Melody Sain, PhD

Burpee Postdoctoral Fellow in Botany | Evolution | Genomics | Sex determination in flowering plants | #BLM | she/her | @utmartin @UTTyler @UWBotany Alum

[Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @MartineBotany]

Local coverage of our 2023 @BucknellU botany student research award winners: @DiamandaZizis @clr24_ @kaitlinghenry @kojo_xi. Really proud of these students & grateful to co-mentor them w/ @melpsain & Tanisha Williams. #PUI #raybucknell

https://t.co/T7dKajtcKr

[Melody Sain, PhD @melpsain]

Come talk with @DiamandaZizis at tonight’s #Evol2023 poster session, and learn about her @BucknellCAS undergraduate honors thesis work examining hybridization of spiny solanums with different sexual systems!! #PUI #evolution2023

[Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @MartineBotany]

And you can talk to @DiamandaZizis *tonight* at the #Evol2023 Saturday poster session! Awesome example of student-driven #PUI research. Now an MS student, soon seeking a lab for a PhD. Do not sleep on this one; she’s the real deal.

[Cell Press @CellPressNews]

The editors of @CellCellPress asked ten Black scientists what Juneteenth means to them in the context of STEMM. Here's what they had to say. 🧵

https://t.co/Kj2PhLUGbt

#BlackinSTEMM #Juneteenth2023

[Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @MartineBotany]

This HPLC-extra-floral-nectar-measuring buttkicker won a @TorreyBotanical #UndergraduateResearch Fellowship today! Way to go @kaitlinghenry!

#Botany2023 #Solanum

[Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @MartineBotany]

Greenhouse full of newly-started dioecious bifurcated-stigma-endowed spiny solanums thanks to the hard work of @melpsain and a squad of awesome summer research students. Cool things to come! #iamabotanist #Solanaceae

[Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @MartineBotany]

Kudos to all these #undergradresearch stars, including @BucknellCAS soph @kaitlinghenry! Super stoked about her project on extrafloral nectar in #Solanum co-mentored by @melpsain.

#Botany2023 #iamabotanist

[Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @MartineBotany]

NBD. Just @T_Marie_Wms introducing 3-time-Grammy-winning @Sowetogospel Choir at the @WeisCenter tonight. She even mentioned #botany!

[Melody Sain, PhD @melpsain]

Congratulations to the developing Paxistima expert Isaac Buabeng @kojo_xi in defending his Master's proposal! Very proud! #BlackBotanists #IamABotanist #paxistima #conservation

[Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @MartineBotany]

Congrats to Isaac Buabeng @kojo_xi on the successful defense of his @BucknellU Master's proposal today! Celebrated in-person with 3/4 of his committee plus @mossman2000 on Zoom. #iamabotanist #paxistima

[Melody Sain, PhD @melpsain]

@kheyduk @MartineBotany @BucknellU @MaddieWickers @clr24_ @kojo_xi @CCbotbio @umeh_jr @LamoreVal @EmilieBlumenfe1 @jay_infamously @OliviaMFlowers We definitely did because we carrot-lot about @BucknellU farm!

[Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @MartineBotany]

Lab group had some ice cream cake to celebrate two big birthdays this week for @MaddieWickers and @clr24_. @melpsain and I had to eat 2 pieces because you can’t just bring leftover melty cake back inside. That’s a rule.

[Melody Sain, PhD @melpsain]

@kheyduk @MartineBotany @MaddieWickers @clr24_ @T_Marie_Wms @kojo_xi @kaitlinghenry @DiamandaZizis @BucknellCAS Oh with me in the lab there will never be an extra cake issue. I had 3 slices 😅

[Isaac Buabeng @thisisikb]

The non-native invasive guardians of the Susquehanna.
#bisonflowers #fieldbotany

[Jordan Wearing (Development Editor, CRC Press) @crcwearingj]

✨GIVEAWAY!✨ In efforts to promote our authors, we are giving away a copy of 📚Kaplan's Principles of Plant Morphology🌿! To participate, please:
1) follow me
2) follow @CrumlyChuck
3) retweet this
🎉Winner announced - 1 week! 🎉
@plantevomorph
https://t.co/flrtOokLTX

[Preston Broadus, Esq. @gerardinho9]

One of my professors stopped putting pdfs of articles in the class Canvas. She explained that “because we’re reading scholarship of marginalized thinkers, it helps them to have their work searched and downloaded.” 🤯

[Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @MartineBotany]

Friends in New York have this Finger Lakes sticker and I’m like Naw you just like fern gametophytes. #iamabotanist

[Bucknell University @BucknellU]

'ray #Bucknell Field Botany!

[Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @MartineBotany]

Fun times in the West Branch Susquehanna River with Field Botany this morning, seeing what species live on the island opposite of @BucknellU Landing. #bisonflowers #iamabotanist