Ram Neupane

Two really cool PhD positions available with Christina Barragan on Plant Pathogen evolution!

Our dept. just moved to a brand new building with great facilities and we have an absolutely amazing team!

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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.

Excited to share that I joined the Dry Bean Breeding and Genetics Lab at Michigan State University last month as a Research Associate. I’ll be working on projects focused on the genomics of the white mold pathogen in dry beans and advancing resistance to anthracnose in dry beans.

Officially Dr. Neupane 🎓🌱

Glad to have completed my Ph.D. in Plant Pathology with a dual degree in International Agriculture and Development at Penn State.

Grateful to my advisor, committee, department, family, and friends for their guidance and support throughout this journey.

Great Postdoc opportunity in Switzerland
#PlantSciJobs

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Huge thanks to my advisor, Dr. Beth Gugino, and doctoral committee for their guidance, support, and mentorship, and to my family and friends for always cheering me on. Special thanks to Dr. Deanna Behring and Dr. Melanie Miller Foster for their support.

I’m excited to share that I successfully defended my Ph.D. in Plant Pathology and International Agriculture and Development last week. 1/3

Are you looking for an exciting postdoc on quantitative disease resistance in Quinoa in collaboration with @kjschmid.bsky.social and others?? Apply now. The project can start as soon as possible!

Just got back from the UN Science and Technology Forum—what an incredible experience! I was honored to represent the Young Scientists Group and Penn State. One of the highlights was an inspiring conversation with Dr. Bernhard Langerich on the role of youth in driving innovation and research.

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.

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I’m honored to receive the Harold K. Schilling Dean’s Graduate award -2025 from the Graduate School at Penn State. I’m especially thankful to my mentors including my PhD advisor Dr. Beth Gugino who have supported me, and helped me grow into a scientist.

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Our Faculty is happy to receive expressions of interest for this call. 5 years salary and funding and we seek to find space in our budget for employment beyond that. No firm commitment needed at this stage. Email or DM me if even slightly curious #NewAdventure?

Uncovering Genetic Drivers of Gene Expression in Elite Wheat Varieties

I have a PhD project funded by the John Innes Foundation, "Uncovering Genetic Drivers of Gene Expression in Elite Wheat Varieties", from the 1st of October 2025. #wheat #bioinformatics Apply now www.earlham.ac.uk/studentship/...

Are You Ready for the AI University? Everything is about to change.

"AI is being used to design cars and discover drugs: Do professors really think it can’t narrate and flip through PowerPoints as well as a human instructor?"

My guy is telling on himself so many ways even in this one sentence.

Glad to be placed first in the Gamma Sigma Delta research exhibition organized by GSD Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences chapter. I am grateful to my mentors at Penn State.
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#Open_to_work

Glad to present my PhD research on bacterial onion bulb rot at the Graduate Exhition Expo organized by J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School at Penn State.
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#PhD_research
#Open_to_work

The Missing Link: Youth Entrepreneurship to Bridge Agriculture’s Innovation Valley of Death | Virginia Tech CALS Global

Excited to see our event on Youth Entrepreneurship to Bridge Agriculture's Innovation Valley of Death featured in the February edition of the GAP Bulletin Newsletter!

More detail: globalagriculturalproductivity.org/the-missing-...

Interfamily co-transfer of sensor and helper NLRs extends immune receptor functionality between angiosperms Plant nucleotide-binding, leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors recognize pathogen effectors and activate defense. NLR genes can be non-functional in distantly related plants (restricted taxonomi...

Can a resistance gene from one crop protect another from the same pathogen?

This generally only works if the crops are closely related.

Now, Du et al. show a pepper 🌶 resistance gene can work in rice 🌾, so long as you deliver some associated genes!

#plantimmunity

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

Local synteny visualization with 3 species highlighting 3 homologous groups of genes.

Local synteny visualization of 5 bean varieties, highlighting numerous TIR-NBS-LRR family disease resistant genes.

My Tidyverse local synteny visualizer is up on GitHub: github.com/cxli233/Tidy...

GitHub page contains 2 example datasets, as well as step-by-step instruction & explanations on how it works. Details on required input data are discussed in the GitHub page. Let me know if you run into issues.

Decoding Early Life Microbiota and Host Interactions at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Decoding Early Life Microbiota and Host Interactions at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

🚨 PhD Opportunity @halllab.bsky.social!
🔬 Decoding Early Life Microbiota & Host Interactions
🧬 Ideal for those with bioinformatics/microbiome experience
🌍 Open to international candidates (MSCA mobility rules apply).
📅 Deadline: 18th Dec
🌐 Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Pretty neat!

GasanalyzeR: advancing reproducible research using a new R package for photosynthesis data workflows GasanalyzeR, a new software tool, helps analyse data related to photosynthesis to achieve consistent and reproducible results. Many physiologically relevan

♻️GasanalyzeR: advancing reproducible research using a new R package for photosynthesis data workflows by Danny Tholen and co-authors

Full #openaccess
👉 https://buff.ly/4c92gx2

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HI old friends! Finally took the leap here to say I have several open positions going in my lab at the moment (and more to come).
1) PhD studentship in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society (genomics)
2) Biochemistry Postdoc to understand how Starships move

Check out the links below!

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

AI is transforming microbiome-based healthcare, but challenges remain in data handling, modeling, and privacy. Probul et al provide insights on advancements, limitations, and future opportunities. Read ➡️ https://buff.ly/4hSHkOH

🎨 In case anyone need…

The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!

Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov

*Highly recommend* a simple plug in called Color Oracle: colororacle.org It’s a free color blindness simulator. Just one click, it shows you in real time what people with common color vision impairments will see on your screen. I use it to doublecheck everything! #microscopy #figures #academicsky

Graphical abstract of "quick data vis", featuring basic R coding, tabular data operations, intro to data vis, mean separation, proportional data, heatmaps, and relationship data.

Finished teaching for the semester! Today I finished teaching "quick data vis" (introduction to data visualization in R) to 1st year grad students - for the 3rd time. You can access course contents at my GitHub at well.

github.com/cxli233/Quic...