Super excited to get this preprint out! Some exciting new results in coral somatic evolution!

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Super excited to get this preprint out !!

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Assisted gene flow yields Acropora palmata corals with robust physiological performance under warmer water temperatures in a land-based nursery https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.03.641242v1

Hi Chicago friends, next week on Friday 3/7, @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social and I will be standing up for science at Federal Plaza at 12pm! Join us at @standupforscience.bsky.social in Chicago and nationwide! For more background info, read here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

This is how it feels trying to be a postdoc and find funding and also apply for jobs along the way

How your email finds me

One concern I've heard for long-read #metagenomic sequencing is the amount of DNA needed. New Ampli-Fi protocol from #PacBio now allows as little as 1ng input for library prep - that's kind of a game changer for low biomass samples.

Friday I passed my dissertation defense and became Dr.Conn 🥹 it has been a long road but I have had the greatest colleagues and mentors to get me here!! Here for all your coral doctor needs

Me today after submitting my dissertation to my committee

#SICB2024 attendees! If you want to meet your new year's goal of learning about clonal evolution, aging, and selection in Caribbean corals, have I got a talk for you! (ft. an ex-theatre kid in her natural environment)

Genome assemblies and genetic maps highlight chromosome-scale macrosynteny in Atlantic acroporids https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.22.573044v1

I am recruiting a manager/tech for our plant evolutionary genetics lab, looking for someone interested in learning ancient DNA techniques psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...

Steph Szarmach discusses her geolocator work on Alaskan Myrtle warblers! *Spoiler alert*: there are no spoilers! wilsonsociety.org/2023/11/07/g...

Really excited to share the first paper from my PhD! We use corals 🪸 to examine the variability in biological responses of marine inverts to climate change, focusing on high-resolution methods of measuring environmental parameters and biological responses journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

That finally getting the last set of sequencing data for your PhD feeling 🥲

Is TAing just a way to get myself outside at least once a week? Maybe

Abstract acceptances means I can finally get excited for SICB 2024 !!! Feels good to be going home, talking about my research, and reconnecting with everyone 🥹

No More Mutants

Hello Bluesky friends! I am a PhD Candidate at Penn State University and i am all about coral genomics, pop gen, mutation, and population dynamics!! I currently study the dynamics of genetic variation in Caribbean corals, particularly the contribution of somatic mutations 🧬🧬🪸🪸🪸

Theatre kid

Blessing my new feed with a picture of toulouse 🙏🏻🙏🏻