MacArthur Fellows Ida Bae Wells and Ta-Nehisi Coates join the Howard University faculty to establish the Center for Journalism and Democracy: #MacFellow macfound.org/press/press-re…

Could adaptive tracking be pervasive but largely unseen? sharon greenblum Subhash Rajpurohit Paul Schmidt Dmitri Petrov If you're interested in working on this or related eco-evo dynamics please message - hiring grad, tech, and postdoc positions at WSU Vancouver!

Check out our current Joint Genome Institute job openings - we're looking for postdocs, research scientists, data systems engineers, and MORE! #biology #synbio #datascience LBNL BioSci @BerkeleyLabJobs lbl.referrals.selectminds.com/page/jgi-job-o…

hi twitter - come work with me! Open position as a Joint Genome Institute Research Scientist in a supportive and forward-thinking research environment, in a role with plenty of room for creativity and teamwork! m.rfer.us/LBLvML4Go

Watch Leo Baumgart Joint Genome Institute describe two innovative approaches to identify sites where transcription factors bind quickly and efficiently in the genome. LBNL BioSci Berkeley Lab DOE Office of Science Benchling youtu.be/iAFfDTm0vhM

Do plants, bacteria AND phages sound exciting to you? Look no further! We are hiring for a postdoc in the Plant-Microbial Interactions group @JGI Berkeley Lab LBNL BioSci. Pls RT. Details and application here: lbl.taleo.net/careersection/…

How is 𝘗. 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘮 SO GOOD at evading host immunity? In our new preprint, we use ultra-long Oxford Nanopore reads to discover extra-chromosomal alleles of antigenic 𝘷𝘢𝘳 genes in clonal malaria parasites, Bernard Kim👑 Egan Lab Dmitri Petrov bit.ly/3Hy1nAD

I am looking for a graduate student and a postdoc to join my group! We are a computational group working on understanding evolution in natural populations with a large emphasis on the microbiome. Please get in touch by dm or email! garud.eeb.ucla.edu

The April cover of Nature Plants features one of the first cross-kingdom spatially-resolved transcriptomics studies to date. The symbiosis between plants and mycorrhizal fungi could improve carbon storage in soil and boost biofuel feedstocks! Learn more: jgi.doe.gov/an-inside-look…

Microbial adaptability in changing environments nature.com/articles/s4157… This Genome Watch article highlights the recent use of large-scale monitoring of natural microbiomes to examine feedback between environmental change and microbial adaptation. sharon greenblum

I am super excited to share the first paper out of my PhD! Here, we chose D. melanogaster pigmentation as a model phenotype to study the nature and repeatability of complex trait evolution in the field . . .🧵 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Phages are small but mighty! Interested in how they can influence plant-microbe interactions? Please attend my talk in Ballroom East at 15:40 and my postdoc, Heejung's poster at 16:30 (PS3.17.020), today at #ISME19

We are hiring a technician!  Are you an experimentalist interested in applying cutting edge genomics to questions in somatic mutation, evolution, and aging? Please share and retweet! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04574

An atlas of conserved transcription factor binding sites reveals the cell type-resolved gene regulatory landscape of flowering plants biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genomic

New preprint! An atlas of conserved TF binding sites across flowering plants generated with multiplexed DAP-seq. When integrated with multi-species snRNA- and snATAC-seq reveals how TF activity shapes development and stress responses at the cellular level.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Congrats to Simon Roux, awarded the ASM Microbiome Data Prize for 2025! 🦠 Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program. Learn more about his work here: jgi.doe.gov/simon-roux-nam…

🎉 Secretary Jennifer Granholm has been recognized by TIME! Sec. Granholm is driving the Biden-Harris Administration's climate mission forward, but she isn't doing it alone. We call U.S. Department of Energy the “Solutions Department” because our climate achievements are the sum of our collective action.