Shujun Ou

My department has a tenure-track position at the Associate Professor level. Investigators addressing fundamentally important biological questions in *any area* of Molecular Genetics are encouraged to apply. Application period closes October 15, 2025. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/job…

Glass germ corns of the year!

@szintri Both your checks and taxes come in white envelopes ;)

The university wide e-mails that just say "have a good semester" and the university wide e-mails that says "we're cutting budgets and closing departments" look identical until you open them....

Summer Grill Heave Of Ou Lab (SGHOOL) and families!

@DamonLisch As long as they are pollinated and filled!

@SigmaFacto Sometimes, or I'll lash them to one that's still standing, but often I can just wait and they will right themselves.

Microbursts suck

Excited to share that the Zhu Lab will officially open at Texas A&M University on August 1st, 2025! Actively recruiting! Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvni5…

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: sites.google.com/view/bioinfowo…

@jinfeng7chen Thank you!

@SigmaFacto Congrats on the new work, Nice!

I want to share our latest work on a forward simulation framework on transposable element evolution. The TE Evolution Simulation Suite, or TESS, contains three components that can simulate many scenarios of genome evolution under the impact of TEs.

TESS is an open-source package developed by Dr. Chris Benson (@OhioState ), Dr. Ting-Hsuan Chen (@plantandfood) & Mr. Tianyu Lu (@OhioState Senior UG). The study is conceived with Drs. Susan Thomson and Cecilia Deng (@plantandfood). Please try it out! github.com/cwb14/TESS/tre… /n

Using TESS and parameter sweep, we were able to approximate the TE dynamics of these three rust fungus genomes, revealing the two-stage evolution of myrtle rust (A. psidii), with a long-lasting genome expansion transitioned to aggressive contraction ~1.2 million generations ago.

@MaizeZynskiHI Nice! Thanks for sharing!

@SigmaFacto Our field is all drip irrigated. 9 days since planting. 😳

More T0s getting acclimatized. We gonna be busy next week!!! Make it rain edits, baby!!!!

A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution @plantsci jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51488/