Marco Todesco
@MarcoTodescoCnv
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Plant geneticist, molecular and evolutionary biologist
Vancouver, Canada
Joined April 2015
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. Spread the voice! 🧬🌻🧪🌱 🧫
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Reminder to send your application for this position as an assistant professor in Plant Resilience and Food Security in the Botany Dept. at UBC! Join us and do great science in beautiful #Vancouver! #academicjobs #plantscience #UBC.
Do you want to be Botany's next Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Plant Resilience for Food Security?.Check out this Assistant Professor opportunity here
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Uuuh, the first paper from the Todesco lab! A phased, chromosome-level assembly for nettle - it not only stings, but it is also full of chromosomal rearrangements!🥬🧬.Great work from Kaede Hirabayashi, in collaboration with the Deyholos and Cronk labs
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Stinging nettles ( Urtica dioica ) have a long history of association with human civilization, having been used as a source of textile fibres, food and medicine. Here, we present a chromosome-level,...
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RT @BioinfoAdv: 🧬 "Population-aware permutation-based significance thresholds for genome-wide association studies" enhances #GWAS accuracy….
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Great opportunity to join the Botany Department at UBC! Lots of very neat colleagues 😁.
Do you want to be Botany's next Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Plant Resilience for Food Security?.Check out this Assistant Professor opportunity here
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RT @ubcmsl: Join us Wednesday for our last MSL seminar before the summer! You'll hear presentations from trainees in the #FosterLabUBC, #Le….
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This is very welcome news!.
Important changes and welcome increases to student scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships. Looks like Banting and Vanier are going away.
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Uuuh, such interesting science! 😁 Thanks to @ubcscience @ubcmsl for putting this nice video together, and for giving me an opportunity to show off my yellow Ikea armchair 🌻🧪🧬.
Dr. Marco Todesco (@MarcoTodescoCnv) of @ubcmsl studies how plants adapt changing environments. He aims to link ecological processes to genetic variation using molecular & developmental biology, genetics, genomics, physiology, & field studies. @UBCBotany @fos_ubco
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Wondering where #centromeres or tandem repeats are in your genome assembly? Great new tool by Cassandra Elphinstone - assembly required (but nothing else) 🧬🌾🐔🌻🐦🪰🧍🌽
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Tandem repeats can play an important role in centromere structure, subtelomeric regions, DNA methylation, recombination, and the regulation of gene activity. There is a growing need for bioinformat...
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Great position in fungal diversity at @UBCBotany - come and join us in beautiful Vancouver! 🍄🍄🍄 (sorry, very short notice though, the deadline is, ehm, tomorrow)
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Congratulations @sam_yeaman @MojtabaJahani6 @ShaghayeghSoudi! Great to see this "on record", and happy to have been involved!.
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RT @ubcmsl: Deadline for Asst. Prof in Computational Cell Biology is November 23rd. Still lots of time. Apply here
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Firts picture! 🥰 L to R: Kaede, Stephanie, Raisa, a guy that looks like me but is much older, Ara, Dylan and Zhiqin!
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Congratulations to all (and thanks to @NSERC_CRSNG) - I guess today was a good day for funding announcements 😄.
Congratulations Drs. Wilf Jefferies, James Kronstad, Sabrina Leslie, Xin Li, Marco Todesco and Nobu Tokuriki for receiving @NSERC_CRSNG Discovery Research program & Research Tools & Instruments grants! 🥳🔬👏. Learn more about the funding and projects:
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🥳 Thanks to @InnovationCA for supporting our research!.
Congratulations to @MarcoTodescoCnv for receiving CFI JELF funding for his project: "Plant Diversity, Adaptation and Bioengineering (PDAB) lab". 🥳🔬🌱. @UBCBotany @hirstma @ubcscience.
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Many thanks to @GenomeBC for supporting our efforts to reduce the (high) carbon footprint of cannabis cultivation! We'll contribute to developing varieties that can be grown outdoors (instead of in energy-hungry indoor facilities) - with the help of genomics, of course 😎🌱🧬🧪.
🌊🌿🐝 BC researchers are tackling #ClimateChange challenges in agriculture & aquaculture! @GenomeBC & @IAFBC funded 8 new projects with $1.84 million to harness the power of genomics. . #GIRAFFFunding #Genomics #BCNews #Sustainability #Innovation
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Now with a link to the preprint 😅
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Aim Arctic plants survived the Pleistocene glaciations in unglaciated refugia, but the number of these refugia is often unclear. We use high-resolution genomic data from present-day and Little-Ice-...
One or many? Great paper on glacial refugia and arctic plants biogeography by Cassandra Elphinstone, @SamuelTabbs and many others (w/ small contributions by myself). Includes sequencing of 400-year-old plants released from retreating glaciers! 🥶🧊🥵🌱.
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One or many? Great paper on glacial refugia and arctic plants biogeography by Cassandra Elphinstone, @SamuelTabbs and many others (w/ small contributions by myself). Includes sequencing of 400-year-old plants released from retreating glaciers! 🥶🧊🥵🌱.
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