Julia Qüesta
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Julia Qüesta
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Plant scientist interested in development and epigenetics. Group Leader at Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Barcelona, Spain. Alumna from John Innes Centre (postdoc), Norwich, UK, and Universidad Nacional de Rosario (PhD), Argentina.
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PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!

How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.

Application deadline Jan 6th

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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🌿 Save $200! Early reg ends Aug 14 for the Keystone Symposium on Plant Epigenetics & Epigenome Engineering. Join global experts exploring how plants adapt through epigenetic control.
🔗 keysym.us/KSPlantEpi26
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#PlantBiology #KSPlantEpi26 @claudiakohler11.bsky.social
KSQA: Dr. Doris Wagner (Plant Epigenetics and Epigenome Engineering)
YouTube video by KeystoneSymposia
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August 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution @camplantsci.bsky.social
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51488/
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
May 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Happy to share our recent publication on our favorite protein! Work led by the fantastic PhD student Yajiao Cheng @cragenomica.bsky.social. Thanks to co-authors and collaborators! @ibmcp.bsky.social
#PlantScience #epigenetics
The transcriptional regulator VAL1 promotes Arabidopsis flowering by repressing the organ boundary genes BOP1 and BOP2 (Yajiao Cheng , Benjamin J M Tremblay , Vicente Balanzà , Alvaro S Larran , Julia I Qüesta) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience
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May 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Excited about the future of plant epigenetics?
Join us at the Keystone Symposium Plant Epigenetics & Epigenome Engineering in Fort Collins, October 13-16, 2025! keystonesymposia-19559593.hs-sites.com/%F0%9F%8C%BF...
Registration is open!
#PlantScience #Epigenetics #KeystoneSymposia
🌿 Join Us for Plant Epigenetics in Fort Collins! 🌿
http://keystonesymposia-19559593.hs-sites.com/🌿-join-us-for-plant-epigenetics-in-fort-collins-🌿-1
April 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I am very happy to be part of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme! Huge thanks to the members of my group
at CRAG for sharing with me the motivation for science #plants #epigenetics. Looking forward to interacting with the EMBO_YIP scientific community. www.embo.org/press-releas...
Twenty-seven scientists become EMBO Young Investigators – Press releases – EMBO
The group leaders join an international network of nearly 800 life scientists and receive financial support
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December 3, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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Interdisciplinary PhD studentship on “Mathematical modelling of environmental information processing in hybrid aspen” supervised by myself, Prof Peter Stewart (@uofglasgow.bsky.social) and Prof Rishikesh Bhalerao (SLU).

For more information on the project and to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
University of Glasgow - Colleges - College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences - MVLS Graduate School - PhD Research Opportunities - College Futures PhD Programme - Projects - Fundamentals of Life ...
www.gla.ac.uk
November 26, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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Am writing a PhD project studying the genes that control drought during flowering in a key UK crop (oilseed rape) - using molecular biology, mutants, lab and field experiments, hyperspectral imaging - all the way from lab to field. Contact me to find out more!
November 28, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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We are looking for suitable candidates to apply for a INPhINIT fellowship. Our current interests are focused on understanding the evolution of plant virus interactions and on the role of crosskingdom RNAi in plant-fungus symbiotic interactions and their evolution. shorturl.at/0FOSx shorturl.at/UbbgT
Conservation of molecular responses upon viral infection in the non-vascular plant Marchantia polymorpha - Nature Communications
Assessment of the evolution of plant-virus interactions suggests rapid reshaping of plant viromes after land colonization, along with rerouting of general defense responses to newly acquired vascular ...
www.nature.com
November 15, 2024 at 12:37 PM