Lisa Smith

I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich

Post-doctoral position in Plant Developmental Genetics and Evolution

A 2-year post-doctoral position is available in
@rdplab.bsky.social

The successful candidate will join the SIGNAL team under the supervision of Dr. Yoan Coudert.

For more information : www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/IMG/pdf/...

From recall to reset: the role of DNA (de)methylation in modulating plant immune memory Epigenetic reprogramming is increasingly recognised as a driver of plant immune memory, yet its molecular basis remains poorly understood. Using a chemically inducible transgene in Arabidopsis, we tra...

Very excited to finally share the main findings from my PhD, now out as a preprint!

We developed an epigenetic system to understand how plants remember and forget past infections - a phenomenon known as immune memory 🌱🧬🧠

Highlights below! 1/9

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

Promotional image for the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images. The promo has a purple and green plant cell graphic with a black background. It also includes the details for the webinar including the date/time: Wednesday September 24, 2025 9:30am CT/10:30am ET/7:30am PT, the Zoom Link, and the Organizers: Ivan Radin, Kirk Czymmek, and Daniel Kierzkowski.

Promotional image for the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images. The promo has a purple and green plant cell graphic with a black background. It also includes the details for the webinar including the date/time: Wednesday September 24, 2025 9:30am CT/10:30am ET/7:30am PT, and the abstract for the event.

We are excited to announce the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images!

This workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30am PT/9:30am CT/10:30am ET.

Register Now! bit.ly/45zJE7V

@radinbio.bsky.social @rheelab.bsky.social

ONE Lectureship in genomics + TWO in ecology are advertised right now in my 'hood. Applications close 7th August. It'd be brilliant to have these filled with plant people. #PlantSciJobs #MonashBiol #plantecology #plantgenomics 🪴🧪🌱🌿🌾 This links to both : www.ecolsoc.org.au/opportunitie...

Jodie's sculpture is amazing! So great to have Sheffield plant scientists' work on display in London. Well done, Jess and Jodie!

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Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany)
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience

In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

A vase with sweet peas.

Two bowls of strawberries

Home grown sweet peas and strawberries. Must be summer.

We are looking for an intern to join the Biofoundry team!

Group Leader, Institute of Biotechnology Group Leader, Institute of Biotechnology

Group leader position at the University of Helsinki, Institute of Biotechnology. Plant biologists eligible as well. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Post-doc position: Genome Editing Sustainable and Innovative Potatoes - Agroscope Agroscope is looking for Post-doc position: Genome Editing Sustainable and Innovative Potatoes

❗ We have an open post-doc position in our group! 🌱🥔🧬
Are you interested in novel crop breeding techniques and potatoes? If yes, the CRISPS project (in collaboration with Wageningen University and SLU Sweden) may be something for you! You can apply here:
jobs.admin.ch/job-vacancie...
#NBTs

Multi-generational biotic stress increases the rate of spontaneous epimutations in a ROS1-dependent manner Mistakes in the maintenance of CG methylation are a source of spontaneous epimutations in plants that can be inherited across generations. The extent to which these stochastic events are affected by p...

In 2024, the main paper from our collaboration with Frank's group appeared on BioRxiv:

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

With this week's BioRxiv submission, that's four exciting papers from what was, in some respects, a failed experiment.

An evolutionary epigenetic clock in plants A fast-ticking evolutionary epigenetic clock in plants facilitates phylogenetic insights into the recent past.

A second paper followed in 2023 using epigenetic rather than genomic data from some of our lines, this time from our collaboration with Frank Johannes and his lab:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The genetic and epigenetic landscape of the Arabidopsis centromeres Long-read sequencing and assembly of Arabidopsis centromeres reveals their genetic and epigenetic topography.

In 2021, the first paper using some of our data was published thanks to @labschneeberger.bsky.social sharing genome sequencing data from our wild-type plants with @hendersi.bsky.social.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

However, in 2016/7 we had started collaborating with @labschneeberger.bsky.social and Frank Johannes. Our failure to induce priming fortunately didn't affect what they wanted to look at in the data.

10 generations turned into 15 as we grew the plants from 2014 to 2018. We checked priming in 2014 after one generation and were satisfied our protocol worked.

Then in 2018, we checked the priming after ten generations and there was no transgenerational priming. Four years of work and no priming...

In 2013, I joined the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at Sheffield, with @jurriaanton.bsky.social as a colleague. Jurr quickly persuaded me to join forces and start a multiple-generation stress experiment to see how long transgenerational priming would last after 10 generations of stress.

The mutational dynamics of the Arabidopsis centromeres Centromeres are specialized chromosome regions essential for sister chromatid cohesion and spindle attachment during mitosis. Many centromeres comprise highly variable, megabase-scale satellite DNA ar...

With the publication of a new preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) with collaborators @labschneeberger.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social and @jurriaanton.bsky.social, I feel it is timely to talk about what will probably be the most successful 'failed' experiment of my career.

A PhD position (initially 3 years) is available in our laboratory in the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), at the University of Tübingen (Germany). The position is available with an intended start date starting January 2026. Interested applicants should submit a single PDF comprising a motivation letter describing your research interests, an up-to-date CV, and the names and contact information for 2 references to timing.lab@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de ideally before July 21st.

We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

There are a couple more #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs open here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social

Scientist Pre-Breeding Rapeseed:
jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-...

Technical Assistant in Biotic Stress Trait Development
jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-...

Research Intern Plant Breeding
jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-...

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher! Join the Ma Lab in exploring the the intricate interplay between plant development and defense signaling. Link below. #jobs #research #plantbiology #vienna

If you haven't already - make sure to save the date to the Black in Plant Science Conference taking place on Friday 24 October at the University of Leeds. Registration will soon be opening so make sure to save the date to avoid disappointment.

Apply now for a four year Research Fellowship at Kew. £41,020 per annum Closing Date 20/04/2025 opportunity to become an independent researcher with some startup funds for research and travel. careers.kew.org/internal/vac...

Three days left to apply for a fully funded #PlantScience #PhDOpportunity with me and @julie-gray.bsky.social! Deadline Monday, April 14, 2025.

🌱 🔬

🚨 There is a 2-year postdoc position available in my group in Neuchâtel 🚨
Please share!
Details here: www.unine.ch/biologie/wp-...

Tom's paper on potential targets of CIPC for sprout suppression in potatoes (and Arabidopsis) is now out at Plant Direct in its final form, 4 months after our initial submission to BioRxiv.
dx.doi.org/10.1002/pld3...

Meeting dinner at Durham Castle

Networking at the Teaching and Learning Centre at University of Durham

Had a lovely time at the @gensocuk.bsky.social Seed Plants Research meeting. Such a diversity of topics, plus lots of networking opportunities, including dinner at Durham Castle!

Congrats to poster prize winners:
First: Karolina Brzezinska
Runners up: Skylar Johnson, George Jervis, Anisha Uppal

#PlantSciJobs

Lots of positions in Cambridge, including an epigenetics postdoc

Very much looking forward to this meeting in Durham!