I’m excited to be heading to #PlantBiology2026 in Ottawa, Canada this week!
I’m especially proud that two members of my lab will be presenting posters showcasing our latest research on plant extracellular RNA. If you’re attending the meeting, I’d love for you to stop by and chat with us.

🧬Ang-Yu Liu
The Role of Secretory RNases in Extracellular RNA Turnover in the Apoplast of Arabidopsis
Poster #200-038
📍 Sunday, July 19 | 5:30–6:15 PM
📍 Monday, July 20 | 6:15–7:00 PM

🧬 Tanner Smith
Native Nanopore Sequencing of tRNAs and tRNA-Derived Fragments in the Arabidopsis Extracellular Space
(Poster number and presentation time coming soon.)

I’m also grateful to the Root & Shoot Research Coordination Network (https://rootandshoot.org/) for supporting my attendance through a Root & Shoot Travel Grant. This support helps foster new collaborations and enables us to share our work with the broader plant biology community.

If you’ll be in Ottawa, I’d love to connect. Whether you’re interested in extracellular RNA, RNA biology, plant–microbe interactions, or RNA sequencing technologies, please stop by our posters and say hello!
See you at #PlantBiology2026!