Marco Todesco

Ehm, now with attached postdoc ad...

22.12.2025 22:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very young Marco offering a wild raspberry to the camera

As a lifelong fan of raspberries (see attached photographic evidence), I am so excited about this project - a childhood dream come true!
Blueberries are fine as well, I guess 😅

22.12.2025 22:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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! 🌱 🫐 ⚗️ 🧬

22.12.2025 22:37 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

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

22.08.2025 20:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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...

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

12.08.2025 20:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

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.

Oh, but fortunately there is this handy News and Views that makes everything clear! 🌻🫄 @ubcbotany.bsky.social
rdcu.be/ef9aW

03.04.2025 00:12 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sunflower sexual reproduction - Nature Spontaneous parthenogenesis in sunflower has been used to develop a scalable doubled haploid breeding system.

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

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I guess about time I stopped pretending things were normal on X...

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