Dr. Justin Conover

I am ecstatic to share that I have accepted the Assistant Member and Principal Investigator position at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center @DanforthCenter in St. Louis, MO! The Conover Lab will open June 1, 2025, broadly interested in polyploid evolutionary genomics.

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The Lauterbur EvoEco Lab at @BiologyUVM is recruiting Fall 2025 PhD students! Interested in computational evolutionary ecology and how animals adapt to pathogens, toxins, and other threats OR interested in hacking complex biological systems with creative code? Please reach out!

@rcast_plants @DanforthCenter Thanks Raymond, I'm excited to be just down the road from you!

I am ecstatic to share that I have accepted the Assistant Member and Principal Investigator position at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center @DanforthCenter in St. Louis, MO! The Conover Lab will open June 1, 2025, broadly interested in polyploid evolutionary genomics.

@ProteinUniverse @DanforthCenter Thanks Pat!

@ConJUSTover @DanforthCenter Congratulations @ConJUSTover !!

@george_kipkoech @DanforthCenter Likely Fall 2026. If you're interested in joining the lab, please reach out! I'll be sure to post here when I'll be accepted PhD students as well

@ConJUSTover @DanforthCenter Congratulations! Will you be taking PhD students anytime soon?

@thebirdmaniac @DanforthCenter Thanks Kevin!!

@JLGONZHER @DanforthCenter Thanks, Jose! That would be great to come visit!

@ConJUSTover @DanforthCenter Congratulations Justin! We will have to get you to come a give a talk in SDState

@AdriGonzalo @DanforthCenter Thanks Adrian!!

@ConJUSTover @DanforthCenter Congratulations, Justin! I am so happy to know these news! Can't wait to see the Conover Lab shining and contributing to the field!

@MugumeYosia Thanks Yosia!

Congrats @ConJUSTover

@KelleyDior @DanforthCenter Thanks!!

@KenzieMabry @DanforthCenter Thanks Makenzie!

@ConJUSTover @DanforthCenter Awesome news!!! Huge Congrats!!

I hope to pay forward the generosity that you've each shown me, and I'm excited to start building a supportive lab community of my own when I return home to the Midwest next summer!

There are many people who have played a role in my development as a scientist, and I would not be in the position I am today without their help and guidance along the way. Of particular note are my PhD advisor, @JonathanFWendel, and postdoc mentors Mike Barker and Ryan Gutenkunst

And, one of the unique strengths of the Danforth Center is their highly collaborative community, so there will be many opportunities for creative, interdisciplinary projects that pair my interests in polyploidy with the many expertises of other labs at the center.

Projects in the lab will range from population genetics to better understand the auto-allopolyploid continuum, to comparative genomics of diploids that have experienced ancient polyploidy events.

@TomRadomski4 It can vary a lot. I heard back on March 30 last year, but there doesn't appear to be a standard date for announcement, and the application was due a month later this year than last. Also varies depending on the area you applied for

Excited to share a new publication -- "Dynamics of accessible chromatin regions and subgenome dominance in octoploid strawberry" in @NatureComms -- wonderful collaboration with Jiming Jiang's, Ning Jiang's, and Chad Niederhuth's labs at @michiganstateu nature.com/articles/s4146…

FWIW, Re: GATK's new missing format, looks like it began in v4.2.3 as of around 2021 (I just personally seeing encountering issues as of Sept 2023!).

‘Nature embraces queer people’: inside the Kew show about the LGBTQ+ side of plants theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…