Jacob Landis

Excited to share our new preprint! 🍇🧬

We analyzed 639 genomes across 48 grape species to understand how hybridization drives adaptation.

• ~14% of average Vitis genome is introgressed

• Most parallel adaptations are shared via gene flow

• Two "hybrid species" are actually hybrid swarms

Marie Mellinger Field Botany Research Fund | Georgia Botanical SocietyMarie Mellinger Field Botany Research Fund – Georgia Botanical Society Projects eligible for funding include, but are not limited to, the following:

Small funding opportunity ($3k) for field botany research in Georgia, USA! Spread the word 📣

Marie Mellinger Field Botany Research Fund 🌿
📆 Application due: March 30, 2026

www.gabotsoc.org/projects/mar...

Calling all @uconn.bsky.social undergrads! Integrated @uconnresearch.bsky.social training program for #biodiversity #genomics! Sum2026-Spr2027: Research how species respond to environmental change. Gain experience w/ #genetics & #bioinformatics: generate a reference genome for a threatened species

Deuterocohnia is a small genus of bromeliads, with only 17 species, but has radiated into an extraordinary range of habitats, from sea level on the coasts of Chile and Peru coasts to 3900 m elevation in the Andes of Bolivia and Argentina. Li et al. use sequences of over 1800 nuclear genes and whole plastomes to infer relationships, reconstruct the evolution of morphology and ecology, and evaluate historical biogeography. They found rapid adaptive divergence, two convergent origins of the cushion-plant habit, recurrent effects of the Rio Pilcomaya barrier on speciation and chloroplast capture. Deuterocohnia arose in southeastern Bolivia, and—as shown by this stochastic mapping—repeatedly evolved up- and downslope into other habitats from Andean Yungas on steep slopes at mid-elevation.

#Phylogenomics, ecomorphological #evolution, & historical biogeography in Deuterocohnia (Bromeliaceae: Pitcairnioideae)

New #AJB research by Bing Li, Nicole Schütz, Kurt Weising, Georg Zizka, Jacob Landis & Thomas Givnish

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #Neotropics

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

is.gd/paU8Ko

(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

Front, side, and dissected view photographs of anthesis flowers from Nicotiana section Repandae allopolyploids (N. nudicaulis, N. repanda, and N. stocktonii) and their diploid progenitors N. sylvestris and N. obtusifolia. Nicotiana nudicaulis also has side view flower bud photographs at Stage 1, Stage 2, and Stage 3, which represent 60%, 85%, and 95% of anthesis length, respectively. Nicotiana nudicaulis and N. repanda have transgressive delphinidin pigmentation not found in either progenitor.

Differential expression of flavonoid biosynthetic pathway genes drives the production of transgressive pigments in #Nicotiana section Repandae allotetraploids

New #AJB research by @emccnicotiana.bsky.social, @jlandisbotany.bsky.social, et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #polyploidy

I am recruiting graduate students to my genomics-focused lab in EEB at Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Please spread the word if you know any students with an interest in a computational focus to genomics research! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

Deciphering plant-insect interactions in a diverse urban botanical garden and the implications for developing urban planting schemes at Birkbeck, University of London on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Deciphering plant-insect interactions in a diverse urban botanical garden and the implications for developing urban planting schemes at Birkbeck, University of London, listed on FindAPhD...

Exciting fully-funded PhD project in my group, working with #ChelseaPhysicGarden @acmjulier.bsky.social to explore plant-insect interactions in urban gardens, and for urban planting schemes. Funded through NERC TREES DTP, all details here: tinyurl.com/mr3u42b8 Pls repost + email me if interested!

🚨 Part-time, remote job alert 🧑‍💻
🌿 The Center for Plant Conservation is seeking a contractor to support programs incl. rare plant databases and online learning platforms

📆 Oct. start, 20-35 h/wk for 3 mo.
💸 $20/h
🎓 Bach. req'd
📨 Submit by 10/16 for full consideration

saveplants.org/forums/topic...

Employment | New York Botanical Garden Find out what employment opportunities are available at The New York Botanical Garden.

I am recruiting a postdoc to work for 2-3 yrs on our NSF-funded project aiming to investigate plant migration and river connectivity with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama. Leading publications, fieldwork in CR & Panama, applying and expanding phylo. & pop.gen tools👇

www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc - Research Scientist, Genetics The Atlanta Botanical Garden seeks a highly qualified scientist with training in plant population genetics to serve in the role of Research Scientist in Genetics within the Southeastern Center for Con...

We are recruiting a Research Scientist in Genetics trained in plant population genetics to run the Conservation Genetics Research Program! This is an incredible opportunity to work on a diverse and active team in a biodiversity hotspot!!! recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/J...

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

Research Botanist ...

Let me be the (perhaps) the first to promote this job on bsky. BRIT is a super important herbarium run by some of the nicest folks I've met in Botany. I'd love to have another great colleague in this neck of the woods...
www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

My company is hiring a computational biologist! This role is the same position as mine, and will involve building genomic prediction models, some bioinformatics, and a lot of independent research on developing new methods to improve our crop development initiatives. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Please repost and amplify !

We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!

Check us out and come be our colleague!
sc.edu/study/colleg...

Deadline for applications is Oct 1

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

Do you love alpine plants, ancient DNA, and/or population genetics? My lab will be hiring a postdoc soon to be based at the University of Maine! We’re looking for someone who uses genetic tools and thinks like a community ecologist. Happy to chat at #ESA2025 if you’re interested.

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is hiring a Directory of the Herbarium

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring!

We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

AVITI library prep miniaturization and combining with Illumina data for phylogenomic and population genomic analyses Recent advancements in next generation sequencing approaches allow for expansion of evolutionary research into the discovery of genetic patterns and processes underlying diversification across scales....

Took longer than expected, just like everything these days, but the preprint for our project comparing AVITI with Illumina came online last night. Overall, the data are highly similar and combinable for downstream applications. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Martinez-Gomez Lab Plant Evo-Devo

A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025

Reach out!

www.martinezgomezlab.com

Please RT!

I'm hiring a postdoc to work in my new lab at UCSB (!) on an NSF-funded project investigating the phenotypic consequences of WGD for photosynthesis and respiration.

Check out the full posting here:
recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02986

And more info about the lab here:
sharbroughlab.com

📣Now Free Access: Recurrent allopolyploidy and its implications for conservation in vascular plants: a commentary on ‘Population genomics of the Isoetes appalachiana (Isoetaceae) complex supports a “diploids-first” approach...’
Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

If you're heading to a protest tomorrow, it's important to know your rights. Consult this information from the ACLU.

Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.

GitHub - RILAB/statements: Successful Job Applications and Grants Successful Job Applications and Grants. Contribute to RILAB/statements development by creating an account on GitHub.

New additions in fellowships, industry, and academic jobs! If you've recently gotten a fellowship or a job (research, industry, PUI) please consider contributing your application materials. It's a helpful resource for those on the job market! github.com/RILAB/statem...

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

We're excited to share PlantCAD browser tracks: a new, unpublished dataset integrating AI techniques for plant genome analysis. Explore it here: github.com/andorfc/Plan...
We welcome the community's feedback and innovative use cases for this data!

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear:
The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here.

Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead.

This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

Are YOU sitting around, reading the headlines, feeling powerless and scared?

Wish there was a way to just DO SOMETHING????

Boy, have I got the thing for you!

@standupforscience.bsky.social has an ambitious goal of hosting 1000 teach-ins across the nation between now and 9/30

#standupforscience