Michelle Heeney (she/they)

🌱 Bioinformatics 🌱 Evo-Devo 🌱 Microscopy 🌱
NSF-GRFP Plant Biology Ph.D. Student @🌽LL University Frank & Roeder Labs
Math and Biology BS' @UmassAmherst

[Michelle Heeney (she/they) @havingfern]

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

[Development @Dev_journal]

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):

https://t.co/kbLKQx2Ufp

[Sigma-Aldrich @SigmaAldrich]

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

[Roeder lab @RoederLab]

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

[Michelle Heeney (she/they) @havingfern]

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

[Hannah Rae Thomas Ph.D. @HannahRaeThomas]

It is with great excitement that I can officially announce I will be joining the Department of Horticulture at Zhejiang University (@ZJU_China) this autumn as a tenure-track faculty member!!

[Michelle Heeney (she/they) @havingfern]

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

[PLAMORF @plamorf]

📢PLAMORF #PREPRINT:
Systemic mRNA transport depends on m5C methylation, nuclear mRNA export factors and developmental phase changes
https://t.co/LlriBjzLiS
#mrna #plantsci #methylation #development #flowering #grafting

[Nicole Szeluga @NicoleSzeluga]

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

[Nicole Szeluga @NicoleSzeluga]

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 https://t.co/13qOwXCuAU via @YouTube

[Dr Marta Mackillop @DGabryelska]

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: https://t.co/eXFQn2mFsU
#plantresearch #arabidopsis #zeamays #maize

[NelsonLab@BTI @AndrewDLNelson]

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! https://t.co/TREkqLHPEB

[bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv_plants]

The transcription factor ATML1 maintains giant cell identity by inducing synthesis of its own (very) long-chain fatty acid-containing ... https://t.co/7Uyp1ggNcS #biorxiv_plants

[Michelle Heeney (she/they) @havingfern]

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

[Michelle Heeney (she/they) @havingfern]

@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!

[Michelle Heeney (she/they) @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 ☺️

[Michelle Heeney (she/they) @havingfern]

For people who are unable to reconstruct 😉

[Michelle Heeney (she/they) @havingfern]

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.

[Michelle Heeney (she/they) @havingfern]

@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.

[Michelle Heeney (she/they) @havingfern]

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

[Josh Felton @JoshFelton12]

Wonderful list of PAID summer research opportunities for undergraduate students!! Share with any undergrads you know💯 https://t.co/KYni7lpQ3M

[Laura Gunn @lau_gunn]

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