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Germain Montazeaud @germtz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very happy to share that the @erc.europa.eu has selected PHYTOPOGON for funding! 😁🌱 In this project, we will test whether plants have greenbeard genes — an evolutionary mechanism that could allow them to recognize the genetic identity of their neighbours.

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Germain Montazeaud @germtz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Next fall, Paris-Saclay will host what promises to be a major scientific event for agroecology: the Mix4Agroecology conference.

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Thomas Lesaffre 🌱 @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🌺 PhD position in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology! 🌺 There is about two weeks left to apply to come work with me on the evolution of plant reproductive strategies at @unifr.bsky.social ! Contact me or visit here or for more info: tinyurl.com/monoecy Please share! 🌱

A view of the city of Fribourg, Switzerland

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Thomas Lesaffre 🌱 @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🚨 PhD position available ! 🚨 I am hiring a PhD student to work with me on the evolution of plant sexual systems 🌺 at @unifrbiology.bsky.social ! The position is funded for 4 years by @snsf.ch as part of my Ambizione fellowship. More info here: tinyurl.com/monoecy 🌱 Please RP and share widely ! 🌱

View of the old city of Fribourg from the "Pont du Milieu".
© Ville de Fribourg

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Thomas Lesaffre 🌱 @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Come visit us at @unil.bsky.social ! 😃

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

We just published a review article as a book chapter of Advances in Ecological Research. This review focuses on interdisciplinary fields between genome-assisted breeding and community genetics. Please DM if you want a reprint. doi.org/10.1016/bs.a...

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Many organisms, including humans, reshape their environments in ways that influence the conditions faced by future generations. We ask whether this can favour biological variation with @irisprigent.bsky.social in our new paper. Thanks to @dee-unil.bsky.social @snsf.ch www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 13/01/2026

A sex-determining gene region in ants, bees, and wasps has maintained its function for over 150 million years through its chromosomal position rather than its DNA sequence, as evidenced by the lack of sequence homology among lineages. In PNAS: ow.ly/n9eU50XWipU

A member of the Hymenoptera order, Colletes cunicularius, has an evolutionarily conserved sex-determination mechanism.
CREDIT: NJ Vereecken

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Miya Qiaowei Pan @miyapan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Excited to share that I’m starting a research group at MPI for Biology Tübingen — and we’re recruiting PhD students! We are offering two fully funded PhD positions on sex determination and development in Hymenoptera 🐜🐝. Please share with prospective students who might be interested.

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🌱 RESEARCH 🌱 Wheat varieties with a high root projected area in pure stands experience a strong relaxation of below-ground competition in mixtures at the seedling stage under resource-limited conditions – Montazeaud et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @germtz.bsky.social

Fig. 1.Experimental design. (A and B) Close-up views of RhizoTubes® showing wheat seedlings and their roots. (C) Spatial distribution of the seedlings within the RhizoTubes® in both pure (up) and mixed (bottom) stands. Different colours represent different genotypes. (D) Schematic representation of the experiment; each dark square represents a RhizoTube®. The green squares are the control RhizoTubes® and are all grown with the same wheat variety to check environmental heterogeneity.

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Germain Montazeaud @germtz.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Save the date! Next fall (2026), we will be hosting an interdisciplinary conference on crop diversification in Paris.

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Germain Montazeaud @germtz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

PhD fellowship available 📢! We are offering a 3-year fully funded PhD fellowship at the interface between functional ecology and quantitative genetics in Montpellier FR ! (Application deadline 31 July)

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Last chance to attend the school for free if you're doing your PhD in an Official Development Assistance (ODA) country ! Apply by 15 May for a full scholarship covering tuition, travel, accommodation, and meals.

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Germain Montazeaud @germtz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

New paper out in @jxbotany.bsky.social! 🌱🌾 We found that mixing different wheat varieties can decrease belowground competition at early growth stages, especially under resource limited conditions.

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