highlights from this morning's trail run at #botany2026. successfully avoided tripping on a rock and falling into any number of prickly things.
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@caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social
Evolutionary genetics of plant-insect interactions. Sault Tribe Chippewa. Professor-to-be at Arizona State University.
Anti-Indigenous environmentalism treats Indigenous Peoples as outsiders on lands they have stewarded for generations. #FreshBananaLeaves #GrowingPapayaTrees #IndigenousScience #EarthDaughters
I have always wanted to be able to view the genome, protein, and protein structure at the same time. Last week I built this utility with Claude Science. Click protein domain to zoom to structure and genomic region. I hope you find it as revealing and useful as I do. github.com/DavidSternLa...
PAPER from @pnovik.bsky.social #PlantScience royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Autopolyploidy exacerbates dominance masking under negative frequency-dependent selection: evidence from sporophytic self-incompatibility in Arabidopsis arenosa and Arabidopsis lyrata
Abstract. Polyploidy is widespread within flowering plants, with 35% of extant species being recent polyploids. Whether and how polyploidy modulates the ac
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Interested in joining a growing lab in LA? We’re hiring a postdoc!! Please spread the word to folks in your network and feel free to get in touch with any questions recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11142
It's on the university website so it's officially official now 😁
OrthoGLMM: Phylogenetic Association Testing for Gene Content and Trait Evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.03.736217v1
1st, it's totally possible to travel by train further than you would first think. 2nd, night trains rule. Treat yourself to a comfortable option, it's probably cheaper than a hotel night + a train ticket.
A step forward in discovering Buchnera's key to the aphid's heart, published today! Thanks to Jerry Maeda and other authors--a great team -- and to the helpful reviewers #SymbioSky doi: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A secreted endosymbiont protein essential for colonizing host cells - Nature
SyeA was present in the Buchnera ancestor, is secreted into the host cytoplasm, is homologous to secreted effectors of bacterial pathogens and is essential for Buchnera transmission.
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ERGA member Roberto Biello @rsbiello.bsky.social will present @official-smbe.bsky.social July 1 in session "Open 10b: Population genetics and genomics 3b" #SMBE2026
I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab
The full Mongue lab will be at #evol2026! Say hi or come see our work. All three of us have talks (pic related). Check this thread for some more specifics and we hope to see you there! 1/5
I am not at #Evol2026, but @conjustover.bsky.social is! Go check out his talk on collaborative work we have been doing with John Wakeley on simulating autotetraploids tomorrow at 4:15pm.
How did snakes get so long? Did they expand their necks? Torsos? Both? Do they even have necks? Find out (kind of) in 25A at 3:30 June 21st #Evolution2026
Fire on the mountain. Haven’t seen this since the 2020 Bighorn Fire.
The new OrthoFinder paper is out now! In this new work, we introduce major advances in accuracy and scalability, allowing analysis on much larger datasets www.nature.com/articles/s41... github.com/OrthoFinder/...
OrthoFinder: improved phylogenetic orthology inference with enhanced accuracy and scalability - Nature Methods
The updated OrthoFinder v3 software boosts accuracy and scalability in phylogenetic orthology inference with massive and diverse datasets.
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When caterpillars attack, the common bean plant relies on a receptor in its leaves to sound a chemical rallying cry that recruits predatory wasps, a new #ScienceAdvances study finds. https://scim.ag/434rXN5
A plant immune receptor mediates tritrophic interactions by linking caterpillar detection to predator recruitment
A plant receptor detects caterpillar attack and triggers emission of chemical cues to attract predatory wasps.
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Effector recognition by molecular mimicry of its target by an NLR - enabling multiple disease resistance specificities to be generated- first seen on @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social - great work led by @dianagdlc.bsky.social and Matt Moscou www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Molecular mimicry of a pathogen virulence target by a plant immune receptor
Plants and animals respond to pathogen attack by mounting innate immune responses that require intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins. These immune receptors detect pathog...
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Hummingbird moths on the columbines! 🌱🫛 From my front garden
📢 PDRA Position - Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London 🌱 Start: Aug 2026 (flexible) 🧪 Wet lab + bioinformatics 📅 Up to 3 years (ERC-funded) 📍 South Kensington, on site ℹ️ shorturl.at/VIITk 🔗 kourelislab.com #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology 🙏 Share with interested candidates!
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The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪
Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027
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Research Associate in Plant Synthetic Biology and Immune Receptor Engineering // Imperial College www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRT581/r... Do you want to bioengineer plant immune receptors to enhance disease resistance in crops? Join the Kourelis laboratory. #BotanyJobs
Research Associate in Plant Synthetic Biology and Immune Receptor Engineering at Imperial College London
An academic position as a Research Associate in Plant Synthetic Biology and Immune Receptor Engineering is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional…
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Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students @smishra677.bsky.social and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with @roblanfear.bsky.social). We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT) 1/n 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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