The 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

1/2 This manifesto is the result of a collaborative effort started earlier this year at the Plant Biology Education conference in Lancaster, UK. We are delighted to see it out and we are proud that our Comms team contributed to such an important resource for the community! 🌱

"With 2 weeks left before the end of this fiscal year, USDA’s [NIFA] had awarded just 558 competitive grants ... 68% fewer than during the prior fiscal year—and $741 million less in competitively awarded research funds" Don't forget #PlantSci and ag research, folks. www.science.org/content/arti...

A paper published in Nature Genetics presents a comprehensive pan-cistrome of maize leaves, revealing over 200,000 variants linked to transcription factor binding sites under both well-watered and drought conditions. go.nature.com/4785q5p 🧪🌾#plantscience

An enjoyable read, with clear simple experiments that show tomato conservation of a core developmental mechanism previously demonstrated in Arabidopsis.

2 papers in @science.org this week uncover wheat tandem kinase function. Working in parallel, the authors of each paper show that two different tandem kinases converge to activate the same NLR! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience

This paper is a tour de force from many friends and collaborators across Solanum expertise! Check it out to learn about the behavior of paralogs in genomes plus the Solanum genus and it's incredible potential for new crops! #plantscienceresearch

Thrilled to share our latest preprint, an interdisciplinary look at epistasis between variants in the coding and noncoding genome! #plantscienceresearch www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nice work on evolution of genetic interaction between cis-reg elements in floral development! This study really hammered home for me the vast aesthetic difference between having one fewer petal (hideous) and one extra petal (charming) in brassicas. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #plantscienceresearch

“Your work is your rebellion” 💪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...

Strong genetics and such a cool example of the consequences of altered TF-DNA binding in domestication!

This remarkable new RNA-based adenine and cytosine #BaseEditing system achieves targeted and efficient A-to-G and C-to-T conversions in lettuce, with potential applications in #crop breeding and #PlantBiotechnology. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... #PlantScience

Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/

Calling all #genomics researchers! The small, diverse, friendly Dept of Biological Sciences at Lehigh has a #tenuretrack position: bit.ly/3CYRb5B. App review starts 12/2 (not a hard cutoff). Please join our awesome team!

🚨TT job alert 🚨 Asst. Prof. of Plant Biology @ucf.bsky.social Deadline: Jan 16 2025

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Putting my postdoc hat back on for a moment to share this beautiful work by Amy Lanctot! She demonstrates both activation and repression within a tomato CRE and shows a different regulatory landscape in Arabidopsis, all with amazing flowering phenotypes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Phenomenal study from the Lippman lab on convergent evolution: a single gene is responsible for the loss of an important defense trait in many species, from monocots to dicots! #PlantScience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We're looking for two cohorts of Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editors to start in 2025 and 2026! See the editorial. Advanced PhD students & postdocs. I'd be delighted to tell you more in person, at #PlantBio2024, #ICAR2024SanDiego, or #BT2024DBG. Or message me! doi.org/10.1093/plph...

Part of this manuscript actually used herbaria to examine evolution of prickles loss across the spiny Solanum... How cool is that!

Intrigued by the proliferation of prickly plants across lineages? Jack Satterlee and a triumph of collaborators have answers about convergent evolution of these sharp projections, and how to get rid of them! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Proud to have played a small role in Dani Ciren's PhD work, out last week on BioRxiv! Check it out to learn about regulatory sequence rearrangement during evolution! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Development has announced the next call for applications for the 'Pathway to Independence' programme - aimed at supporting postdocs going on the job market. Application deadline 31 January 2024. Full details can be found at journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...