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Kirk Amundson @kirkamundson.bsky.social · 4d

UMass Amherst Biology is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Plant Physiology. Deadline Nov 1. Please spread the word and apply!

careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...

Assistant Professor - Plant Physiology

The Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of Plant Physiology. The successful can...

careers.massachusetts.edu

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 9d

I really like the series of profiles @newphyt.bsky.social is currently publishing.

The new one is on @stanfordstomata.bsky.social:

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience #PlantLuminaries

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 13d

Which filter set did you buy? We used green go for gfp. I am trying to see if we can get some other ones for other FP

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 13d

Is this nightsee?

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Jacob Levine @jacoblevine.bsky.social · 14d

I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 16d

A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution

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

A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution

Developmental gene function is conserved over deep time, but cis-regulatory sequence conservation is rarely found. Rapid sequence turnover, paleopolyploidy, structural variation, and limited phylogeno...

www.biorxiv.org

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Sep 4

Please spread the words. This is the third annual AP search in our department to extend the junior faculty cohort!

Lotus Lofgren @lotuslofgren.bsky.social · Sep 2

Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049

Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Aug 4

Congrats!

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Aug 4

The unique morphological basis & repeated evolutionary origins of personate flowers in #Penstemon

New #AJB research by @trinitydepatie.bsky.social & @carriewessi.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #phylogenomics #evolution #snapdragon

Personate flowered Penstemon hirsutus (top) and a closely related species with open flowers, P. smallii (bottom).

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Jul 30

Kramer lab graduate students shining at #Botany2025. @elenakramer.bsky.social @andreaappleton.bsky.social

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Jul 26

Congrats Leo!

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Jesús Martínez-Gómez @jesusgm.bsky.social · Jul 25

A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025

Reach out!

www.martinezgomezlab.com

Martinez-Gomez Lab

Plant Evo-Devo

www.martinezgomezlab.com

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · Jul 22

Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026

Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS!

Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us

M O I L A B - Join us!

Join us! Our lab is based at the University of California, Berkeley, embedded in the vibrant and multicultural San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by astonishing nature!

www.moilab.science

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Mingyuan Zhu @mingyuanzhu.bsky.social · Jul 9

Excited to share that the Zhu Lab will officially open at Texas A&M University on August 1st, 2025!

We’re a multidisciplinary group, exploring how plant roots adapt their growth to environmental stresses across scales. Actively recruiting!

Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvn...

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Andy Plackett @seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social · Jul 10

I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r...

Closing date 31st July. 🙂
#PlantScience
#PlantSciencejobs

Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Joel Sharbrough @jsharbro.bsky.social · Jul 8

Please RT!

I'm hiring a postdoc to work in my new lab at UCSB (!) on an NSF-funded project investigating the phenotypic consequences of WGD for photosynthesis and respiration.

Check out the full posting here:
recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02986

And more info about the lab here:
sharbroughlab.com

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Jun 30

Gotta Catch’Em All!

Elena Kramer @elenakramer.bsky.social · Jun 30

We’re getting excited about Botany!

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Jun 27

I would say sectors of sepal primordia are transformed either transiently or stably. It probably won’t be pass on to the next generation unless the egg cell is also transformed

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Jun 27

Look like just part of the sepals?

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Jun 20

Congrats

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Jun 19

Happy to announce that I will be opening my lab in the PMB department at UC Berkeley this July. Our lab will study nectary development and evolution using non-conventional models. We are actively recruiting. Join us if you are also enthusiastic about development or evolution!

Gong Lab @ UC Berkeley PMB

www.yangonglab.com

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · May 23

Hey. Maybe that is the ancestral state and Arabidopsis is just so amazing at stomata patterning & gas exchange!

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · May 5

As part of the special issue for nectar and nectaries, our new review on nectary development and evolution is now published at @newphyt.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The developmental basis of floral nectary diversity and evolution

Nectar is a central bridge between angiosperms and animal mutualists. It is produced by specialized structures termed nectaries, which can be found on different plant organs. Consumption of floral ne....

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Apr 21

As part of the special issue on Nectar & Nectaries. Evin et al., contributed a fascinating review for nectar color and nectar chemistry! @newphyt.bsky.social

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Apr 20

#TansleyInsight: In the #nectar, there are answers: exploring the intersection of colored nectars and reactive #oxygen species in manipulating #pollinator behavior

Evin Magner, Rahul Roy, Adrian Hegeman & Clay Carter
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📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience

Figure 1: Colored nectar diversity, pigment synthesis, functions, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) involvement. Panels show the relationship between nectar ROS and coloration.

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Apr 10

Consider joining us for PBI on Plant Rewards this year! We have travel grants for ECR that are due next Monday!

Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Apr 9

Working on nectaries or plant-pollinator interactions? Join us for this year's Harvard Plant Biology Initiative Symposium on 'Plant Rewards' on May6/7. We have an awesome lineup of speakers with free registration. We are also offering two ECR travel grants (due April 14): forms.gle/jhTnv8pbuBxX...

Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Apr 10

Congrats! Fantastic story!

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