Muriel Gros-Balthazard
murielgrosb.bsky.social
Muriel Gros-Balthazard
@murielgrosb.bsky.social
Researcher at IRD Montpellier, 🇫🇷 and NYU Abu Dhabi🇦🇪.
Exploring the history of crops, especially date palms🌴, with (paleo)genomics🧬, archeobotany and ethobotany💬.
PI of the al-Ula date palm project🇸🇦.
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Oh boy - we opened this year’s ISBA meetings in a Roman amphitheater!
August 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The 11th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology starts tomorrow 🥳
It's not too late to spend your August at the conference of the summer! Registration for ISBA11 is open until August 17th! (no puffer jacket needed)

#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #ISBAconference #archaeologicalconference

@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Merci David Larousserie du @lemonde.fr pour cet article sur la publication scientifique en asphyxie
www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...
Le monde des revues scientifiques au bord de l’asphyxie
Plus de 3 millions d’articles sont publiés chaque année dans les revues scientifiques, les chercheurs étant incités à les multiplier pour se distinguer. Une logique économique perverse s’est installée...
www.lemonde.fr
July 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🌴 #DateBack, our platform to explore Phoenix archaeobotanical remains and advance our understanding of date palm history is now published in Peer Community Journal 🥳 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
Visit the website and browse the data and map! cloudapps.france-bioinformatique.fr/dateback/
DateBack, an evolving open-access repository of Phoenix archaeobotanical data supporting new perspectives on the history of date palm cultivation
peercommunityjournal.org
May 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Projet de thèse sur l'histoire évolutive et la génomique de la conservation des abeilles noires

Co-direction: Pierre Faux et moi-même
Localisation: GenPhySE, centre INRAE Toulouse
+ d'infos: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Annonce_...

(Merci par avance pour vos RT et la diffusion à vos M2 😉)
February 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🌴 Explore the history of the date palm with #DateBack!
🔎 The first open-access platform for archaeobotanical remains of Phoenix in Asia (Prehistory to Late Antiquity)
📜 140 entries, 99 sites
🌍 Explore: cloudapps.france-bioinformatique.fr/dateback
📖 Read the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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🗞️📜Fresh from the press! Our new paper shows that the Cape Verde date palm actually evolved from the date palm crop🧬 with interesting implications for conservation and breeding of drought resistant varieties 🌴🏝️
Read more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Genomics and morphometry of herbarium specimens elucidate the origin of the Cape Verde date palm (Phoenix atlantica A.Chev.) and highlight its agronomic potential
As climate change accelerates, breeding resilient crops is urgent. The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.), a crucial 18 billion USD fruit crop, underpins North African and West Asian oasis agroecosys...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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🚨Urgent: 12-month Postdoc in Paris-Saclay on the INCREASE project!

🫘 Dissecting genetic mechanisms of environmental adaptation in common bean

Project: [https://www.pulsesincrease.eu/]
📄 Click on Job for description [https://moulon.inrae.fr/]

Please share! #Postdoc #JobOpening #INCREASEProject
February 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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We are making a brand new #Museomics Lab at NHM Denmark, University of Copenhagen - working with DNA from museum & herbarium specimens. We are looking for a lab manager to join us - unlocking the amazing potential of our collections for global change 🌐 and #conservationgenomics research
Full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager at Natural History Museum Denmark
Natural History Museum Denmark, Faculty of Science, the University of Copenhagen is looking for a full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager, to start 1st June 202
candidate.hr-manager.net
February 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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👩‍🔬 À l'occasion de la journée #FemmesEnScience découvrez 4️⃣ portraits inspirants.
Ces 4️⃣ chercheuses participent à l'initiative Eclaireuses de #IRD permettant aux jeunes de rencontrer des femmes travaillant dans des domaines scientifiques variés : www.ird.fr/femmes-de-sc...
@unesco.org #WomenInScience
February 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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So happy to announce that we're now accepting abstracts for the 11th international symposium on biomolecular archaeology! www.isba11.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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Announcement: New Editor-in-Chief of Genome Biology and Evolution

We are excited to announce Dr. Maud Tenaillon as a new Editor-in-Chief of Genome Biology and Evolution, starting January 2025. Maud will join Laura A. Katz, Smith College, who continues her term as EIC.

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November 21, 2024 at 1:02 PM