🌱 🚨Postdoc position – Plant Chromatin Biology (Strasbourg)
Grob and Jullien Lab - details attached
📅 Apply by March 30, 2026
📩 stefan.grob@cnrs.fr
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
#Postdoc #PlantScience #Epigenetics #Chromatin
With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭
To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀
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I am happy to announce the launch of a new Arabidopsis genomics resource! Check out arabidopsislyrata.org Now you can easily look at the natural genetic variation across the entire species range of A. lyrata and A. arenosa.
The final part of the story: "The arduous path to obligate asexuality in Daphnia" is out in #ProcB 🥳 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article.... 1. Instead of comparing long-established asexuals to sexuals, we generated new asexual lineages to observe the transition in action.
I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961
The most beautiful cover I have seen lately 🤩 congrats for this great piece of work! @camilagoldy.bsky.social @mc-caillaud.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social
Quand Marie Curie prend la tête de son laboratoire en 1906, une chose est exceptionnelle : elle ouvre largement ses portes aux femmes, à contre-courant des usages universitaires.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/7Kj
![Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihcxd5wcrrf5nxz3g4riglsrccbucmdns6kxrtmtj6gjgwqibp3fi)
Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]
Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs
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Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.
Save the Date: World Petunia Days 2026!
Join us in Rome, June 3-5, for an inspiring scientific gathering amidst historic landmarks. Exchange innovative ideas in a collegial atmosphere. More details coming soon! We can't wait to welcome you to the Eternal City. #WPD2026 #Rome #ScienceMeetsHistory
This is worth reading! A beautiful testimony of remembering why we chose to do science in the first place: curiosity and excitement, not pressure to publish and secure grants. Even if the research system always tells us otherwise!
In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth let’s learn more about Marie Taylor, a plant biologist and chair of Howard University’s Botany Department. Love her focus on photomorphogensis and using light microscopy on living plants! 🌱 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_T...
The August issue is now fully online, with a beautiful cover that might be a nostalgia trigger for some of us (young people can find an explanation in the Editorial):
www.nature.com/nplants/volu...
Génial ! C'est bien senti et très drôle. Et ça donne envie de bosser dans ton équipe ;)
À quoi ressemble le quotidien dans un laboratoire de recherche ?
En 2025, Arthur Monternier, étudiant en art, a passé six mois dans notre laboratoire. Il raconte son expérience dans cette bande dessinée.
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Out in @science.org this week: SIPS binds to a conserved region of SRK to control interspecies incompatibility in Brassicaceae. This contrasts with SRK's variable region, which is involved in self-incompatibility interactions.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#plantscience
Looks very much like a Jackson Pollock painting to me!
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
Stéphanie Barbez recevant sa médaille
- la Médaille de Cristal du CNRS à Stéphanie Barbez @stefbarbez.bsky.social , responsable communication au sein de la Délégation régionale CNRS Hauts-de-France
Hooray! Check out this special issue for some fantastic new work on flower color!
Happy to present our latest: Evolutionary adaptations to the hormonal regulation of vascular tissue development | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... Work by Wei Xiao and funded by @erc.europa.eu
📢 Open faculty position – Origins of Life
We have an opening in our section at the University of Geneva! 🧬🚀
SPREAD THE WORD
Apply here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
More than 400 million years ago, during the Silurian Period, an evolutionary event led to the later emergence of spiders’ spinnerets—the abdominal organs that make silk—according to new #ScienceAdvances research. https://scim.ag/4sFX3pJ
Why I’m genetically engineering a rainbow flower…
And how a Russian fairy tale inspired the idea 🧵
That is beautiful ! At first I thought they were transgenics and thinking "how can he achieve single petal expression in petunia flowers that are mostly symmetrical?", but now I saw the little infiltration spots ;) well done, that looks amazing and a cool resource both for teaching and research
New paper from our lab @jxbotany.bsky.social about auxin and cytokinin interactions during carpel initiation in Arabidopsis
Led by @andreagomezfe.bsky.social in collaboration with @defolter-lab.bsky.social
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Sign up date coming quickly!
Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches
May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en
@yu1cheng.bsky.social, in collaboration with Filip Kolar and me, published an article looking at how the genetic architecture of unreduced gametes and environmental factors can affect autopolyploidy evolution.
Congrats Yu!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Yes it's a delicate matter, and even more so when you have a single position to fill (like most professor positions). It pushes this idea "she got it because she's a woman" whereas men get it because of merit... whereas all the top applicants are anyway super good at this stage!
