Lab news​
  • Current undergrad Mataeus Funderburk was accepted into an REU program in Naomi Pierce's lab at Harvard University, where he spent this past summer. Congrats, Mataeus!
  • Former undergrad Daisy Ryan completed her M.S. at Appalachian State University, and is now a GIS Technician at Bolton and Menk, Inc. in Raleigh. We are excited that Daisy will be nearby again!
  • Sophie Meng completed her undergrad studies this past spring and began a position as Plant Conservation Technician at the North Carolina Botanical Garden! Nice work, Sophie!!!
  • Former undergrad Emma Wilson's work on seagrass has been published through NC State's Extension website. Well done, Emma!!!
  • Under the leadership of Susana Wadgymar's lab, we are gearing up to begin seed collections across the range of the partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata) for our new Partridge Peaple project!
  • Some of our former undergrads/post-bacs have recently begun or will begin graduate studies soon! Congrats to all!!!
    • Mia Wiegmann will begin medical school at University of North Carolina's School of Medicine this fall. 
    • Emily Powell will begin a Ph.D. program in Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics at the University of Georgia this fall.
    • Natalie Gold began a M.S. in the Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences at NCSU this past January.
    • Magdalene Lo will begin a M.S. with Dena Grossenbacher at California Polytechnic State University this fall.
  • Thanks to Kaleb's awesome field coordination, our GLORIA Great Basin field surveys went smoothly this year, and the wildflowers put on quite a show. We especially enjoyed welcoming the inaugural cohort of Peak Opportunity Fellows to participate in surveys in the White Mountains.
  • Ph.D. student Kaleb Goff received a Global Change Fellowship from the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center and a White Mountain Research Center Mini-grant. Way to go, Kaleb!!!
  • Seema spent the spring semester setting up common gardens in California and Oregon near the northern edge, center and southern range edge of the scarlet monkeyflower for the PERSIST project. Thanks to lots of help from our collaborators, we put >14,000 seedlings into the ground, and our collaborators have been busy this summer collecting data on physiology and phenology in these gardens! 
  • With Amy Angert, we received an NSF LTREB award to continue collecting long-term demographic data in 21 populations across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. We will use these data to understand population persistence and adaptation under climate change. 
  • Seema had super fun seminar visits to the Department of Plant Biology at the Carnegie Institution for Science and the Department of Biology at Utah State University in April. Many thanks to Laura Leventhal and Cathy Rushworth for hosting!
  • Kaleb gave a fabulous virtual talk through the White Mountain Research Center's lecture series. You can check out a recording of his talk here!
  • In January, we welcomed MC Moazed as a remote field technician leading field efforts for the PERSIST project! We are so thankful to have MC on board!
  • Seema enjoyed sharing our research about species ranges in a changing world with the New Hope Audubon Society at their monthly meeting at the North Carolina Botanical Garden in December.

*** if you are a former Sheth lab member and have updates to share, please get in touch with Seema. We love hearing from you!!! ***
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