their PhD defense in my lab! Congrats Collin!

[National Integrated Heat Health Information System @HeatGov]

🗓️ Join us for the 3rd Annual NIHHIS National Meeting, as stakeholders engage through presentations, panels, and networking sessions to develop a shared vision for community heat resilience.

Register at https://t.co/AhRpSYDpyh.

[John Lovell @_johntlovell]

Bringing this opportunity back up in your feeds. Two weeks left to apply!

[Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata]

Do you know an awe-inspiring plant biology colleague, whose research is fantastic, and who contributes to community-building in or out of academia? Are they <45 years old or <10 years post-PhD? Nominate them for the @ASPB Shull Award by Feb 21st. https://t.co/MtD1VssV0d

[Dr. Courtney Leisner @cpleisner]

Excited for @GuillianHC_ to be an awardee!!

[ROOT & SHOOT Research Coordination Network @RootandShootRCN]

Congratulations to the 17 mentor/ student pairs that were selected as 2024 ROOT & SHOOT travel award recipients. If you see them at an plant science confference, please welcome them.
They are awesome!
https://t.co/OZjj07DpPY

[Dr. Courtney Leisner @cpleisner]

First semester at @vtspes in the books! So impressed by all the hard work put in by the lab this year and taking this huge life change in stride. Can’t wait for 2024! @Beans2Stress @GuillianHC_, Collin and Ishveen.

[Magdalen Lindeberg @MagdalenLindebe]

We’re hiring a tenure-track, assistant/associate professor (Ithaca, NY)! Cornell CALS School of Integrative Plant Science seeks an Ecophysiologist in Field Crop Systems. Application deadline: 2024/02/01. Please share widely! To apply: https://t.co/jRuZR3b9UJ @CornellCALS

[VT School of Plant and Environmental Sciences @vtspes]

We're currently hiring passionate individuals who are ready to shape the future of plant and environmental sciences through education, research, and outreach 🌱

Exciting opportunities to join our team➡️https://t.co/7yGzgDWdUO

[Alistair Hetherington @NP_EiC]

Applications are now open for New Phytologist next generation scientists 2024, to be held in June at Duke University, NC, USA. These meetings are always stimulating, rewarding and a great deal of fun. I highly recommend early career plant scientists apply! https://t.co/YMO7PBOLWn

[Anne “Not going back!” Simon 🌊🌈🟦 🪷🌴🇺🇸🦅 @Annealiz1]

Assistant Professor (tenure track) position my Dept at U Maryland! Plant molecular/genetic/cellular mechanisms of adaptation to biotic/abiotic environmental stresses relevant to changing climate, applying genetic/genomic approaches. Other areas too! Great Dept/environ! Pls RT!

[Thelma Madzima, Ph.D @thelma_madzima]

I want to take a moment to acknowledge international students:

The constant worry & energy spent working on immigration documents

Being excluded from funding opportunities valued for postdoc & faculty positions

And the emotional toll of being away from family

[Jennbrophy.bsky.social @jennbrophy7]

📢 Faculty search! 📢 Stanford is looking to hire at the intersection of Bioengineering and Sustainability. Please spread the word and apply to join us!

[Dr. Courtney Leisner @cpleisner]

Great talk by my graduate student Ravneet at #ACSMtg on soybean responses to elevated CO2.