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Marco Todesco
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Plant geneticist, molecular and evolutionary biologist. Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (MSL/Botany/Biology)
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Marco Todesco @mtodesco.bsky.social · Aug 22
Only two days left to apply for this position in our lab at UBC!
mtodesco.bsky.social Marco Todesco @mtodesco.bsky.social · Aug 12
The Todesco lab at MSL UBC is looking for a Research Tech to help us run the lab and do fancy science! Good wet lab skills and enthusiasm for plant research are required, experience with genomics and bioinformatics is a plus. See ad below, please spread the voice! 🧬🌻🧪🌱🔬🧫
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Research Assistant/Technician 3
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Marco Todesco @mtodesco.bsky.social · Aug 12
The Todesco lab at MSL UBC is looking for a Research Tech to help us run the lab and do fancy science! Good wet lab skills and enthusiasm for plant research are required, experience with genomics and bioinformatics is a plus. See ad below, please spread the voice! 🧬🌻🧪🌱🔬🧫
tinyurl.com/5bnfyadw
Research Assistant/Technician 3
Staff - Non Union Job Category Non Union Technicians and Research Assistants Job Profile Non Union Salaried - Research Assistant /Technician 3 Job Title Research Assistant/Technician 3 Department Rese...
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Marco Todesco @mtodesco.bsky.social · Apr 3
Oh, but fortunately there is this handy News and Views that makes everything clear! 🌻🫄 @ubcbotany.bsky.social
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Sunflower ‘virgin births’ enable accelerated crop breeding
The discovery that sunflower seeds can develop without fertilization reveals a pathway to accelerate improvement of this crop — and potentially others.
www.nature.com
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Marco Todesco @mtodesco.bsky.social · Apr 3
Really neat paper out in @nature.com on an efficient way to produce doubled haploids in sunflower, thanks to the serendipitous discovery of spontaneous haploid parthenogenesis.
That might be the least intelligible sentence I have ever written - great science communication Marco!
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Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sunflower sexual reproduction - Nature
Spontaneous parthenogenesis in sunflower has been used to develop a scalable doubled haploid breeding system.
www.nature.com
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Marco Todesco @mtodesco.bsky.social · Apr 1
I guess about time I stopped pretending things were normal on X...
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