Congratulations to Professors Dan Nomura, Joseph Shapiro, and Patrick Shih (@LabShih) on being named 2024 Bakar Fellows Spark Award recipients. The award provides funding, resources, and entrepreneurial mentorship to each recipient. bakarfellows.berkeley.edu/bakar-fellows-…

A few more days left to apply: We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our team for an 18-month contract. Are you interested in chromatin, gene expression regulation and seed priming? Then contact us here:
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Thrilled to share our new measure: the Mentoring in Undergraduate Research Survey (MURS)! lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cb… Led by Lisa Limeri & grounded in work from Trevor Tuma when he was an #NSFREU student. Thanks to the NSF IUSE program for supporting this work! #NSFfunded

I'm happy to announce that the first set of articles from an upcoming CSH Protocols collection focused on Maize, curated by Candice Hirsch and Marna Yandeau-Nelson, have been published!

More to come! Stay tuned 😊
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Fun primer on parasitoid wasps in Current Biology, written by my lovely and brilliant colleague, Gaelen Burke!
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Our new CRISPRi-based synthetic gene circuit platform for programmable, reversible control of gene expression in plants 🌱 Nature Biotechnology. A compact and modular logic gate system with useful new capabilities for plant engineering nature.com/articles/s4158…

So excited to share our new work from Molecular Biology and Evolution presenting the evolutionary dynamics of chromatin structure and duplicate gene expression in cotton allopolyploidization! Nucleosome organization and chromatin accessibility simultaneously using the powerful DNS-seq Hank W Bass

The Madzima Lab at Michigan State University is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate!

Details - Research Associate-Fixed Term careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5195…

THANK YOU to all inspiring women in Plant Biology who have been instrumental in shaping my research career. I could not have been here without their mentorship, guidance and support! My list is endless…

Extremely humbled to be an inspiration to someone. No pressure 🤓

A PI’s dream, I couldn’t be prouder of this group!

Carl (Carl Stone) won best talk for his work on Bayesian approaches for tn-seq.

William won best poster for his work on engineered crossfeeding under starved conditions.

Ashlynn won best Grad teacher for Micro Lab!
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What controls gene expression once genomes merge? Some key insights here, led by a tireless and brilliant Guanjing Hu. academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…

Nicely done Allen Moore ! Big emergence here just south of Watkinsville and ONE in my backyard in Athens.

25 Inspiring Women in Plant Biology | Plant Science Today. What an incredible group of women. blog.aspb.org/25-inspiring-w…

John Burke went into the family business. The science business! As a Distinguished Research Professor and head of the Department of Plant Biology in UGA Franklin College, his lab focuses on the wild and cultivated sunflower! UGA Research
research.uga.edu/news/john-burk…

A little over a week until our symposium!! Are you ready to join us?

We have opened sign ups for our annual 'Genomes and Plant Health' workshop that includes lectures and hands on activities. It is free, in person, Berkeley campus, June 10-11 undergraduates, June 12-13 high School students. Help us spread the word: krasilevalab.org/outreach/

WUSCHEL-dependent chromatin regulation in maize inflorescence development at single-cell resolution biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

If you happen to be in Munich on Thursday, stop by!

Congratulations to our 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Dr. Ruth Shaw!

Tune in to the virtual portion of #Evol2024 on June 28 to hear her award talk.
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Polyploid peeps: check out this seminar by Michelle Stitzer tomorrow 8am pacific. Zoom is: iastate.zoom.us/j/92047023512?…