The Evolving Meta-Ecosystems Biology Integration Institute (NSF BII) is looking for a fixed-term Research Assistant I - a broadly trained field ecologist - to assist research on Arctic stream/riparian ecosystem responses this summer. If you know of someone, see workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
The Evolving Meta-Ecosystems Biology Integration Institute (NSF BII #EVOME) is looking for an experienced project coordinator. If you know of anyone who may be interested, please direct them to the job ad workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
Tree Pathology research assistant just opened at @mortonarboretum.bsky.social ! Details below... please share with anyone who might be interested. It's a great place to work, and an exciting new research program!
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CartograPlant is actively expanding:
🔄 Two-way integration with the European Variation Archive
📦 Support for pangenomes, structural variants, and high-throughput phenotyping
🌐 Enhanced interoperability with primary repositories 8/n
CartograPlant offers workflows with NextFlow, GEMMA, LFMM2, and more—plus PCA, marker filtering, and population structure inference with fastSTRUCTURE.
⚙️📈 7/n
CartograPlant supports both model and non-model species, including forest trees, crops, and species of conservation interest. It’s also integrated with citizen science platforms like TreeSnap. 6/n
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Researchers can explore over 25 million individuals across 846 species from 400+ studies—all georeferenced and standardized for cross-study synthesis. 5/n
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Built as a Tripal module, CartograPlant supports:
✅ FAIR data ingestion
✅ Ontology-based trait mapping
✅ Interactive map-based visualization
✅ HPC-powered workflows for GWAS, GEA, population structure, and more. 3/n
CartograPlant is a web-based platform that integrates genomic, phenotypic, and environmental data from georeferenced plant individuals. It enables scalable, reproducible eco-evolutionary analyses.
🌍🌿🧬 2/n
🌱 What if plant data could be easily reused across space, time, and studies to unlock eco-evolutionary insight? Our new manuscript covers the capabilities and updates to CartograPlant, a platform built for integrative, FAIR, and scalable analysis of plant biological data🧵 1/n doi.org/10.32942/X2Q...
>900 propagated feltleaf willow (Salix alaxensis) cuttings heading back to Fairbanks tomorrow from @toolikfieldstation.bsky.social to overwinter before planting two common gardens next spring. #EVOME #arcticresearch
First season @toolikfieldstation.bsky.social #arctic - #EVOME is investigating species’ responses to rapid climatic changes in stream environs @uconnresearch.bsky.social @uconneeb.bsky.social @brandonlind.bsky.social SamiraObbu @airianna-mcguire.bsky.social MaryRutter #REU SarahAntebi #NSF-funded
Excited to see our article on the cover! @drk-lo.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17550998...
Well deserved!!! Congrats, @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social !!
@mhurteau.bsky.social would be a good person to ask!
Now online! Our perspective on the genomic offset simulation paper of @brandonlind.bsky.social and @drk-lo.bsky.social. In short: Genomic offset can predict fitness under changed environments, but performance is reduced under highly novel environments.
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Go check out the Org.one workshop at #pag32! Org.one offers free ONT long-read sequencing costs for building reference genomes of IUCN endangered/critically endangered/extinct in the wild species. Today I just received confirmation for sequencing longleaf pine and the red-cockaded woodpecker!
Today is the @botsocamerica.bsky.social virtual symposium “Plant resilience and conservation for a changing climate” starting at 11:00am ET. I’ll be presenting some of my recent genomic offset work at 2:00! Hope to “see” you there! bit.ly/bsa_climate_...
Out now in Molecular Ecology Resources
doi.org/10.1111/1755...
Excited to present recent work on genomic offsets -
@sse-evolution.bsky.social #Evol2024. Unfortunately I couldn't be there in person, so if you missed my recorded talk, here are QR codes to the manuscripts and here is a link to the talk bit.ly/3WJGVVp
Excited about our bioRxiv paper led by postdoc Megan Ruffley in our lab & Uli Lutz from @plantevolution.bsky.social , using CRISPR on 50 Arabidopsis wild type populations to test a conflict in natural selection between favoring early flowering and water use!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Happy to see this out! @brandonlind.bsky.social tested genomic maladaptation (offset) estimates with common garden data for 2 conifers. Climate adaptation candidate loci were no better than random loci. Populations included in model building matter. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Flyer for workshop June 2-5 ‘24, with students smiling on a rocky coastline
DEADLINE 3.15.24 - APPLY NOW! Want to go to grad school in #MarineScience #EnvironmentalScience #Socioecology #Sustainability? Unsure how? Join our all-expenses-paid June workshop. Priority #firstgen and applicants from marginalized groups. cos.northeastern.edu/beaches/
New paper co-led by postdoc Drew Larson!
There are crazy levels of gene tree discordance among the white oaks.
(Thanks to the Jim Beam Institute for funding 🥃)
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We discuss this, its implications for future use, and more in our manuscript. Comments are welcome! As always, our code is directly referenced within the main and supplemental text. (10/10)
ms: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
code: github.com/modelValidat...
5 - while metapopulations with high levels of LA produced generally well-performing models for predicting within-landscape fitness, performance across all datasets decreased when projecting to novel climates that are increasingly differentiated from landscape values (x-axis) 9/n
4- the choice of environmental variables used in model training can impact performance. For instance adding nuisance environmental variables unrelated to the sources of selection pressure often decrease performance, implicating potential limits of some methods vs others (8/n)
