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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Julia Bailey-Serres <serres@ucr.edu> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 3, 2023 2:39 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> IIGBadmin <iigbadmin@ucr.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Nikki Van De Klundert <nikki.vandeklundert@ucr.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fwd: 2 postdoc positions available exploring biodiversity in root biology<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can this position opportunity be shared with postdocs and grad students of IIGB?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Juila<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Dear Colleagues,<br>
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I have recently received news that I will receive funding from the Templeton foundation on an exciting new endeavor (see Executive summary below). I am reaching out to you in hopes that you may be able to forward this message to any PhD student you know who
is looking for a postdoc and potentially interested in using biodiverse species to understand mechanisms of plant development and environmental adaptation. <br>
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I aim to recruit two new postdocs focused on the following goals: 1) To curate a collection of model systems across flowering plants that can be used by the community to address the physiological and molecular-genetic mechanisms associated with climate change
and 2) To utilize gene editing approaches in the Brassicaceae family to explore how genomic context influences the expression of gene functions in a species. <br>
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Candidates that have experience in comparative plant biology or systematics, together with the use of molecular genetic approaches, are most encouraged to apply. Anyone with an interest should reach out to me directly (<a href="mailto:dinneny@stanford.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">dinneny@stanford.edu</span></a>).
We are a very diverse and welcoming lab group and our lab values can be found <a href="https://dinnenylab.me/dinneny-lab-values/"><span style="color:#0563C1">here</span></a>. Thanks for your help!<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
José<br>
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José R. Dinneny | Professor of Biology, Stanford University | Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator | Gilbert Building, Rm 228B, 371 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305 | Tel. 650-724-2366 | <a href="https://dinnenylab.me/" title="https://dinnenylab.me/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://dinnenylab.me</span></a> | @Dinnenylab
| Admin. assistant: Divya Gala, <a href="mailto:hdgala@stanford.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">hdgala@stanford.edu</span></a><br>
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<b>Executive summary of project:</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Despite the diverse array of habitats that plants thrive in, mechanistic insight into the physiological processes and molecular</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">mechanisms
that ensure climate resilience have only been characterized in a small number of model plant species and crops.</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">This
is particularly evident when considering root systems, which provide many important sustainability-related functions to the</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">plant
necessary for growth under water or nutrient limiting conditions. Nevertheless, the increasing availability of complete</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">genome
sequences for a wide swath of plant species highlights the opportunities that exist to functionalize our ‘omics level</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">understanding
of plant biodiversity. I propose to the John Templeton Foundation to functionalize biodiversity in plants through a</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">combination
of species curation, phenomics, gene editing and comparative genomics. We will establish a database of model</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">plants
with sequenced genomes that curates the ease of cultivation under standard laboratory conditions and presents an</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">anatomical
atlas of root tips for comparative studies. We will pioneer the use of CRISPR/Cas9 as a tool for comparative</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">developmental
genetics, to understand the conserved and divergent functions of genes critical for establishing anatomical</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">complexity
in roots. These wet-bench approaches will be complemented with comparative genomics approaches that identify</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">gene
families associated with global species distributions. This functional atlas of biodiversity will provide great insight into the</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">inner
beauty of plants, establish essential community resources that facilitate the broader study of biodiverse species, informthe improvement of a larger diversity of crop plants, and inspire the preservation and continued study of the most important</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">kingdom
of life for human existence.</span></i><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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