Next up on the parade of Plant Genomics MSU #REU interns is John Ready from Davidson College - John is investigating gene expression variation in Shepherd's Purse with Emily Josephs MSU College of Natural Science

Miles Roberts Miles Roberts will be talking about how k-mer-based approaches can detect un-measured genetic diversity & that missing this variation contributes to Lewontin's paradox. Saturday 11:45 AM in 524A Genomics II #evol2024

Miles Roberts Maya Wilson Brown will be discussing evidence of cross-ploidy introgression (!!) in Capsella bursa-pastoris in both the native and introduced range. Sunday 4:45 PM in 519AB Geographic Variation #evol2024

Chrissy Miller has a poster showing widespread genetic and phenotypic variation, along with GxE in urban populations of Capsella bursa-pastoris from across the Midwest. poster num A7 on Monday #evol2024

And Asia Hightower has a poster showing GxE for leaf shape in different temperature environments in Capsella bursa-pastoris. Asia's also prepared a super-cool fantasy choose-your-own-adventure companion to her poster, don't miss it! poster num A17 on Monday #evol2024

So excited for #Evol2024! We've got a stellar lineup of talks from the Coughlan lab- check it out!!!

I’m hardly ever on this thing anymore, but I’ll be at #Evol2024! Come see me share Gabrielle Sandstedt’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!

Excited to attend my 1st in-person SSE meeting since 2017. Check out postdoc Lucas Albano’s talk about dissertation work with Marc Johnson Sun 28 July, 3:30 PM in 520B “Adaptation to environmental variation and manipulation in a cosmopolitan plant” #Evol2024

While I'm sad to miss #Evol2024, two grad students from my lab will be there to present their PhD work: Amanda Peake and Meng Yuan 袁梦 , who I co-supervise with Stephen I. Wright . Please say hello and check out their work!

Mooney Lab is at #Evol2024🤓 If you are interested in reference bias and how it affects demography and recombination head to all-star postdoc Maria Akopyan's talk Saturday at 5:15. Maria is closing out the Genomics IV session. Really proud of this work and how it has come together

If you're at #evol2024 and like models of sex chromosome evolution and/or selection on quantitative traits, come see my talk tomorrow at 9:30 in the within-genome conflicts symposium!

The MSU Plant Resilience Institute is excited to announce the hiring of Dr. Andrea Glassmire as an Assistant Professor! Dr. Glassmire will hold joint appointments in the departments of Plant Biology and MSU Entomology. Read the full story here: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/pri-w…

Yesterday I wrote a thread about why an infographic circulating was misinformation. I wanted to respond to some comments and questions, offer a new (perhaps more intuitive) calculation (thread)

MSU’s new president has spent millions on advice from a controversial consulting firm. Their work, which we've obtained, gives the first glimpse into what he might do with his office: statenews.com/article/2024/0…