Thanvi Srikant
Incoming SNSF Ambizione Fellow (2026-2030) at D-USYS, ETH Zürich. Interested in epigenomes, natural variation and polyploidy evolution in plants.
Currently postdoc at ETH (Bomblies lab). PhD from Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen (Weigel lab).
- ✨Call open for a fully-funded PhD position✨ Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️ jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Application deadline: January 31st, 2026
- How can plants maintain their genomic identity while also responding to the environment? @hajkdrost.bsky.social and I propose an "epigenetic toolkit" – a suite of epigenetic regulators that mediate the physiology-epigenome-genome crosstalk for adaptation. Read more here: www.cell.com/trends/plant...
- Studying the epigenetic toolkit (and allelic variation in toolkit genes) as an evolvable trait could help predict how different plant species and populations maintain homeostasis – both under short-term stress/nutrient fluctuations and long-term environmental shifts.
- We identified an initial set of 30+ toolkit genes from literature, but encourage the community to test & expand our model! Further questions incl. (1) how similar/diverse toolkits function across environments (2) how toolkit proteins affect (epi)genomic features in various cells/tissues/individuals
- It was a pleasure collaborating with @hajkdrost.bsky.social again, building on ideas that originated from our previous review on stress-induced epigenetic variation : www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
- Reposted by Thanvi SrikantCan we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation? 🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Excited to share that I’ve been awarded an @snsf.ch Ambizione grant to begin my independent research, starting summer 2026 at the Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich! I will use (epi)genomics to study altitude adaptation in Arabis alpina - stay tuned for more updates & PhD opportunities!
- Grateful to Kirsten Bomblies and Detlef Weigel @plantevolution.bsky.social for being wonderful mentors during my academic journey so far, and to Alex Widmer for hosting me in his group!
