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Simon C. "Niels" Groen

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Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology @UCRiverside, #FirstGen Academic, evolution of interactions between parasitic nematodes and their hosts, including plants and insects

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Assistant Professor The Department of Biology at UNC Chapel Hill (https://bio.unc.edu/) is searching to hire a tenure track Assistant Professor to study critical questions in Plant Molecular Biology.We seek candidates wh...

UNC Chapel Hill is hiring an Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Per Jeff
Dangl MPMI candidates are also highly desired in the search. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

06.10.2025 22:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology & Fungal Biology, UC Davis. ๐Ÿ„๐ŸŒฑ recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Deadline Dec 1, 2025. ๐Ÿ‘€ "Primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upper-division lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society"

23.09.2025 03:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
*Application Deadline: 11/1/2025"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20250919_UCB.pdf

#PlantSciJobs

19.09.2025 23:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Ecology and/or Evolution @columbiauniversity.bsky.social.
Deadline to apply September 30.
Reach out if you have questions.

apply.interfolio.com/172496

20.09.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 46    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

17.09.2025 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 80    ๐Ÿ” 132    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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A new EPPO Datasheet on the rice root-knot nematode Meloidogyne graminicola is now online in the EPPO Bulletin. Thanks to Giovanna Curto, Italy.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

17.09.2025 07:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations Marianna! This is a fantastic paper ๐Ÿฅณ๐ŸŽ‰

15.09.2025 20:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position inย Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus onย organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!

Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889

12.09.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 58    ๐Ÿ” 88    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
VENUES | The Mansion at Glen Cove | Luxury Mansion Wedding Venues & Events Discover premium meeting spaces at The Mansion at Glen Cove. Our mansion is perfect for corporate events with elegant surroundings and modern amenities.

The next stand-alone meeting of the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social will be on the East Coast!!! Mark your calendars for January 8-12, 2027 and we'll talk evolution, ecology, behavior, and integrative organismal biology at www.themansionatglencove.com/meeting-venues

12.09.2025 15:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
Assistant Professor- Department of Plant Biology Duties & Responsibilities

Dept of Plant Biology at UIUC hiring in any subdiscipline of Mycology and/or Plant-Fungal Interactions tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level.
Apply by Oct 31, 2025. For complete details including salary and benefit information, visit go.illinois.edu/PlantBiolfac...

11.09.2025 20:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A large fly hanging from a leaf by its two front legs, holding a tiger-striped prey fly in its middle/hind legs. iNaturalist Photo 10502457, (c) Mikael Behrens, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/10502457?size=large

A large fly hanging from a leaf by its two front legs, holding a tiger-striped prey fly in its middle/hind legs. iNaturalist Photo 10502457, (c) Mikael Behrens, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/10502457?size=large

"Why is it called a hanging thief?" www.inaturalist.org/photos/10502...

08.09.2025 16:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 190    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

08.09.2025 15:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 138    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - East Lansing, Michigan, United States Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The Plant Resilience Institute (PRI) at Michigan State University invites applications for multiple tenure-st...

Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

08.09.2025 12:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 51    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Plant cells are totipotent, meaning individual cells have the potential to develop into a full organism, a property unique to the zygote for animals. However, in most species for most cells, plant cells are not spontaneously totipotent, since they must be treated with specific hormone combinations to unlock their totipotency. Species within the Kalanchoe genus is unique as they spontaneously develop foliar embryos that are fully realized plantlets with shoot and root from notches along the edges of leaves. We speculate that the progenitor cells that give rise to these foliar embryos are totipotent, and we are using single cell techniques to identify & characterize them. In addition to being a fundamental process for plant biology, we foresee unlocking totipotency has many biotechnological applications, such as faciliating genetic transformation and the development of synthetic organs of biomanufacturing.

Please share! I'm looking for a postdoc. The position is to lead one of the following projects: 1) regulation of plant specialized metabolism by cell fate, or 2) foliar embryogenesis in the succulent plant Kalanchoe.

Learn more abt projects: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/res...

04.09.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 88    ๐Ÿ” 110    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Homepage - Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference Visit our website to learn more.

Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!

03.09.2025 18:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 63    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Uncovering the multi-layer cis-regulatory landscape of rice via integrative nascent RNA analysis

๐Ÿšจ New paper in the lab! ๐ŸŒพ

Thrilled to share our latest article published in Genome Biology!
๐Ÿ‘‰ rdcu.be/eBh6j

๐Ÿ‘ Congrats to the students for their remarkable contributions! A real pleasure collaborating with @aepina2.bsky.social, P. Edger, @jychoi.bsky.social & M. Purugganan on this project.

30.08.2025 13:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Assistant or Associate Professor - Fungal Biology/Mycology The Department of Plant Pathology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) at the University of Georgia is recruiting for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor in Fu...

Assistant/ Associate Professor of Mycology at UGA - Go be part of a Legendary Fungal Group fungi.franklinresearch.uga.edu and dept of plant pathology plantpath.caes.uga.edu www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

21.08.2025 19:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

21.08.2025 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 55    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

11.08.2025 16:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 121    ๐Ÿ” 108    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

A nematode effector hijacks a host RBR-type E3 ubiquitin ligase to regulate NRC4 receptor-mediated plant immunity and facilitate parasitism (Xin Qin , Jiarong Yu , Wenjun Hu , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

06.08.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. ๐ŸŒฑ Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

02.08.2025 16:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 84    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A root-specific NLR network mediates immune signaling of resistance genes against plant parasitic nematodes (Daniel Lรผdke , Toshiyuki Sakai , Jiorgos Kourelis , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

01.08.2025 16:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Post-Doc Research Associate The researcher will be primarily responsible for carrying out investigations related to our lab's research, using an insect model system (aphids) to address mechanistic and evolutionary genetic questi...

The Parker Lab at UNC Biology is hiring a postdoc to work on insectโ€“microbe interactions.

Support available for multiple years from startup; we are open to a range of project ideas. Come join us to study symbiosis in a supportive, collaborative environment!

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...

01.08.2025 15:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.

๐Ÿšจ First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social

We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.

๐Ÿ“„ North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Predicting the direction of phenotypic difference Nature Communications - Here authors reveal a method to predict key information on phenotypes - their direction. This is achievable even for phenotypes with incomplete genotype-to-phenotype...

Given two genomes, can you tell whoโ€™s taller or more prone to a disease? How confident can you be? A fresh take on phenotypic inference, now out:
rdcu.be/exW4f
See thread๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡:

26.07.2025 17:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 49    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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M O I L A B - Join us! Join us! Our lab is based at the University of California, Berkeley, embedded in the vibrant and multicultural San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by astonishing nature!

Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026

Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS!

Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us

22.07.2025 22:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Garud Lab

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!

22.07.2025 17:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 86    ๐Ÿ” 100    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

"Postdoctoral Researcher in Organelle Synthe4c Biology at UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=Yu_7-21-25.pdf

#PlantSciJobs

21.07.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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John Matthew McDowell: A Visionary Leader in Molecular Oomycete-Plant Interactions and a Wonderful Mentor and Friend to Many | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactionsยฎ

In memory of our dear colleague, John McDowell, who left us all too early. RIP. doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...

16.07.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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