@simoncgroen.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology @UCRiverside, #FirstGen Academic, evolution of interactions between parasitic nematodes and their hosts, including plants and insects
PhD advert
I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.
08.11.2025 15:42 — 👍 45 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 2
I am looking to hire a postdoc interested in combining genetics and evolution to understand why telomeres vary so much in plants. My group has been developing Mimulus a genetic model for studying plant telomeres and we have really cool research brewing. Please check ad for detail. Deadline is 12/31.
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I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word.
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Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
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...
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology & Fungal Biology, UC Davis. 🍄🌱 recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Deadline Dec 1, 2025. 👀 "Primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upper-division lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society"
23.09.2025 03:15 — 👍 20 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 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
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
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...
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....
Congratulations Marianna! This is a fantastic paper 🥳🎉
15.09.2025 20:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
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 — 👍 43 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 4Dept 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...
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...
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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...
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 — 👍 33 🔁 51 💬 0 📌 0Please 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...
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 — 👍 64 🔁 43 💬 2 📌 1🚨 New paper in the lab! 🌾
Thrilled to share our latest article published in Genome Biology!
👉 rdcu.be/eBh6j
👏 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.
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 — 👍 31 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 0MSU 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 — 👍 39 🔁 55 💬 0 📌 2Big 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 — 👍 122 🔁 109 💬 2 📌 3A 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 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Know 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. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!
02.08.2025 16:16 — 👍 53 🔁 84 💬 2 📌 0
A root-specific NLR network mediates immune signaling of resistance genes against plant parasitic nematodes (Daniel Lüdke , Toshiyuki Sakai , Jiorgos Kourelis , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
01.08.2025 16:45 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1The Parker Lab at UNC Biology is hiring a postdoc to work on insect–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...
🚨 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.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Given two genomes, can you tell who’s taller or more prone to a disease? How confident can you be? A fresh take on phenotypic inference, now out:
rdcu.be/exW4f
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