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Anna-Liisa Laine
3 months ago
We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at
@helsinki.fi
Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻 DL 14 September
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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University Lecturer in Biostatistics
University Lecturer in Biostatistics
https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-University-Lecturer-in-Biostatistics/827896002/#_msocom_3
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Rob Waterhouse
3 months ago
Arctic charr
#genome
- a highly polygenic basis of morph differentiation with population-specific selection on alleles linked to the development of similar morph phenotypes
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Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals How Plasticity and Genetic Differentiation Underlie Sympatric Morphs of Arctic Charr
Salmonids have a remarkable ability to form sympatric morphs after postglacial colonisation of freshwater lakes. These morphs often differ in morphology, feeding and spawning behaviour. Here, we expl....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.70085
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Robert Finger
4 months ago
👇 This is an excellent opportunity to join this fantastic group led by our great new colleague Prof. Melissa Chapman
@milliechapman.bsky.social
at the USYS Department
@usyseth.bsky.social
ofETH Zürich
@ethz.ch
as doctoral student or postdoc!
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Rowan Hooper
4 months ago
We discuss the startling news that the rubber hand illusion works on OCTOPUSES
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q8B...
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Famous psychology trick works on octopuses too
YouTube video by New Scientist
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q8BIu5sPis
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Alex de Mendoza
4 months ago
Happy to see our latest work out in
@molbioevol.bsky.social
. We revisit the evolution of 5-methylcytosine across neglected eukaryotic supergroups, establishing an ancestral repressive role silencing genome invaders, both transposons and viral elements👾:
academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
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Repressive cytosine methylation is a marker of viral gene transfer across divergent eukaryotes
Abstract. Cytosine DNA methylation patterns vary widely across eukaryotes, with its ancestral roles being understood to have included both transposable ele
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msaf176/8213644
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Sabhrina Aninta
4 months ago
Just want to share this wild revision history of the Wikipedia page on Linkage Disequilibrium where Felsenstein himself debated people on the correct use of notations & definitions. After 100 years of
#popgen
people does not seem to be totally agree on what LD is?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Li...
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Talk:Linkage disequilibrium - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linkage_disequilibrium
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Aaron Vogan
8 months ago
We did it! We caught Starship
#transposons
moving between
#fungal
species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New Scientist
4 months ago
Painters often prime a canvas with a layer of white to make it smoother, stronger and to enhance the colours they will later layer on, but it seems this is a mechanism that birds were using long before humans picked up paintbrushes.
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The secret to what makes colours pop on dazzling songbirds
Hidden layers of colour in the plumage of tanagers and some other songbirds explain what makes them so eye-catching
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2489534-the-secret-to-what-makes-colours-pop-on-dazzling-songbirds/?utm_medium=SOC&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1753343913-3
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Magdalena Bohutínská
4 months ago
1/5 ✨Proud✨ to see our review with Katie Peichel as featured content in Trends_Ecol_Evo, with my beloved alpine lineages of Arabidopsis arenosa on the cover. Hope that you find it interesting!
doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.007
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
4 months ago
🎉🧬🇨🇭 Researchers in Switzerland can soon deposit human genomics data in a secure national archive, and control access to researchers around the world, with Swiss FEGA joining the international FEGA network 👇 Swiss FEGA is consortium of six institutions, including at
@ethz.ch
, coordinated by SIB.
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Switzerland joins the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA)
Following the successful demonstration of secure infrastructure for storing and sharing sensitive patient data, Switzerland has now officially joined the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEG...
https://www.sib.swiss/news/switzerland-joins-the-federated-european-genome-phenome-archive-fega
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Dr. Tyler A. Elliott
4 months ago
#TEsky
Lepidopteran genomes have denser transposable elements in smaller chromosomes, likely driven by non-allelic homologous recombination
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
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Lepidopteran genomes have denser transposable elements in smaller chromosomes, likely driven by non-allelic homologous recombination
Abstract. Transposable elements (TEs) drive major genome size and structural variations, yet evolutionary forces affecting their accumulation and removal r
https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf137
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
4 months ago
“Invest in data resources to make FAIR a reality”, a correspondence penned by our director,
@dessimoz.bsky.social
,
@francesarnold.bsky.social
, Richard J. Roberts, and
@timjph.bsky.social
, published in Nature.
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Invest in data resources to make FAIR a reality | Nature
Letter to the Editor
https://rdcu.be/ewikd
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Owen Petchey
4 months ago
Seen a potential problem in a published article? Wonder whether and how to respond? Here are some thoughts on how to figure out what's best for you. Happy to hear your thoughts...
thetrophiclink.org/posts/2025-0...
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Public critique or private conversation? How to know what's best for you. | TheTrophicLink
A few months ago, I and some colleagues at the University of Zurich gathered to discuss a recent paper in a leading ecology journal. During the discussion, I realised, or at least believed, that the p...
https://thetrophiclink.org/posts/2025-07-02-public-critique-or-private-conversation-a-researcher-s-dilemma/
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Julius Brennecke
4 months ago
Pls. share widely Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025 → Vibrant & friendly community → Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology → Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating) submit abstract by July 29
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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
4 months ago
The National Research Programme “Promoting
#Biodiversity
and Sustainable Ecosystem Services for Switzerland” (NRP 82) is supporting 15 projects with a total of 11.2 million francs. And it is doing so with an approach that is completely new in
#Switzerland
. ➡️
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11.2 million francs for biodiversity
The National Research Programme “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services“ (NRP 82) is supporting 15 research projects.
https://www.snf.ch/en/nCeaoBF37TfWmnUl/news/nrp-82-is-supporting-15-projects-with-112-million-francs-and-a-new-approach
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Slavica Janevska
4 months ago
📣 I’m recruiting a
#Postdoc
to help us further our understanding on the infection strategies of our human fungal pathogen. If you’re enthusiastic about research, our interdisciplinary group
@leibniz-hki.de
will be a good fit for you! Please share!
jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...
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Job opportunity Postdoctoral Researcher (m/w/div) in “Microbial Infection Strategies” at Leibniz HKI Jobportal
Wissenschaft/Forschung in Jena
https://jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoctoral-Researcher-mwdiv-in-Microbial-Infection-Strat-eng-j618.html
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Rob Waterhouse
4 months ago
🕷️🕸️🧬 whole
#genome
sequencing of 202 parent-offspring trios from 34 families across 3 social & 4 subsocial species - sociality is associated with an approximately 50% reduction in germline mutation rate
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#biodiversity
#genomics
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Convergent Evolution of Sociality Causes Reduction of Mutation Rates in Spiders
Germline mutations play a crucial role in determining the rate of molecular evolution. In the spider genus Stegodyphus, sociality has independently evolved three times within the past million years, e...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.09.663850v1
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Agristok
4 months ago
11 Funded PhD Positions in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen in Germany Explore 11 fully funded PhD opportunities in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen. Work on groundbreaking research in genome evolution, reproductive systems, and bioinformatics. Apply before…
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11 Funded PhD Positions in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen in Germany
Explore 11 fully funded PhD opportunities in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen. Work on groundbreaking research in genome evolution, reproductive systems, and bioinformatics. Apply before September 1, 2025!
https://agristok.net/2025/07/12/phd-positions-evolutionary-genomics-university-goettingen/
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Genetics Society of America
5 months ago
In
#G3journal
, Ziming Zhong, Bruce A. McDonald, and
@jessstapley.bsky.social
identified genomic regions associated with colony growth and melanization under temperature conditions in the wheat pathogen, showing how the pathogenic fungi respond to temperature stress. Read more:
buff.ly/4eBnwhs
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Rob Waterhouse
5 months ago
A great collection of papers here ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17550998...
Special Issue: Advancing species conservation and management through omics tools
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Special Issue: Advancing species conservation and management through omics tools: Molecular Ecology Resources: Vol 25, No 5
Molecular Ecology Resources is a broad journal publishing computer programs, statistical & molecular advances & more for studies in evolution, ecology & conservation.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17550998/2025/25/5
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Milking it - leveraging large pedigree-SNP dataset to study age-related changes in Recombination in Dairy cattle. Finally out thanks to a very talented student Evelyn Jade and a dedicated academic
@annasanture.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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An Increase in Male Recombination Rate With Age in Dairy Cattle Is Heritable and Polygenic
Meiotic recombination is an essential process for shuffling genetic diversity in sexually reproducing organisms, can vary within and between individuals in response to intrinsic and extrinsic factors....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbg.12948
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Agristok
5 months ago
13 PhD Positions in Food Science at University of Naples Federico II, Italy – Open for International Students The University of Naples Federico II has opened applications for the 41st PhD cycle (2025/2026), offering fully funded opportunities for international students. Deadline: July 7, 2025.
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13 PhD Positions in Food Science at University of Naples Federico II, Italy – Open for International Students
The University of Naples Federico II has opened applications for the 41st PhD cycle (2025/2026), offering fully funded opportunities for international students. Deadline: July 7, 2025.
https://agristok.net/2025/06/12/13-phd-positions-in-food-science/
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Current Biology
5 months ago
The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery – a long-time Current Biology advisory board member, Joseph Heitman, introduces the special issue on ‘The Fungi’.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery
Long-time Current Biology advisory board member, Joseph Heitman, introduces this special issue on ‘The Fungi’.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00442-7
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Anne Roulin
5 months ago
Incredibly sad. Triste.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature
Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09126-4
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Two caught Smuggling Fusarium graminearum into US
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Chinese nationals accused of smuggling 'biological pathogen' into US
Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu allegedly brought into the US a fungus which damages a variety of crops and is toxic to humans and animals.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gkdppymk4o
5 months ago
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Agristok
5 months ago
184 PhD Funded Positions in All Research Fields at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy Discover 184 fully funded PhD opportunities across multiple disciplines at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Open to all nationalities. Apply online by June 30, 2025.
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184 PhD Funded Positions in All Research Fields at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy
Discover 184 fully funded PhD opportunities across multiple disciplines at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Open to all nationalities. Apply online by June 30, 2025.
https://agristok.net/2025/06/02/fully-funded-phd-positions-italy-unimore-2025/
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Anna Santure
6 months ago
What joy & privilege to work with such amazing people - today a brilliant scientist I mentored successfully defended his PhD with NO REVISIONS!, a manuscript written by then undergrad was accepted, my beautiful group bought me a birthday cake and my dear friend and collaborator bought me flowers
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Anna Frances Probert
6 months ago
Two academic (lecturer) positions available at the University of Otago in Aotearoa/New Zealand! One in Conservation Biology, another in Evolutionary Ecology. Links for positions below:
otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Peter Solomon
6 months ago
Happy to announce that registration for the 2025 Stromlo Plant Pathology (and plant pests!) conference at ANU is now open (Nov 27-28). Plenary speakers confirmed include
@yasukadota.bsky.social
, Cecile Segonzac
[email protected]
. Please go to
tinyurl.com/2rdxuap3
to register - all are welcome!
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Rob Waterhouse
6 months ago
Upgraded CheloAbing_2.0 assembly resulted in individual estimates of inbreeding, including ROH proportion (FROH), number (NROH), and cumulative length (SROH), that were statistically different from those derived from the draft
#genome
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Synteny Enabled Upgrade of the Galapagos Giant Tortoise Genome Improves Inferences of Runs of Homozygosity
Here we update the reference genome for the Pinta Island Galapagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis abingdonii) through rescaffolding against the most closely related chromosome-level genome assembly, the...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.71358
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Diana Fisher
6 months ago
Papua New Guinea plant survey research jobs at Binatang Research Centre Madang
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Beyond thrilled to see this paper out. It is a combination of experiments I did breeding anole lizards in Panama combined with sequence data collected by my collaborators.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The genetic basis of a colorful signal: the polymorphic dewlap of the slender anole (Anolis apletophallus) - Heredity
Heredity - The genetic basis of a colorful signal: the polymorphic dewlap of the slender anole (Anolis apletophallus)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-025-00763-z
7 months ago
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Excited to share our latest paper on QTL mapping of temperature stress in the devastating wheat pathogen Z. tritici.
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Mapping genomic regions associated with temperature stress in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici
Abstract. Climate change can alter interactions between plants and their pathogens, which could adversely affect crop production. To better understand the
https://academic.oup.com/g3journal/advance-article/doi/10.1093/g3journal/jkaf094/8120478
7 months ago
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Jo Rhodes
7 months ago
Mapping genomic regions associated with temperature stress in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici
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Mapping genomic regions associated with temperature stress in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici
Abstract. Climate change can alter interactions between plants and their pathogens, which could adversely affect crop production. To better understand the
https://academic.oup.com/g3journal/advance-article/doi/10.1093/g3journal/jkaf094/8120478?rss=1
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Hey Journals - when you ask me if I can review a MS on Friday - I really don’t appreciate being reminded and asked to respond on the following Sunday. Surely you can train your automated response algorithms about weekends.
7 months ago
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John Manners
7 months ago
Genetically modified pod borer resistant cowpeas now boosting food security for smallholder farmers in Ghana
#plantscience
🧪
theconversation.com/ghanas-first...
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Ghana’s first genetically modified crop: why we created a new cowpea variety, how we tested it and what we found
Research results demonstrate the potential of GM cowpea to enhance yields and profitability for resource-poor farmers.
https://theconversation.com/ghanas-first-genetically-modified-crop-why-we-created-a-new-cowpea-variety-how-we-tested-it-and-what-we-found-252329?utm_medium=article_native_share
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Thorsten Reusch
7 months ago
Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics
@geomarkiel.bsky.social
/ University of Kiel
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June
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Nicolas Bierne
7 months ago
#PostDoc
in
#Montpellier
on mussel transmissible cancers
#TransCan
These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the
#HyperCan
team in a joyfull environment.
#MarEvol
#PopGen
#MusselsAreCool
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894
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Post-Doctoral Researcher – Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel (M/F)
- work environment: Host-Pathogen-Environment Interactions Laboratory (UMR5244 IHPE), Montpellier - main mission:
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894
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Eva Stukenbrock
7 months ago
New post doc opportunity in our team at Kiel University in the north of Germany. We are looking for a motivated molecular biologists to unravel plant-microbe interactions in grasses. Please see:
www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
More to our research and group here:
www.environmental-genomics.de
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Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
https://www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/stellen/extern/wiss
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Amelia Barber
7 months ago
Are you interested in a postdoc in Germany on fungal pathogen biology, genomics, or antifungal resistance? My Uni (
@uni-jena.de
) is hosting a free two-day masterclass in June on preparing MSCA Postdoc Fellowships with it as host. If you are interested in writing a fellowship with me, get in touch!
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KC👨🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺
8 months ago
🚨There is still time to apply for the POST DOC POSITION on wheat powdery mildew in my lab
@theccdm.bsky.social
!🚨
staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancie...
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Job vacancies, employment opportunities, academic and professional positions - Careers at Curtin | Curtin University, Perth Australia
Our mission is to transform lives and communities through education and research. Curtin employees form a unique and diverse community committed to innovative research and student learning. Find out a...
https://staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancies/?ja-job=711207
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Simon J. Greenhill
8 months ago
Two Fully-Funded PhD positions at Auckland Uni! Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity.
#linguistics
#evolution
#academia
#phd
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Anne Plessis
8 months ago
Very excited about this PhD project exploring new ways to model interactions of abiotic stress with environmental conditions in plants, combining sensor technology and advanced data analysis. Apply for a chance to change how we study environmental responses!
www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
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Embracing the noise: micro-environmental variability as a means to infer models for plant abiotic stress responses
University of Plymouth PhD studentship: This project will provide an unprecedented multi-factorial understanding of drought stress physiology that will...
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/postgraduate-research-studentships/embracing-the-noise-micro-environmental-variability-as-a-means-to-infer-models-for-plant-abiotic-stress-responses
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Remco Stam
9 months ago
Looking for a MSc programme
@uni-kiel.de
that combines agriculture and genomics (with options to specialize in plant or animals, molecular or computational techniques, or a bit of all?) Our MSc programme Agrigenomics is open for applications for next fall!
www.agrigenomics.agrar.uni-kiel.de/en
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AgriGenomics - An international Master`s Program for agricultural genomics at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
AgriGenomics - An international Master`s Program for agricultural genomics at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
https://www.agrigenomics.agrar.uni-kiel.de/en
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Cecile Lorrain
8 months ago
@jessstapley.bsky.social
covering the history of QTL mapping in Zymoseptoria tritici done by the Plant pathology Group of ETH Zürich 🧬🧬
#ecfg17
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
8 months ago
Fully open, FAIR and AI-ready biodiversity data by 2035 – this is the goal of a new roadmap already signed by natural history collections, journal publishers, global biodiversity networks & research infrastructures including SIB. See more 👇🏽
@rmwaterhouse.bsky.social
@libroscope.bsky.social
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Liberating global biodiversity knowledge from scientific literature
SIB and other leading infrastructures and biodiversity information experts will make crucial knowledge on our planet’s species openly available in FAIR, machine-readable and AI-ready formats. The �...
https://www.sib.swiss/news/liberating-global-biodiversity-knowledge-from-scientific-literature
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Today I’m talking about the genetic architecture of phenotypic plasticity in Z. tritici CS3.6.2 14:45.
8 months ago
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KC👨🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺
8 months ago
💥A post-doc position 💥💥on wheat powdery mildew evolution and genomics is available in my lab
@theccdm.bsky.social
in Australia. Get in touch with me for more info!
#ECFG17
www.seek.com.au/job/82416351...
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Research Fellow Job in Perth at Curtin University - SEEK
Seeking a full-time post-doctoral fellow with an interest in plant pathology and crop protection to join CCDM.
https://www.seek.com.au/job/82416351?tracking=SHR-WEB-SharedJob-anz-1&share=twt
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@iglavincheska.bsky.social
talking about how +|- dim2 effects methylation in Z. tritici - a TAD interesting 🧐
#ECFG17
8 months ago
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@karchuntan.bsky.social
#ECFG17
Pf2 regulates a suite of genes - coordinating multiple fungal effectors
8 months ago
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