Lab news​
  • Kaleb received graduate student research awards from the Botanical Society of America, California Native Plant Society, Northern California Botanists, and the White Mountain Research Center for a total of $4500 for conducting field research for his dissertation work in the alpine. Congrats, Kaleb!
  • Our review paper on the ability of species distribution models to predict population parameters, led by Julie Lee-Law with co-authors Jenny McCune and Sam Pironon, won runner-up for Ecography's E4 award. Check out the video abstract here!
  • Seema had a blast during an in-person visit to the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia, along with a virtual visit to the University of Toronto Mississauga's Biology Department. Thanks so much to the UGA Plant Biology and UTM graduate students for hosting!
  • Many congrats to Kaleb on receiving an Honorable Mention on his NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program application!
  • In May, Seema participated in the Evolution and Long-Term Ecology (Evo-LTER) working group at the beautiful Sevilleta Field Station in the high desert of New Mexico.
  • Undergrad Sophie Meng joined the lab this semester. Welcome, Sophie!
  • With co-PIs Chris Muir, Lluvia Flores-Rentería, Jay Sexton, and Jeff Diez, we received our very first National Science Foundation grant to study evolutionary rescue across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. We are recruiting a graduate student to work on this NSF-funded project.
  • New paper led by former postdoc Rachel Wooliver, with co-authors Emma Vtipilthorpe and Mia Wiegmann, is out in AoB Plants.
  • New paper led by former M.S. student Aleah Querns, with co-authors Rachel Wooliver and Mario Vallejo-Marín, is out in Evolution Letters.
  • New paper resulting from a collaboration with Jill Preston is out in Molecular Ecology. 

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