Dan Sloan
@sloanevolab.bsky.social
Molecular Evolutionary Biologist. Professor at Colorado State University Department of Biology. Personal account. Opinions my own (as if anyone else would want them).
https://sites.google.com/site/danielbsloan
https://sites.google.com/site/danielbsloan
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Explore the origins, patterns and consequences of mutations across biological systems! #MITS26
🗓️ Conference dates: 13-15 April 2026
Participate in expert-led knowledge exchange on how genome evolution shapes human health and ageing 🧬
Check out our exciting speakers ➡️ bit.ly/4hmbnyr
#Genomics
🗓️ Conference dates: 13-15 April 2026
Participate in expert-led knowledge exchange on how genome evolution shapes human health and ageing 🧬
Check out our exciting speakers ➡️ bit.ly/4hmbnyr
#Genomics
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Explore the origins, patterns and consequences of mutations across biological systems! #MITS26
🗓️ Conference dates: 13-15 April 2026
Participate in expert-led knowledge exchange on how genome evolution shapes human health and ageing 🧬
Check out our exciting speakers ➡️ bit.ly/4hmbnyr
#Genomics
🗓️ Conference dates: 13-15 April 2026
Participate in expert-led knowledge exchange on how genome evolution shapes human health and ageing 🧬
Check out our exciting speakers ➡️ bit.ly/4hmbnyr
#Genomics
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I am looking for a PhD student to start in my lab at UCSB in Fall 2026, studying evolutionary biology. See attached flyer for more information. Please also share with potentially interested students. Thanks!
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I am looking for a PhD student to start in my lab at UCSB in Fall 2026, studying evolutionary biology. See attached flyer for more information. Please also share with potentially interested students. Thanks!
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"...the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana" 🤔
@natplants.nature.com you may want to edit the title!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natplants.nature.com you may want to edit the title!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In situ architecture of the nuclear pore complex of the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana - Nature Plants
Using advanced imaging techniques and computer modelling, the authors were able to create a detailed structural model of a nuclear pore complex from a seed plant.
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"...the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana" 🤔
@natplants.nature.com you may want to edit the title!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natplants.nature.com you may want to edit the title!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Does anyone have examples of F32 supporting documents in the new format (starting August of this year) they'd be willing to share? We're specifically looking for goals, preparedness, training activities and timeline for an F32 resubmission for the December deadline. Any help very much appreciated! 🙏
November 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Does anyone have examples of F32 supporting documents in the new format (starting August of this year) they'd be willing to share? We're specifically looking for goals, preparedness, training activities and timeline for an F32 resubmission for the December deadline. Any help very much appreciated! 🙏
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🧬🧪Research Technician Position Open🧬🧪
HHMI, UT Austin. Biochemistry/Biophysics- Assist recombinant protein expression, purification and structural analysis (protein NMR and CryoEM) to uncover the mechanisms of cell fate specification in plants.
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
HHMI, UT Austin. Biochemistry/Biophysics- Assist recombinant protein expression, purification and structural analysis (protein NMR and CryoEM) to uncover the mechanisms of cell fate specification in plants.
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Research Technician - Torii Lab
Primary Work Address: 2500 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. About the Lab We are currently seeking a proactive Research Technician to s...
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
🧬🧪Research Technician Position Open🧬🧪
HHMI, UT Austin. Biochemistry/Biophysics- Assist recombinant protein expression, purification and structural analysis (protein NMR and CryoEM) to uncover the mechanisms of cell fate specification in plants.
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
HHMI, UT Austin. Biochemistry/Biophysics- Assist recombinant protein expression, purification and structural analysis (protein NMR and CryoEM) to uncover the mechanisms of cell fate specification in plants.
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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I'm really excited to help organize this workshop on #phylogenomics and #genome #evolution in the Czech Republic! The instructors are world-class!
Register to be part of the #phylogenomics and #genome #evolution workshop in Czechia! Registration closes November 15! evomics.org/apply-worksh...
Register to be part of the #phylogenomics and #genome #evolution workshop in Czechia! Registration closes November 15! evomics.org/apply-worksh...
November 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I'm really excited to help organize this workshop on #phylogenomics and #genome #evolution in the Czech Republic! The instructors are world-class!
Register to be part of the #phylogenomics and #genome #evolution workshop in Czechia! Registration closes November 15! evomics.org/apply-worksh...
Register to be part of the #phylogenomics and #genome #evolution workshop in Czechia! Registration closes November 15! evomics.org/apply-worksh...
Some slick mito gear hand made by one of our lab alums!
October 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Some slick mito gear hand made by one of our lab alums!
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Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
October 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
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The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.
New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.
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Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
September 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
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📢 The Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 is now open. We warmly invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
September 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📢 The Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 is now open. We warmly invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
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I’ll be advertising a post-doc position (up to 3 year) soon. It will be for somebody that is a good programmer, interested in evolution & is keen to learn new machine learning & AI approaches. I don’t have a link to a job advertisement yet. The post will be hybrid working and based at U of Liverpool
September 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I’ll be advertising a post-doc position (up to 3 year) soon. It will be for somebody that is a good programmer, interested in evolution & is keen to learn new machine learning & AI approaches. I don’t have a link to a job advertisement yet. The post will be hybrid working and based at U of Liverpool
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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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❤️❤️❤️ CSU. Fort Collins is a lovely place to live, and students / faculty are awesome. I should know, I taught there for 15 years! Apply!
The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions
We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...
jobs.colostate.edu
September 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
❤️❤️❤️ CSU. Fort Collins is a lovely place to live, and students / faculty are awesome. I should know, I taught there for 15 years! Apply!
New preprint on the role of MutS2 genes in rescuing stalled/collided ribosomes in chloroplasts, led by Amanda Broz and many other contributors from the lab. Never expected to go down this road when we started working on plant MutS2 years ago. Feedback appreciated!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
New preprint on the role of MutS2 genes in rescuing stalled/collided ribosomes in chloroplasts, led by Amanda Broz and many other contributors from the lab. Never expected to go down this road when we started working on plant MutS2 years ago. Feedback appreciated!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions
We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...
jobs.colostate.edu
September 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
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New paper led by @yadirapga.bsky.social!
Opossums have babies at 6-months of age, but are still highly male-biased in their mutations
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
Opossums have babies at 6-months of age, but are still highly male-biased in their mutations
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
Low mutation rate but high male-bias in the germline of a short-lived opossum
Abstract. Age and sex have been found to be important determinants of the mutation rate per generation in mammals, but the mechanisms underlying these fact
academic.oup.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
New paper led by @yadirapga.bsky.social!
Opossums have babies at 6-months of age, but are still highly male-biased in their mutations
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
Opossums have babies at 6-months of age, but are still highly male-biased in their mutations
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
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In these dark times, it comes as a rare pleasure to highlight @natanaels.bsky.social & @marcdemanuel.bsky.social's work on germline and somatic mutations in humans. 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Collateral mutagenesis funnels multiple sources of DNA damage into a ubiquitous mutational signature
Mutations reflect the net effects of myriad types of damage, replication errors, and repair mechanisms, and thus are expected to differ across cell types with distinct exposures to mutagens, division ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
In these dark times, it comes as a rare pleasure to highlight @natanaels.bsky.social & @marcdemanuel.bsky.social's work on germline and somatic mutations in humans. 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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There'll be 2 PhD positions (math / microscopy) on MitoPhyto. But the Norwegian research council is also offering opportunities for non-European postdocs to come to Norway for 3 years associated with FRIPRO projects. Please DM me if interested!
www.forskningsradet.no/en/call-for-...
www.forskningsradet.no/en/call-for-...
Recruitment of Talented Researchers to Norway
The Research Council supports the recruitment of talented international researchers to the Research Council's centre calls and for projects funded ...
www.forskningsradet.no
June 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
There'll be 2 PhD positions (math / microscopy) on MitoPhyto. But the Norwegian research council is also offering opportunities for non-European postdocs to come to Norway for 3 years associated with FRIPRO projects. Please DM me if interested!
www.forskningsradet.no/en/call-for-...
www.forskningsradet.no/en/call-for-...
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My pick for In Other Journals this week:
MSH1 suppresses organelle mutation - an investigation of how many plants maintain very low mitochondrial mutation rates
My summary here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@sloanevolab.bsky.social
#PlantScience
MSH1 suppresses organelle mutation - an investigation of how many plants maintain very low mitochondrial mutation rates
My summary here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@sloanevolab.bsky.social
#PlantScience
In Other Journals
Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature
www.science.org
August 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
My pick for In Other Journals this week:
MSH1 suppresses organelle mutation - an investigation of how many plants maintain very low mitochondrial mutation rates
My summary here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@sloanevolab.bsky.social
#PlantScience
MSH1 suppresses organelle mutation - an investigation of how many plants maintain very low mitochondrial mutation rates
My summary here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@sloanevolab.bsky.social
#PlantScience
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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
Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution
jobs.colorado.edu
August 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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
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Pls RT: We are recruiting a postdoc (and potentially an RA or staff scientist) to work on the evolution of stage-structured immune systems! Experimental evolution, natural variation in immunity, and/or evo genomics in flour beetles (Tribolium). See ad here: my.vanderbilt.edu/tatelab/join...
August 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Pls RT: We are recruiting a postdoc (and potentially an RA or staff scientist) to work on the evolution of stage-structured immune systems! Experimental evolution, natural variation in immunity, and/or evo genomics in flour beetles (Tribolium). See ad here: my.vanderbilt.edu/tatelab/join...
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The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052
Postdoctoral Scholar – Genomics, Aging, Somatic Mutation, Structural Variation, Evolution , Cancer – Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052
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Our review on the last decade+ of hybrid incompatibility research is now out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Original thread here: bsky.app/profile/moll...
Original thread here: bsky.app/profile/moll...
August 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Our review on the last decade+ of hybrid incompatibility research is now out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Original thread here: bsky.app/profile/moll...
Original thread here: bsky.app/profile/moll...