David  Pumpkins

@surt_lab

Associate Prof at the U of Arizona interested in genomes,microbes,adaptation. Apparently also twitter police for semantics in evolutionary biology. he/him

baltrus(at)email.arizona.edu
baltruslab.com
Joined June 2010
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    15 Jun 2017
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    "It's so clear now"

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    17 hours ago

    Such wonderful people there. Do it, even if you think you might not make the cut. You *never* know.

    Ok, this is the best job on the market this year: Asst Prof in Organismal Biology in the department. The most wonderful and supportive place in the world for junior faculty. Amazing students. Really cool town. This is it! 🙌
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    5 hours ago

    A 5 yr old can understand opposites like big and little, do basic counting, recognize primary colors & some written words. Attention span is 5- 10 minutes. Reasoning skills are limited; magical thinking is common. Every person involved in this program should go straight to hell.

    The form says “child’s signature.” This is by design. This is not a stopgap. This is our government deciding that a 5 year old child can give informed consent to waive her rights.
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    15 hours ago

    I had my first kid in graduate school and it was challenging but wonderful. There is no "right time" and it will never get "easier." I will quote my PhD mentor who said that if you wait to have kids till you get tenure, the only thing that you ensure is that you won't have em.

    (1/n)A grad student (not one of mine) just disclosed her pregnancy to me. I started talking about how wonderful that is, and how yes it can be hard sometimes, but you can have kids and do science. And how important it is to have support and mentioned places she could go ....
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    20 hours ago

    Ten simple rules for developing good reading habits during graduate school and beyond

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  6. 9 hours ago

    Just got an NSF proposal kicked back for non compliance bc no "intellectual merit" section in main grant. How long has that been a thing?

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  7. 10 hours ago

    (So much wrong with the interpretation in this press release)

    A new study finds that bacteria develop antibiotic resistance up to 100,000 times faster when exposed to the world’s most widely used herbicides, Roundup (glyphosate) and Kamba (dicamba) and antibiotics compared to without the herbicide.
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    23 hours ago

    John Maynard Smith Prize 2019 - Call for Nominations is now open, DL 15 Jan 2019! The prize is aimed at early career researchers in all fields of evolutionary biology. The nomination of the candidate may be by a colleague or self-nominated.

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    21 hours ago

    I'm not a fan of the persistent PAMP-triggered (PTI) vs. effector-triggered immunity (ETI) nomenclature... (1)

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    Oct 11

    Pleased to announce that MiGS, our Microbial Genomics Sequencing facility is formally open for business. We specialize in "evolve-and-resequence" but can support many applications.

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    Oct 11

    Real talk on advising your recent grads on the job market:

    It's advice-for-the-academic job market time again, and so I would like to offer: advice to the advice givers. a thread for faculty mentors, based on *actual things that have happened to me.*
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    Oct 11

    PeerJ Pricing for Lifetime Memberships is: Basic: $399 Enhanced: $449 Premium: $499 Memberships allow for one, two, or five peer-reviewed publications per 12-month period respectively.

    Replying to @PhytophthoraLab @thePeerJ
    Problem is that the lower cost is relative. The deals with institutions to reduce costs for authors and discounts for reviewers are very attractive.
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    Oct 10

    One DNA strand runs 5' to 3' and the other 3' to 5'. What does that mean? Shown here in a GIF! Find all of our GIFs at

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    Oct 10

    Job: Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology, Montana State

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    Oct 10

    One of my first UO grad students Dave Baltrus () returns to the nest to give a departmental seminar on the evolution of bacterial tailocins. Also shown with co-advisor Karen Guillemin today and in our lab picture from 2006. Somehow he looks just the same.

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    Oct 10

    How do endohyphal bacteria influence interactions of fungi w/ seeds of tropical trees? New paper by Justin Shaffer & superb collaborators , , , , , . Many thx , , .

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    Oct 10

    LYang how motility contribute to colicin tolerance in mushroom-like biofilms + SILAC proteomics See their paper;

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    Diverse bacteria are found in the hyphae of many fungi that are found in seeds. They can affect fungal interactions with seeds in context dependent ways. The last thesis chapter from Justin Shaffer now in print!

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    Oct 10

    Effects of endohyphal bacteria on interactions between fungi and tropical seeds. Great job Justin!

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    Oct 8

    I have a postdoc opening in my group at the Joint Genome Institute , supported by Berkeley Lab's "Water-Energy Nexus" strategic focus:

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    Oct 9

    Our latest manuscript published at , in which we evaluate the extent of adaptive wild introgression in crop histories and consider how this bears upon our understanding of domestication:

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