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Dr. Sajjad Aslam
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Plant biologist 🧬 ☘️ interested in stress response mechanisms, FoodSecurity| PostDoc🔬Plant Scientist🥦 PlantGrowthStress|Traveler & €xplorer💫Love Reading Behavioral genetics & Psychology🧠 Single 🎶Views are my own
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Dr. Sajjad Aslam @sajjad-aslam.bsky.social · 17d
Thrilled to announce that our research on bitter gourd has been published in the prestigious Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences journal! 🎉 🌱☘️

👉 Read the full article, link below www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Explored in-depth insights into the multi-omics approach to unravel the regulatory mechanisms of taste, nutritional profiles, and pharmacological potential of bitter gourd🌱🌿
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pfeilmeier.bsky.social
We are hiring‼️ Two cool projects in my group for a PhD student in plant immunity and for a Postdoc in plant microbiota research 🌿🧫🚀🚀
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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danvec.bsky.social Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · Oct 22
Oct 24th (Friday) - The EARLY BIRD registration and abstract submission DEADLINE for the 2025 #CSPB_ERM is in TWO DAYS! @cspbscbv

LINK HERE: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025

Early bird discounted rates: $25 for #CSPB student members and $40 for postdoc members!
Canadian Society of Plant Biologists - Eastern Regional 2025 Meeting
Fourwaves - Canadian Society of Plant Biologists - Eastern Regional 2025 Meeting
event.fourwaves.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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bradylabs.bsky.social
Interested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat.... Please repost!
2026 Salt and Water Stress in Plants Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Salt and Water Stress in Plants will be held in Les Diablerets, Vaud (fr) Switzerland. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
sajjad-aslam.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce that our research on bitter gourd has been published in the prestigious Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences journal! 🎉 🌱☘️

👉 Read the full article, link below www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Explored in-depth insights into the multi-omics approach to unravel the regulatory mechanisms of taste, nutritional profiles, and pharmacological potential of bitter gourd🌱🌿
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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speciationlab.bsky.social
Great new postdoc fellowship for foundational plant research.
If you’re into genetics and genomics of plant reproductive evolution or adaptive convergence (incl in the cool and charismatic nightshades!) I’d be happy to talk about possible projects!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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noahfahlgren.bsky.social
Deadline for our 2nd cohort of the Pivot to Plants program at the Danforth Center is Oct 15th. Excited to identify 5 participants for a 1-year NSF-funded internship. Hands-on research experience in cutting-edge #plantscience, #imaging, #datascience, and more! www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
Pivot to Plants: Training Program for Plant and Data Science | Danforth Plant Science Center
The Pivot2Plants Fellows Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science or data science but have limited research experience.
www.danforthcenter.org
October 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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copenhaverlab.bsky.social
The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
October 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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plantophagy.bsky.social
This looks like a great opportunity: #Tenure-track assistant #professor position at University of Lausanne on #MPMI
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)
career5.successfactors.eu
September 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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ebi.embl.org
Looking for a postdoc that combines wet and dry lab experience?

The EMBL-EBI-Sanger postdoctoral fellowships might be the thing for you!

Choose one of our pre-defined topics or propose your own.

www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

@sangerinstitute.bsky.social

#postdoc #sciencecareers
🧬🖥️🔬
September 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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biochemsoc.bsky.social
Time is running out to submit your abstract for Plant Proteins: functions, regulation, production and utility! Join us in Leeds to hear from four #BiochemAwards winners, advance understanding of plant proteins and unlock new insights! 🧪Abstract deadline: 21 August www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...
Scientific meeting Plant proteins: functions, regulation, production and utility Leeds, UK 21-23 October 2025 Earlybird deadline: 21 August 2025
August 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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aabiologists.bsky.social
🌱 Announcing our brand new webinar series all 'aabout' #plantscience & #sustainableagriculture 🌱

Starting 23rd September with talks on #CRISPR in crops from:
🌾 @sadiyehayta.bsky.social
🍓 #ECR Ryan Creeth
🥔 @annalsapplbio.bsky.social author Karam Mostafa

Register for free: buff.ly/qdflQbB
August 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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aabiologists.bsky.social
👀 Why #stress-resistant #crops remain a #scientific promise rather than a #farming reality? Bridging the gap between #genetic discovery and #agricultural impact

@annalsapplbio.bsky.social
#openaccess

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
September 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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mossplants.bsky.social
Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!
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August 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social
"Déjà Vu in Clubroot Resistance: Same Genes, New Names"
by Edel Pérez-López (@edelplopez.bsky.social) & colleagues

"If we want meaningful progress...we must critically re-evaluate what qualifies as a truly novel R gene."

FREE access till Oct. 15th here:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lg2acQbJF...
Figure 1. Nucleotide-binding site leucine-rich repeat (NLRs) and clubroot resistance (CR) genes in Brassica species.
August 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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brackenlab.bsky.social
Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪
Multiple Early Career Faculty Positions in Ecology The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for multiple, tenure-track assistant professor positions that will enhance existing institutional excellence in ecology. We are searching broadly for creative and collaborative individuals (1) working at any spatial scale, from local to global, in any system, (2) studying any level of biological organization, from genes to ecosystems, and (3) using any mode of inference, from empirical to theoretical. Applicants should demonstrate research excellence that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries; ongoing growth in the department will emphasize new hires that use quantitative and/or integrative approaches to study ecological processes. Postdoctoral experience is desirable in applicants. Successful candidates will engage with and benefit from UNDERC, Notre Dame’s 8000-acre environmental field station and home to NEON’s Great Lakes domain, superb on-campus chemical and genomic analytical facilities, an experimental research facility located close to campus, cross-disciplinary interactions through multiple centers and institutes including the Environmental Change Initiative, and a unique Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program in Environment and Society. New faculty will benefit from Notre Dame’s recent campus-wide Strategic Framework that included the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative. Modern research facilities exist in a new environmental research building, which opened in 2025.
August 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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emjo.bsky.social
MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu
August 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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andruromanowski.bsky.social
Nice job opportunity in a nice lab with a great PI.

#postdoc
#plantscijobs
#branching
#plantdev
martinalegris.bsky.social martinalegris.bsky.social @martinalegris.bsky.social · Jul 7
🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱

The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
July 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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thepallavisinghlab.bsky.social
🌿 Did you know? @thepallavisingh.bsky.social has received a landmark @aria-research.bsky.social grant to develop PlantPlug, a project to tranasform mistletoe into a programmable interface that helps host plants thrive under climate stress.

🔗 Read more: www.essex.ac.uk/news/2025/07...
#PlantScience
Landmark grant to turn mistletoe into climate-fighting plant tech | University of Essex
www.essex.ac.uk
August 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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ipbhalle.bsky.social
📣We offer a #PhDPosition in a trilateral program “Future Proofing #Plants to a Changing Climate" with Martina Ried-Lasi (funded by @dfg.de, @ukri.org-BBSRC, NSF, USDA-NIFA).

🔗More: www.ipb-halle.de/en/career/jo...

📅Apply now!

#PlantSci #SciJobs #PlantSciJobs #PhD #PlantBiology #BiologyPhD
August 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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samyeaman.bsky.social
If your grant application needs some justification on why we should study adaptation in wild plant species... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Can wild plant adaptations help crops tolerate heat?
Wild plant species harbor a vast but largely unknown diversity of temperature stress solutions
www.science.org
June 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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rdzombak.bsky.social
Temperatures are soaring, and there's a limit to what plants can handle. Scientists are figuring out how to engineer crops to take the heat so they can get into the kitchen.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...
Soaring Temperatures Threaten Crops, So Scientists Are Looking to Alter the Plants
www.nytimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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atinygreencell.bsky.social
Excited to announce some new plasmid offerings in my shop at atinygreencell.com! Here's a thread of the current catalog. All proceeds directly support my lab and my continued effort to build useful open-source tools. Feel free to get in touch if you want to know more. Please share! 💚

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Sebastian's Biotech Bazaar
Designer of fine, hand-crafted, bespoke, and fully open source biotechnology tools for educators and researchers. Plasmids, lab equipment, cell lines, and seeds. An ever-growing collection of high qua...
ATinyGreenCell.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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drianweissman.bsky.social
Repeated exposure to heat waves was linked to accelerated aging and increases vulnerability to health issues. The more extreme heat events an individual was exposed to, the more their bodies aged.
time.com/7312734/extr...
Extreme Heat May Make You Age Faster
Consistent exposure to high temperatures might be making you age more quickly.
time.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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kwsgroup.bsky.social
Recent research shows plants use sugar to sense heat during the day 👇
As temperatures rise, starch turns into sugar, which signals the plant to grow. This sugar-based system connects light, energy, and heat—offering new clues for breeding climate-resilient crops 🌾
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A multisensor high-temperature signaling framework for triggering daytime thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications
Plants encounter high temperatures concomitantly with intense sunlight during the daytime. Here, the authors reveal a concerted chloroplast and nucleus high-temperature signaling framework that gates ...
www.nature.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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apmweber.bsky.social
Coming out in @NaturePlants today (rdcu.be/eBScJ): The mechanism for essential amino acid transport across the chloroplast envelope. We identified RETICULATA1 (RE1) as a new type of transport protein. #PlantScience #AminoAcidTransport #Chloroplasts. @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM