“Expression complementation of gene presence/absence polymorphisms in hybrids contributes importantly to heterosis in sunflower.” 🌻 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We've known for a long time that a large fraction of noncoding GWAS hits are not currently explained by eQTLs. Why?? I'm excited to share our new preprint on this! Take home: GWAS and eQTL assays maximize power for different types of variants. (1/n) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My first first-author 🥔 paper online Molecular Plant & Plant Communications.By leveraging PacBio HiFi and polyploid graph binning of hifiasm (Thanks to Haoyu Cheng ), we achieved the most contiguous haplotype-resolved genome assembly of a cultivated potato, Cooperation-88. cell.com/molecular-plan… 1/5

A cool postdoc project in a lab with a great PI Marco Todesco. Dont miss it!

Look at this great postdoc opportunity! 😁 Come work with us on cannabis genetics and flowering time diversity in beautiful Vancouver (and help reduce cannabis' humongous carbon footprint, since you are at it). Also, new website! todescolab.msl.ubc.ca

Excited to share our new paper in PNASNews, "The genomics of linkage drag in inbred sunflower lines"! 🌻 We examine wild introgressions' effects on cultivated sunflower, revealing pros & cons. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 🧬🌾 #SunflowerGenomics #CropImprovement #LinkageDrag

Genomics and Bioinformatics Postdoc fellowship open workforum.memphis.edu/postings/35773 #postdocjobs #MEMPHIS #botany

Can't imagine someone more deserving!! Congrats @sarperotto 🥳

Hi #Evol2023! I'm heading your way and am excited to start recruiting for my forthcoming lab at The University of Chicago. If you're interested in the genetics of adaptation and/or plant evolution, I'd love to get in touch! You can also catch me after my talk on Friday aft (ASN ECI Symposium).

Many thanks to GenomeBC for supporting our efforts to reduce the (high) carbon footprint of cannabis cultivation! We'll contribute to developing varieties that can be grown outdoors (instead of in energy-hungry indoor facilities) - with the help of genomics, of course 😎🌱🧬🧪

I too am recruiting graduate students, postdocs, and a lab technician for my group at UChicago, starting fall 2024! We will be doing exciting work to uncover the limits of plant adaptation in changing environments.

We are hiring a research technician/lab manager to help grow our Forest Speciation lab for the integrative biological understanding of forest fauna. Join us in this grounding moment.🌱🌳 Apply here: ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/45599 #Biology #speciation #birds

Congratulations Sam Yeaman Mojtaba Jahani Shaghayegh Soudi - PhD, MSc! Great to see this "on record", and happy to have been involved!

This is very welcome news!