So much to celebrate in the lab lately! 🎉
Welcoming our new postdoc, Nandhakumar, and celebrating the poster award to Yuvraj!
and multiple April birthdays!!
#IndianChaats #Bhelpuri #Golgappe
Nothing better than polaroid moments with the lab 📸 lots of memories in the making!
Yuvraj Chopra in front of his poster!
🎉 Huge congratulations to Yuvraj Chopra on the poster award at @ucriverside.bsky.social #GraduateResearchSymposium. It's impressive to see his rapid development and growing mastery of new approaches #ChromatinAccessibility #EnvironmentalStress
Absolutely well-deserved!!
Happy Tamil New Year, Arun!
🚨Happening Tomorrow 🚨
Plant Science Postdocs, Senior Grad Students, and ECRs: don't forget to join us next TOMORROW, Tuesday, April 14th from 2-3 pm PT / 4-5 pm CT / 5-6 pm ET for our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social webinar "What's new with NSF?" 🌾 🧪 🌱
Registration: tinyurl.com/PlantPostdocsApril14
Many congrats to Akira!
Huge congratulations to Ramin & Birnbaum lab🤩! Very happy we are copublishing complementary work with you guys. Grateful to @JST_ASPIRE for supporting our collaborative efforts in plant regeneration research 🌱.
The LI-6800 with a poorly-edited party hat on.
Happy Tenth Birthday to the LI-6800! We got you a present. www.licor.com/products/pho...
Excited to share this new Tansley article from our lab!
We discuss how plants differentiate between different microsymbionts to ensure beneficial symbiosis outcomes, comparing nodulation and AM symbiosis.
@newphyt.bsky.social
Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible!
-Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline
By all means, if you're deciding, take the time you need. But if you're deciding between two places, and there are three others you've ruled out, let those three know as soon as possible, not once you've picked a school
You could make a huge difference to someone else's life
Paging senior graduate students! Apply to present your research during the Salk Discover symposium and network with potential collaborators or faculty advisors. Application deadline extended to March 16.
More info: www.salk.edu/about/our-co...
"Postdoctoral Associate Position: Plant Systems Biology at New York University , New York, NY, United States"
Read more here: https://apply.interfolio.com/181405
#PlantSciJobs
🌿🧬Our new story is out in @natplants.nature.com! Tobacco plants usually pass down their mitochondria maternally, but we show we can trigger paternal transmission of mitochondria at high levels & restore plant health in the offspring of mothers harboring defective mtDNA www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis (WGCNA) has been the go to program for analysis of gene expression modules for nearly two decades but it is a difficult to implement. To make it easier to use WGCNA, I used Codex to build a human in the loop agentic workflow. github.com/lowrylab/WGC...
Using data from Table1(*), here are the contributions of each discipline to bioRxiv over time.
Evolutionary biologists used to be leaders in preprint use, but were displaced, and now neuroscientists are by far the greatest contributers of preprints to bioRxiv
So when do authors preprint? Many do long before they submit to a journal (to get feedback to improve the work?); many submit around the same time (just want the work out?). Only a minority are submitting once the paper is under review [evidence against claims by some detractors]. 3/n
The Bart Lab at UC Berkeley is looking for a postdoc. Please share!
I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.
Wow! I seem to have forgotten the cold winters of the Midwest and the East Coast and enjoying sunny California 😎
Thanks for the invitation, Sunil! Very nice to be back. Also, it was 79 degrees in Riverside and Philly was like 0 degrees, so….yeah😂
Had a fantastic time hosting my friend @husbandslab.bsky.social (an alum of our Plant Biology Graduate program @ucriverside.bsky.social)
Cool talk on paralog-specific regulation of transcription factor families! Exciting discussion on evolutionary and regulatory divergence!
#GeneRegulation
Our proposal on the evolution of the trade-off between seed size and seed number also didn't advance!!
🎙️☘️🔬
New episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast of this year!
I had a wonderful discussion with Heather about her Cell Reports paper.
Podcast: tinyurl.com/a9vcteru
Article: tinyurl.com/4dhxuye2
We’re #hiring a #postdoc @ucriverside.bsky.social 🌿
Work on cis-regulatory evolution, gene family diversification, and cell-type-specific climate responses using single-cell and comparative genomics - kenchanmanelab.com/research/
Deadline: Feb 5, 2026
Apply: aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF02058
image of a maize inflorescence meristem that is labeled by the plasma membrane marker PIP2-CFP and BAM1D-YFP.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JAIVZX...
Excited to share my latest work in @newphyt.bsky.social. Here, we used TurboID proximity labeling with CLAVATA receptors FEA3 and BAM1D in maize meristems to better understand the signaling pathways important for meristem regulation. #PlantScience
I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt
Reposts appreciated!
Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
🎉 Congratulations @szintri.bsky.social
Beyond excited to see my guru, James Schnable, University of Nebraska, awarded the NAS Prize in Food and Agricultural Sciences!!
www.nasonline.org/award/nas-pr...
Conversations that started with science, somehow leading to people management, careers, friendship, mangoes & everything under the sun🥭
Conversations like this are worth at least a few college degrees. So grateful for these #mentors & #moments
@szintri.bsky.social @rebeccaroston.bsky.social #PAG33
I'm looking for a postdoc to work at the interface of molecular biology, comparative genomics & single-cell data science, a great opportunity to lead projects on regulatory evolution and cell-type-specific stress responses. Find me at PAG or reach out kenchanmanelab.com
#SingleCell #PostdocPosition
Heading to #PAG33 to present 'regulation of environment responses' in 'Plant Epigenetics for Crop Improvement' session on Mon, 01/12. Shout-out to Yuvraj & Minnie for driving comparative genomics, epigenomics & single-cell work!
We are also looking for a postdoc to join our group!
Details below 👇
