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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fantastic Asst Professor positions open across multiple UC Berkeley departments @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Plant/Algae/Microb aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522 Plant/Env aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Gen/Dev/Evo aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481 Eco aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489

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Assistant Professor – Plant or Macroalgae-Associated Microbial Communities and Interactions - Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Últimos días para aplicar a nuestro programa de mentoría bilingüe de la Universidad de California Berkeley Estás pensando en un doctorado en biología? Te gustaría hacer preguntas a profesores y doctorandos? Flyer: tinyurl.com/flyerpreview... Más información: tinyurl.com/previewdocto...

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Nueva Iniciativa! 🎓 Preview Doctorado 🎓 Estas pensando en una tesis doctoral de biología en EEUU/USA pero tienes dudas de cómo afrontar la solicitud? Te gustaría conocer a profesores y doctorandos de UC Berkeley? Lee más información sobre nuestro programa de mentoría! tinyurl.com/previewdocto...

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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WALIIAnhydro @waliianhydro.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Save the Date! The 2nd Annual WALII Symposium is happening on November 12, 2026! Join us to hear from these four outstanding invited speakers! More details coming soon! #WALIISymposium #Science #LifeWithoutWater #DesiccationTolerance

Four symposium speakers’ portraits with names, affiliations, event date (Nov 12, 2026), and times for the 2nd WALII Symposium are shown against a desert background.

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Congratulations to @dortizba.bsky.social on a new collaborative Tansley Review in @newphyt.bsky.social! Predictive evolutionary genomics: principles, validation, and practice doi.org/10.1111/nph....

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We are looking for an **assistant professor in ecology** in our integrative biology department, a vibrant dept focused on ecology, evolution, organismal biology, with several linked centers including natural history collections! PLEASE APPLY! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The prestigious Miller Research Postdoctoral Fellowship is open! University of California, Berkeley This is a postdoc fellowship with substantial support and independence to be hosted at a lab at Berkeley, reach out with interests! miller.berkeley.edu/nominate-app...

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Miller Research Fellowship | Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Had a great time in the plenary! Here a partial view from the stage when the room did a live voting on understanding genetic diversity! #smbe2026

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Roli Roberts @roliroberts.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fantastic final plenary at #SMBE2026 by Moises Exposito-Alonso; transplant experiments suggest that Arabidopsis populations are lagging in adaptation to rising temperature by 2°C; other species likely worse.

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Diana Lobo @dianaclobo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#SMBE2026 What a fantastic talk by @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social on adaptation to the anthropocene in Arabidopsis 🌱 Adaptation is rapid and predictable but we have to do more to protect species adaptive potential! 🧬 Truly inspiring 👏

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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@mexpositoalonso.bsky.social has officially converted me into a plant person 🌱 #SMBE2026

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Be sure to attend tonight the poster and find the amazing Tati Bellagio @tbellagio.bsky.social with hot (literally) updates of environmental adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana using a new pangenome aware method for outdoor experimental evolution #PEQG26

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

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Tatiana Bellagio @tbellagio.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Would love to hear your thoughts and for you to test it on your data 😉 Poster #308T

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Tatiana Bellagio @tbellagio.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Come see my poster tn! For 3 yrs, populations evolved at 43 sites worldwide. I built kMate, an alignment-free, pangenome k-mer method to track SNP & SV frequencies across space & time, opening the door to accurately and efficiently mapping climate-adaptive variants on evolution experiments! #PEQG26

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Please join us in congratulating 2026 GSA Early Career Medal recipient @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social!🎉 Recognized for pioneering research on plant adaptation, genetic diversity, & climate change, he is shaping the future of biodiversity science. 🔗: buff.ly/7MBsZ4l

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Very nice feature Innovative Genomics Institute at Berkeley about our team! Our goal is to learn about evolution to climate! innovativegenomics.org/news/moi-exp...

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Moi Expósito-Alonso Joins IGI's Climate Team

The Moi lab is joining the IGI and is using CRISPR to study how plant genomes evolve to adapt to climate change over time.

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Thank you @adrigov.bsky.social for the nice summary in Plantae.org of our paper!

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

#PlantSci April 10 plantae.org/plant-scienc... (2/2) Stress accelerates aging! (In leaves); Real-time climate adaptation study of Arabidopsis; SAR signaling mediated by jasmonate; Rice that suppress rhizosphere methane production; Exuded benzoazinoids alter microbiota & promote disease resistance.

Rice plants overexpressing PSY peptides have longer roots with larger aerenchyma compared with Kitaake control. This alters the composition of root exudates, which means that the bacteria in the soil surrounding them produce less methane.

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Our team appeared in The Daily Californian news! Discussing our experimental evolution in Science Magazine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and a recent paper on the threat of genetic diversity loss in PNAS doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Check it out: www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

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Rapid adaptation and extinction in synchronized outdoor evolution experiments of Arabidopsis

Climate change forces species to adapt rapidly to avoid extinction. To directly observe rapid adaptation and extinction, we conducted synchronized evolution experiments with Arabidopsis thaliana in 30...

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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

📢Acaba de publicarse en la revista Science (@science.org) el artículo "Rapid adaptation and extinction in synchronized outdoor evolution experiments of Arabidopsis" del que Carlos Lara (@carlos-lara0.bsky.social ), Alfredo García, Martí March y José María Iriondo (@txiriondo.bsky.social ),... 👇

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Check out this Science paper with contributions from iDiv members Walter Durka (@ufz.de) and Marcel Quint (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Finally, big paper #1 from GrENE-net, the unique distributed Arabidopsis evolution experiment! What an achievement, particularly by Moi, Niek and Francois who conceived the project (in Tübingen), and by the incredibly smart Moi Lab data analysis team: Lucas, Tati, Meixi, Xing and Moi!

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Incredibly grateful to the grene-net.org community that pushed this distributed experiment forward. To lab members leading the work at different stages, Xing Wu, Tatiana Bellagio, Ru Peng, Lucas Czech, Meixi Lin, and others And to co-coordinators of the network Niek Scheepens and Francois Vasseur!

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Congrats to our 2026 GSA Award recipients! They have made significant contributions to science, including scientific discoveries, mentoring, creation of community resources, and education. Learn more about them: buff.ly/6zAwQQ1 Join us in celebrating their accomplishments.👏 1/3🧵⬇️

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

🧬 Edward Novitski Prize: Mike O’Connor, University of Minnesota 🏅 GSA Medal: @schacherer.bsky.social, @unistra.fr 🧑‍🏫 GSA Mentorship Award: @irinakitop@bsky.social, @fredhutch.org 3/3🧵

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

🏫 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education: Brian Donovan 🎓 GSA Early Career Medal: @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 🌎 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal: Judith Kimble, @uwbiochem.bsky.social 🔬 George W. Beadle Award: Aaron Mitchell, @universityofga.bsky.social 2/3🧵

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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

IGI's Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) on his path from growing up in Spain and dreaming of becoming an ecologist to running a research group at Berkeley, studying plant adaptation to #ClimateChange. New from IGI's Emma MacKenzie! Read here: ow.ly/g4ph50XAjp4

Moises (Moi) Exposito-Alonso poses for a portrait on campus at Stanford University. Alison Yin/AP Images for Center for Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2023

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Please RT: we are looking for a PhD student to work on macrogenetics and quantitative genetics of South African proteas. Amazing collaborative project with @plantecology.bsky.social @debbiemleigh.bsky.social & others, embedded in @terra-cluster.org. Dream project if you love molecular biodiversity!

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Peter Sudmant @psudmant.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The registration deadline is fast approaching for probgen 2026! Abstracts due by January 15, registration by January 31 probgen2026.github.io

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Happy New Year from the MOILAB! wishing a wonderful 2026 of science and community! 🌱

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Was a pleasure to talk with Emma MacKenzie from Innovative Genomics Institute about "Behind the Scenes" featured article on how I got into science, evolution, Arabidopsis, climate adaptation, and California! Article: innovativegenomics.org/news/behind-...

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Behind the Science: Moi Expósito-Alonso

Behind the Science: Moi Expósito-Alonso - Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI)

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WALIIAnhydro @waliianhydro.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The First Annual Virtual WALII Symposium: Exploring Life Without Water is ONE WEEK AWAY! 🗓️💧 Register now to join us on November, 18! www.walii.science/virtual-symp...

Promotional image of a plant growing in the desert for the First Annual WALII Symposium: Exploring Life Without Water. The graphic includes the date and time of the event and information on how to register.

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Ksenia Krasileva @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The work is led by @weiweibio.bsky.social, a talented postdoc looking for faculty positions now and conceptualized both computational prediction and in lab validation. Computational implementation is a collaboration with Xing Wu, postdoc with @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social Qs - contact us 💻🌱🧬

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Ksenia Krasileva @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🚀 New preprint! We introduce K-PROB, a k-mer–based Bayesian framework that mines pangenomic promoter and expression diversity to predict cis-regulatory elements driving gene expression variation in crops 🌽🌱 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684862v1 #Genomics #GeneRegulation #Maize #Soybean

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Natural variation in regulatory code revealed through Bayesian analysis of plant pan-genomes and pan-transcriptomes

Understanding the genetic code of cis-regulatory elements (CREs) is essential for engineering gene expression and modulating agronomic traits in crops. In plants, CREs underlying rapid evolution of ge...

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Laura Leventhal @lauracleventhal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Very proud to present our first paper from the Moi Lab Carnegie common garden! @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social

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Laura Leventhal @lauracleventhal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

In A. thaliana and other plant systems, local adaptation is stronger closer to the equatorial edge and load is highest farther from the equator, which highlights a critical vulnerability: under strong selection, these high mutation load and low local adaptation populations may be the most at risk.

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Laura Leventhal @lauracleventhal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

We monitored these populations for 3 years, and found that population growth rate decreased as the treatments became more stressful. Further, "high risk" populations (either high load or low local adaptation scores) had a higher stochasticity for recovery after a single year of water stress.

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Laura Leventhal @lauracleventhal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Crucially, we found a significant interaction between load and local adaptation, which grew stronger as the environment became more stressful. This suggests a synergistic decay of fitness resulting from locally adaptive variants, globally maladaptive load, and high water stress environments.

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