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Ben Stone

@benstemon

I’ve moved over to Bluesky: https://teapaw.org/t.co/D7bK6RhrUS NSF PGRP postdoc - University of South Carolina - incoming asst prof @msstate AU ‘25

 Columbia, SC
benstemon.github.io
Joined July 2017
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Many folks know this already but wanted to make an official announcement: I am super pleased to share that I will be starting my lab at Mississippi State University @msstate in Fall 2025! We will be recruiting grad students and a lab tech to start as soon as August ‘25
contact info: bs66@mailbox.sc.edu

ALT contact info: [email protected]

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NEW PAPER OUT! Assessing drivers of leaf endophyte diversity and composition across a broad geographic and phylogenetic scale, we found that: -assembly patterns differed between bacterial and fungal endophytes; (1/3)
Botanical Society of America (@Botanical_) profile pictureBotanical Society of America@Botanical_25 Oct 2024
Continental sampling reveals core bacterial and environmentally driven fungal leaf #endophytes in #Heuchera New #AJB research by @dexcemp, @NickEngleWrye, @hwillia8, @ry_folk et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16428 #botany #fungi @wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol
Map of sampling locations (pink circles) against genus range (purple).

ALT Map of sampling locations (pink circles) against genus range (purple).

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Join us!! I'm recruiting a postdoc and grad student to work with us on parallel trait evolution, quant and pop gen, and speciation in penstemons. Find out more about our research interests here: wessingerlab.github.io Informal inquiries welcome!
The Wessinger lab at University of South Carolina is recruiting a postdoc and a phd student. We work on genetics of adaptation and speciation in penstemons. To learn more, contact wessinc@mailbox.sc.edu

ALT The Wessinger lab at University of South Carolina is recruiting a postdoc and a phd student. We work on genetics of adaptation and speciation in penstemons. To learn more, contact [email protected]

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The Budke Lab @UTK_EEB is recruiting #PhD students to start fall 2025. Applications due Dec 1. Check out our lab website to see if your research interests are a good fit jmbudke.github.io & then reach out via email. Please RT & thanks! #gradschool #phdjourney
Screen shot of this website http://jmbudke.github.io Our research focuses on the development, evolution, and function of plant structures. We study morphological features that are used to distinguish species taxonomically and those that are important for reproduction and fitness. Some of the tools we use to address our research questions are natural history collections, molecular systematic techniques, electron microscopy, and manipulation experiments. Interested in joining the lab? We are recruiting graduate students for the December 2024 application deadline. If our lab seems like it might be a good fit for you, please send an email expressing your interest with your CV/resume and unofficial transcripts attached to Dr. Jessica Budke jbudke@utk.edu

ALT Screen shot of this website http://jmbudke.github.io Our research focuses on the development, evolution, and function of plant structures. We study morphological features that are used to distinguish species taxonomically and those that are important for reproduction and fitness. Some of the tools we use to address our research questions are natural history collections, molecular systematic techniques, electron microscopy, and manipulation experiments. Interested in joining the lab? We are recruiting graduate students for the December 2024 application deadline. If our lab seems like it might be a good fit for you, please send an email expressing your interest with your CV/resume and unofficial transcripts attached to Dr. Jessica Budke [email protected]

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We will seek to answer questions about adaptation, speciation, and more primarily in the genus Penstemon. If you are interested in the lab, check out the shiny new website for more about my work and for contact info: benstemon.github.io
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More fieldwork pics. Finally captured my white whale — beautiful white-flowered morph of Penstemon davidsonii. The only example I am aware of in nature!
Image from Ben Stone (@benstemon)
Image from Ben Stone (@benstemon)
Image from Ben Stone (@benstemon)
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Usually the flowers look more like this
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Obligatory “I did a field trip last week and forgot to post pics” post Look at the difference in color in these two separate pops of Penstemon newberryi!
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Image from Ben Stone (@benstemon)
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I’m hardly ever on this thing anymore, but I’ll be at #Evol2024! Come see me share @gabbrosandstone’s fantastic work on heterosis in Boechera! 4:30 on Saturday, Ecological Genetics I! Also, we’re recruiting! Looking for grads and pdocs. Feel free to reach out!
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Looking forward to the Boraginales symposium today at 17:00 (5pm) in A10.08! I will be trying my best to fill Mike Simpsons shoes who unfortunately was not able to make the meeting. I can promise some beautiful nutlet photos! #IBC2024
Image from Dr. Makenzie Mabry (@KenzieMabry)
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We were very excited for the corpse flower
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So glad to be back at #Botany2024 If you’re around, come check out my talk tomorrow at 4:30 in the Molecular Ecology section. There are PENSTEMON HYBRID ZONES
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Hey #Botany2024 stop by my talk tomorrow morning to FINALLY hear about what @carriewessi and I have learned about the genetic architecture of Penstemon’s personate flowers!! Tuesday - 8:30am- Development & Structure - Grand Gallery B
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Come see Trinity’s talk!!!
Trinity Depatie (@TrinityDepatie) profile pictureTrinity Depatie@TrinityDepatie17 Jun 2024
Hey #Botany2024 stop by my talk tomorrow morning to FINALLY hear about what @carriewessi and I have learned about the genetic architecture of Penstemon’s personate flowers!! Tuesday - 8:30am- Development & Structure - Grand Gallery B
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Very happy to see that my 'artificial winter' for our Rubus plants was largely a success. Read on for what we did. It's been ~a week, and I've found flowers coming out for several genotypes already. Two of which I'm certain would not have flowered w/out treatment. 1/
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We have an open PhD student position in my group at Stockholm University to work on convergent evolution and loss of the balanced floral polymorphism distyly, using evolutionary genomic, transcriptomic and functional analyses. Apply at shorturl.at/acvFX by April 23 #PhD
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This is way late, but I just realized I never gave any love to my and @carriewessi's most recent publication, so that's what this is 😅 academic.oup.com/mbe/article…

Ecological Diversification in an Adaptive Radiation of Plants: The Role of De Novo Mutation and...

Abstract. Adaptive radiations are characterized by rapid ecological diversification and speciation events, leading to fuzzy species boundaries between ecol

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We used the brand new P. davidsonii genome to look at genomic patterns of introgression and phylogenetic discordance in the shrubby penstemons #lilshrubs We also were interested in transitions to hummingbird pollination, which appear to have occurred twice in this group
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Long story short, we found that transitions to magenta-colored flowers in the two hummingbird-pollinated species likely occurred through independent LOF mutations to F3'5'h, a key anthocyanin biosynthesis pathway enzyme
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Interested in working and living in Yosemite NP this summer?!? Do you like working outdoors w/ beautiful plants (#Mimulus)? Are you interested in adaptation? Apply to be a technician for the 2024 spring-summer field season in my lab!!! Please RT!!! #Mimuluspropaganda
Image from Dr. Kathleen Gray Ferris (@ferrisifolius)
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