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📣We're hiring! The Todesco Lab (Marco Todesco) is seeking a Research Assistant in plant genomics to join their lab. 🌻 Learn more about the position and apply here: msl.ubc.ca/join-us/career…

Off to Edinburgh tomorrow for #SEBconference -hope to see some of you there!

One or many? Great paper on glacial refugia and arctic plants biogeography by Cassandra Elphinstone, Fernando Hernández and many others (w/ small contributions by myself). Includes sequencing of 400-year-old plants released from retreating glaciers! 🥶🧊🥵🌱

Now with a link to the preprint 😅 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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 😎🌱🧬🧪

Well this made my day 😆

🥳 Thanks to CFI / FCI for supporting our research!

Congratulations to all (and thanks to NSERC / CRSNG) - I guess today was a good day for funding announcements 😄

Firts todescolab.msl.ubc.ca picture! 🥰 L to R: Kaede, Stephanie, Raisa, a guy that looks like me but is much older, Ara, Dylan and Zhiqin!

Deadline for Asst. Prof in Computational Cell Biology is November 23rd. Still lots of time. Apply here academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25173

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

Great position in fungal diversity at UBC Botany - come and join us in beautiful Vancouver! 🍄🍄🍄 (sorry, very short notice though, the deadline is, ehm, tomorrow) botany.ubc.ca/about-us/caree…

Wondering where #centromeres or tandem repeats are in your genome assembly? Great new tool by Cassandra Elphinstone - assembly required (but nothing else) 🧬🌾🐔🌻🐦🪰🧍🌽 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Uuuh, such interesting science! 😁 Thanks to UBC Science Michael Smith Labs for putting this nice video together, and for giving me an opportunity to show off my yellow Ikea armchair 🌻🧪🧬

This is very welcome news!

Join us Wednesday for our last MSL seminar before the summer! You'll hear presentations from trainees in the #FosterLabUBC, #LeslieLab and #TodescoLab, and from Dr. Terry Snutch! June 19: 3-4pm MSL 102 & Zoom Hosted by: Dr. Wilf Jefferies Event details: msl.ubc.ca/event/msl-semi…

Great opportunity to join the Botany Department at UBC! Lots of very neat colleagues 😁

🧬 "Population-aware permutation-based significance thresholds for genome-wide association studies" enhances #GWAS accuracy by optimizing for population structure & reducing false positives. A breakthrough in phenotype-genotype mapping! doi.org/10.1093/bioadv… arthur korte

Uuuh, the first paper from the Todesco lab! A phased, chromosome-level assembly for nettle - it not only stings, but it is also full of chromosomal rearrangements!🥬🧬 Great work from Kaede Hirabayashi, in collaboration with the Deyholos and Cronk labs biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Reminder to send your application for this position as an assistant professor in Plant Resilience and Food Security in the Botany Dept. at UBC! Join us and do great science in beautiful #Vancouver! #academicjobs #plantscience #UBC