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Marco Todesco @mtodesco.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Great video on biodiversity research in BC, featuring lots of very smart people, and myself. Thanks @bcgsc.ca for putting this together and highlighting the importance of biodiversity genomics!

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Marco Todesco @mtodesco.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Nice article on great work by Cassandra Elphinstone (soon to be published, hopefully)

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Marco Todesco @mtodesco.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We are looking for a postdoc to help with a project on eelgrass genomics, in collaboration with the O'Connor and Rieseberg labs at UBC - see ad here tinyurl.com/2yd487p4! Come and join us in beautiful Vancouver 🌊🌾🏔️

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Postdoc Position Eelgrass Population Genomics_UBC_2026.pdf

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Marco Todesco @mtodesco.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Great postdoc opportunity to work on metabolomics and genomics of aroma in berries (raspberry and blueberry) at UBC in beautiful Vancouver! Come explore aroma diversity and figure out what are the metabolites and genes that control it - and help us make even better berries! 🌱 🫐 ⚗️ 🧬

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Marco Todesco @mtodesco.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Only two days left to apply for this position in our lab at UBC!

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Marco Todesco @mtodesco.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The Todesco lab at MSL UBC is looking for a Research Tech to help us run the lab and do fancy science! Good wet lab skills and enthusiasm for plant research are required, experience with genomics and bioinformatics is a plus. See ad below, please spread the voice! 🧬🌻🧪🌱🔬🧫 tinyurl.com/5bnfyadw

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Research Assistant/Technician 3

Staff - Non Union Job Category Non Union Technicians and Research Assistants Job Profile Non Union Salaried - Research Assistant /Technician 3 Job Title Research Assistant/Technician 3 Department Rese...

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Marco Todesco @mtodesco.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Really neat paper out in @nature.com on an efficient way to produce doubled haploids in sunflower, thanks to the serendipitous discovery of spontaneous haploid parthenogenesis. That might be the least intelligible sentence I have ever written - great science communication Marco! tinyurl.com/yxwc2a5v

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Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sunflower sexual reproduction - Nature

Spontaneous parthenogenesis in sunflower has been used to develop a scalable doubled haploid breeding system.

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Marco Todesco @mtodesco.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I guess about time I stopped pretending things were normal on X...

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