[Sextonlabpastmembers] Fwd: PhD positions in rapid evolutionary genetics of plants - MOILAB @ BERKELEY / HHMI

[Jason Sexton]

Jason (Jay) Sexton
(he/him/his)

Associate Professor
Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
University of California, Merced
236 Science and Engineering Building 1
jsexton2 at ucmerced.edu
https://sextonlab.ucmerced.edu <http://sextonlab.ucmerced.edu/>

Faculty Director
UC Merced Natural Reserve System






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From: Moises Exposito Alonso <moiexpositoalonso at berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Subject: Fwd: PhD positions in rapid evolutionary genetics of plants -
MOILAB @ BERKELEY / HHMI
To: Lowry, David <dlowry at msu.edu>, Niek Scheepens <
scheepens at bio.uni-frankfurt.de>, Oliver Bossdorf <
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Stephen Wright <stephen.wright at utoronto.ca>, <queitsch at uw.edu>, <
takato at uw.edu>, <adkern at uoregon.edu>, <gmonroe at ucdavis.edu>, <
jnmaloof at ucdavis.edu>, Jeff Dangl <dangl at email.unc.edu>, Prof Sheng-Yang
He, Ph.D. <shengyang.he at duke.edu>, <mp132 at nyu.edu>, <kferris at tulane.edu>, <
carl.rothfels at usu.edu>, <t.karasov at utah.edu>, Leander Love-Anderegg <
landeregg at ucsb.edu>, Jason Sexton <jsexton2 at ucmerced.edu>, Seema Sheth <
ssheth3 at ncsu.edu>, Jill T Anderson <jta24 at uga.edu>, Daniel Koenig <
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Dear colleagues,

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.

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).

*Brief description*:
- Topic: understanding rapid evolutionary adaptation in plants in the
context of global change (see more in the Flyer).
- Background: integrative!, can be bioinformatics, evolution experiments,
ecology & biodiversity.
- $52,000/year minimum, with yearly increases (highest step from union
contract)
- 5 years of funding secured
- Research-focus (only two classes of co-teaching as TA in 5 years)
- Top research environment: www.berkeley.edu
- Collaborative lab and community: www.moilab.science/team
www.moilab.science/our-values  <http://www.moilab.science/our-values>

Flyer with MOILAB details (also attached) →
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BF8UkP09r8WGm0LDbmdZYyvOah6SfVNQoFRJFEHs6e4/edit?usp=sharing

Informal form for MOILAB pre-submission interests →
https://forms.gle/T1MN75iYn8MKdnBZA
Link to all Berkeley programs and how to formally apply →
https://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/steps-to-apply/apply/

Thanks for spreading the word!
Best wishes,
Moi
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Moi Exposito-Alonso
moiexpositoalonso at berkeley.edu

www.moilab.science
Assistant Professor

University of California Berkeley

Department of Integrative Biology

Valley of Life Sciences Building

Berkeley, CA 94720

www.berkeley.edu


Center for Theoretical & Evolutionary Genomics

berkeley.edu/cteg <https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/cteg>


Center for Computational Biology

ccb.berkeley.edu


Innovative Genomics Institute Member

www.innovativegenomics.org

HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
www.hhmi.org

@MExpositoAlonso <http://twitter.com/MExpositoAlonso>
@mexpositoalonso.bsky.social
<https://bsky.app/profile/mexpositoalonso.bsky.social>

our lab sits on Muwekma Ohlone Tribe land
<https://cejce.berkeley.edu/ohloneland>


Co-founder of GrENE-net.org <http://grene-net.org/>, a plant experimental
evolution initiative.


Recent work:

Rapid evolution across climates
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.28.654549

Present and future global genetic diversity loss estimation across species
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.21.619096
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