Mike Grillo

Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration More than a century after two introduced pathogens killed billions of American chestnut trees, introgression of resistance alleles from Chinese chestnuts has contributed to the recovery of self-sustai...

Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧬🧪

Davis Summer Population Genomics Program Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Bring back the pollinators.

Square promotional graphic for Botany 2026 featuring a desert illustration with cacti and flowers inside a circular badge. Text reads: “Biodiversity at the Boundaries. Botany 2026. August 1–5. Tucson, Arizona.” Below: “Call for abstracts now open! Deadline April 13, 2026.” Website: botanyconference.org. Logos of participating botanical societies appear along the bottom.

The #Botany2026 Call for Abstracts is OPEN!

Join 1,000+ botanical scientists to share research, spark collaborations, & explore this year’s theme: Biodiversity at the Boundaries.

Submission Deadline: April 13, 2026

Submit abstract here: www.xcdsystem.com/botany/abstr...

www.botanyconference.org

Image Text: Plant BLOOME 2025 ASPB's Plant Biology Learning Objectives, Outreach Materials & Education Grant. Grant Submission deadline: April 24, 2026. Apply Now! Featuring ASPB and BLOOME logo.

🚨Opportunity Alert: ASPB wants to share and fund your plant curriculum materials! Receive up to $8500 to create and disseminate classroom activities & labs that support teaching the Principles for Teaching Plant Biology.🌱

👉 Learn more and apply by April 24: buff.ly/21u2H27!

#PlantScience

Society for the Study of Evolution Site description

Applications due Monday for the T. H. Huxley Award, which recognizes high-quality evolution education resources! The recipient will have the opportunity to attend and present their work at the NABT meeting in October or #Evol2026 in June. Apply today! bit.ly/2kP2pPM

Uppsala in late autumn

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

If you have developed outreach/education resources and want to get the word out— @sse-evolution.bsky.social has a deadline coming up for funding to present at an education focused session/conference. Grad students and Postdocs are very welcome to apply! evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Students in my CURE @loyolachicago.bsky.social have been busy setting up their experiments comparing microbiome interactions between native and invasive legumes. It's single digits outside here in Chi-beria but feels like spring in our rooftop greenhouse!

Please consider applying for the Huxley Award if you have developed evolution teaching or outreach resources. I'm on the award committee and happy to answer any questions.

Trees Connect Us with Our Ancestors. 'When Trees Testify' Explores the Powerful Link (Exclusive) "We don’t have to just live with the memories of our ancestors," writes author Beronda L. Montgomery in an exclusive essay for PEOPLE in advance of her new book 'When Trees Testify,' out Jan. 20. "We ...

What can trees teach us about history and legacy?🌳In an exclusive PEOPLE essay, Beronda Montgomery, ASPB Fellow, reflects on how trees bear witness to Black history, memory, and survival. people.com/beronda-mont...

#PlantScience

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

I had a great time presenting at the Plant and Animal Genome conference and visiting with so many awesome folks. Lots of cool science! #PAG33

Will do!

The window for #application to our TBS grants closes Jan 15, so don't forget, and don't miss it! Get those applications in soon - we have #grants for undergrads, masters and PhD students alike to fund research, training and symposia! Apply here: www.torreybotanical.org/grants-awards/

🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾 #botany

Call for manuscript submissions for a new special issue in Environmental and Experimental Botany entitled "Ecophysiology of metal and metalloid hyperaccumulator plants".

Submission deadline is 1 August 2026

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.

Apply here no later than February 11 2026:

https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

Happy new year from northern Michigan.

Nice review! Mutants with altered root development produce distinct exudate profiles, ultimately reshaping their microbial communities. These observations collectively indicate that genetic variation or the genotype of the plant ultimately constrains the metabolic capacity.

Of course I get asked to review a paper during the holidays....

New Job opportunity at the University of Georgia Department of Entomology! Come work a dream job in beautiful Athens!
www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/463...

Our plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪

Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing These fungi boost plant growth and restore depleted ecosystems, but federal funding for a library housing them has been cut – and it may be forced to close

@invam.bsky.social collection, prairies, and AMF all featured in the awesome article

Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bell Labs 2.0? Silicon Valley bets on science with no strings attached Billionaire-backed Episteme aims to free research from bureaucracy. History shows that’s a tall task

Billionaire-backed Episteme aims to free research from bureaucracy. History shows that’s a tall task. https://scim.ag/3MXso70

How Genotype-by-Environment Interactions Can Maintain Variation in Mutualisms | The American Naturalist Abstract Coevolution requires reciprocal genotype-by-genotype (G × G) interactions for fitness, which occur when the fitness of a genotype in one species depends on the genotype it interacts with in a...

Carlson et al. build a mathematical model considering how genotype-by-environment interactions can maintain variation and parametrize their model to test its applicability to real mutualisms.

Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Summer school:<br> Evolutionary Biology in Guarda Information about the annual summer school Evolutionary Biology in Guarda

The 2026 Guarda Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology is now accepting applications. Amazing place, amazing course, amazing opportunity for early grad students.

tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...

Don't ask “when is it coevolution?”—ask “how?” Abstract. Coevolution has come to be widely understood as specific, simultaneous, reciprocal adaptation by pairs of interacting species. This strict-sense

It's in print! My opinionated dive into the definition of "coevolution" is officially out in the December issue of @journal-evo.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Fig. 1 Climate change effects on our ecosystems are diverse, but research on plant–microbe interactions has focused on drought.

#TansleyReview: Unraveling complexity in #ClimateChange effects on beneficial plant–microbe interactions: mechanisms, resilience, and future directions

Afkhami et al.
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📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience

The UC Davis Ecology and Evolution in Working Landscapes REU provides undergrads with research experience in ecology and evolution in natural and managed landscapes. Apply now through Feb 15 via etap.nsf.gov

Contact me or @clhom.bsky.social for questions!