Meixia Zhao
@MeixiaZhao
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Department of Microbiology and Cell Science
Gainesville, FL
Joined August 2018
🚀 We’re hiring a #Postdoc! Join our group in Poznan, Poland to study meiotic crossover recombination in plants🌱 Highly motivated & enthusiastic candidates are welcome! 📅 Deadline: Nov 1, 2025 🔗 https://t.co/R8TIEnGatE
#PlantScience #Meiosis #PostdocJobs
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Congrats to @mariannekrame45 and authors for work published @ThePlantCell! A terrific Academic+Industry collaboration to identify "aberrant RNAs" that trigger silencing. We used ML, RUBY and a different approach to transcriptomics "All-in-One" RNA-seq:
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Target capture enriched long-read RNA-sequencing uncovers a cleaved aberrant RNA from a ribosome stalling event that is associated with transgene silencing
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I am seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic PhD student to join my lab in Spring or Fall 2026. If you are interested in genetics, epigenetics, or bioinformatics, please feel free to contact me at meixiazhao@ufl.edu.
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Breaking genetics news‼️🌱🌽 A natural DNA trick triples recombination in maize. What we first saw in Arabidopsis (@hendersi lab) a decade ago is now confirmed in crops—opening new doors for plant breeding. Published today in Nature Plants! More details:
nature.com
Nature Plants - This study discovered that locally confined DNA differences boost crossover rates in both Arabidopsis and maize, revealing a conserved mechanism that can accelerate plant breeding...
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We’ll be hosting the Bioinformatics Summer Workshop from August 11–15. The workshop is completely free and held 100% online. If you are interested, please go ahead and register: https://t.co/rRUEtXLLQZ
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Wise words from my friend John Fowler. Gutting funding basic research is a profoundly bad idea. Shocking that this has been flying under the radar and that it well might happen.
John Fowler’s guest column in the Clayton Tribune- his hometown newspaper- to provide ideas that folks could connect with, relating how federal investment in scientific research provides benefits to all Americans, including those from a small town in northeast GA. @jefowlerjr
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#Soybean Colleagues – Please do join us for the #Soy2025 meeting July 23-25, 2025! We have an incredible set of speakers lined up, with more on the way, and a very enjoyable schedule on tap. See: https://t.co/2TeQMYgdHM
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Reason number 4,517 (yes I'm counting) why @MaizeGDB is so awesome and we're so lucky as a community to have these folks. Also a great example of maize community sharing. UNPUBLISHED data already up on the community database showing conservation scores across the maize genome.
We're excited to share PlantCAD browser tracks: a new, unpublished dataset integrating AI techniques for plant genome analysis. Explore it here: https://t.co/NasGqLw8Bt We welcome the community's feedback and innovative use cases for this data!
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A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution @plantsci
https://t.co/mW072iZPGz
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The position will need to drive the project to the finish line, including pretty-plotting, additional analyses, and writing. If you are looking for a short, impactful project that will drive your career to the next level, please give us a shot :) 2/n
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Curious about 4mC and how our paper is different from the preprint? Check out the thread by the brilliant @James_Walker303 🤩🎉
I'm thrilled to share that our study is now published in Cell: Extensive N4 cytosine methylation is essential for Marchantia sperm function. https://t.co/uFo6WXz9HR This paper confirms our 4mC discovery in Marchantia sperm and takes it much further. A thread: 0/13
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INARI is seeking a Bioinformatics Data Analyst. The role will collaborate with CompBio and AI team to support pipeline dev and internal tool creation, analyzing and integrating multiomics data. If you are interested in the position, feel free to reach out.
inari.com
Make our mission yours. Join a team of ambitiously grounded, collaborative innovators on a mission to help transform the global food system.
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Congratulations to @NWangUF on this outstanding honor!
Two @UF researchers have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors. @AcadofInventors @UFWertheim @UF_IFAS
https://t.co/lG0BEzFYtx
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What an amazing discovery from Scott Kennedy's lab! A new splicing system that recognizes transposons and removes them from mRNAs! https://t.co/3p3wyxkYXX
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All genomes harbor mobile genetic parasites called transposable elements (TEs). Here we describe a system, which we term SOS splicing, that protects C. elegans and human genes from DNA transposon-m...
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Postdoc jobs in the Gaut lab! Brandon isn't on here, so I can be frank: he is fantastic. I did my postdoc with him and he is not only an amazing scientist but one of my favorite humans. I would have happily stayed in his lab forever if that was feasible. https://t.co/lipvnMMP7F
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The Slotkin lab is hiring for an exciting project that involves gene editing, transposable elements and plant transformation! Please RT!
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A new study is out: things that make you age faster, and slower, according to 16 epigenetic age clocks. 🧵
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NSF announced three new NSF Innovation Corps Hubs, each funded up to $3M/year for the next five years — an investment providing experiential entrepreneurial training to researchers across all fields of science and engineering. Learn more: https://t.co/yiBZtuW46E
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