Thanks so much to @arcastilla.bsky.social, the entire Castilla Lab and the Department of Biology for such a wonderful visit to Oklahoma State! Such fun scientific conversations and beyond!! with great ideas generated with faculty, graduate and undergraduate students! Leaving inspired!

Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share! Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu

When cheering for the opposing team hockey team in Philly - folks at home may text you pictures of your face on the Canadian broadcast #GoJetsGo @winnipegjets.com

First (annual?) Hamilton lab off-grid camping trip to Bald Eagle State Forest. Good company, scenery, s’mores and so much more. Food for the soul!! I’m a very #luckyPI to work with this amazing group!

A little adventure through the roads around State College this evening while the sky put on a show #happyvalley #nofilter

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

University of Calgary is hiring a tier I CRC professorship in crop genomics. Come work in one of the most beautiful corners of the world! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...

Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals

Excited to be in Ottawa this week for the Canadian Forest Genetics Association meeting!! Great to wake up and walk around the national capital to start the morning ❤️🇨🇦

Super sad to be missing out on #Botany2025, but Hamilton Lab is represented by @sammymuraguri.bsky.social - be sure to drop by his poster to learn about the genomic architecture of adaptive introgression across repeated contact zones between two sister Poplar species #PopUpPoplars

Climate and hybridization shape stomatal trait evolution in Populus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.665994v1

Sporting the ultimate of common garden experiment fashion this year - @krunkg.bsky.social shows how you too can fashion the literally cutting edge of field supply fashion while protecting your trees from hungry little rodents #blackash #commongarden #fieldfun @krlopicc.bsky.social

Exhausted but so happy!! Thanks so much to all participants near and far for making #forestgenetics2025 a success!! Our community is strong, supportive, and resilient, just like our trees. I’m inspired!!! Until next time…..

Thanks Kew! The paper itself can be found here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rapid polygenic adaptation in a wild population of ash trees under a novel fungal epidemic | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When the Canadian organizes the banquet at the hockey arena obviously the conference logo goes up on the score board 😉#forestgenetics2025

So impressed by our Featured Student Speakers presenting in the keynote sessions. Just: wow! The future of forest genetics is bright #forestgenetics2025

Thanks so much to our amazing Field Trip team for organizing awesome field excursions for #forestgenetics2025. So many unique forest sites, stories, and applications of forest research and genetics at Rothrock State Forest and Penn Nursery and more #teamwork

Honored to be appointed a Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Leadership Fellow position. I am deeply grateful and thrilled to provide creativity and leadership within interdisciplinary spaces, emphasizing graduate training and evolutionary biology. www.psu.edu/news/faculty...

It begins!! Welcome to #forestgenetics2025 - where all the cool kids are hanging! #trees4everyone @michellezavala.bsky.social @diegodelorbe.bsky.social @krlopicc.bsky.social

Getting ready to go!! Beautiful center pieces courtesy of our PSU graduate students, @michellezavala.bsky.social and @krlopicc.bsky.social at #forestgenetics2025 How well do you know your trees? We’ll find out!! Counting down to welcome all to the Happy Valley!! forestgeneticsconference2025.com

One week to go!!! So excited to host our colleagues next week in the Happy Valley of Pennsylvania! Over 150 registrants from around the world!! If you’re interested in coming but unable to join in person - email me to learn about virtual options forestgeneticsconference2025.com #forestgenetics2025

Admittedly we might be a little early in the season - but we are so grateful for the tour and lesson on how to tap trees and make maple syrup at our colleagues Sugar Shack deep in the QC forest #Canadiangold #maplesyruplove @krlopicc.bsky.social @lucieanderson.bsky.social @jacobmazza.bsky.social

Thank you to our amazing hosts from the Laurentian Forestry Center and the University of Laval for the amazing tours of forest research labs, greenhouses, and more. This crew is inspired by the facilities and the diversity of ongoing forest research programs!!

I’m so lucky to work with an amazing group of undergraduates passionate about tree conservation, creative, and don’t mind getting their hands a little dirty!! excited for the future with these scientists! @jacobmazza.bsky.social @lucieanderson.bsky.social @krunkg.bsky.social and Raquel! #LuckyPI

Day 2 planting black ash reaches new heights: 1488 trees in the ground with this crew who are feeling a little ‘Hollywood’ with visits from Radio Canada. Stay tuned for great coverage. This all-female led team are rockstars leading innovation in forest genetics & conservation @krlopicc.bsky.social

Day 1 in the books: 1060 trees in their new home! Amazing working alongside friends at Natural Resources Canada and the Forest Gene Conservation Association #blackash #teamwork #commongarden #conservation #internationalcollaboration @krlopicc.bsky.social @jacobmazza.bsky.social @krunkg.bsky.social

So thankful for cross-border research collaborations with Natural Resources Canada to study and protect a foundational tree species, black ash #Quebec #commongardens #teamwork #conservation @krlopicc.bsky.social @jacobmazza.bsky.social @krunkg.bsky.social

#Teamash is headed out on the road to visit our neighbours to the North and we’re bringing 3317 presents!! Black ash Common garden #3 is headed for Quebec!! @krlopicc.bsky.social @jacobmazza.bsky.social @krunkg.bsky.social #conservationgenetics

One month to Forest Genetics 2025 in State College, PA!! So excited to host our colleagues in the Happy Valley of Pennsylvania! If you haven’t registered yet - you still have time! And if you’re interested in coming but unable to join in person - email me to learn about virtual options.

Super excited for the first manuscript #NSFFunded led by the very talented @alaynamead.bsky.social from our #PopUpPoplar common gardens spanning 17 environments across the US that examined fitness variation and predicted range shifts for hybrids to new environments www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited by new #NSFFunded research from #PopUpPoplars led by @michellezavala.bsky.social that shows the importance of considering cytonuclear interactions to plant function The role of cytonuclear interactions to plant adaptation across a Populus hybrid zone www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The role of cytonuclear interactions to plant adaptation across a Populus hybrid zone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653687v1

So excited to host the upcoming Forest Genetics 2025 meeting in State College, PA! Over 100 abstracts from across the globe, amazing keynotes, career panelists, field trips, and much more! Registration deadline is June 2nd! Join us in Happy Valley June 23-27, 2025!! forestgeneticsconference2025.com

Week 2 of tree planting and the end is in sight for our Pennsylvania common garden of black ash. However, the team travels to New York next week for more…..because #morecommongardens is always more awesome! #congen #treeplanting

Four days, 2400 black ash seedlings later - we are over half way!! #teamash is the epitome of #teamworkdreamwork (and should maybe start their own chorus line) #fieldworkshenanigans #commongarden #congen @krlopicc.bsky.social @diegodelorbe.bsky.social

There’s something about going out to the field and planting a tree that just feels good #scienceforthesoul - admittedly we have a lot of trees!! #blackash #commongarden #dreamteam @krlopicc.bsky.social

Day 2 of the PI taking selfies and photos while everyone works really hard #blackash #commongarden #congen. It’s a little wet out here!!

Day One, Block 1 of 8 complete with about 500 black ash seedlings snug in their permanent home in the ground #happyplanters #happytrees #commongarden #congen. Now for a little back recovery with stretching before round two tomorrow #achyPI

And with that grading was done and field season began! #Ashapalooza at PSU starts this morning putting our baby black ash seedlings in the field. Site #1 of three common garden experiments. Couldn’t imagine a better team to plant with led by the fearless @krlopicc.bsky.social #conservationgenetics

Thank you so much to @hayleytumas.bsky.social for visiting this week, giving an awesome seminar, judging posters, and hanging with @krlopicc.bsky.social and I in the greenhouse to see our burgeoning ash forest!! #ashapalooza #congen

One of my favourite days of the semester!! Our Undergraduate Conservation Genetics course symposium! So many great ideas! #conservationgenetics

Grateful to the Redmond Group for their insightful words in TREE about our work on resource allocation in trees under warming (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...). Love their sketch of the bigger picture, inc. a Pleistocene perspective and implications for forest resilience. Thank you! doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Part of #TeamAsh discovering Paul Revere and a beautiful healthy ash tree on the Freedom Trail today in downtown Boston. Gorgeous day to catch up, talk science, learn about the history of this beautiful city and #TreeSnap some beautiful ash trees @krlopicc.bsky.social

Spring is springing in the greenhouse and the black ash are reaching for the sun! ☀️ #commongarden #conservationgenetics

What do thousands of dormant black ash seedlings look like right before they are about to burst bud? Now you know. @krlopicc.bsky.social and her team are prepping for spring planting #ashapalooza

One week to go to submit abstracts (Due March 1st) for Forest Genetics 2025 in State College, PA from June 23-27, 2025. Come celebrate and learn more about the excellent and important research ongoing in forest genetics - all are welcome! forestgeneticsconference2025.com

"These kinds of shocks are going to lead to a mass exodus … for minorities in particular.” For my latest @science.org story, I spoke with early career researchers who have been affected by the federal upheaval and are concerned about what it means for their future. www.science.org/content/arti...

Today was highs and lows: passion from colleagues that want to conserve imperiled trees, crying with colleagues for the damage unfolding in the US for science and so much more, joy for cool new data, and hope from our next generation of scientists who are still dreaming big #hangingontohope