Vacancy ID: PDS004437 Position Summary/Description: The lab of Jason Reed at UNC seeks a postdoctoral researcher to study stamen development during flower maturation in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The project is to explore how hormones control rapid but transient stamen filament growth and differentiation just before flowers open, and coordinated anther dehiscence (pollen release). Time-lapse confocal microscopy, single-nucleus RNA -Seq, and fluorescent reporter genes will be used to reconstruct three-dimensional cellular anatomy, growth, and differentiation in stamens. Biophysical, hormonal, and genetic manipulations will probe mechanisms that couple filament growth with the jasmonate production needed for anther dehiscence. Collaborators on this project include the Daniel Kierzkowski lab at Université de Montréal, Canada (live imaging of anatomy and growth); and the Bastiaan Bargmann and Clay Wright labs at Virginia Tech, USA (auxin transcriptional response systems to improve plants through synthetic biology approaches). Education and Experience: None