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NATURE Sunday Academy at SBC

12/10/2018

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The last session of the Adaptation and Climate Change class of this year was at Sitting Bull College at Fort Yates, ND. About 20 students from surrounding high schools attended the lesson. We talked about how native plants might adapt to changing environments, learn about allele frequencies and extract DNA out of different varieties of onions. 
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NATURE Academy at TMCC

11/18/2018

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This month the NATURE Academy class was at the Turtle Mountain Community College at Belcourt, ND. Below, pictures of one of the favorite activities: onion DNA extraction!
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Climate Change and Adaptation Class at UTTC

10/21/2018

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The NATURE Sunday Academy class this month was at the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck. We had fun learning some core population genetics concepts, playing with allele frequencies and extracting DNA from onions.
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New paper on environmental DNA

10/12/2018

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I am super excited to have been involved in this project applying eDNA and metabarcoding to survey vertebrate diversity in Africa. This research was lead by Bastian Egeter and conducted as part of the EnvMetaGen project. The paper was published here.
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NATURE Sunday Academy

9/16/2018

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I am super excited to be part of the NATURE (Nurturing American Tribal Undergraduate Research and Education) Sunday Academy! As part of this program, I am teaching a class on adaptation and climate change on plants at different tribal colleges in North Dakota from September 2018 to March 2019. Yesterday, I was at the Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College in New Town. The class included activities such as calculating allelle frequencies and DNA extraction from different varieties of onions!
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Department seminar at NDSU

9/14/2018

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Today I gave a seminar at the Dept. of Biological Sciences on my past and current research:
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Talking about Geum triflorum @Botany2018

6/26/2018

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Today I presented some preliminary results from my post-doc at NDSU at Botany2018 in Rochester, MN! 
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New Position!

4/9/2018

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I have just joined the Biological Sciences Department at NDSU as a postdoctoral fellow! I will be working on the role that whole genome duplication plays on diversification using the polyploid Geum triflorum ​(Rosaceae).
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Download our latest paper in Micromeria

11/27/2017

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Our latest paper in Micromeria (Lamiaceae) diversification was published this month on Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. The paper is freely available for download using this link (until January 15th, 2018).  
In this study, we developed a new RAD sequencing approach to improve the phylogenetic resolution of the species of Micromeria endemic to the Canary Islands. Special attention was given to disentangle the relationships within M. varia species complex. Our results support the latest species reclassification and also explain the role of introgression in this group's diversification.
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Diversification of Micromeria is congruent with the surfing syngameon hypothesis

8/22/2017

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Our most recent work on the diversification of Micromeria in the Canary Islands was published today in BMC Evolutionary Biology 17. The paper is Open Access and can be downloaded here.
Our study discusses the role that inter-island colonization, hybridization and gene-flow play in Micromeria diversification. Furthermore, our results suggest the existence of a syngameon, following the surfing syngameon hypothesis (Caujapé-Castells 2011. In: Bramwell D, Caujapé-Castells J. The biology of island floras, p. 284–324), which might facilitate speciation and colonization on oceanic archipelagos.  

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