Kirk Amundson

Probably talking about potatoes or skiing. Postdoc at UC Davis. Diploid. Always #UMNProud

[Kirk Amundson @KirkAmundson]

Ever wondered how 🥔 haploid inducers induce 🥔 haploids? Then check out my second
chapter, now out in @ThePlantCell

https://t.co/AXVENw4Mrg

Or just read this 🧵:

[Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis]

Latest episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast!

It was a wonderful discussion with @KirkAmundson Kirk about his recent @ScienceMagazine article.

Podcast: https://t.co/kNBr8zQL45
Article: https://t.co/WsIbYB0XaX

[Kirk Amundson @KirkAmundson]

@fulop_dan Jorge Dubcovsky works on this! A few other groups too: https://t.co/N3IC2IOmdW

[Idan Efroni @efronilab]

Plant developmental genes share functions & expression, but align orthologs' promoters and often… no conservation. Or is there?
In our new preprint, we show that conservation exists and is ancient, but was just obscured by genome complexity.
https://t.co/yY3MS5pgxA

[Kirk Amundson @KirkAmundson]

@Sarahmoeba Huh, didn’t realize the cell cycle had a goth phase

[Kirk Amundson @KirkAmundson]

@ChenxinLi2 Was it at Davis? Might’ve been Jonathan Jones

[Kirk Amundson @KirkAmundson]

@MitchFeldmann @ucdavisCAES @UCDavisPlants Congratulations!!!

[Sarah Guest @Sarahmoeba]

Made amoeba cookies for my exit seminar!
It's at 4pm tomorrow, December 9th in 1022 Green Hall. DM for a zoom link if you'd like to see a lot of microscopy of my weird #Rhizaria #syncytial #protist!

[S. Lorena Ament @LoreAment]

Did you know some 🍄 have extremely low mutation rates? So where is their population's genetic diversity coming from? In this new @PNASNews ms we show that a fairy-ring #mushroom has differential genome stability depending on the life-cycle stage! 1/n
https://t.co/MqEl8FDYSn

[Kirk Amundson @KirkAmundson]

@ChenxinLi2 Sounds like a side project to me!

[Kirk Amundson @KirkAmundson]

@LauraBogar @jrossibarra @IsabelleDemarco

[Luca Comai @lucacomai]

Do you love unusual biology and genetics? Postdoc position available in potato haploid induction at UC Davis: https://t.co/P8f4yIaf4A

[Kirk Amundson @KirkAmundson]

@ChenxinLi2 Yep, Alan Christensen visited Davis a few years ago - his talks on plant mito genomes blew my mind…

[Ian Henderson @hendersi]

We have a postdoctoral research opening in my group on the topic of meiotic recombination - please get in touch if of interest! @plantsci #meiosis #Arabidopsis #genetics #epigenetics
https://t.co/HcYdCcRzho

[Kirk Amundson @KirkAmundson]

@sacrebluecarbon Congratulations!!

[Brady Lab @bradylabs]

The UC Davis Dept. of Plant Biology is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Plant Developmental Biology! Please consider applying and RT! For those of you in the know... this was the home of Katherine Esau - and I vouch for excellent potential colleagues: https://t.co/rdPriuw7wf

[Kirk Amundson @KirkAmundson]

@MitchFeldmann @hoffsbeefs +1 for bcftools

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

We are hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor of Potato Breeding and Genetics TT position to lead our potato breeding, genetics and variety development program! 🥔🌱 #potatobreeding @UMaine @UMainePotato -- details in a short thread below 1/x

[Kirk Amundson @KirkAmundson]

@ChenxinLi2 here's the protocol

[JDJB @JokeDJB]

@J_SaizPerez @LabSchnittger Brief explanation: Resuspend the pellet from 3-4 ml Agro culture into 3 ml of transformation buffer (5% sucrose and 0.02% Silwet-77). Add transformation buffer in droplet on the closed flowers using pipette. Keep in the dark for at least 24h.
Have fun! 😉

[Kirk Amundson @KirkAmundson]

@MitchFeldmann If you only need to type that 1 marker, you can run a size diff PCR with a small piece of tissue in the rxn, then gel to check size. Quick and def dirty, but no DNA extraction or library prep needed.

[Kirk Amundson @KirkAmundson]

@IsabelleDemarco

[Kirk Amundson @KirkAmundson]

Trying out what we in the lab have been referring to as the “Arp dip”. Is there an official name for this @JokeDJB @LabSchnittger?