Yan Gong
@yangong.bsky.social
Assistant professor in the PMB Department at UC Berkeley. Stanford Alum. #FearTheTree yangonglab.com
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Yan Gong
@yangong.bsky.social
· Jun 19
Gong Lab @ UC Berkeley PMB
www.yangonglab.com
Happy to announce that I will be opening my lab in the PMB department at UC Berkeley this July. Our lab will study nectary development and evolution using non-conventional models. We are actively recruiting. Join us if you are also enthusiastic about development or evolution!
I am really glad this virtual issue is now complete! We would like thank all the authors to their contribution and Evin Magner for the contribution of the cover. Please check out. We have a wide range of research area covered with both research papers and reviews.
This #VirtualIssue captures the breadth and momentum of current research in #nectar and nectary biology, spanning ecology, evolution, development, and physiology 👇
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
#PlantScience
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
#PlantScience
January 7, 2026 at 2:32 PM
I am really glad this virtual issue is now complete! We would like thank all the authors to their contribution and Evin Magner for the contribution of the cover. Please check out. We have a wide range of research area covered with both research papers and reviews.
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Out today! Our newly-described bush tomato #Solanum nectarifolium appears to be the first species in the genus with extrafloral nectaries that are visible to the naked eye. And ants seem to love 'em.
#ozplants #iamabotanist #newspecies @phytokeys.pensoft.net
#ozplants #iamabotanist #newspecies @phytokeys.pensoft.net
A new dioecious bush tomato, Solanum nectarifolium (Solanaceae), from the northern Tanami Desert, Northern Territory, Australia, with reassessment of S. ossicruentum and a change in the circumscriptio...
A new species of functionally dioecious bush tomato from the “Solanum dioicum + S. echinatum group” of Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum is described. Solanum nectarifolium Martine & Brennan, sp. nov...
phytokeys.pensoft.net
December 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Out today! Our newly-described bush tomato #Solanum nectarifolium appears to be the first species in the genus with extrafloral nectaries that are visible to the naked eye. And ants seem to love 'em.
#ozplants #iamabotanist #newspecies @phytokeys.pensoft.net
#ozplants #iamabotanist #newspecies @phytokeys.pensoft.net
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At the end of 2024 I did a chronological round up of all the #plantscience in @science.org that year.
So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)
So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)
January 2, 2026 at 6:24 PM
At the end of 2024 I did a chronological round up of all the #plantscience in @science.org that year.
So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)
So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)
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Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.
Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies an ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695989v1
December 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.
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Looking for a gift for that somebody who likes food, drink, and...nature? The hardcover, paperback, and kindle editions of Most Delicious Poison are currently <$15 (and audiobook is on Audible and narrated by me): www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/noah-...
Review: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/b...
Review: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/b...
All Things in Moderation, Especially When They’re Toxic (Published 2023)
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Looking for a gift for that somebody who likes food, drink, and...nature? The hardcover, paperback, and kindle editions of Most Delicious Poison are currently <$15 (and audiobook is on Audible and narrated by me): www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/noah-...
Review: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/b...
Review: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/b...
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Fun to get to highlight Minya's @minyaaa.bsky.social new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1mCCK3QW8S...
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Fun to get to highlight Minya's @minyaaa.bsky.social new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1mCCK3QW8S...
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Ground breaking works from Agata Burian’s lab showing beautiful self organizing patterns of internal vasculature strands ahead of epidermal auxin maxima! Most importantly, the new opening strands form convergent angles that close to those observed in Fibonacci, Lucas, and Bijugated spiral patterns.
Self-organization of vascular strands drives their patterning in the Arabidopsis shoot apex
In plants, the development of the shoot vascular system is closely coordinated with lateral organ formation at the shoot apical meristem. Despite exte…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Ground breaking works from Agata Burian’s lab showing beautiful self organizing patterns of internal vasculature strands ahead of epidermal auxin maxima! Most importantly, the new opening strands form convergent angles that close to those observed in Fibonacci, Lucas, and Bijugated spiral patterns.
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Welcome and congratulations to Bruno Guillotin on joining IPS2 as a permanent researcher!
May the spirit of science always be with you and inspire your future discoveries. #PlantScience
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/...
May the spirit of science always be with you and inspire your future discoveries. #PlantScience
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/...
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Welcome and congratulations to Bruno Guillotin on joining IPS2 as a permanent researcher!
May the spirit of science always be with you and inspire your future discoveries. #PlantScience
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/...
May the spirit of science always be with you and inspire your future discoveries. #PlantScience
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/...
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🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
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🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! 🎓 📍 Where? Gießen, Germany – great research environment & vibrant plant science network.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! 🎓 📍 Where? Gießen, Germany – great research environment & vibrant plant science network.
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UMass Amherst Biology is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Plant Physiology. Deadline Nov 1. Please spread the word and apply!
careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
Assistant Professor - Plant Physiology
The Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of Plant Physiology. The successful can...
careers.massachusetts.edu
October 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
UMass Amherst Biology is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Plant Physiology. Deadline Nov 1. Please spread the word and apply!
careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
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I really like the series of profiles @newphyt.bsky.social is currently publishing.
The new one is on @stanfordstomata.bsky.social:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience #PlantLuminaries
The new one is on @stanfordstomata.bsky.social:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience #PlantLuminaries
September 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I really like the series of profiles @newphyt.bsky.social is currently publishing.
The new one is on @stanfordstomata.bsky.social:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience #PlantLuminaries
The new one is on @stanfordstomata.bsky.social:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience #PlantLuminaries
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I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614
September 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614
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Please spread the words. This is the third annual AP search in our department to extend the junior faculty cohort!
Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049
Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
September 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Please spread the words. This is the third annual AP search in our department to extend the junior faculty cohort!
Congrats!
The unique morphological basis & repeated evolutionary origins of personate flowers in #Penstemon
New #AJB research by @trinitydepatie.bsky.social & @carriewessi.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #phylogenomics #evolution #snapdragon
New #AJB research by @trinitydepatie.bsky.social & @carriewessi.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #phylogenomics #evolution #snapdragon
August 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Congrats!
Kramer lab graduate students shining at #Botany2025. @elenakramer.bsky.social @andreaappleton.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Kramer lab graduate students shining at #Botany2025. @elenakramer.bsky.social @andreaappleton.bsky.social
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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
Reach out!
www.martinezgomezlab.com
Martinez-Gomez Lab
Plant Evo-Devo
www.martinezgomezlab.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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
Reach out!
www.martinezgomezlab.com
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Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026
Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS!
Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us
Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS!
Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us
M O I L A B - Join us!
Join us!
Our lab is based at the University of California, Berkeley, embedded in the vibrant and multicultural San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by astonishing nature!
www.moilab.science
July 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026
Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS!
Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us
Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS!
Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us
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Excited to share that the Zhu Lab will officially open at Texas A&M University on August 1st, 2025!
We’re a multidisciplinary group, exploring how plant roots adapt their growth to environmental stresses across scales. Actively recruiting!
Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvn...
We’re a multidisciplinary group, exploring how plant roots adapt their growth to environmental stresses across scales. Actively recruiting!
Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvn...
July 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Excited to share that the Zhu Lab will officially open at Texas A&M University on August 1st, 2025!
We’re a multidisciplinary group, exploring how plant roots adapt their growth to environmental stresses across scales. Actively recruiting!
Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvn...
We’re a multidisciplinary group, exploring how plant roots adapt their growth to environmental stresses across scales. Actively recruiting!
Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvn...
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I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r...
Closing date 31st July. 🙂
#PlantScience
#PlantSciencejobs
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r...
Closing date 31st July. 🙂
#PlantScience
#PlantSciencejobs
Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
July 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r...
Closing date 31st July. 🙂
#PlantScience
#PlantSciencejobs
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r...
Closing date 31st July. 🙂
#PlantScience
#PlantSciencejobs
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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
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
July 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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
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
Gotta Catch’Em All!
June 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Gotta Catch’Em All!
Happy to announce that I will be opening my lab in the PMB department at UC Berkeley this July. Our lab will study nectary development and evolution using non-conventional models. We are actively recruiting. Join us if you are also enthusiastic about development or evolution!
Gong Lab @ UC Berkeley PMB
www.yangonglab.com
June 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Happy to announce that I will be opening my lab in the PMB department at UC Berkeley this July. Our lab will study nectary development and evolution using non-conventional models. We are actively recruiting. Join us if you are also enthusiastic about development or evolution!
As part of the special issue for nectar and nectaries, our new review on nectary development and evolution is now published at @newphyt.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The developmental basis of floral nectary diversity and evolution
Nectar is a central bridge between angiosperms and animal mutualists. It is produced by specialized structures termed nectaries, which can be found on different plant organs. Consumption of floral ne....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
As part of the special issue for nectar and nectaries, our new review on nectary development and evolution is now published at @newphyt.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...