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Jason Stajich
@hyphaltip.bsky.social
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I study evolution in fungi using genomics at UC Riverside. He/him.

Tongva, Cahuilla, Serrano lands

http://lab.stajich.org/

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 5d
Some of our early work on metal tolerance in yeast being tested on ExFAB Foundry system www.linkedin.com/posts/exfabn... 🤘
ExFAB UC Riverside: Accelerating Microbial Heavy Metal Research | NSF ExFAB BioFoundry posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Phenotyping microbial sensitivity to heavy metals (like copper and iron) is key to understanding the molecular basis of tolerance, which can be crucial for successful bioremediation efforts. At ExFA...
www.linkedin.com

Reposted by Jason Stajich

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bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 6d
Hidden in Plain Sight. How Ks histogram dynamics can reveal and obscure ancient whole genome duplications. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.19.689290v1

Reposted by Jason Stajich

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Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social · 6d
Thoroughly enjoyed @arunsethuraman.bsky.social's talk at the @ucriverside.bsky.social BPSC seminar today, "Exploring angiosperm polyploidy continuum at the species and population levels" 🌱 🌱
@jrossibarra.bsky.social made an appearance in one of the slides!!

Reposted by Jason Stajich

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 6d
Our lab from @HHMINEWS & @UCBerkeley is looking for undergrads to come for an internship!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
www.hhmi.org

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 6d
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/imp...
Improving methodologies of whole genome assembly and data processing of historical fungal collections to accelerate species discovery | TREES DLA
Fungi are essential components of ecosystems, driving nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, and countless symbiotic interactions. Yet, fewer than 10% of the estimated three million fungal species ha...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 8d
Looking forward to my lecture on Wednesday @ucriverside.bsky.social in the Botany & Plant Sciences seminar series! I’ll present some of our recent work on forward time whole genome sims & demographic inference in the polyploid continuum. See y’all there? plantbiology.ucr.edu/seminars
Seminars
BPSC 250 Seminar Series Fall 2025 Organizer: Louis Santiago Winter 2026 Organizer:
plantbiology.ucr.edu

Reposted by Jason Stajich, Jesse R. Lasky

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 9d
We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.

Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
jobs.charlotte.edu

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 14d
Hi Bluesky community - I'm teaching computational genomics again in the Spring term; always happy to have auditors or folks Zoom in. Just have your students email me for deets.

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 15d
ambrook.com/offrange/pho...
Your Land, My Land - Offrange
Much of the United States’ winter produce is grown in one economically depressed desert county in California with a century-long agricultural history, where a multi-billion dollar lithium mining indus...
ambrook.com

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Jason Stajich

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Jeremy B. Yoder 🧬📊🌿🏳️‍🌈🖖🏻 @jbyoder.org · 19d
Joshua trees make the cover of @newphyt.bsky.social for the issue with our paper, led by @kheyduk.bsky.social, showing that they use water-saving CAM photosynthesis — but only sometimes 🌿 buff.ly/WnPoRXa
The cover of the December 2025 issue of New Phytologist, with an image of a small western Joshua tree in the soft light of a desert morning

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Monica G. Turner, Jason Stajich , and 5 more

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 19d
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

Reposted by Håvard Kauserud, Jason Stajich

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 23d
If you need a professional terrestrial phototroph you need a symbiont of plant+fungi. Lichen (Spongiophyton sp) colonized the land already at least in the Early Devonian:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology
Paleogeographical distribution of Spongiophyton by the Early Devonian Spongiophyton paleoart Internal cellular structures

Reposted by Jason Stajich, Cameron Campbell, Sanford F. Schram

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 24d
UC Provost Katherine Newman has announced plans to defund this program, a preemptive capitulation with the feds that has not been ordered and should not occur. Newman has done this with zero consultation with campus-level leadership and none with any faculty — mentors or former fellows included.

Reposted by Jason Stajich, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Brian Keegan , and 2 more

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 24d
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

Reposted by Jesse M. Shapiro, Simon Roux, Jason Stajich

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Oct 21
OUT NOW Activity-targeted metaproteomics uncovers rare syntrophic bacteria central to anaerobic community metabolism by @ryanziels.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Activity-targeted metaproteomics uncovers rare syntrophic bacteria central to anaerobic community metabolism - Nature Microbiology
An approach combining BONCAT, stable isotope probing and metaproteomics showcases the hidden metabolic interconnectivity of microorganisms within an anaerobic digestion community.
www.nature.com

Reposted by Jason Stajich

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Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social · Oct 20
Fungal phylum-level classification update now available! Used "innovative taxonomy" to describe >100 taxa, from species to phylum, based on long reads, characteristic nucleotides and env-samples.
mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1616...

#fungi #taxonomy #PacBio #classification #eDNA
New fungal phylum-level system, with red font indicating novel taxa and size taxonomic diversity.

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · Oct 16
Pay your 2026 membership dues or become a member to save $$ in registration costs and be part of our scientific society.

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · Oct 16
Registration open for #Fungal26 genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/ at Asilomar.
Homepage - 33rd Fungal Genetics Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
genetics-gsa.org

Reposted by Francis Martin, Jason Stajich

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Oct 16
Fungal #GenomeSize variation is largely driven by TEs & lineage-specific genome defenses. @tbadet.bsky.social & @danielcroll.bsky.social show that presence/absence of RIP mutation systems influences #genome architecture, identifying a likely novel defense mechanism @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4hcC5tx
Widespread shifts in genome architecture and trophism across fungi. Phylogenetic positions of the shifts identified for genome size. Negative values denote an identified decrease in the genomic trait value while positive values denote an increase in the genomic trait value.

Reposted by Jason Stajich

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Oxford Nanopore @nanoporetech.com · Oct 15

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Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · Oct 13
Excited to share our preprint led by Carlos Voogdt et al

We developed new genetic tools & genome-wide libraries for species of the Bacteroidales order; constructed saturated barcoded transposon libraries in key representatives of three genera.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Simon Roux, Jason Stajich , and 3 more

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · Oct 10
I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Staff Scientist
About EMBL-EBI EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute is a data powerhouse, utilised on a global scale to advance scientific discovery through bioinformatics and solutions to some of the world’s mos...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com

Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Jason Stajich

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · Oct 9
Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...
Statistics in the era of AI
How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?
scienceforeveryone.science

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Lisa W. Fazio, James Q. Wilson , and 39 more

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Oct 8
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms

Reposted by Simon Roux, Jason Stajich

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · Oct 8
And it's posted! If you're interested and eligible, please consider applying through the UMD portal: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j....

If you're a PI working in algorithmic genomics (& you can recommend my lab to your top graduating students ;P), please let them know!

Reposted by Jason Stajich

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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · Oct 2
Our latest #preprint led by Yumary M. Vasquez & Frederik Schulz @jgi.doe.gov

The largest database of giant #virus MAGs (GVMAGs V2) with >18,000 genomes from #marine, freshwater, anthropogenic and terrestrial environments.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · Sep 27
Assistant Professor Plant or Fungal
Genomics. Univ of Wyoming. eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics
The Department of Botany and the School of Computing at the University of Wyoming invites applications for a tenure-track position in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the rank of Assistant Professor. We in...
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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · Sep 24
thefutureisfungi.awardsplatform.com Future is Fungi startup award applications are open. 🍄
The Future is Fungi Award
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Sep 24
So now the beetles can eat in peace (sans butterscotch-flavored death), the fungus grows in the resin channels, eventually killing the tree & staining the wood blue.

Only one thing can save it: forest fires. But only LITTLE ones.
When Trees Attack, Fungus Can Parry
Genetic analysis reveals why the pine beetle has ravaged so many trees
www.science.org

Reposted by Jason Stajich

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Sep 24
The terpenes in resin repel & toxify the beetle while smelling like a candy store.

But the beetle has a secret weapon. A partnership with a 'blue stain fungi'. The beetle has a special structure on their head that stores the fungus.

And the fungus stops the resin by clogging it up.
Summit Outside: the biology behind the lodgepole pine’s blue stain
The term symbiosis comes from the Ancient Greek
www.summitdaily.com