Postdoc Jake Montgomery will be talking at 11:30 about long-read resequencing approaches to understand the evolution of a complex gene amplification conferring resistance to round-up herbicides

And I will be presenting work led by Postdoc @rpineau.bsky.social at 11:15 on the genomic response to drought across spatiotemporal scales in waterhemp!

Really great couple of days with the lab group!!! We are in our second season of collections for an on-field select and resequence experiment with sites across the Midwest, and gearing up for some more herbarium genomic work (perfect time of year to visit @mobotgarden.bsky.social for sampling).

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Interesting. Highly complementary to our paper (unfortunately not cited) published three years ago in Peer Community Journal, in which we reanalyzed the same oak data using the same software for somatic mutation detection. peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

There's a lot of replies to our new paper talking about how capitalism or overpopulation are the real enemy. Without getting into whether that's true of the climate emergency or the sixth mass extinction (🙃), I want to briefly explain why pandemics are different. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This would indeed cement my legacy

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

high praise, thanks felipe!