Lucia Strader

Ever wondered what it’s like inside a working research lab? At Salk, your generosity doesn’t just power scientific breakthroughs—it can give you a front-row seat to them. As a member of the Discovery Society, you’ll enjoy exclusive benefits, including special access to lab tours. Be part of the discovery: salk.edu/support-us/dis… #SalkInstitute #Discovery

University of Copenhagen is hiring! 9 new positions available Individual job details below!👇

Salk is teaming up with the Del Mar Foundation for a three-part webinar series to highlight Salk's foundational research in brain health, cancer, and agriculture. Join us for the second in this series on Wednesday, March 11, at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET to learn directly from Salk scientist Lucia Strader about how plants sense and respond to their environments, and how understanding these natural survival strategies can help us develop crops that thrive in a changing world. The Del Mar Foundation is offering a 1:1 Challenge Match through June. Gifts made during the webinar series will be matched dollar-for-dollar, doubling your impact on critical research. Donors who give $1,000 or more to an area of greatest need will also join the Discovery Society, with special access to Salk news and events. Register today: salk.edu/science-cant-w…

Take a look into the year 2000 time capsule: a milestone in plant science 🌱 Arabidopsis thaliana—a small flowering mustard—became the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced, transforming the field of plant biology. Salk scientist Joseph Ecker co-led the international Arabidopsis Genome Initiative and sequenced one of the plant’s five chromosomes, while the late Joanne Chory advised the national effort. That breakthrough laid the foundation for Salk’s Harnessing Plants Initiative, which has now sequenced more than 900 plant genomes. Today, Salk scientists are using this knowledge to develop improved varieties of wheat, rice, corn, and other staple crops—advancing nutrient use, drought tolerance, and disease resistance. Read more in Salk's newest issue of Inside Salk magazine: inside.salk.edu #PlantScience #Plants #SanDiego #salkinstitute

Undergrads interested in researching how life interacts with water are invited to apply for the WALII Summer Internship Program, which includes opportunities at the Rhee and VanBuren labs at the Plant Resilience Institute! MSU applications are due Feb 1: walii.science/careers.html

Congrats to @juliaschaepe and @marklundem on the recent publication of their work linking the binding behaviors of TFs in vitro and in vivo! Out in Cell now: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Transcriptome-wide mRNP condensation precedes stress granule formation and excludes new mRNAs: Molecular Cell cell.com/molecular-cell…

Our Center for Human Genetics & Genomics at NYU is recruiting new faculty investigators: apply.interfolio.com/177375

@hailingj1 @J_NinoSanchez @HuaitongW Congrats, Hailing!

Our new discovery that bacteria utilize extracellular vesicles to deliver RNAs into fungi substantially broadens the paradigm of Cross-Kingdom RNA communication! Big congrats to ⁦@J_NinoSanchez⁩, ⁦@HuaitongW⁩ and all! Thanks for your hard work! cell.com/molecular-plan…

We attempted to "clean up" the model of the auxin biosynthesis pathway in Arabidopsis using genetic, pharmacological, and metabolomic approaches. We show that the CYP71A, NIT, AMI, and IAMH gene families are all dispensable for auxin production via IAOx. academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

We're hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA! #PlantBiology #SyntheticBiology #PlantScience #FacultyJobs #UGA

Also, check us out on NPR.org front page! Congrats again @arg_arginine. Thanks to pioneering structural biology of death domains (DFDs) from @WuLabHarvard and previous collab with Zhijian 'James' Chen @UTSWMedCenter that led us to the protein batteries concept.

Now Hiring: Assistant Professor in Alzheimer’s Disease Research The Salk Institute is seeking outstanding scientists at the Assistant Professor level to establish innovative, independent research programs exploring the frontiers of Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegeneration. Areas of interest include: • Human genetics and genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s • Brain–body connections and their impact on Alzheimer’s • Neuroimmunology and the role of inflammation in neurodegeneration • Metabolism and systemic influences on brain health • Vaccine-related mechanisms and novel preventive strategies • Development of new technologies to interrogate and model neurodegeneration Join a collaborative community of scientists advancing discovery in Alzheimer’s disease and age-related neurodegenerative research. Learn more and apply: apply.interfolio.com/174321 #SalkInstitute #NowHiring #AlzheimersResearch #Neurodegeneration #FacultySearch #NeuroscienceJobs #AcademicJobs

The @UNC_Biology Biology Department is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307414

Now Hiring: Assistant Professor - Plant Physiology | University of Massachusetts Amherst: Amherst, Massachusetts | joburl.ws/21727358 #jobs #plantsciencejob

Applications are now open for the Salk Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) — a fully funded, 9-week program that gives undergraduates hands-on experience in biomedical research. Students gain access to world-class facilities, mentorship from leading scientists, and a supportive community of peers. 📅 Deadline: December 7, 2025 Apply here: salk.edu/about/our-comm… #SalkInstitute #SURF #STEM #FutureScientists

Excited to share our first preprint from the lab! We developed an image-based pooled screen to uncover regulators of HP1 condensates and discovered a link with intronic RNA and RNA processing. shttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.21.676939v1

Join us as a colleague! Our Dept. of Plant Mol. Biol. is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the thematic area of Plant–Organism Interaction (incl. bacteria, fungi, insects, other plants).🦠 🦗🌱 See the official job advertisement for details: career5.successfactors.eu/career?career%…

Now out in #ProteinScience! Work led by the talented @AnanyaChakrav onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pr…