📣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/...
There are good initiatives focusing on training and leadership @UM6P (agc.um6p.ma) and @Stellenbosch's CERI (genomics.africa). Fruiting will take time but seeds were planted.
Here is the blueprint paper from previous workshops: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Image features photo of Edmund Albius
At just 12 years old, Edmond Albius discovered hand-pollination of vanilla orchids making global vanilla cultivation possible.🌺
#BlackHistoryMonth #PlantReproduction
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...
Photo of 9 slime mold sporangia that look like tiny, orange hot air balloons lined up in a somewhat disorderly row. The sporangia are on dark coloured, dead wood with bright green moss behind them.
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...
Naming my first variable $joe, and the next $jane…
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!
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...
Same here… I often ask to print the Arabic word for dick when error-catching… 🙈
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
To address the underrepresentation of women in our School’s genetics program and pursuant to a special measure under Section 12 (1) of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (VIC), this position is only open to female-identifying candidates.
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
Please explain?
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...
Thanks for voicing that, don’t keep quiet.
📣 New Paper out!!! 📣
When is ML outperforming good old parametric regression for genomic predictions? Go check 👇
doi.org/10.1093/gene...
Cool in freezer first 😎
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.
