Hey, hey! Laser capture RNAseq of maize leaf primordia coming your way! How do maize leaf cells know whether they will become blade, sheath, or ligule? It was really fun working with Josh Strable, Robyn Johnston, et al. on this paper to help find out: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

BPP seminar coming up later today - check your OSU inboxes for Zoom details! events.oregonstate.edu/event/bpp_wint…

Wow! youtube.com/watch?v=Jp9pyM… Amanda Gorman delivered a powerful poem for the inauguration. Amazing, powerful, positive!

New APS journal led by USDA/BPP Nik Grunwald! magnetmail.net/actions/email_…

The seed bank that's inadvertently storing fungi bbc.com/future/article… via BBC Future

Congrats to all the Botany & Plant Pathology USDA NIFA REEU students who finished today! Incredible work by this next generation of computational scientists

Thrilled to announce I started my ✨dream job✨ as Germplasm Curator at the USDA-ARS NCGR in Corvallis, OR! Eager to apply and grow my plant pathology 🕵🏻‍♀️🔍 and horticultural 👩🏻‍🌾🌱skills as librarian of the nation’s living pear, hazelnut, mint, hops, and wild relative collections.

Our new paper on the diversity of the T6SS in agrobacteria is out in mBio. We characterized modularity and recombination of T6SS loci across the agrobacteria/rhizobia complex. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mB…

Dept of Botany & Plant Path at Oregon State University is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Plant Diseases. All research topics within the area of EEIPD will be considered. jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/108984

Postdoc position available! Work with an interdisciplinary team to investigate genome-to-phenome relationships in maize. Particularly interested in candidates with a background in quantitative approaches, looking to apply their expertise in plant biology tinyurl.com/2s57mha2

Job alert! Interested in fungal ecology, phyllosphere microbiome assembly, plant disease? The Busby lab at Oregon State University is searching for a postdoc to contribute to a new NSF CAREER project. gradschool.oregonstate.edu/postdocs/open-…

Oregon State University is hiring a Director for the Global Hemp Innovation Center to lead and interact with regional, national and international faculty, agencies and stakeholders to promote a collaborative and productive center. Apply by 4/30/22. jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/115533.

PLEASE RETWEET! Come and join this amazing group Donny M. Walker, PhD Jason Stajich (present at #MSAFungi2022) Joey Spatafora Kerry McPhail There are NSF funded POSTDOC positions available at Donny M. Walker, PhD lab! Amazing working environment and enthusiastic group! 🦎 🍄 🐸

We have a new mycologist at OSU in Botany & Plant Pathology Welcome Dr. Amy Honan 🍄🍄🍄 we are so excited youre joining us #mycofam

Please RT and encourage your students and desirees to apply for graduate school. I am looking for PhD/MS graduate students interested to work on plant phenotyping, data science, genomics. Reach out to me & apply at bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/academics/… Botany & Plant Pathology Plantae Greenhouse view

Lots of goodies arriving at the Weisberg lab!

So stoked to be mailing out our k-3 fungal biology kits to teachers around the country today 🍄👩🏼‍🔬🔬 thank you Stuntz Foundation for funding our project and Kim Syring for help with kit prep and assembly. The future is fungal

“Big Data” summer internship for UG students at any US institution. Participate in a 2-week Python programming course & 6 weeks of mentored research. Learn how to generate, process, analyze, visualize large biological datasets. bpp.oregonstate.edu/big-data-inter… application by 2/28/23.

The Biological Data Science degree offers studies in #Genomics, Ecological and Environmental Informatics, and Computational #Biology. Helping to solve issues in areas of world hunger, human health, & environmental conservation. #AgSci Botany & Plant Pathology BDS Degree: bpp.oregonstate.edu/bds/biological…

Dan Hickey is an undergrad pursuing his Biological Data #Science degree, focusing on Computational Molecular #Biology. Botany & Plant Pathology "The Biological Data Sciences major positions me well to be such an interdisciplinary scholar later in life." Dan's experience: agsci.oregonstate.edu/feature/inspir…