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…

⬇️There are only a few days left to apply for a talk at the GRS Salt in Water Stress Meeting. This is a great opportunity for early career researchers.

The deadline is May 19th.

Details below: grc.org/salt-and-water…

Ever wanted to incorporate ncAAs into your protein but found the efficiency to be too low? Check out our new preprint, where we turned a simple observation in protein translation to an effective quadruplet codon translation strategy!

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

Thrilled to share that our genome-edited wheat was just approved by Chinese regulators and granted a biosafety certificate! We edited four cuts, resulting in three gene knockouts and a ~403kb deletion(!) to generate disease resistance with enhanced yields

moa.gov.cn/ztzl/zjyqwgz/s…

🌱I'm thrilled to share that I will start my lab at Caltech in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering this August! We'll investigate the cellular dynamics that drive organ development, focusing on the critical transitions between cell proliferation and differentiation

📣🆕 Come and join me at ARIA! I’m looking for a technical specialist to be a thought partner in my #plant #synbio programme 🧬🧪🌱🌾🌽 Please RT & share. Applications now live: aria-jobs.teamtailor.com/jobs/4263108-t…

We, PlantPostdocs are excited to collaborate with Botanical Society of America #Botany360 on a series of webinars for #ECRs
First up, 'Now you're a new PI, what's next?' with an awesome panel including our co-founder Arif Ashraf
#CareerDevelopment #NewPI
Register - botany.org/calendar/displ…

What limits rubisco function? Is it the chemical mechanism? Evolution? In an updated pre-print Michael Prywes et. al explore this question by assaying >99% of single amino acid mutants in Form II rubisco (1/7)

Big congrats to Justin Walley for being promoted to full professor!! ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences provost.iastate.edu/faculty-succes…

🎉Thrilled to share that I will join the Dept of Botany and Plant Science UC Riverside in fall 2024 as Asst Prof of Plant Resilience!
Couldn't have done this without the sacrifices of my parents, family Jyothi Kumar, PhD & support of mentors Kenneth D. Birnbaum James Schnable Rebecca Roston...

Hey there Stanford University folks, come hear about genetic controllers and cell fate programming. See you on Monday at 4:30 in Shiram 104!
cheme.stanford.edu/events/chemica…

A nitrogen-fixing organelle, or “nitroplast,” has been identified in a marine alga. This discovery sheds light on the evolutionary transition from endosymbiont to organelle.

Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/6yX

How to pick a problem. Today in Cell. 1/53
cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Come see the amazing Gözde S. Demirer present the latest in plant synthetic biology at #SEED2024 !

📢New vacancy alert!📢

We are seeking to appoint a post-doctoral Research Associate to contribute to the development of disease-resistant crops in the Patron Lab with Nicola J Patron 👩🏾‍🔬🌱⚙️ 🌱⚙️

Find out more👇
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/45176/

The day may come when I stop doing non-PhD things before I graduate…but it is not this day 🙈 As part of a fellowship with Federation of American Scientists🔬, I scoped out the challenges and opportunities in bringing agricultural biotechnology to market: fas.org/publication/ag…

Our story of how microbes protect sorghum from Striga is out! cell.com/cell-reports/f…
Excited to see what developments the second phase of this project will bring.
And at UU_Plants we're getting into full speed to study how microbes reshape root cells and stress resilience

Plant enhancers exhibit both cooperative and additive interactions among their functional elements (Tobias Jores, Jackson Tonnies, Nicholas A Mueth, Andrés Romanowski, Stanley Fields, Josh T Cuperus, Christine Queitsch) buff.ly/3vlf2t0 Josh Cuperus ASPB #PlantSci

I'm travelling through S. Korea, China and Singapore to visit biotechnology programs.

This is a wall of patents at a Chinese Academy of Science research building; one of the best plant engineering centers on the planet.

The jars hold engineered seeds that they developed here.