#InternDiarySeries – Week 3/8 📖🌳🔬
Today we are highlighting Cas who worked with our Investigating ash health genomics after long-term ash dieback exposure team!
Find out more about Cas’ experience creating recombination maps using population genetics data: www.forestprotection.uk/2026/04/22/i...
Special Issue announcement for Annals of Botany titled “C4 60 – From Kranz to Crops: Celebrating 60 Years of C4 Discovery and Innovation.” AoB editor Rowan Sage and guest editors Marjorie Lundgren, Robert Sharwood, and Luke Dunning are listed. Submission deadline: November 1, 2026. Background features a colorful microscopic image of plant tissue.
🍃 Join @annbot.bsky.social Special Issue celebrating 60 years of discovery in C4 photosynthesis, edited by Rowan Sage & guest editors Marj Lundgren, Robert Sharwood & Luke Dunning. (1/4)
@marjorielundgren.bsky.social
@luketdunning.bsky.social
#C4Photosynthesis #PlantScience #CropScience
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#InternDiarySeries - Week 2/8 📖🌳🔬
Today we are highlighting Liam, whose internship involved working to investigate ash health genomics after long-term ash dieback exposure. Read about Liam's experience here: www.forestprotection.uk/2026/04/15/i... 🔗
You can do it
Yes!
Breaking news: With more than 70% of the votes counted, Péter Magyar’s Tisza party is projected to win a two-thirds majority in Hungary's election ft.trib.al/a7M8jyZ
Update: summer is over
It is officially summer
Join the University of Sheffield as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in plant-genome analysis, focusing on horizontal gene transfer in flowering plants. Apply by April 23: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ547/research-asso... #postdoc
Happy to share this paper with @samyeaman.bsky.social, now published in Molecular Biology and Evolution!
Using replicated hybrid zones, we explored patterns of local adaptation and introgression in spruce and found strong signals even at very fine geographical scales!
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
My honest take? It's almost certainly a pre-emptive strike. Good to be cautious, but quick - launch the missiles!
Using up the last of those pesky cabbage + kale leaves/flowers etc
"Open the kitchen bay doors, Copilot"
Silly dog
The perfect celebrity duo for this marketing campaign doesn't exi-
He's behind you!
Dog says: Together, anything is possible
Proud that this work is now published!
We hope it helps orient future #Nanopore long-read sequencing studies hunting for structural variants
Also really happy to share eight new high-coverage (>100x) long-read read pools and assemblies with the #Drosophila community!
doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
It's that magical time of year once again
And now, a video message for you from an extremely retired and annoyed Andrew Bailey
If anything is going to have a fabulous rainbow paint coat, it should be HMS Queen Elizabeth
Genomic basis for resistance to acute oak decline and mildew infection in English oak www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...
Are you a PhD student looking for a placement? 🎓
Dr @laura-j-kelly.bsky.social is offering a 3-month project at @rbgkew.bsky.social building on @forest-protection.bsky.social research 🪲 Find out more and apply below ⬇️
"Don't smile because you got a treat - cry because you ate it" - ancient dog proverb
Collins et al. combined expression, methylation, and genomic data to investigate long-term persistence of laterally acquired genes in the grass Alloteropsis, showing that those capable of regulating their own expression are more likely to persist.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag042
#evobio #molbio
Cold Storage: fiiiiiinnneee I guess, probably would have been improved if they'd removed the entire Liam Neeson storyline and perhaps made the rest of it better. But at least they tried
