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Yan Gong

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Assistant professor in the PMB Department at UC Berkeley. Stanford Alum. #FearTheTree yangonglab.com

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Go Quinn go!
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Amazing lab and mentors!
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Congrats Patrick!
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#Botany2026 always a great fun to attend the Botany conference, but this time I have the pleasure of bringing three new young botanists and see the first student presentation from the Gong lab! See you next time!
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481
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Assistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Maddy Seale @maddyseale.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Out in @science.org this week: A decline in epigenetic silencing of TEs in older plant organs but not in the shoot meristem. TCX5 and TCX6 help regulate DNA methylation in this context. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience
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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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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Elephant 🐘
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I am really glad this virtual issue is now complete! We would like thank all the authors to their contribution and Evin Magner for the contribution of the cover. Please check out. We have a wide range of research area covered with both research papers and reviews.
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Cool! Another example of dissociation between FN and EFN!
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
That is awesome! I imagine the floral nectary is still lost in this species right?
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Out today! Our newly-described bush tomato #Solanum nectarifolium appears to be the first species in the genus with extrafloral nectaries that are visible to the naked eye. And ants seem to love 'em. #ozplants #iamabotanist #newspecies @phytokeys.pensoft.net
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A new dioecious bush tomato, Solanum nectarifolium (Solanaceae), from the northern Tanami Desert, Northern Territory, Australia, with reassessment of S. ossicruentum and a change in the circumscriptio...
A new species of functionally dioecious bush tomato from the “Solanum dioicum + S. echinatum group” of Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum is described. Solanum nectarifolium Martine & Brennan, sp. nov...
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Maddy Seale @maddyseale.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
At the end of 2024 I did a chronological round up of all the #plantscience in @science.org that year. So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Looking for a gift for that somebody who likes food, drink, and...nature? The hardcover, paperback, and kindle editions of Most Delicious Poison are currently <$15 (and audiobook is on Audible and narrated by me): www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/noah-... Review: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/b...
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All Things in Moderation, Especially When They’re Toxic (Published 2023)
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I see you are back to the dark world of Zeiss
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Adrienne Roeder Lab @roederlab.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Fun to get to highlight Minya's @minyaaa.bsky.social new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1mCCK3QW8S...
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Teng Zhang | 张腾 @tengzhanguh.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Ground breaking works from Agata Burian’s lab showing beautiful self organizing patterns of internal vasculature strands ahead of epidermal auxin maxima! Most importantly, the new opening strands form convergent angles that close to those observed in Fibonacci, Lucas, and Bijugated spiral patterns.
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Self-organization of vascular strands drives their patterning in the Arabidopsis shoot apex
In plants, the development of the shoot vascular system is closely coordinated with lateral organ formation at the shoot apical meristem. Despite exte…
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Institute of Plant Sciences - Paris-Saclay (IPS2) @ips2parissaclay.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Welcome and congratulations to Bruno Guillotin on joining IPS2 as a permanent researcher! May the spirit of science always be with you and inspire your future discoveries. #PlantScience ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/...
Dr. Bruno Guillotin
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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
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Annette Becker @plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! 🎓 📍 Where? Gießen, Germany – great research environment & vibrant plant science network.
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
About 4 dollars each for the Takara one. Have not tried it yet but I heard it works
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
That is cool. How long after pollination does it occur?
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Kirk Amundson @kirkamundson.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
UMass Amherst Biology is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Plant Physiology. Deadline Nov 1. Please spread the word and apply! careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
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Assistant Professor - Plant Physiology
The Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of Plant Physiology. The successful can...
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I really like the series of profiles @newphyt.bsky.social is currently publishing. The new one is on @stanfordstomata.bsky.social: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #PlantLuminaries
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Dominique Bergmann
Dominique Bergmann, Stanford University (USA) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA).
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Which filter set did you buy? We used green go for gfp. I am trying to see if we can get some other ones for other FP
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Is this nightsee?
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Jacob Levine @jacoblevine.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution
Developmental gene function is conserved over deep time, but cis-regulatory sequence conservation is rarely found. Rapid sequence turnover, paleopolyploidy, structural variation, and limited phylogeno...
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Please spread the words. This is the third annual AP search in our department to extend the junior faculty cohort!
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Congrats!
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Kramer lab graduate students shining at #Botany2025. @elenakramer.bsky.social @andreaappleton.bsky.social
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Congrats Leo!
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Jesús Martínez-Gómez @jesusgm.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025 Reach out! www.martinezgomezlab.com
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Martinez-Gomez Lab
Plant Evo-Devo
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026 Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS! Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us
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M O I L A B - Join us!
Join us! Our lab is based at the University of California, Berkeley, embedded in the vibrant and multicultural San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by astonishing nature!
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Mingyuan Zhu @mingyuanzhu.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Excited to share that the Zhu Lab will officially open at Texas A&M University on August 1st, 2025! We’re a multidisciplinary group, exploring how plant roots adapt their growth to environmental stresses across scales. Actively recruiting! Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvn...
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Andy Plackett @seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r... Closing date 31st July. 🙂 #PlantScience #PlantSciencejobs
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Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Joel Sharbrough @jsharbro.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Please RT! I'm hiring a postdoc to work in my new lab at UCSB (!) on an NSF-funded project investigating the phenotypic consequences of WGD for photosynthesis and respiration. Check out the full posting here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02986 And more info about the lab here: sharbroughlab.com
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Gotta Catch’Em All!
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I would say sectors of sepal primordia are transformed either transiently or stably. It probably won’t be pass on to the next generation unless the egg cell is also transformed
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Look like just part of the sepals?
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Congrats
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Happy to announce that I will be opening my lab in the PMB department at UC Berkeley this July. Our lab will study nectary development and evolution using non-conventional models. We are actively recruiting. Join us if you are also enthusiastic about development or evolution!
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Gong Lab @ UC Berkeley PMB
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Hey. Maybe that is the ancestral state and Arabidopsis is just so amazing at stomata patterning & gas exchange!
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
As part of the special issue for nectar and nectaries, our new review on nectary development and evolution is now published at @newphyt.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The developmental basis of floral nectary diversity and evolution
Nectar is a central bridge between angiosperms and animal mutualists. It is produced by specialized structures termed nectaries, which can be found on different plant organs. Consumption of floral ne....
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
As part of the special issue on Nectar & Nectaries. Evin et al., contributed a fascinating review for nectar color and nectar chemistry! @newphyt.bsky.social
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Consider joining us for PBI on Plant Rewards this year! We have travel grants for ECR that are due next Monday!
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Congrats! Fantastic story!
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Registration can be found on the PBI website at pbi.oeb.harvard.edu/symposium. DM me or @elenakramer.bsky.social if you have any questions.
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Plant Biology Symposium | Plant Biology Initiative at Harvard University
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Working on nectaries or plant-pollinator interactions? Join us for this year's Harvard Plant Biology Initiative Symposium on 'Plant Rewards' on May6/7. We have an awesome lineup of speakers with free registration. We are also offering two ECR travel grants (due April 14): forms.gle/jhTnv8pbuBxX...
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Orchard Notes @orchardnotes.com · 05/04/2025
With apple #blossom season just around the corner (in our neck of the woods at least) now seems like a good time to reprise my article from a couple of years back, 'Lifecycle of an Apple, From Bud to Blossom to Fruit'. The story of a single apple, in 50+ photos. orchardnotes.com/2023/03/28/l...
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Lifecycle of an Apple, From Bud to Blossom to Fruit | Orchard Notes
Follow the lifecycle of a single apple bud from dormancy to harvest, in this series of 40+ photos.
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