Bob Schmitz

A multiomics atlas of the Arabidopsis nuclear envelope science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@AlonsoStepanova It has been a great start to the summer in the Alonso-Stepanova lab. First, Jose was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and just yesterday, Anna was appointed as a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor. Two great honors for our lab.

My lab is looking for a lab manager/technician! The successful candidate will help us study host-pathogen evolution using functional genomics and ex vivo infection experiments. Please share broadly and send any candidates my way! ugajobsearch.com/postings/478259

For over 21 years, CAES has hosted the prestigious E. Broadus Browne Research Awards, recognizing top graduate research at @universityofga. This year's honorees are doctoral candidates Qian Feng and Lucas Goncalves and master's student Skye Remko. 🔗 ugacaes.org/48SnIaT

Excited to share that I will be opening my lab this fall at the @WeizmannScience in the Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences! I am looking for postdocs interested in plant biology, stress biology, and single-cell technologies. #PlantBiology #SingleCell #Postdoc

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

Honored to receive the Phil & Mary Bradley Faculty Award for Mentoring in Creative Inquiry at Clemson. Working with undergrad researchers on plant biology and discovery has been deeply rewarding. Grateful for the incredible students who make this possible.

New Resource: "Single-cell chromatin accessibility and cis-regulatory element analyses in plants using the scPlantReg platform" rdcu.be/ff7wG scPlantReg is a framework and database for plant single-cell chromatin data, here applied to pearl millet.

Please join us in congratulating 2026 GSA Early Career Medal recipient @MExpositoAlonso of @UCBerkeley!🎉 Recognized for pioneering research on plant adaptation, genetic diversity, and climate change, he is shaping the future of biodiversity science. 🔗: buff.ly/2moemZs

🎉Congrats to Eckerlab alumni José Alonso @AlonsoStepanova @NCState & Bob Schmitz @Schmitz_Lab @universityofga on their election to @theNASciences today! Working with you both at @salkinstitute was a true privilege - this honor is so well deserved. So proud! 🌟#NAS163 #NASmembers

Very happy to see this review online annualreviews.org/content/journa… where we review current approaches and challenges in GRNs with a focus on dynamics, perturbations and cell type specificity.

[@IPMBSinica Seminar] 2026-04-29 10:30; A134, Ag Tech Bldg Speaker：Dr. Justin Walley (Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, USA) Title：Unraveling Signaling Networks using Integrated Omic Profiling

In a decades-long scientific partnership with @MarsGlobal, Professor David Bertioli and Senior Research Scientist Soraya Leal-Bertioli are helping the candy maker develop a more resilient peanut. 🔗 ugacaes.org/4ttwu7x

Save the date! The 12th World Soybean Research Conference (WSRC) is in Rosaria, Santa Fe, Argentina from April 5 - 7, 2027.

March has been an eventful month at IPBGG, with achievements across both students and faculty. Congratulations to all!

Excited to share our new preprint on rhizobacterial biosensors mapping sucrose exudation 🌱 Work spanning my @TomKatCenter postdoc in @Dinnenylab to my own lab at @uga_plantbio; co-first with my PhD student Gretchen Brinkman: 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

An exciting foray for my lab into engineering the rhizosphere with sensor microbial strains! Tour de force synbio by Stanford TomKat fellow now UGA Prof @C_M_Dundas and UGA PhD Gretchen Brinkman! Rhizobacterial Biosensors Spatially Map Sucrose Exudation biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

I'll focus on What is needed to build a fulfilling career in academia How to navigate the current job market What constitutes a “successful” academic application package from a search committee’s perspective Strategies for balancing research program success with teaching/service

Legumes, such as soybeans, peanuts, common beans, lentils, chickpeas, are important crops. This review in #GENETICS describes @SoyBaseDatabase, @LegumeInfo, and PeanutBase genomic databases, which support #legume #breeding programs. buff.ly/AYSPXN2

🎉 Congrats to Aaron Mitchell of @universityofga for receiving the 2026 George W. Beadle Award! He has advanced molecular mycology—from studying Saccharomyces cerevisiae to developing tools for Candida albicans. Read more: buff.ly/79NSXah