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
Joined July 2017
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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)
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
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!
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
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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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
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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
Ben Stone retweeted
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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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
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Excited to share the first paper from my postdoc, using phylogenomics to uncover dynamic genome evolution in Rumex! Featuring @JoannaRifkin, @bichoudhury, @bmsacchi, @imengyuan, @stepheniwright, and others not on the site.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Assistant Professor (tenure track) position my Dept at U Maryland! Plant molecular/genetic/cellular mechanisms of adaptation to biotic/abiotic environmental stresses relevant to changing climate, applying genetic/genomic approaches. Other areas too! Great Dept/environ! Pls RT!
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Preprint of my postdoctoral work with the #MOILAB @MExpositoAlonso is out! We describe a natural selection conflict between traits that enable populations to escape stress by accelerating phenology vs avoiding the stress by increasing water use efficiency biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Check out our new review. Writing this was fun and really made me excited about the future of machine learning in phylogenetics!
New review paper led by Yu Mo (@speechlesso233) and Megan Smith (@snaild_it):
Applications of machine learning in phylogenetics
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vi…
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Postdoc applications are open for the ICERM semester on "Theory, Methods, and Applications of Quantitative Phylogenomics". Due Jan 4, 2024. Please spread the word! mathjobs.org/jobs/list/23377
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Our study is now in print! We examined genetic divergence between bee- vs. hummingbird-pollinated populations of #penstemon and find they're all mixed up ... surprisingly few loci distinguish the two types!
A study of #Penstemons with #bee & #hummingbird #pollination syndromes, by @carriewessi @LenaHileman &co, reveals ~20 "species-diagnostic loci" with fixed differences between syndromes, sprinkled throughout the genome in high-recomb regions #PLOSBiology plos.io/3LGHkD9
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So many happy Penstemon plants!!! More exciting updates from my F2 mapping population coming soon 👀🎉
Ben Stone retweeted
Yo #botany2023 this fella Isaac Buabeng @kojo_xi deserves high fives when you see him. Completed the first round of 200 DNA extractions for his MS project before we left for Boise. (And he’s also looking for a PhD program for Fall ‘24.)
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Wake up early at #botany2023 to hear new work on #penstemon floral evolution!!
@JoshuaTEStevens relates petal reflectance to pigments in a spectacular hybrid zone
@TrinityDepatie uses phylogenomic and morphological data to describe the evolution of personate flowers
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Ancient hybridization leads to the repeated evolution of red flowers across a monkeyflower radiation:
doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrad0…
Read more in a recent paper in @EvolLetters by Aidan Short and Matthew Streisfeld.
Ben Stone retweeted
So so sad:
California Ph.D. student's research trip to Mexico ends in violent death: "He was in the wrong place" - CBS News cbsnews.com/news/gabriel-tru…
