<div><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jason (Jay) Sexton</span></font></div><div><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(he/him/his)<br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Associate Professor</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Department of Life and Environmental Sciences<br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">University of California, Merced<br></span></font></div><div><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">236 Science and Engineering Building 1</span></font></div><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:jsexton2@ucmerced.edu" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">jsexton2@ucmerced.edu</a><br><a href="http://sextonlab.ucmerced.edu/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://sextonlab.ucmerced.edu</a></span></font></div><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></div><div><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span>Faculty <span>Director</span><br>UC Merced Natural Reserve System</span></font></div><div><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></p>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Moises Exposito Alonso</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:moiexpositoalonso@berkeley.edu">moiexpositoalonso@berkeley.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: PhD positions in rapid evolutionary genetics of plants - MOILAB @ BERKELEY / HHMI<br>To: Lowry, David <<a href="mailto:dlowry@msu.edu">dlowry@msu.edu</a>>, Niek Scheepens <<a href="mailto:scheepens@bio.uni-frankfurt.de">scheepens@bio.uni-frankfurt.de</a>>, Oliver Bossdorf <<a href="mailto:oliver.bossdorf@uni-tuebingen.de">oliver.bossdorf@uni-tuebingen.de</a>>, Siri Birkeland <<a href="mailto:birkeland.siri@gmail.com">birkeland.siri@gmail.com</a>>, Stephen Wright <<a href="mailto:stephen.wright@utoronto.ca">stephen.wright@utoronto.ca</a>>, <<a href="mailto:queitsch@uw.edu">queitsch@uw.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:takato@uw.edu">takato@uw.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:adkern@uoregon.edu">adkern@uoregon.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:gmonroe@ucdavis.edu">gmonroe@ucdavis.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:jnmaloof@ucdavis.edu">jnmaloof@ucdavis.edu</a>>, Jeff Dangl <<a href="mailto:dangl@email.unc.edu">dangl@email.unc.edu</a>>, Prof Sheng-Yang He, Ph.D. <<a href="mailto:shengyang.he@duke.edu">shengyang.he@duke.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:mp132@nyu.edu">mp132@nyu.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:kferris@tulane.edu">kferris@tulane.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:carl.rothfels@usu.edu">carl.rothfels@usu.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:t.karasov@utah.edu">t.karasov@utah.edu</a>>, Leander Love-Anderegg <<a href="mailto:landeregg@ucsb.edu">landeregg@ucsb.edu</a>>, Jason Sexton <<a href="mailto:jsexton2@ucmerced.edu">jsexton2@ucmerced.edu</a>>, Seema Sheth <<a href="mailto:ssheth3@ncsu.edu">ssheth3@ncsu.edu</a>>, Jill T Anderson <<a href="mailto:jta24@uga.edu">jta24@uga.edu</a>>, Daniel Koenig <<a href="mailto:dkoenig@ucr.edu">dkoenig@ucr.edu</a>>, Danelle Seymour <<a href="mailto:danelle.seymour@ucr.edu">danelle.seymour@ucr.edu</a>>, Brandon Gaut <<a href="mailto:bgaut@uci.edu">bgaut@uci.edu</a>>, McKay,John <<a href="mailto:John.McKay@colostate.edu">John.McKay@colostate.edu</a>>, Tadashi Fukami <<a href="mailto:fukamit@stanford.edu">fukamit@stanford.edu</a>>, Rodolfo Dirzo <<a href="mailto:rdirzo@stanford.edu">rdirzo@stanford.edu</a>>, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra <<a href="mailto:rossibarra@ucdavis.edu">rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:ecleland@ucsd.edu">ecleland@ucsd.edu</a>>, Kirk Lohmueller <<a href="mailto:klohmueller@g.ucla.edu">klohmueller@g.ucla.edu</a>>, Felipe Zapata <<a href="mailto:fzapata@ucla.edu">fzapata@ucla.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:tmichael@salk.edu">tmichael@salk.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I'd appreciate if you can forward this opportunity for a PhD at Berkeley's Integrative Biology program (Evolution/Ecology/Organismal) to interested students and your institution networks.</div><div><br></div><div>We are continuing to recruit PhD students in plant evolutionary genetics, experimental evolution, and ecological genetics in tropical ecosystems (various funding streams including internal Berkeley and Howard Hughes Medical Institute).</div><div><br></div><div><u>Brief description</u>:</div><div>- Topic: understanding rapid evolutionary adaptation in plants in the context of global change (see more in the Flyer).</div><div>- Background: integrative!, can be bioinformatics, evolution experiments, ecology & biodiversity.</div><div>- $52,000/year minimum, with yearly increases (highest step from union contract)</div><div>- 5 years of funding secured</div><div>- Research-focus (only two classes of co-teaching as TA in 5 years)</div><div>- Top research environment: <a href="http://www.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">www.berkeley.edu</a></div><div>- Collaborative lab and community: <a href="http://www.moilab.science/team" target="_blank">www.moilab.science/team</a> <a href="http://www.moilab.science/our-values" target="_blank">www.moilab.science/our-values </a></div><div><br></div><div><div>Flyer with MOILAB details (also attached) → <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BF8UkP09r8WGm0LDbmdZYyvOah6SfVNQoFRJFEHs6e4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BF8UkP09r8WGm0LDbmdZYyvOah6SfVNQoFRJFEHs6e4/edit?usp=sharing</a> </div><div>Informal form for MOILAB pre-submission interests → <a href="https://forms.gle/T1MN75iYn8MKdnBZA" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/T1MN75iYn8MKdnBZA</a> <br></div><div>Link to all Berkeley programs and how to formally apply → <a href="https://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/steps-to-apply/apply/" target="_blank">https://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/steps-to-apply/apply/</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for spreading the word!</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Moi<br></div><div><div>..............................................................<br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div 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style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Department of Integrative Biology</font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Valley of Life Sciences Building</font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(153,153,153)">Berkeley, CA 94720</span><br></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.berkeley.edu</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span 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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(153,153,153)">Innovative Genomics Institute Member </span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><font style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><a href="http://www.innovativegenomics.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.innovativegenomics.org</a></font><br><br></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,153,153)">HHMI </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(153,153,153)">Freeman Hrabowski Scholar<br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(153,153,153)">Howard Hughes Medical Institute<br><a href="http://www.hhmi.org/" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.hhmi.org</a></span></p></font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div></div><div><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://twitter.com/MExpositoAlonso" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">@MExpositoAlonso</a></p></div><div><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mexpositoalonso.bsky.social" target="_blank">@mexpositoalonso.bsky.social</a></div><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://cejce.berkeley.edu/ohloneland" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent" target="_blank">our lab sits on Muwekma Ohlone Tribe land</a><br></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,153,153)">Co-founder of</font><font style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(127,127,127)"> </font><a href="http://grene-net.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">GrENE-net.org</a><font style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,153,153)">, a plant experimental evolution initiative. </font></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><br></font></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,153,153)">Recent work:</font></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,153,153)">Rapid evolution across climates<br></font></span><font style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.28.654549" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.28.654549</a> </font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Present and future global genetic 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