Dave Des Marais
@evodaveo.bsky.social
Father, photographer, occasional climber, plant biologist at MIT. Not the geochemist.
Super inspiring profile of a great student. I'm proud to have taught and worked with Ananda over the past two years.
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Shaping the future through systems thinking
MIT senior Ananda Santos Figueiredo aims to create a better future using systems thinking.
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May 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Super inspiring profile of a great student. I'm proud to have taught and worked with Ananda over the past two years.
news.mit.edu/2025/shaping...
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Congrats to Meghan Blumstein and Sophie Webster for this great study on exploiting genomics to better understand the effect of urban heat islands on tree phenology! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
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March 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Congrats to Meghan Blumstein and Sophie Webster for this great study on exploiting genomics to better understand the effect of urban heat islands on tree phenology! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
MIT's Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab is searching for a new (non-faculty) Executive Director. This is a great opportunity to connect MIT PIs and stakeholders around the world. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
Executive Director
MIT - Executive Director - Cambridge MA 02139
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March 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
MIT's Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab is searching for a new (non-faculty) Executive Director. This is a great opportunity to connect MIT PIs and stakeholders around the world. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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Cologne Spring Meeting continues with “Resurrecting plants for climate change research” by Niek Scheepens from @unituebingen.bsky.social Innovating plant resurrection techniques to study climate adaptation. #ClimateChange #PlantResurrection #TRR341 #DFG
March 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Cologne Spring Meeting continues with “Resurrecting plants for climate change research” by Niek Scheepens from @unituebingen.bsky.social Innovating plant resurrection techniques to study climate adaptation. #ClimateChange #PlantResurrection #TRR341 #DFG
I really enjoyed presentation by @seemasheth.bsky.social at the Cologne Spring Meeting. Absolutely heroic field work addressing local adaptation with a great model system
March 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I really enjoyed presentation by @seemasheth.bsky.social at the Cologne Spring Meeting. Absolutely heroic field work addressing local adaptation with a great model system
New preprint from the lab! PhD student Jie Yun developed a nice computational pipeline to test long-standing hypotheses about life history trade-offs associated with domestication. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Does domestication trade-off stress tolerance for leaf growth? A search for evidence across eight Pooideae grass species
Plant domestication is thought to create trade-offs between high yield and stress tolerance, raising concerns about yield stability in future climates. Previous studies have found limited direct evide...
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December 5, 2024 at 6:06 PM
New preprint from the lab! PhD student Jie Yun developed a nice computational pipeline to test long-standing hypotheses about life history trade-offs associated with domestication. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congratulations to Dr. Haoran Cai!!! @haorancai.bsky.social successfully defended his thesis earlier today in MIT CEE and is moving to UCLA to begin a post-doc.
November 22, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Haoran Cai!!! @haorancai.bsky.social successfully defended his thesis earlier today in MIT CEE and is moving to UCLA to begin a post-doc.
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My department, Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of Minnesota is looking for a new head and colleague in any area of Plant and/or Microbial Biology. Job ad: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
So please spread the word to anyone who might be interested. Thank you 😁
So please spread the word to anyone who might be interested. Thank you 😁
November 21, 2024 at 9:01 PM
My department, Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of Minnesota is looking for a new head and colleague in any area of Plant and/or Microbial Biology. Job ad: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
So please spread the word to anyone who might be interested. Thank you 😁
So please spread the word to anyone who might be interested. Thank you 😁
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Very sad to hear of the passing of Joanne Chory, who was an iconic scientist and person. Truly, one can say she spent her whole career trying to make a better planet and a better environment in science for all.
Interview: www.sebiology.org/resource/in-...
TED talk: www.ted.com/speakers/joa...
Interview: www.sebiology.org/resource/in-...
TED talk: www.ted.com/speakers/joa...
In conversation with… Joanne Chory
“I’m excited that people are finally letting us remind them that plants exist and that they are here for a reason,” says Professor Joanne Chory, plant geneticist at the Plant Biology Group of the Salk...
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November 13, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Very sad to hear of the passing of Joanne Chory, who was an iconic scientist and person. Truly, one can say she spent her whole career trying to make a better planet and a better environment in science for all.
Interview: www.sebiology.org/resource/in-...
TED talk: www.ted.com/speakers/joa...
Interview: www.sebiology.org/resource/in-...
TED talk: www.ted.com/speakers/joa...
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So excited to announce our department is hiring a tenure track position in Forest Ecophysiology! Happy to answer any questions about the position!! Join us in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management at Penn State!
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Assistant Professor of Forest Ecophysiology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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November 14, 2024 at 1:31 AM
So excited to announce our department is hiring a tenure track position in Forest Ecophysiology! Happy to answer any questions about the position!! Join us in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management at Penn State!
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My department at MIT has a joint search with the College of Computing in computation for environmental life sciences. Please apply, and pass along! faculty-searches.mit.edu/cee-scc/
MIT Faculty Searches MIT CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING FACULTY SEARCH
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November 13, 2024 at 2:10 PM
My department at MIT has a joint search with the College of Computing in computation for environmental life sciences. Please apply, and pass along! faculty-searches.mit.edu/cee-scc/
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Every picture in the CSHL bar
October 24, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Every picture in the CSHL bar
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New postdocs fellowship at MIT for folks interested in applications of AI. Fellows will have advisors in both AI and a discipline. Please reach out if interested in applying cutting edge AI to the microbiome or microbial evolution!
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October 25, 2024 at 9:56 PM
New postdocs fellowship at MIT for folks interested in applications of AI. Fellows will have advisors in both AI and a discipline. Please reach out if interested in applying cutting edge AI to the microbiome or microbial evolution!
computing.mit.edu/tayebati-pos...
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I am currently searching for a new postdoc to conduct research using amazing data sets that we have accumulated over years through research on a continental-scale array of field experiments with switchgrass genetic mapping/GWAS populations. careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/52...
MSU Careers Details - Research Associate-Fixed Term
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October 28, 2024 at 2:50 PM
I am currently searching for a new postdoc to conduct research using amazing data sets that we have accumulated over years through research on a continental-scale array of field experiments with switchgrass genetic mapping/GWAS populations. careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/52...
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Thrilled to share my recent perspective piece with
@diogromelo.bsky.social
and
@evodaveo.bsky.social
on the empirical measurement of developmental bias in a GP map and its conceptual links with other quant gen variational properties.
www.cell.com/trends/genet...
@diogromelo.bsky.social
and
@evodaveo.bsky.social
on the empirical measurement of developmental bias in a GP map and its conceptual links with other quant gen variational properties.
www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Disentangling variational bias: the roles of development, mutation, and selection
The extraordinary diversity and adaptive fit of organisms to their environment depends
fundamentally on the availability of variation. While most population genetic frameworks
assumes that random muta...
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October 28, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Thrilled to share my recent perspective piece with
@diogromelo.bsky.social
and
@evodaveo.bsky.social
on the empirical measurement of developmental bias in a GP map and its conceptual links with other quant gen variational properties.
www.cell.com/trends/genet...
@diogromelo.bsky.social
and
@evodaveo.bsky.social
on the empirical measurement of developmental bias in a GP map and its conceptual links with other quant gen variational properties.
www.cell.com/trends/genet...
We're looking for two Asst Profs, one with @MIT_SCC on computation and environmental life sciences. Join Otto Cordero, Tami Lieberman, Cesar TerrerDarcy McRose, Serguei Saavedra and I to expand our impact in this essential area. Please apply! faculty-searches.mit.edu/cee-scc/
MIT Faculty Searches MIT CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING FACULTY SEARCH
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October 1, 2024 at 2:18 PM
We're looking for two Asst Profs, one with @MIT_SCC on computation and environmental life sciences. Join Otto Cordero, Tami Lieberman, Cesar TerrerDarcy McRose, Serguei Saavedra and I to expand our impact in this essential area. Please apply! faculty-searches.mit.edu/cee-scc/
Attending #Evol2024? Got a good plant biology story to tell? Come join New Phytologist associate editors Robin Hopkins and me to learn about publishing at New Phytologist. Palais d Congres 445B Saturday at 12:30. Journal swag and light fare provided!
July 26, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Attending #Evol2024? Got a good plant biology story to tell? Come join New Phytologist associate editors Robin Hopkins and me to learn about publishing at New Phytologist. Palais d Congres 445B Saturday at 12:30. Journal swag and light fare provided!
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Phenomenal work from Jia-Wei Wang’s lab provides a comprehensive view of the mechanisms underlying different degrees of perenniality in different Brassicaceae
#plantscience
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#plantscience
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May 28, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Phenomenal work from Jia-Wei Wang’s lab provides a comprehensive view of the mechanisms underlying different degrees of perenniality in different Brassicaceae
#plantscience
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#plantscience
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Thanks to TILclimate Podcast for including me in a great episode about the CO2 fertilization effect! climate.mit.edu/podcasts/e1-...
March 28, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Thanks to TILclimate Podcast for including me in a great episode about the CO2 fertilization effect! climate.mit.edu/podcasts/e1-...
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New paper from the lab just out in Evolution!
The double life of trichomes: understanding their dual role in herbivory and herbicide resistance
The double life of trichomes: understanding their dual role in herbivory and herbicide resistance
The double life of trichomes: understanding their dual role in herbivory and herbicide resistance
Abstract. Understanding the evolutionary forces that maintain phenotypic variation in ecologically relevant traits has long been one of the central goals of evo
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March 23, 2024 at 3:03 PM
New paper from the lab just out in Evolution!
The double life of trichomes: understanding their dual role in herbivory and herbicide resistance
The double life of trichomes: understanding their dual role in herbivory and herbicide resistance
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It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for…registration for the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology is open! We hope that you will join us! #Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social
February 15, 2024 at 10:07 PM
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for…registration for the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology is open! We hope that you will join us! #Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social
Nice work from my (non-BlueSky) colleague Charlie Harvey on a very important terrestrial carbon sink. Cool combination of field data, remote sensing, and modeling www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 14, 2023 at 8:10 PM
Nice work from my (non-BlueSky) colleague Charlie Harvey on a very important terrestrial carbon sink. Cool combination of field data, remote sensing, and modeling www.nature.com/articles/s41...