Dave Des Marais
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Father, photographer, occasional climber, plant biologist at MIT. Not the geochemist.
Super inspiring profile of a great student. I'm proud to have taught and worked with Ananda over the past two years.
news.mit.edu/2025/shaping...
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Shaping the future through systems thinking
MIT senior Ananda Santos Figueiredo aims to create a better future using systems thinking.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/shaping-future-through-systems-thinking-ananda-santos-figueiredo-0527
4 months ago
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Congrats to Meghan Blumstein and Sophie Webster for this great study on exploiting genomics to better understand the effect of urban heat islands on tree phenology!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408564122
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MIT's Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab is searching for a new (non-faculty) Executive Director. This is a great opportunity to connect MIT PIs and stakeholders around the world.
careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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Executive Director
MIT - Executive Director - Cambridge MA 02139
https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/external/jobDetails/jobDetail.html?jobPostId=32173&localeCode=en-us
6 months ago
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CRC TRR 341 "Plant Ecological Genetics"
6 months ago
Cologne Spring Meeting continues with “Resurrecting plants for climate change research” by Niek Scheepens from
@unituebingen.bsky.social
Innovating plant resurrection techniques to study climate adaptation.
#ClimateChange
#PlantResurrection
#TRR341
#DFG
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I really enjoyed presentation by
@seemasheth.bsky.social
at the Cologne Spring Meeting. Absolutely heroic field work addressing local adaptation with a great model system
6 months ago
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New preprint from the lab! PhD student Jie Yun developed a nice computational pipeline to test long-standing hypotheses about life history trade-offs associated with domestication.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Does domestication trade-off stress tolerance for leaf growth? A search for evidence across eight Pooideae grass species
Plant domestication is thought to create trade-offs between high yield and stress tolerance, raising concerns about yield stability in future climates. Previous studies have found limited direct evide...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.30.626197v1
10 months ago
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Congratulations to Dr. Haoran Cai!!!
@haorancai.bsky.social
successfully defended his thesis earlier today in MIT CEE and is moving to UCLA to begin a post-doc.
10 months ago
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Ivan Radin
10 months ago
My department, Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of Minnesota is looking for a new head and colleague in any area of Plant and/or Microbial Biology. Job ad:
hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
So please spread the word to anyone who might be interested. Thank you 😁
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Harmit Singh Malik
11 months ago
Very sad to hear of the passing of Joanne Chory, who was an iconic scientist and person. Truly, one can say she spent her whole career trying to make a better planet and a better environment in science for all. Interview:
www.sebiology.org/resource/in-...
TED talk:
www.ted.com/speakers/joa...
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In conversation with… Joanne Chory
“I’m excited that people are finally letting us remind them that plants exist and that they are here for a reason,” says Professor Joanne Chory, plant geneticist at the Plant Biology Group of the Salk...
https://www.sebiology.org/resource/in-conversation-with-joanne-chory.html
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Jill Hamilton
11 months ago
So excited to announce our department is hiring a tenure track position in Forest Ecophysiology! Happy to answer any questions about the position!! Join us in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management at Penn State!
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
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Assistant Professor of Forest Ecophysiology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
https://psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Academic/job/Assistant-Professor-of-Forest-Ecophysiology_REQ_0000061578-1
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My department at MIT has a joint search with the College of Computing in computation for environmental life sciences. Please apply, and pass along!
faculty-searches.mit.edu/cee-scc/
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MIT Faculty Searches MIT CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING FACULTY SEARCH
https://faculty-searches.mit.edu/cee-scc/
11 months ago
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Oded Rechavi
11 months ago
Every picture in the CSHL bar
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Tami Lieberman
11 months ago
New postdocs fellowship at MIT for folks interested in applications of AI. Fellows will have advisors in both AI and a discipline. Please reach out if interested in applying cutting edge AI to the microbiome or microbial evolution!
computing.mit.edu/tayebati-pos...
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David Lowry
11 months ago
I am currently searching for a new postdoc to conduct research using amazing data sets that we have accumulated over years through research on a continental-scale array of field experiments with switchgrass genetic mapping/GWAS populations.
careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/52...
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MSU Careers Details - Research Associate-Fixed Term
https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/520982/research-associatefixed-term
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Haoran Cai
11 months ago
Thrilled to share my recent perspective piece with
@diogromelo.bsky.social
and
@evodaveo.bsky.social
on the empirical measurement of developmental bias in a GP map and its conceptual links with other quant gen variational properties.
www.cell.com/trends/genet...
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Disentangling variational bias: the roles of development, mutation, and selection
The extraordinary diversity and adaptive fit of organisms to their environment depends fundamentally on the availability of variation. While most population genetic frameworks assumes that random muta...
https://www.cell.com/trends/genetics/abstract/S0168-9525(24)00230-0?rss=yes&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it
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We're looking for two Asst Profs, one with @MIT_SCC on computation and environmental life sciences. Join Otto Cordero, Tami Lieberman, Cesar TerrerDarcy McRose, Serguei Saavedra and I to expand our impact in this essential area. Please apply!
faculty-searches.mit.edu/cee-scc/
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MIT Faculty Searches MIT CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING FACULTY SEARCH
https://faculty-searches.mit.edu/cee-scc/
12 months ago
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Attending
#Evol2024
? Got a good plant biology story to tell? Come join New Phytologist associate editors Robin Hopkins and me to learn about publishing at New Phytologist. Palais d Congres 445B Saturday at 12:30. Journal swag and light fare provided!
about 1 year ago
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
over 1 year ago
Phenomenal work from Jia-Wei Wang’s lab provides a comprehensive view of the mechanisms underlying different degrees of perenniality in different Brassicaceae
#plantscience
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Thanks to TILclimate Podcast for including me in a great episode about the CO2 fertilization effect!
climate.mit.edu/podcasts/e1-...
over 1 year ago
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Gina Baucom
over 1 year ago
New paper from the lab just out in Evolution! The double life of trichomes: understanding their dual role in herbivory and herbicide resistance
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The double life of trichomes: understanding their dual role in herbivory and herbicide resistance
Abstract. Understanding the evolutionary forces that maintain phenotypic variation in ecologically relevant traits has long been one of the central goals of evo
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpae048/7633789
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Evolution Meetings
over 1 year ago
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for…registration for the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology is open! We hope that you will join us!
#Evol2024
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
@eseb.bsky.social
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Nice work from my (non-BlueSky) colleague Charlie Harvey on a very important terrestrial carbon sink. Cool combination of field data, remote sensing, and modeling
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
almost 2 years ago
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