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A new paper from our lab is out today after peer review: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🎉Exciting news!🎉 I’m thrilled to share that I have accepted a faculty position at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Grateful to my supportive friends, family, and mentors who believed in my potential and passion. The Evolution and Functional Genomics Group is here!

An effective and efficient avenue for incorporating crop wild relative diversity into modern germplasm is to use wild relative alleles already present in traditional varieties housed in germplasm banks. dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

🌳🌿 Colombia has the highest species richness and the highest 'phylogenetic diversity' of seed plants relative to other botanical 'regions'. By Melanie Tietje &l in the New Phytologist PDF 👉🏽 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111… (Caveat: 🇧🇷🇨🇳🇲🇽🇦🇺🇺🇸 were divided into smaller regions, but 🇨🇴 was not.)

Arabidopsis bolting be like: steady... almost there... freak out!

Curiosity got me. Just made the jump to bsky. Any tips? Is there a simple way to screen through 'science twitter' there? Also, I have an invite code if anyone is looking!

📣Please RT📣 2x postdoc positions are available in my upcoming lab at The Sainsbury Laboratory. Please apply if you are excited about single-cell and spatial analyses of plant-microbe interactions with cutting-edge technologies 🧬🌱🦠🔬 tsl.ac.uk/working-at-tsl…

It is my great pleasure to announce ggPlantmap (github.com/leonardojo/ggP…), an open-source R package to create ggplot maps from plant images. Now, you can create beautiful plant heatmaps to be visualized and modified in a R coding environment.

We are hiring in University of Toronto EEB ! Assistant Professor in Computational/Statistical Ecology, come work in a highly interactive department in a fantastic city. Please share! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As…

Well, one of my favorite papers (3rd fav!) of my career was just published at eLife - the journal. Here, we do what we do best: generate new understanding of the factors shaping multicellular evolution through a combo of synthetic biology, exptl evolution and theory. elifesciences.org/articles/84336

One of my PhD projects with John Stinchcombe and Megan Frederickson is now published in Molecular Ecology! We uncovered a latitudinal diversity gradient in non-rhizobia microbes associated with C. nictitans plants but not in rhizobia. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Reactivity of complex communities can be more important than stability Nature Communications by Yuguang Yang, @katcoyte, Kevin R. Foster & Aming Li nature.com/articles/s4146…

Did you know that Colombia has over 246 species of parasitic flowering plants? Also, 69 of them are endemic to the country! You can learn more about it in our most recent review doi.org/10.1007/s12229… . This is a collaboration with Favio Gonzalez Instituto de Ciencias Naturales - UNAL Universidad Nacional de Colombia 🤓🌱

Diplosoma luckhoffi is a tiny winter-growing succulent from South Africa. Completely dormant for much of the year, but when rain and heavy dew wet the soil in the cooler months, it sends up pairs of leaves, covered with sparkling, bubbly water-storage cells ("bladder cells").

Starting a lab at University of Toronto! Multiple positions open from grad students, postdoc’s, and a lab tech. If you are interested in the intersection of high-throughput microfluidics and microbial populations/microbiomes, check out my lab website at lanlab.ca!

New in Science Magazine with Jose A Escudero. A combinatorially complete fitness landscape with >260.000 E.coli genotypes shows unexpected 🤯 properties. Despite ~500 fitness peaks in this landscape, adaptive evolution can easily navigate to highest fitness peaks science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I’m so thrilled to announce the AfricanNeo Project is out today in nature! In this project led by Carina Schlebusch @cschlebu.bsky.social we studied: “𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝘽𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙪-𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝘼𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖”.🧵nature.com/articles/s4158…

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I am looking for *two* postdocs to join my lab at VT Biology next summer/fall. We work on the molecular basis of coloration and toxicity in poison-dart frogs. Please RT!! Job ad: tinyurl.com/mt28bdky Application link: tinyurl.com/3xs7tp23

"We propose that at least part of the pangenome can be understood as a set of genes with relationships that govern their likely cohabitants, analogous to an ecosystem’s set of interacting organisms." 🦠🩷🦠 Love this, can't wait to read it properly.