Great video on biodiversity research in BC, featuring lots of very smart people, and myself. Thanks @bcgsc.ca for putting this together and highlighting the importance of biodiversity genomics!

BC Genome Sciences Centre@bcgsc.ca · 2mo ago

“The importance of biodiversity is that it gives us a way to understand the world that we live in.” We are excited to unveil the first of the GSC’s three new mandate videos: this one is on Biodiversity, Environment, & Agriculture which showcases our collaborations and impact in these sectors.

Nice article on great work by Cassandra Elphinstone (soon to be published, hopefully)

Genome BC@genomebc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How do plants adapt as the planet warms? 🌱☀️ Genome BC-funded research at UBC is exploring how plants may experience epigenetic changes in response to climate change. Read more: https://letstalkscience.ca/news-media/adapting-warming-how-plants-change-beat-heat# Let's Talk Science

We are looking for a postdoc to help with a project on eelgrass genomics, in collaboration with the O'Connor and Rieseberg labs at UBC - see ad here tinyurl.com/2yd487p4! Come and join us in beautiful Vancouver 🌊🌾🏔️

Great postdoc opportunity to work on metabolomics and genomics of aroma in berries (raspberry and blueberry) at UBC in beautiful Vancouver! Come explore aroma diversity and figure out what are the metabolites and genes that control it - and help us make even better berries! 🌱 🫐 ⚗️ 🧬

Only two days left to apply for this position in our lab at UBC!

Marco Todesco@mtodesco.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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

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

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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! tinyurl.com/yxwc2a5v

Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sunflower sexual reproduction - Nature

Spontaneous parthenogenesis in sunflower has been used to develop a scalable doubled haploid breeding system.

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