Australia is now a major truffle producer - article discusses research on truffle and soil microbiomes (we need to train more fungal and soil scientists) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📣New paper out📣: Cross‐range portability of genomic prediction may teach us something about evolutionary processes. That's particularly interesting for globally invasive plants, so check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

How does development shape the variation evolution can act on? In our new paper in @pnas.org , we bridge developmental dynamics and quantitative genetics, linking dynamical models of phenotype formation with the statistical parameters used to study evolutionary change www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

At just 12 years old, Edmond Albius discovered hand-pollination of vanilla orchids making global vanilla cultivation possible.🌺 #BlackHistoryMonth #PlantReproduction

Why hasn't this paper gotten more attention?

Interested in plant phenotyping, hyperspectral imaging and ML-driven data analysis? Then apply and join us. @latrobeuni.bsky.social #APPN #hypetspectral #plantphenotyping internaljobs.latrobe.edu.au/cai/en/job/5...

Slime mold, Trichia decipiens in front of bright green #moss. NWT, Canada. #myxomycete #fungifriends The slime mold is about 0.5cm high.

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

It's this time of the year when we are happy to celebrate the new graduates from the AdaEvo lab! Congratulations to Dr Andhika R. Putra, Ana Krteska, MSc and Tiffany Gong, MSc!

I’m very pleased to share our latest work, led by the talented @cbuckley.bsky.social as part of his PhD. It’s our first attempt at studying #circadian rhythms in wheat with the help of some great collaborators @jesshyles.bsky.social @adaevo.bsky.social et al. #plantsci 🌾⏰ 1/7 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

🌱 Using ‘compelling’ methods, including #CryoET, researchers mapped spinach thylakoid membranes at single-molecule precision, revealing how photosynthetic complexes are organised and settling long-standing debates on chloroplast architecture. buff.ly/j3TSIkn

Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!

A nice profile of the wonderful Annie Schmitt www.ucdavis.edu/news/among-a...

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Announcing myloasm, a new long-read (ONT R10/PacBio) metagenome assembler that I've been working on during my postdoc in the Heng Li lab (@lh3lh3.bsky.social). myloasm-docs.github.io

How to deal with our own poison: How plant genomes regulate deleterious genetic elements? A seminar by Dr Taiko To (School of Life Science & Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo) tinyurl.com/48yt9ary

The School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne is recruiting a female-identifying genomicist in a teaching and research academic role. Come and work with us! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/92007...

Learn about @biosecuritycommons.bsky.social at a webinar hosted by Australia's Chief Plant Protection Officer, Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith! 📅 Tues 25 March, 2pm AEDT ✍ Add the event to your calendar via this link: ardc.edu.au/event/austra... #NCRISimpact #biosecurity

The School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne is recruiting a continuing academic (level B/C) in Biotechnology. This is a research and teaching role. Come join us! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91875...

📣 New Paper out!!! 📣 When is ML outperforming good old parametric regression for genomic predictions? Go check 👇 doi.org/10.1093/gene...

A lot of pangenome graph at #PAG32

While the per capita consumption of olive oil has remained steady (increasing with population), the consumption of kiwis or pistachios has seen its rise alongside population growth. Interestingly, increased fruit and vegetable consumption is often associated with economic improvement.

📢 New publication 'The #genome of Citrus australasica reveals #disease resistance and other species specific genes' by Upuli Nakandala, Agnelo Furtado, Ardashir Kharabian Masouleh, Malcolm Smith, Darren Williams and Robert Henry in BMC Plant Biology.

Gene drives can have non-trivial intermediate behaviours in a population. We better model it to get it right! academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

To remind us all that the land is the fragile media that gives the purpose to all our science. www.theland.com.au/story/883070...

Was nice to collaborate on this one, to predict the evolution of plasticity under a combination of cyclical (e.g. seasonal) and stochastic (random) fluctuations!

Plants have good memory! Warm temperature perceived at the vegetative stage affects progeny seed germination in natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana - New Phytologist doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Amazed by the work done on C. elegans or S. cerevisae at #TAGC24. Why don’t we hear more about these illuminating systems in #Australia ´s research? #ARC should stop deterring it’s scientists from studying model organisms.

Academic job in #genomics at beautiful melbourne Come and play with us!

To all #chia seeds enthusiast: Tandem duplication of SAD gene clusters is the main hypothesis to explain high Omega-3 content. A reference #genome fresh from the press! acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Pop genomics greatly helps to fine-tune invasion risk prediction across environments for different source populations of ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Very proud of the work of Ganesh Nawkar & Martina Legris with invaluable help from many others: Air channels create a directional light signal to regulate hypocotyl phototropism. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Feels good to be here! 😀