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Marco Todesco
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Plant geneticist, molecular and evolutionary biologist. Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (MSL/Botany/Biology)
Great postdoc opportunity to work on metabolomics and genomics of aroma in berries (raspberry and blueberry) at UBC in beautiful Vancouver! Come explore aroma diversity and figure out what are the metabolites and genes that control it - and help us make even better berries! 🌱 🫐 ⚗️ 🧬
December 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Only two days left to apply for this position in our lab at UBC!
The Todesco lab at MSL UBC is looking for a Research Tech to help us run the lab and do fancy science! Good wet lab skills and enthusiasm for plant research are required, experience with genomics and bioinformatics is a plus. See ad below, please spread the voice! 🧬🌻🧪🌱🔬🧫
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Research Assistant/Technician 3
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August 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The Todesco lab at MSL UBC is looking for a Research Tech to help us run the lab and do fancy science! Good wet lab skills and enthusiasm for plant research are required, experience with genomics and bioinformatics is a plus. See ad below, please spread the voice! 🧬🌻🧪🌱🔬🧫
tinyurl.com/5bnfyadw
Research Assistant/Technician 3
Staff - Non Union Job Category Non Union Technicians and Research Assistants Job Profile Non Union Salaried - Research Assistant /Technician 3 Job Title Research Assistant/Technician 3 Department Rese...
ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Really neat paper out in @nature.com on an efficient way to produce doubled haploids in sunflower, thanks to the serendipitous discovery of spontaneous haploid parthenogenesis.
That might be the least intelligible sentence I have ever written - great science communication Marco!
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Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sunflower sexual reproduction - Nature
Spontaneous parthenogenesis in sunflower has been used to develop a scalable doubled haploid breeding system.
www.nature.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I guess about time I stopped pretending things were normal on X...
April 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM