Lauren Stanley, PhD

Postdoc in the Lowry lab at MSU. Plant enthusiast, cat parent, she/they 🏳️‍🌈

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

@biosarita1 @thecapitulab @AuburnU Congratulations, Sarita!!!!

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

@colreeze @_MeeiLLL Congratulations, @_MeeiLLL and @colreeze! So thrilled to see this out!

[Yaowu Yuan (袁耀武) @colreeze]

#MimulusPropaganda The invincible @_MeeiLLL strikes again. She found the speciation gene in monkeyflowers, YUP, is a taxon-specific non-coding gene producing phased siRNAs. YUP derived from a partial inverted duplication of a source gene that has nothing to do with flower color.

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

@amylafountain @NewPhyt Congratulations, Amy!

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

How have I gotten so far in genetics while being so bad at naming mutants? Seriously considering naming a mutant “whole plant sorta weird1”

[Mei Liang @_MeeiLLL]

Very excited to share our newest mimulus study on Science advance. https://t.co/3I6Ndji2ue

Wow! my first tweet is for my first paper on mimulus, and the first paper on flower color. Keep going...

[Yaowu Yuan (袁耀武) @colreeze]

#MimulusPropaganda We are thrilled that this paper led by the incredibly talented @_MeeiLLL came out today, and we are very grateful to @aeberardi for a nice companion commentary (https://t.co/4W9ycBJFZg). We’re so used to thinking about phenotypic variation in terms of

[Yaowu Yuan (袁耀武) @colreeze]

We are looking for a lab technician to help with various projects on the genetics bases and developmental mechanisms of floral trait diversification in #monkeyflowers (#Mimulus). Detailed job description please see https://t.co/YTlZYmblwy. Please RT!

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

@biosarita1 Had to check, couldn't remember where pictus was! I think it's one more clade over. (Phylogeny from the Grossenbacher and Whittall 2011 paper)

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

One of my baby skunky monkeyflowers. So cute, so sticky, so stinky!

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

@colreeze Mimulus/diplacus mephiticus!

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

A happy thing from today: I got some monkeyflower seeds from 1994 to germinate! 28 years and still viable.

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

(Thank you to @Hagar_k_Soliman and Selena Vengco for sharing protocols!)

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

@Saab95adventure I dug some up from my yard in anticipation of my landlord mowing them down. Will see how they fare indoors and try to cross them with the blue morph!

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

Does anyone know what’s going on genetically with violet flower color? I’ve always been curious about the “white”morphs of (what I think is) Viola sororia (pics from my backyard!)

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

@micah_freedman Wow, they’re beautiful!

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

@rickeltonmiller Yes, I think left pic is probably a petal-specific anthocyanin MYB, right pic might be an ABP mutant. A cursory search didn’t turn up any info on this (but anthocyanin phenotype has been investigated some in Viola cornuta, which changes colors!)

[Yaowu Yuan (袁耀武) @colreeze]

we have one more grant-funded postdoc position opened up in the lab. If you are interested in studying the genetics, development, or/and evolution of ecologically interesting plant traits using #Mimulus (#monkeyflowers), please feel free to DM or email me.

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

@RashmiJKumar @UMichSurgery Congrats, Rashmi!!!!!!

[Lauren Stanley, PhD @mimulusly]

@Jenn_Coughlan @yale_eeb Congratulations!!!!