Connecting with the plant science community at Botany 2025

Members of the Dowell Research Group are in Palm Springs, California, for Botany 2025.

The meeting is an opportunity to connect with the wider plant science community and spend time together outside our everyday routines at LSU. Our research links plant chemistry, physiology, and evolution, and meetings like Botany provide a setting to exchange perspectives across those areas.

We’re glad to share the week with colleagues and fellow researchers.

Meet the group and explore our plant traits and evolution theme.

The presentation photos offer a closer look at the science we brought to the meeting: fungal morphology and pathogen traits, networks connecting plant nutritional and chemical traits with physiology, Botrytis biology, and experimental approaches to fungal physiology.

In pictures

A lab member presenting a fungal network diagram and morphological traits at a conference lectern. — Discussing fungal morphology and pathogen traits at Botany 2025 in Palm Springs.

A lab member presenting a network diagram linking nutritional, chemical, and physiological traits. — Connecting nutritional, chemical, and physiological traits at Botany 2025.

A lab member speaking beside a slide introducing Botrytis plant pathogens. — Introducing Botrytis biology at Botany 2025.

A lab member explaining an experimental design with fungal cultures, a microplate, and resazurin chemistry. — Sharing experimental approaches to fungal physiology at Botany 2025.

Peter at a lectern beside a slide showing fungal cultures and strawberries. — Peter shares his research at Botany 2025.

A speaker presenting a plant-trait diagram at a conference. — Discussing plant traits at Botany 2025.

A researcher presenting diagrams of plant and microbial interactions. — Plant–microbe questions on the conference stage, Botany 2025.