@scottinthesea

Fungal grass pathogens & coral symbiosis | genomics and modeling | she/her

 Austin, TX
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Joined January 2016
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Climate change is increasing the severity and frequency of coral bleaching globally... but why do corals even bleach in the first place? Check out our paper proposing a new hypothesis for why corals bleach. 🧵1/5 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/shar… @heatshok @AMOstling
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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
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I'm excited to announce that our new paper investigating regulatory evolution underlying cryptic lineages in two coral species is now out! doi.org/10.1111/mec.17546 @heatshok

Decrypting Corals: Does Regulatory Evolution Underlie Environmental Specialisation of Coral Cryptic...

A recent sequencing study has shown that two common Caribbean corals, Montastraea cavernosa and Siderastrea siderea, each consist of four genetically distinct lineages in the Florida Keys. These...

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Tonight I’ll be presenting on the molecular mechanisms behind flowering through SutS! Come by BFL to join in-person, or watch online. If you’re interested in how plants respond to warming temperatures (or an earnest attempt to make genetics cool), this is the talk for you.
Science Under The Stars@sci_under_stars2 Oct 2024
🌿How do plants survive rising temperatures? While animals can travel, plants adapt by changing their gene expression! Join us on Oct. 10 at Brackenridge Field Lab as Maddie Brightbill dives into the fascinating topics of plant genetics & flowering 🌺 #ScienceUnderTheStars
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@ItaiYanai6 Oct 2024
Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.
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Our paper on sex-differential selection in humans is now out in PNAS! Check it out: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24… See the thread below on the original pre-print for more! 👇
Jared M. Cole@jmillercole24 Jul 2024
Very excited to share our new preprint from the Kirkpatrick and @arbelharpak labs! Natural selection can act differently on females and males. How frequently does this happen in the human genome? biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/n

The battle of the sexes in humans is highly polygenic

Sex-differential selection (SDS), which occurs when the fitness effects of alleles differ between males and females, can have profound impacts on the maintenance of genetic variation, disease risk,...

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🔊Resilience and Sustainability 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship DDL: October 15, 2024 $62K + $10K for res./year DM me if you're interested in developing proposals on #coralreefs #symbiosis #foodwebs and the people and services they support. @stri_panama
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The Spawn Watch database is live and available for download! As spawning timepoints and locations are shared from direct coral spawning observations we will have a more accurate picture of coral reproductive behavior. Share your data, and download data shared by others!
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Very excited to share our new preprint from the Kirkpatrick and @arbelharpak labs! Natural selection can act differently on females and males. How frequently does this happen in the human genome? biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/n

The battle of the sexes in humans is highly polygenic

Sex-differential selection (SDS), which occurs when the fitness effects of alleles differ between males and females, can have profound impacts on the maintenance of genetic variation, disease risk,...

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My lab @himb_soest is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in coral eco-evolutionary modeling! Applications are due by Aug 14th. I'm happy to answer questions and can chat with folks during the ESA meeting in Long Beach. Details here: lmcmanus47.github.io/opportu…
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I'm defending my dissertation next week!🌊🪸🦈🧬 Tune in to hear about seascape genomics, community ecology, climate adaptation, and shark migration in studies from Florida, St. Croix, and Australia. 📅 Mon, June 17 🕥 10:30am CT 🔗 Zoom Link: utexas.zoom.us/j/92346418019
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Back by popular demand - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2025! PIs - Enter your position info here: forms.gle/MHFCyFhfbcqn69ncA Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) - share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets… pls RT!

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2025

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2025 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for...

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How do microbial symbionts affect host responses to environmental variability? Our new publication in @Ecology_Letters answers this question using amazing long-term data for grasses and their fungal symbionts. -> onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Microbial symbionts buffer hosts from the demographic costs of environmental stochasticity

Many symbiotic microbes benefit hosts under environmental stress. Using long-term field experiments with a plant–fungal endophyte model system, we show that, by limiting host exposure to environmen...

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Sam Bogan@granogan2 May 2024
🚨New paper!!🚨 Ectotherms with high thermal tolerance are often less thermally plastic, potentially due to a fitness tradeoff Just out in @FunEcology, we find that reproductive costs of thermal plasticity are greater in more thermally tolerant families besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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If this is true, we might expect reefs and/or taxa with higher recruitment to experience more bleaching. Little data exists to directly test this, but based on time- and taxa-averaged bleaching + recruitment tendencies, this seems to be the case: 4/5
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Our results caution against assuming that a shift to heat-tolerant symbionts = an adaptive response to climate change. Instead, demographic changes (e.g., recruitment failure) may drive patterns. 5/5
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🚨The SPAAM Community is happy to announce that it will offer its third (virtual) summer school course sponsored by the @WSS_Stiftung INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT METAGENOMICS ⏰ 5th - 9th Aug 2024 💀Applications are now open until May 31st 2024 Apply: spaam-community.org/wss-summ…🧵[1/5]
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Check out our new paper on lake sediment microbial communities from 36 lakes across Wyoming to see how these microbes consistently arrange into three distinct depth zones, despite the wide range of lake environments and hundreds of kilometers between them! doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16…
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