Are you interested in studying epigenetic variation in natural dandelion populations to identify candidate natural epialleles and to characterize their stability across generations and environments? Then check out and apply for this PhD position with Koen Verhoeven. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

🌶️ From rented greenhouses to a first commercial variety: our pepper breeding in Spain has come a long way in six years.
Now KWS Max Myura is heading to market, while our teams in Türkiye and Mexico build their own pepper pipelines.
insidekws.com/pepper-26

Job opportunity! 🌱 At KWS Einbeck (Germany), we have an exciting opening for a Group Lead for Molecular Trait Analysis & Genomics.
👉 Read more & apply online: jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-...

Job alert 🚨 Two (!!) postdoc positions in plant-virus interactions at University of Amsterdam! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Trait discovery is one of the most difficult parts of our work here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social. Thus, we need help:

We are looking for a Scientist in #QuantitativeGenetics & #Biostatistics for Trait Discovery.

This is a full time, permanent position here in Einbeck.

#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs

If you're interested in #PlantScience R&D work at a plant breeding company: @kwsgroup.bsky.social is hosting its annual R&D TalentCampus here in Einbeck on May 29th.

More info here:
www.kws.com/corp/en/care...

Rachel Shahan’s team used a scRNAseq atlas to track root cells in 12-hour increments ove 10 days. They found that MADS-box TFs, the same ones that control flowering time, also regulate the root's transition from juvenile to adult in arabidopsis! #PlantScience #Roots #Aging #Genetics #PAG2026 #PAG33

Take-home messages from the panelists at the #WIG workshop at #PAG33:
✨ Find allies
🌱 Seek out mentors
💡 Do what makes you happy
🤝 Build a community that truly supports you
💙 Take care of yourself: mental health and work–life balance matter
🌟 Believe in yourself

Aleksey Zimin presents EVIANN (Evidence-based Annotation) While it does not drastically increase the accuracy over existing tools, its speed is ultrafast, can use ONT transcripts, creates UTRs and lncRNAs. #Bioinformatics #Genomics #Coding #PAG33 #PAG2026

Uniprot @uniprot is developing new strategies and workflows for reference proteomes of agricultural species - Pedro Raposo presents at #PAG33

Our gene predictor Tiberius is now applicable to various clades and offers an evidence integration pipeline. Come by poster P038 at #PAG33 to learn more.

José Pérez-Silva @jgperezsilva.bsky.social presents on gene annotation methods used by Ensembl at #PAG33

We are looking for a Head of Cell Biology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social Vegetables.

This is a permanent, full-time position located in Wageningen, Netherlands.

jobs.kws.com/job/Wagening...

#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantCellBiology #PlantBreeding #PlantSciJob #PlantScienceJob

Are you at #PAG32? Don’t miss the talk by Lars Gabriel on our new gene finder Tiberius on Tue at 11:50 in Pacific A! He also presents 2 posters on Tiberius. P102 is on diatom genome annotation.