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.

Applications are now open for the Workshop on Genomics 2026 (11-24 Jan) in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia. For the first time, we are offering Early Bird Registration discounts! 🐣 Do not miss the chance! 🤩 Help us spread the word among friends and colleagues! 🙆🏽‍♀️ #evomics2026
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I am very excited to announce our🌹NEW PAPER OUT IN 𝑁𝐴𝑇𝑈𝑅𝐸!🌹
𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐄: Bimodal centromeres in pentaploid dogroses shed light on their unique meiosis
With the Ritz and Kovařík labs we show a potential role for centromeres on 𝘙𝘰𝘴𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘢 bizarre reproduction!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy to see this out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 Excited to share our work out now in @nature.com! 📢

We present the phased pan-genome of tetraploid European potato, based on 10 historical cultivars representing 85% of European potato diversity.

Learn more below!

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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We present MetaFlowTrain, an easy-to-build, highly parallelized, and cost-effective fluidic system for studying microbial exometabolites and their roles in modulating microbe–microbe–host interactions. Kudos to @chesneau-g.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social
Give it a try: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest work on the Solanum pangenome made the cover @nature.com 🍅🍆🥔 Proud of this collective work with an amazing group of collaborators!

Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The #CologneSpringMeeting poster session featured over 70 presentations, fostering a vibrant social and networking atmosphere. Great discussions, new connections, and inspiring science all around!

Please share widely: I have a 3-year PhD position to work on self-incompatibility in petunia and decipher the molecular bases of non-self recognition across evolution.
Come work with us in the Evo-Eco-Paleo lab in Lille! Don't listen to what you heard, it almost never rains.
#Plantscience

🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!

Our manuscript on the DOG1 dormancy pathway is out! 🥳 It started with a phosphoproteome when working @mpipz.bsky.social and 10 years of hard work @uni-muenster.de from Guillaume Nee with Thorben Krüger and more to prove that AFPs are target! #proteomics #seed www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

SPS - Summer School 2025 on Advanced Plant Imaging – API : From super-resolution to fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy 🔬🌱 in Versailles 👑🇨🇵

For enthusiastic PhD students or young postdoctoral researchers !

Only one week left to apply 👇
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No job ad yet, but I'll be hiring a postdoc at Purdue in population genetics/quantitative genetics/genomics in plants. DM if you have relevant experience and are potentially interested.

Do not miss it!

Engaging speeches by world-class researchers in the field, interactive poster discussions and networking opportunities!
Take advantage of this unique opportunity to expand your knowledge and network with research peers. Registration is open and free of charge!

Save the date for the first ever African Plant Genomics Symposium, 10-11 April 2025, in Nairobi. Registration open now.
More info at plantgenomicsafrica.org

Very happy to present our latest study on heat-induced transcription of transposable element in A. thaliana. Using Oxford Nanopore, we tested the extent to which read-through formation is important in the regulation of adjacent genes. More here 👇
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

[Please repost] Looking for a PhD program that goes from molecules to ecosystems? Look no further, and apply to us! I'm offering two projects, on the 1001 Genomes Plus project and on investigating functional diversity in the plant immune system
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