Dr. Sajjad Aslam

We are hiring‼️ Two cool projects in my group for a PhD student in plant immunity and for a Postdoc in plant microbiota research 🌿🧫🚀🚀

Interested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat.... Please repost!

Explored in-depth insights into the multi-omics approach to unravel the regulatory mechanisms of taste, nutritional profiles, and pharmacological potential of bitter gourd🌱🌿

Thrilled to announce that our research on bitter gourd has been published in the prestigious Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences journal! 🎉 🌱☘️

👉 Read the full article, link below www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

Great new postdoc fellowship for foundational plant research.
If you’re into genetics and genomics of plant reproductive evolution or adaptive convergence (incl in the cool and charismatic nightshades!) I’d be happy to talk about possible projects!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Pivot to Plants: Training Program for Plant and Data Science | Danforth Plant Science Center The Pivot2Plants Fellows Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science or data science but have limited research experience.

Deadline for our 2nd cohort of the Pivot to Plants program at the Danforth Center is Oct 15th. Excited to identify 5 participants for a 1-year NSF-funded internship. Hands-on research experience in cutting-edge #plantscience, #imaging, #datascience, and more! www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...

The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

This looks like a great opportunity: #Tenure-track assistant #professor position at University of Lausanne on #MPMI
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Looking for a postdoc that combines wet and dry lab experience?

The EMBL-EBI-Sanger postdoctoral fellowships might be the thing for you!

Choose one of our pre-defined topics or propose your own.

www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

@sangerinstitute.bsky.social

#postdoc #sciencecareers
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Scientific meeting Plant proteins: functions, regulation, production and utility Leeds, UK 21-23 October 2025 Earlybird deadline: 21 August 2025

Time is running out to submit your abstract for Plant Proteins: functions, regulation, production and utility! Join us in Leeds to hear from four #BiochemAwards winners, advance understanding of plant proteins and unlock new insights! 🧪Abstract deadline: 21 August www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...

🌱 Announcing our brand new webinar series all 'aabout' #plantscience & #sustainableagriculture 🌱

Starting 23rd September with talks on #CRISPR in crops from:
🌾 @sadiyehayta.bsky.social
🍓 #ECR Ryan Creeth
🥔 @annalsapplbio.bsky.social author Karam Mostafa

Register for free: buff.ly/qdflQbB

👀 Why #stress-resistant #crops remain a #scientific promise rather than a #farming reality? Bridging the gap between #genetic discovery and #agricultural impact

@annalsapplbio.bsky.social
#openaccess

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

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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. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

Figure 1. Nucleotide-binding site leucine-rich repeat (NLRs) and clubroot resistance (CR) genes in Brassica species.

"Déjà Vu in Clubroot Resistance: Same Genes, New Names"
by Edel Pérez-López (@edelplopez.bsky.social) & colleagues

"If we want meaningful progress...we must critically re-evaluate what qualifies as a truly novel R gene."

FREE access till Oct. 15th here:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lg2acQbJF...

Multiple Early Career Faculty Positions in Ecology The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for multiple, tenure-track assistant professor positions that will enhance existing institutional excellence in ecology. We are searching broadly for creative and collaborative individuals (1) working at any spatial scale, from local to global, in any system, (2) studying any level of biological organization, from genes to ecosystems, and (3) using any mode of inference, from empirical to theoretical. Applicants should demonstrate research excellence that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries; ongoing growth in the department will emphasize new hires that use quantitative and/or integrative approaches to study ecological processes. Postdoctoral experience is desirable in applicants. Successful candidates will engage with and benefit from UNDERC, Notre Dame’s 8000-acre environmental field station and home to NEON’s Great Lakes domain, superb on-campus chemical and genomic analytical facilities, an experimental research facility located close to campus, cross-disciplinary interactions through multiple centers and institutes including the Environmental Change Initiative, and a unique Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program in Environment and Society. New faculty will benefit from Notre Dame’s recent campus-wide Strategic Framework that included the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative. Modern research facilities exist in a new environmental research building, which opened in 2025.

Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪

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...

Nice job opportunity in a nice lab with a great PI.

#postdoc
#plantscijobs
#branching
#plantdev

Landmark grant to turn mistletoe into climate-fighting plant tech | University of Essex

🌿 Did you know? @thepallavisingh.bsky.social has received a landmark @aria-research.bsky.social grant to develop PlantPlug, a project to tranasform mistletoe into a programmable interface that helps host plants thrive under climate stress.

🔗 Read more: www.essex.ac.uk/news/2025/07...
#PlantScience

📣We offer a #PhDPosition in a trilateral program “Future Proofing #Plants to a Changing Climate" with Martina Ried-Lasi (funded by @dfg.de, @ukri.org-BBSRC, NSF, USDA-NIFA).

🔗More: www.ipb-halle.de/en/career/jo...

📅Apply now!

#PlantSci #SciJobs #PlantSciJobs #PhD #PlantBiology #BiologyPhD

Can wild plant adaptations help crops tolerate heat? Wild plant species harbor a vast but largely unknown diversity of temperature stress solutions

If your grant application needs some justification on why we should study adaptation in wild plant species... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Soaring Temperatures Threaten Crops, So Scientists Are Looking to Alter the Plants

Temperatures are soaring, and there's a limit to what plants can handle. Scientists are figuring out how to engineer crops to take the heat so they can get into the kitchen.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...

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Excited to announce some new plasmid offerings in my shop at atinygreencell.com! Here's a thread of the current catalog. All proceeds directly support my lab and my continued effort to build useful open-source tools. Feel free to get in touch if you want to know more. Please share! 💚

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Extreme Heat May Make You Age Faster Consistent exposure to high temperatures might be making you age more quickly.

Repeated exposure to heat waves was linked to accelerated aging and increases vulnerability to health issues. The more extreme heat events an individual was exposed to, the more their bodies aged.
time.com/7312734/extr...

A multisensor high-temperature signaling framework for triggering daytime thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications Plants encounter high temperatures concomitantly with intense sunlight during the daytime. Here, the authors reveal a concerted chloroplast and nucleus high-temperature signaling framework that gates ...

Recent research shows plants use sugar to sense heat during the day 👇
As temperatures rise, starch turns into sugar, which signals the plant to grow. This sugar-based system connects light, energy, and heat—offering new clues for breeding climate-resilient crops 🌾
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Coming out in @NaturePlants today (rdcu.be/eBScJ): The mechanism for essential amino acid transport across the chloroplast envelope. We identified RETICULATA1 (RE1) as a new type of transport protein. #PlantScience #AminoAcidTransport #Chloroplasts. @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social

The most successful people I know have a high tolerance for uncertainty and an even higher tolerance for boredom. (Leila Hormozi)

Luck doesn’t just happen, it’s created. You can do things to increase the odds of serendipity.
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Meeting more people makes you lucky. Learning more skills makes you lucky. Being willing to fail makes you lucky. Offering to help others more often makes you lucky. (Mark Manson)

A half-century of climate change in major agricultural regions: Trends, impacts, and surprises | PNAS Efforts to anticipate and adapt to future climate can benefit from historical experiences. We examine agroclimatic conditions over the past 50 y fo...

🌾📉 Climate change is already hitting global crop yields

A new study shows climate trends over the past 50 years have cut yields by 10% (wheat), 4% (maize), and 13% (barley).

🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#SciComm #ClimateChange #Agriculture #FoodSecurity 🧪

Soaring Temperatures Threaten Crops, So Scientists Are Looking to Alter the Plants

Soaring Temperatures Threaten Crops, So Scientists Are Looking to Alter the Plants www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...