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Kevin Cox Jr

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HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow | Asst. Professor @ WashU & Asst. Member @ Danforth Center | Spatial Biology | Plant-microbe Interactions | Duckweed | YouTuber/Streamer | www.thecoxlab.org/

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI! Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible! #plantscience #plantbiology 🧪 bit.ly/3ZHtneT
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Announcing the publication of TAIR12: Consult the fully reannotated genome on the European Nucleotide Archive - Phoenix Bioinformatics
TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"TAIR 12 is here!" Read more here: arabidopsis.org/news/breaking-news#… #News
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The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🌟𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝🌟 Meet 𝐃𝐫. 𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐱 @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social Asst. Prof. Biology @WashU Asst. Member @danforthcenter.bsky.social The Cox lab maps gene activity in plants to understand how genes are organized and regulated across tissues. To know more👉 www.thecoxlab.org Welcome to TPJ!!
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Kevin Cox Jr @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! And a special shout-out to the awesome women scientists in the Cox Lab! From undergrads to postdocs, I'm privileged and grateful to have the opportunity to mentor these individuals and do fun, great plant science together. 🌱👩🏽‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬👩‍🔬
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Ben Williams @benpwilliams.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Absolutely delighted that our paper on epigenetic dynamics during plant aging is out today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs
Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...
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Priya Ramakrishna @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🌱📢Join us at the 𝐆𝐑𝐒 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐌𝐚𝐲 23-24, 2026 in 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝! 💡Specially encourage ECRs to apply to present your work! Its a great forum to connect with peers and mentors in the field. 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲👉 www.grc.org/salt-and-wat... Please repost! #plantscience #abioticstress #ECRs
Poster inviting participants for Gordon Research Seminar on Salt and Water Stress in Plants happening on 23-24th May 2026 at Switzerland.
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
An in planta single-cell screen to accelerate functional genetics--very cool application of the TMV vector pTRBO by Elizabeth Sattely’s Lab 😎 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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An in planta single-cell screen to accelerate functional genetics
Genetic screens in whole plants are a powerful tool for functional genetics. However, elucidating gene function in highly redundant genetic programs such as signaling pathways remains challenging in b...
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Black In Plant Science- UK @blackinplantsci.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Happy New Year!! 🎉 We're pleased to be back with some exciting new opportunities which we will be sharing in the coming weeks. We are again inviting host labs to share their projects for our 2026 BiPS Summer Studentships. Head to our website for more details: buff.ly/g6vAJmM
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Kevin Cox Jr @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Happy New Year! And with today being January 2nd, Happy birthday to the Cox Lab! Crazy that the lab is now 2 years old - it's still a bit surreal that I have this role. I'm grateful and blessed to have a team of individuals that are talented and fun to work with. Here's to a great Year 3!
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Kevin Cox Jr @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Thanks for the shout-out! If anybody wants to get an overview of expansion microscopy techniques in plants, give this a read! 🔬
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Kevin Cox Jr @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Now hold on....👀
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📣 JXB Issue 1 of 2026 is out now - and it’s a special one! 📣 🔬 Special Issue: Advances in Plant Cell Biology 🔬 📘 Guest edited by Federica Brandizzi, Zachary Nimchuk, Gloria Muday & Anna Stepanova 📘 🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb... #PlantScience 🧪 #JXBspecialissues
The cover of Vol 77 | Issue 1 | 2026 of the Journal of Experimental Botany. Special Issue: Advances in Plant Cell Biology. 
Light brown banners border the top and bottom of the page and in the centre is a microscopy image of ER (yellow) and chloroplast (turquoise) localised proteins transiently expressed in Nicotiana tabacum leaves. [Image taken by Graham Burkart (Brandizzi lab).]
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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Live thread of the NSF biology virtual office hour: 🧵
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Dan Kliebenstein @spicybotrytis.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Reupping this perennial #MPMI question, has an apoplastic Superoxide dismutase been cloned and proven to take RBOHD O2-• into H2O2? Or are all the models still assuming?
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Ivan Radin @radinbio.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This is what happens to the moss (Physcomitrium patens) chloroplasts when we grow cells on β-lactam antibiotics. β-lactams inhibit the synthesis of the peptidoglycan in the chloroplast envelope, leading to their dramatic expansion. #microscopymonday #moss #plantcells #plantmicroscopy 1/3
The image shows large moss chloroplasts organized in irregular rows. The chloroplasts, in magenta, are somewhat rectangular in shape but with many irregularities. Many green tubular protrusions extend from the chloroplast surface.
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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Our plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪
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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Big news! Boeing awarded the Danforth Center $125,000 for STEAM + Ag enrichment at the JJK-FAN Center—covering supplies, staffing, & programming as part of Boeing’s Our Future: Tomorrow’s Innovators. Thank you, Boeing! 🌱🔬 #TeamBoeing #BoeingPartner
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meter @meter76.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
New and improved and open access! With @gehan @susanmeerdink from @danforthcenter.bsky.social Please check out the tools and all plasmids are available on @addgene.bsky.social thank you @darpa.mil for funding! doi.org/10.1111/pbi....
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Remote Sensing of Endogenous Pigmentation by Inducible Synthetic Circuits in Grasses
Plant synthetic biology holds great promise for engineering plants to meet future demands. Genetic circuits are being designed, built and tested in plants to demonstrate the proof of concept. However....
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Noah Fahlgren @noahfahlgren.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Nominations are now open for awards to be presented at the 2026 North American Plant Phenotyping Network Annual Conference. This is a great opportunity to recognize our outstanding colleague’s contributions to plant phenotyping research and innovation. mailchi.mp/ce99f293f3f6...
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Call for Award Nominations – NAPPN 2026 Annual Conference
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plantpostdocs.bsky.social @plantpostdocs.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Please join us for the 2025 Plant Postdocs Sahyadri Symposium featuring Drs. Penelope Lindsay, Elena Perry, and Erica Lawrence-Paul. #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Maize #Rice #Microbes #Drought Next Friday, December 12 12 PM PT / 2 PM CT / 3 PM ET Register here: forms.gle/XciuCZ1FP62H...
Sahyadri Symposium 2025 flyer featuring QR code for registration and profiles of Drs. Penelope Lindsay, Elena Perry, and Erica Lawrence-Paul.
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor. Apps reviewed 12/15. Please spread the word! 💚⛏️ #PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬 jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
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Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
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Brady Lab @bradylabs.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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!
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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.
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Prof. Keiko Torii @keikoutorii.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
🧬🌱Research Specialist Position Open🌱🧬 -Please spread the words HHMI, UT Austin. NGS-based analyses/single cell biology to investigate environmental and hormonal control of plant stem cell differentiation. Requires both wet lab and bioinformatic skills. hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Research Specialist - 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 Specialist to s...
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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I had the honour of giving a talk at the Biochemical Society conference and finally received the medal. Grateful once again to everyone who made this possible! #BiochemEvent
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Very happy to see our work out examining guard cell transcriptomes over the course of a slowly developing drought. Thanks to @bradylabs.bsky.social and @kaisakajala.bsky.social for the inspiration, way back in Davis in 2013! The data are available in bar.utoronto.ca/eplant & doi.org/10.1093/plce...
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Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso @yoselin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
It feels soo close!! Very excited to host the @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference this Friday at Leeds. Download the official program here blackinplantscience.org/bips-confere...
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Excited to share the final version of our paper, where we invented a robotic device (ARM) for pain and somatosensory testing in rodents. We are excited to see many groups already getting this device in their labs through our startup company Tactorum Inc. elifesciences.org/articles/996...
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Ben Mansfeld @bmansfeld.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This semester, for our Plant & Micro Biosci Grad program, I'm developing a new course on ✨Peer Review✨ & critical thinking. Final project is a full review of a preprint! I'd love to have a journal editor zoom with the class to share their perspective and do a Q&A. Anyone interested? Pls share!
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a blackboard with the words " anyone ? anyone ? "
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a blackboard with the words " anyone ? anyone ? "
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Hey, anyone teach a grad-level writing course? Looking for inspo in your syllabi, if you wouldn't mind sharing!
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Very excited for Jeannette Tenthorey! @packardfdn.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social
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Jeannette Tenthorey • The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
A staggering 8% of the human genome derives from endogenous retroviruses, ancient evolutionary fossils that have been dismissed as vestiges. Yet recent work has revealed that some of these viral genes...
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Kevin Cox Jr @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Haven't posted in a while. So here's a picture of my lab enjoying some large floats in celebration of my two Ph.D students passing their Qualifying Exams recently. 🙂🍨 #NewPI
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Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Looking to host a fellow to explore regulation of duplicate genes in plant development & adaptation using single-cell & spatial transcriptomics. Ideal for candidates with backgrounds in genomics, evolution, or computational science moving to Plant Biology. Reach out if interested and eligible!
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Applications for Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology Now Open
Applications for Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology Now Open on Simons Foundation
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities. alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
My quote of the day Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality. Linus Pauling
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist Applications due Dec 1 Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)
he Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis is seeking applications for a fulltime, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Mycology, with a focus on plant pathogenic, symbiotic, 
or mycotoxigenic fungi and fungal-like organisms (e.g., oomycetes). We are looking for a highly 
motivated and creative scientist with a strong background in mycology and/or the biology of fungi and 
fungal-like organisms that interact with plants. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a 
world-class, externally funded research program that integrates both fundamental and applied aspects 
of fungal biology within the context of plant pathology. We welcome applicants pursuing a wide range 
of research topics related to plant-associated fungi, including but not limited to mechanisms of fungal 
pathogenesis or symbiosis with plants, population genomics and evolution of fungal plant pathogens, 
plant-associated fungal microbiomes and plant-microbe interactions, and/or one health approaches to 
fungal diseases and antifungal resistance. Applicants working in other relevant research areas involving 
pathogenic, symbiotic, or mycotoxigenic fungi or fungal-like organisms that affect plant health are also 
encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will have significant opportunities for collaboration with 
faculty in plant pathology, microbiology, genomics, and agricultural sciences, and to contribute to 
addressing issues of importance to California’s agricultural and natural ecosystems.
The appointee primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upperdivision lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society, a general education class for non-majors. 
Additional graduate and undergraduate teaching responsibilities may be assigned based on 
departmental needs and the candidate’s expertise. The department offers modern instructional 
facilities, including a newly renovated teaching laboratory.
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Kevin Cox Jr @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Congrats Joe!! 🎉
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Elisa Zhang, Ph.D. @elisazhang.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Happy to have started as an @hhmi.org Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! Incredibly grateful for this opportunity and am excited for some very cool new directions! We are *HIRING*, especially postdocs! Please reach out if you’re interested in uterine and pregnancy biology. Please repost!
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Rebecca (BeKa) Leuschen-Kohl @bleuschenkohl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I did it! Officially a #PhD! Yesterday, I successfully defended my dissertation "Dissecting Plant-Microbe Interactions: PAMP Recognition and Immune Evasion in Solanaceous Hosts" Special thanks to my advisor Dr. Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, my committee, mentors/mentees, friends, & family who were there.
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Our new short article is online at Plant Biotech J (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...)! "Single Cell Multi-Omics Reveals Rare Biosynthetic Cell Types in the Medicinal Tree Camptotheca acuminata" Product of an NSF-EAGER award that I was co-PI from 2023-2025 (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...).
Figure of the paper.
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Andi Kautt @akautt.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply! tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Biology
Position Summary A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Andreas Kautt in the Department of Biology on the Danforth Campus at WashU in St. Louis. The Kautt Lab studies the mechan...
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Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Happy to announce @plantpostdocs.bsky.social #Sahyadri #OutstandingPostdoc 2025 during National Postdoc Appreciation Week #NPAW2025 🎉Congratulations!! Erica Lawerence-Paul, PSU Penelope Lindsay, OSU Elena Perry, LBNL @ehlawrence-paul.bsky.social @penlindsay.bsky.social
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I hate this for the second years who had already been working on applications. Also the USDA fellowship RFA has still not been issued for this year. It is harder and harder to find fellowships to support the newest generation of scientists. 🧪 We are shortchanging our future.
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Jason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
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An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 19/09/2025
New OA Article: "A single-cell rice atlas integrates multi-species data to reveal cis-regulatory evolution" rdcu.be/eHce3 Chromatin accessibility in rice & related grasses: how regulatory DNA elements evolve across cell types & species; identifying potential silencers.
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The postdoc position is open until filled, but I will start reviewing applicants this coming Monday. If you know someone who is looking, please share. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
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Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary The Li lab in the Department of Plant Biology is recruiting a postdoctoral research associate to work on project(s) in plant molecular biology, biochemistry, and/or genomics. The idea...
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