Interesting read of nature 's first-ever survey on postdocs' job satisfaction and career prospects nature.com/articles/d4158…

I am overwhelmed with joy to annouce that I passed my #doctoral exam at ETH Zurich. Thanks to who (virtually and non) participated to such a great day and to Mol. Plant Breeding PlantHUB Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center DSV zaden Nederland for making my #PhD journey so incredibile! Finally #PhDone!

We describe a simple and versatile haploid induction system for maize. Lines heterozygous for a cenh3 null mutant induce haploids as female or male. The cenh3 null can be crossed to any background in one cross and the hybrid will become a haploid inducer. advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/4/ea…

Bravo Dario!

Very pleased to share a pre-print bioRxiv of my research done at Mol. Plant Breeding ETH Zurich. We fine-mapped a locus conferring self-compatibility to perennial #ryegrass at high resolution. Now buckled up for peer review! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Game changer - Single-base 'genome editing' without transformation. Mutagenesis and digital PCR of very large pooled mutant populations identifies desired allele edits in barley. From the @Carlsberg lab: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very happy to announce that I accepted the position of Associate Director at Rod Wing's Arizona Genomics Institute! 🌾🧬🌿 I am looking forward to support this group of dedicated and talented scientist... Rod Wing Arizona Genomics Institute @UArizonaCALS University of Arizona

1/Folks with mainly biology training sometimes ask me for resources that can help them learn bioinformatics. This short thread has my recommendations at various levels.

Happy to share my review #paper published in Annals of Botany! We reviewed #self-compatibility in outcrossing #grasses and discussed its great potential to change the way we improve the most important forage #crops worldwide. Thanks to all co-authors! academic.oup.com/aob/article/12…

We Mol. Plant Breeding ETH Zurich are seeking a #PhD #student to continue our #research on #self-incompatibility in #grasses. Please RT. jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

Really excited to unveil sandbox.bio, an interactive playground for learning bioinformatics command-line tools like bedtools, bowtie2, and samtools (and more to come!) 🧑‍💻 🧬 Thanks to Aaron Quinlan, @BenLangmead, and Michael Schatz for feedback and tutorial ideas.

.Daniel Runcie & I will be hiring two postdocs to work on a collaborative project on methods & application of environmental GWAS in plants using simulations, modeling, & boatloads of empirical data. Formal job ad hopefully in a month, but please RT & get in touch now if interested!

Self-compatibility for #research and breeding – a scientific review Annals of Botany about self-compatibility in #forage #grasses and its implication for #breeding Iowa State University Mary Warnock IBERS - Aber Chloe Manzanares Claudio Cropano ETH Zurich mpb.ethz.ch/news/news-chan… doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc…

According to a 1985 paper, everything takes 2.71 times as long as you think it will.

#mpbpaper for Mol. Plant Breeding

Towards gene identification for self-compatibility in perennial #ryegrass Frontiers - Plant Science. Claudio Cropano Chloe Manzanares Steven Andrew Yates Dario Copetti Iowa State University PlantHUB Bruno Studer D-USYS@ETH ETH Zurich doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2… mpb.ethz.ch/news/news-chan…

pretty excited to see our paper on representation and participation in plant genomics out in Nature Plants today! nature.com/articles/s4147…

REGENIE - a novel machine-learning method for efficient whole-genome regressions. #MPBpaper nature.com/articles/s4158…

I'm thrilled to announce that the first paper from my #PhD on the origin of the S-locus #supergene controlling #heterostyly in #primroses is out on Molecular Biology and Evolution! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39…