Jennifer Goff, PhD

Our department is hiring a tenure-track line in Organic Chemistry and related fields! We teach and do research with undergraduate students exclusively. For a PUI, we have very good facilities and instrumentation (400 MHz NMR, six mass specs).

@chemjobber.bsky.social

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The 🌳 ESF For Our Future Campaign 🌳 is seeking to restore funding to SUNY ESF to support our mission of being a leader in environmental science research 👩‍🔬 and education 🧑‍🏫!

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It's grad school application season! My lab (cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/ ) will be recruiting a PhD student via the MPS program at MSU (mps.natsci.msu.edu) for Fall 2026.

Happy to take inquires via email (which can be found in the lab website) if you are applying this cycle.

Help advance water research in CNY! Participate in SHARCS on Sat Oct 4, a community science project led by SUNY ESF researchers!

Collect a quick water sample, snap a photo, fill out a short survey, and return the sample. Adults 18+ welcome! No experience needed. More info: bit.ly/CNYSHARCS.

Please share - an Assist Prof position in microbiology

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Contrasting effects of glutamate and branched-chain amino acid metabolism on acid tolerance in a Castellaniella isolate from acidic groundwater Groundwater acidification co-occurring with nitrate pollution is a common, global environmental health hazard. Denitrifying bacteria have been leveraged for the in-situ removal of nitrate in groundwat...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... New preprint of one of my postdoc projects looking at mechanisms of acid tolerance in a mildly acidophilic denitrifier!

Help advance water research in CNY! Participate in SHARCS on Sat Oct 4, a community science project led by SUNY ESF researchers!

Collect a quick water sample, snap a photo, fill out a short survey, and return the sample. Adults 18+ welcome! No experience needed. More info: bit.ly/CNYSHARCS.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Wow! This is amazing news. Having friends who are confronted with Huntington's, this brings a ray of hope.

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Can SUNY ESF grow out of its budget crisis? Leaders hope so SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — At SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, one of the nation’s top environmental science colleges, the future looks both promising and uncertain. “Fortu…

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Do you hate Andrew Cuomo? Looking for more reasons to hate him?

“A decision was made by the then chancellor and especially Andrew Cuomo….clawed back $10 million, and ever since then, there has been this shortfall,” said Fred Kowal, President at [UUP]”

Write your program officer and grants management official TODAY and thank them! It takes 30 seconds and its really appreciated. The only reason they're remotely this close is because those folks are working 60 hour weeks under immense pressure

God this makes me want to cry. Increasing enrollment while cutting staff and placing blame on a staff increase and staff: student ratio shows a fundamental misunderstanding of his higher ed works.

SUNY has implemented *several* unfunded mandates across campuses in the last few years.

I definitely feel like I’m in said slump if it does exist! I feel tired 24-7…..

….Could also be related to the general state of the world and the dismantling of higher education as know it 🤪

Penn State approves raise for president making her second highest paid in USA (headline)

Penn state is closing its public radio and television stations (headline)

A promotional flyer for a webinar in the CSU Bioinformatics Webinar Series. On the left side, it shows the date and time: “26 Sep | 12 PM PST.” It includes instructions to join via Zoom with Meeting ID: 886 2442 3158 and a QR code above. On the right, there is a photo of Dr. Elinne Becket, Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at California State University San Marcos, sitting outdoors with plants and trees in the background. Below, the title of the talk is displayed: “The Soup that Blue up Twitter.” The description explains that Dr. Becket will discuss the shared curiosity of science, open science, and a story from February 2023 when leftover beef soup prepared by her mom turned bright blue. Scientists and people on Twitter collaborated to investigate, leading to a global effort among microbiologists and chemists. At the bottom, there are links to learn more about upcoming webinars at www.informatics.sdsu.edu and Dr. Becket’s website: https://elinneb.wixsite.com/becketlab

Giving a webinar on #BlueSoup this Friday, in case anyone wants to pop in during their lunch!

This is ridiculous. Bad for students, bad for NY, bad for the Adirondacks

‘Our hands are tied’: SUNY stability plan orders ESF staff cut, enrollment uptick SUNY’s new stability plan forces ESF to alter programs and cut 18.9% of its full-time staff by 2029, students call the plan a "betrayal".

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SUNY’s stability plan orders ESF to cut 18.9% of staff…the plan expects ESF to increase its undergraduate enrollment by 16.1%.

The plan will cut 38 full-time employees..also requires cuts to ESF’s athletics program and the school’s five major forest properties.

this is just unconscionable. without the opportunities i got at esf, i wouldn't have gotten to work on a massive museum exhibit or be a phd student right now. please send a letter to john king jr. and kathy hochul to reverse this decision!!

he Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis is seeking applications for a fulltime, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Mycology, with a focus on plant pathogenic, symbiotic, or mycotoxigenic fungi and fungal-like organisms (e.g., oomycetes). We are looking for a highly motivated and creative scientist with a strong background in mycology and/or the biology of fungi and fungal-like organisms that interact with plants. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a world-class, externally funded research program that integrates both fundamental and applied aspects of fungal biology within the context of plant pathology. We welcome applicants pursuing a wide range of research topics related to plant-associated fungi, including but not limited to mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis or symbiosis with plants, population genomics and evolution of fungal plant pathogens, plant-associated fungal microbiomes and plant-microbe interactions, and/or one health approaches to fungal diseases and antifungal resistance. Applicants working in other relevant research areas involving pathogenic, symbiotic, or mycotoxigenic fungi or fungal-like organisms that affect plant health are also encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will have significant opportunities for collaboration with faculty in plant pathology, microbiology, genomics, and agricultural sciences, and to contribute to addressing issues of importance to California’s agricultural and natural ecosystems. The appointee primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upperdivision lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society, a general education class for non-majors. Additional graduate and undergraduate teaching responsibilities may be assigned based on departmental needs and the candidate’s expertise. The department offers modern instructional facilities, including a newly renovated teaching laboratory.

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist

Applications due Dec 1

Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

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Six join FICUS program in 2026 | Joint Genome Institute Pictured from left to right are: [above] Allegra Aron, Jana Pilatova and Ryan Ziels; [below] Andrew Vander Yacht, Itamar Shabtai and Victoria Orphan The JGI is excited to welcom

Our project was selected for support through DOE’s FICUS program!

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We will use a combination of long-read metagenomics, 15N analyses, and structural characterization of soil organic matter to explore fire-plant-soil-microbe feedbacks!

SUNY ESF has been losing millions. Will its turnaround plan make things better or worse? A stability plan from Albany aims to cut nearly 20% of the staff, which union leaders say will lead to lower enrollment.

www.syracuse.com/schools/2025...

The stability plan from Albany would increase our enrollment by 20% and reduce our faculty and staff by 20%. This would come with heavy increases in the teaching load of existing faculty, killing our research programs.

Help us by sharing these posts and signing a letter to our governor to restore ESF’s mission funding!

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Help us by sharing these posts and signing a letter to our governor to restore ESF’s mission funding!

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SUNY ESF has been losing millions. Will its turnaround plan make things better or worse? A stability plan from Albany aims to cut nearly 20% of the staff, which union leaders say will lead to lower enrollment.

www.syracuse.com/schools/2025...

The stability plan from Albany would increase our enrollment by 20% and reduce our faculty and staff by 20%. This would come with heavy increases in the teaching load of existing faculty, killing our research programs.

Opportunity for Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Biochemistry/Microbiology at RMIT University (Melbourne Australia) ref: JR41993 | closing: 12-Oct-2025 #biochem #chemsky 🧪
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Most of these students have little or no science background. Many come from art/design backgrounds. But they ask such amazing and insightful questions and have such joy for learning about the microbial world! This has been one of the teaching highlights of my career!

Last week I joined our Master of Landscape Arch students at the Stone Quarry Art Park to lead a guest workshop on creating Winogradsky columns.

We did ab overview of microbial metabolism (using human metabolism as a grounding framework) and followed by using gathered materials to create columns.

Please check out our updated version of this preprint - now with even more transposable elements! 🧬🦠

No really, we added in a few more analyses about TEs and further compared Mycetohabitans to related bacteria, plus other treats. @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social
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Bringing the uncultivated microbial majority of freshwater ecosystems into culture - Nature Communications A large fraction of aquatic bacteria remains uncultured. Here, the authors cultivated 627 strains of abundant freshwater bacteria from 14 European lakes, thus generating a collection that includes man...

Bringing the uncultivated microbial majority of freshwater ecosystems into culture www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Trump's Energy Department disbands group that sowed doubt about climate change Energy Secretary Chris Wright has disbanded a controversial Climate Working Group (CWG), which wrote a report that scientists say was full of errors and misrepresented climate science.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has disbanded a controversial Climate Working Group (CWG), which wrote a report that scientists say was full of errors and misrepresented climate science.

The most useful and useful impactful classes I took during my PhD were at ESF. It’s an amazing school always working on a shoestring budget. Cutting more will just decimate it and the amazing work it does.