Damon Lisch
@DamonLisch
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Associate Professor Purdue University Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. Interested in transposable elements, epigenetic regulation and genome evolution.
West Lafayette, IN
Joined April 2011
Come be our colleague! The University of Rochester is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in evolutionary genetics and genomics: https://t.co/jqzm7admBG.
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I will be hosting the Transposable Elements Workshop at the International Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG 33), to be held January 9-14, 2026, in San Diego. If you have cool stories about TEs to share, please contact me at meixiazhao@ufl.edu.
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I'm using chatGTP for data analysis and I can't tell if a revolutionary change in how I approach it or I'm now just a monkey who keeps pasting in error messages until the programs work and I get a figure that it assures me is "publication ready".
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Salk scientist Joseph Ecker has been awarded the 2025 Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies from the Maize Genetics Cooperation. The prize honors “the most outstanding plant scientists working on both genetics and genomics in the present era.” “For more
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We @uga_genetics are hiring a TT assistant professor in Human Genetics to investigate how genetic makeup influences an individual’s risks for diseases or responses to drugs and therapies. All research approaches will be considered. Please RT. https://t.co/WgbSaF4Ec2
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I keep saying these guys are trouble.
Open access link below..check out our new article on all things retrotransposons in the brain!
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Genes whose mutant phenotype is lethality regulate everything. Am I doing this right?
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Antiviral reverse transcriptases reveal the evolutionary origin of telomerase
Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from? Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria. https://t.co/OlU6HOLQfK
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I'm guessing that large numbers of hopeful grad applicants are getting zero responses to their inquiry letters to professors and have no idea why. I tried to explain why to one and I got an AI response.
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Now Hiring: Assistant Professor - Plant Physiology | University of Massachusetts Amherst: Amherst, Massachusetts | https://t.co/kUVKoiDhXZ
#jobs #plantsciencejob
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I was forced to take a bunch of mandatory trainings this morning and...they were both informative and useful.
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It's hard not to get mad at the students when they lie to our face about using AI, but it really isn't their fault. They are getting completely mixed messages about when and how to use it because most professors are as confused as they are.
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Students need to understand that the companies that make AI do not care if they don't learn to think, but they should. Now many students are scared to talk to professors because they know that we can tell by talking to them if they've outsource their thinking.
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Cool on so many levels
Exciting🌱! Reprogramming stomatal precursor cells to totipotency -- Cooperation of LEC2 with SPEECHLESS induces auxin biosynthesis genes, inciting a bifurcation of stomatal differentiation trajectory into a new, somatic embryo founder cell state. https://t.co/p6soXG7pwY
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AI writing is going to do to thinking what social media did to socializing. Not usually so negative but it feels as if Clippy (“Looks like you’re going to do some thinking. Would like me to take care of that?”) is everywhere.
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