How do plants locally adapt to challenging habitats despite ongoing gene flow? Come find me tomorrow at poster 236W to chat about life history divergence on small spatial scales in the yellow monkeyflower! #PEQG26

Our DHS grant was terminated last week. This was awarded via the University of Alaska Anchorage's Arctic Domain Awareness Center, which was dissolved by the Trump administration last year and then brought back by Senator Dan Sullivan. We were barely allowed to spend any of the funds. The reason?

Excited to present at #PEQG (poster) and #Evol2026 (presentation) this month on invasion genomics🐟🧬! Heading into the final year of my PhD and eager to connect with people in evolutionary genomics, non-model popgen, and conservation. Happy to chat research and potential postdoc opportunities!

So I finally got around to updating my personal website in advance of some conferences this summer (also a fun procrastination project lol) You can check it out here! azwadriqbal.github.io