Assistant Prof @ Yale EEB. Canadian in the US. Lover of evolutionary genetics, speciation, adaptation, and plants. Mimulus fanatic. (they/them)
Here are 70+ accounts to help you follow along at home for #Botany2026. Are you attending and not in the starter pack? Reply here to be added.
Dr. Hilary Rose DawsonI can't make it to #Botany2026 this year, but I don't want to miss out on all the cool plant science being presented. I've made a starter pack to follow along from home (and to find more great botanists to follow year-round). Reply here to be added! go.bsky.app/HdDpDrW
Stanford University is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Climate Science 🌎 ✨ Broad search, department may be any within the Doerr School of Sustainability, including Oceans! 🌊 Apply by Nov. 1. Please share! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in Climate Science - Stanford University, California, United StatesStanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Climate Science. The home department may be any of the seven departments in the Stanford Doerr School of...facultypositions.stanford.edu
Officially recruiting postdocs at GW. If you are interested in genetic novelty, structural variation, or evo genetics please get in touch! We have data sets on mulitple organisms with large population sizes (Drosophila, Megalonaias nervosa) and species in decline (fireflies, mussels, elephants).
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 "Deconstructing empirical fitness seascapes across scales of granularity" published in #G3 (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social) 1/2 The fitness landscape has been among the most influential instruments in evolutionary theory for nearly a century. But we often treat them as fixed and static.
"How two hybridizing monkeyflowers resist phenotypic homogenization" I'm very happy to share this. We would really appreciate your feedback!
Jenn CoughlanSo proud of this manuscript- lead by the fantastic @henryarenas.bsky.social with two undergraduates (Cage Cochran and Quinn Evans) each doing a Herculean effort during their honors theses, and Hongfei Chen helping out tremendously with lab work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavioreeb.msu.edu
uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... The Kreiner and Carley Lab groups are hiring a shared Research Analyst to help lead wet lab protocol development and management. We're a fun group and would love to hear from you :) Get in touch with questions!
Research, AnalystDepartment BSD E&E Carley Lab About the Department The Kreiner Lab (kreinerlab.com) and Carley Lab (carleylab.uchicago.edu) in the Department of Ecology & Evolution at The University of Chicag...uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
Major #Botany2026 FOMO, but the drive MA->OR starts this week. So, sharing from afar: I’m recruiting grad students for my new lab at OSU! Info: www.mckenzie-lab.org . We're going to have FUN with systematics, speciation genomics, methods, natural history, and more in North Am angiosperms. Reach out!
I won’t be at #Botany2026 but for those interested in bryophyte phylogenetics or sex chromosomes check out Seyeon Kim’s talk at 9:30a Monday in Colloquia 1 - Beyond Phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
UVfinder: a tool to extract bryophyte sex-linked gene copies from the GoFlag408 probe setPremise Target enrichment sequencing using probe sets like GoFlag 408 has revolutionized phylogenetics, yet recent genomic data indicate that some probes may be sex-linked, potentially introducing top...www.biorxiv.org
Hey. You. Presenter at #Botany2026. Let's use the mic this week, yes?! Yes!
At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.
Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNASIn avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm
of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...www.pnas.org
What a systems view can tell us about genomic imprinting in plants! Happy collab with @vojta-ce.bsky.social @omeriltas.bsky.social @apecinka.bsky.social @susnatas.bsky.social @kovacik.bsky.social A. Přibylová and led by Trezalka Budinsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Imprinted regulatory networks reveal the molecular cross-talk between paternal and maternal genomes in the endosperm of Arabidopsis arenosaImprinted genes do not act alone to shape seed development, but as a complex network - just like any other gene. Yet, the molecular context in which they are embedded, i.e. their gene network, remains...www.biorxiv.org
New preprint: 338 coleopteran genomes reveal exceptional rearrangement variation compared to other insect orders. Big congrats to @arf-mln.bsky.social, for getting this giant piece together. Big collaboration of @joanameier.bsky.social's and my groups. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.64898/202...
New preprint: 'Internal evolutionary conflicts: a conceptual synthesis and mathematical primer' Really fun collaboration with @gauravathreya.bsky.social, @shikharabhat.bsky.social, @yagmurerten.bsky.social, and @tom-is-kean.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Internal evolutionary conflicts: a conceptual synthesis and mathematical primerInternal evolutionary conflicts arise when elements within an organism have diverging fitness interests. Examples range from meiotic drive and cytoplasmic male sterility to transposable elements and s...www.biorxiv.orgE. Yağmur ErtenMiraculously, all three of us managed to get our visas on time, and I’m now celebrating by reading the revised version of our MS (soon-to-be a preprint + @gauravathreya.bsky.social will be talking about it in our mini-symposium), accompanied by some Irish beer at a local pub 🤩
Thrilled to have received an ERC Advanced Grant to investigate the mechanisms and biological impact of small RNA mobility in plants. A huge thanks to my team for making this possible, and to the reviewers for their support and confidence in the project. Looking forward to getting started!
Tobias LortzingERC Advanced Grant @erc.europa.eu for @maxplanck.de Director Claudia Köhler @claudiakohler11.bsky.social! She receives 2.5 million euros to study how mobile small RNAs can impact adaptive functional traits in plants. Congratulations!
Besides, I'm looking for grad students to join my group! If anyone is interested in admixture related questions in popgen (humans, drosophila and beyond) and spend a few years in beautiful Ann Arbor, I'm happy to chat whenever during SMBE!
Xinjun ZhangJust in time for #SMBE2026! Here's DEEP for detecting ghost/superarchaic introgression: scalable, robust, and no ARG! We find ~0.5% genome with superarchaic ancestry in East Asians and Oceanians, plus a notable signal at HLA Come find our poster tonight (#241)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1
stri.si.eduI’m starting at Oregon State University this September as Herbarium Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. An absolute dream job and I am so grateful! Looking to grow the lab soon and will update here. In the meantime please don’t hesitate to reach out!
New paper led by Célia Neto presenting a multiparent intercross population (and trait mapping) from Cape Verde Arabidopsis parents
Genetics Society of AmericaLatest in #GENETICS from @celianeto.bsky.social, @ahancock.bsky.social, and colleagues: A new panel of genetically diverse recombinant #Arabidopsis lines from the Cape Verde Islands uncovers genetic variants of adaptation that were difficult to map in this island population. 🌱 🏝️ 🔗 buff.ly/oOTp4hV