The Biology Dept at UMass Amherst is hiring (again!). We have TWO TT faculty positions: Developmental Cell Biology and Plant Biology. Please share and apply! careers.umass.edu/en-us/job/5246… careers.umass.edu/en-us/job/5246… umass.edu/biology/

Very useful collection of genomics tutorials by European Reference Genome Atlas knowledge.erga-biodiversity.eu

📣 The application deadline for the Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor program is in two weeks! If you're a postdoc or late-stage PhD student, consider applying. Plant Physiology blog.aspb.org/plant-physiolo…

—¿Por qué no dijiste nada? —Qué estabas haciendo durante el genocidio, abuelo —¿Solo lo viste? —¿Por qué, madre? Tremendo video donde "niños del futuro" recriminan a sus padres, madres y abuelos por no detener el genocidio en Gaza.

I’m very proud of my student Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil, George Cawood, who got his MSc dissertation on the epigenetic regulation, ecology and evolution plant biosynthetic gene clusters published in TrendsPlantSci: dlvr.it/TFCy0G Science at Sheffield #PlantScience #Epigenetics

Snails 🐚 are slow, but they can evolve fast! Our new paper shows how one ecotype evolved into another on a tiny island 🏝️ within 30 years - and that we could predict changes at the phenotypic, but also at the genetic 🧬 level. 1/3 #Evolution #Genomics science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Academic ironies

How do we pair omics to decode the diversity of 🌱plant specialized metabolism? In our latest paper, we present a perspective on how paired omics can support a collaborative effort to characterise the plant metabolome. Marnix Medema Justin van der Hooft sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

tidyplots Time to say goodbye to ggplot2?🫡 "a significant reduction of code complexity" vs ggplot2 cran.r-project.org/web/packages/t… Jan Broder Engler bioRxiv 2024 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am ***absurdly*** excited to announce the launch of a new funding opportunity through Experiment dot com!!! You have one month to pitch something wonderful in the realm of plant biology/biotech research and education. $10,000 max grant. PLEASE RT!!! 1/3 experiment.com/programs/plants

Interested in doing a PhD studying fungal natural products? I have two PhD projects advertised through MIBTP at University of Warwick 1/ discovery of bioactive molecules for use in crop protection 2/understanding the biosynthesis and mode of action of pleurotin 🍄🧬💊 Please RT

New R package assists breeders in deciding which crosses to make in each selection cycle to increase genetic gain over several years of selection acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tp…

Mapping genes controlling differences in photosynthesis between different kinds of corn using almost 5,000 measurements of photosynthesis and environmental data. New preprint lead by Waqar Ali

Women making science 🧬💪🏼 The Royal Society #TransformingOurFuture

doubletrouble: an R/Bioconductor package for the identification, classification, and analysis of gene and genome duplications academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

🚨New paper, now published in nature! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in collab. with Michael Schatz and many others! nature.com/articles/s4158…

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

Pick a pattern: Transcriptional regulator allelic diversity synergistically drives trichome pattern diversity academic.oup.com/plphys/article…

Very proud of our latest work with Zach Lippman, Jesse Gillis, Joyce Van Eck, Matthias Benoit, Katie Jenike and many others. Johns Hopkins University Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Bloomberg Distinguished Professors nature.com/nature/volumes…

We’ll be hosting the Bioinformatics Summer Workshop from August 11–15. The workshop is completely free and held 100% online. If you are interested, please go ahead and register: sites.google.com/view/bioinfowo…