2022.07
Maris presents poster: Decipher the genetic relatedness of crabapples 🍎🧬
Evolutionary Ecology & Genomics of Adaptation
We seek to elucidate the mechanisms of eco-evolutionary adaptation to environmental change, through the lenses of ecology, genomics, and microbiome.
Ecological adaptation
Plant–microbiome symbiosis
Genomics of adaptation
Maris presents poster: Decipher the genetic relatedness of crabapples 🍎🧬
Some field sites require special ways to reach. Jess, Maris, Zhijun, and Robin (high school teacher) led field collection of duckweeds.
Teacher in Residence program starts! Robyn, a biology teacher from Riverside High School, is working with us on developing Plant Genetics curriculum using duckweeds and…
Welcome to the lab👩🔬, Olivia! Olivia is a junior at Kenston High School. Olivia is interested in environmental science and aims to learn diverse skills…
Welcome to the lab👩🔬, Cordelia! Cordelia is an undergraduate majoring in biochemistry at Washington University. Cordelia is interested in microbiomes and genetics in the lab.
Mimulus germinated one week after sowing. Excited about the Mimulus phylosymbiosis project!
Year 3: Malus flower microbiome sampling at both Holden and Secrest Arboretum.
🎉 New paper at Nature Communications: The pollen virome of wild plants and their ecological drivers. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28143-9
✨ A new award from BGCI (https://www.bgci.org/) for supporting student conservation internship on crabapples 🍎🦠🧬.
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Evolutionary Ecology & Genomics of Adaptation
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Evolutionary Ecology & Genomics of Adaptation
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