@WhiteheadLabVT

Fascinated and humbled by the complexity of life on earth. Firmly against racism and hate.

 Blacksburg, VA
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Joined September 2018
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Interested in chemically mediated interactions between organisms? Come join our Chemical Ecology team @penn_state as a Postdoc! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en…
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Beautiful new project by the amazing @GelambiMariana!! Stay tuned 🦇🌱
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Ecology@ESAEcology23 Mar 2023
New and #OpenAccess in @ESAEcology: Fruit secondary metabolites alter the quantity and quality of a seed dispersal mutualism doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4032 With #OpenData in @datadryad #Ants #NSFFunded @NSF @AnnikaSNelson @WhiteheadLabVT @GelambiMariana @virginia_tech @VT_Science
Ectatomma ruidum ants removing fruits from an infructescence of Piper reticulatum

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A complex new layer to my favorite ecological saga, led by the amazing Annika Nelson 🌿🦇🐜
Annika Nelson@AnnikaSNelson23 Mar 2023
I’m thrilled to share our new paper that just came out in Ecology! @TropicalStef @WhiteheadLabVT @GelambiMariana We found that secondary metabolites in fruit alter the effectiveness of seed dispersal by ants.
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Finding it very hard to give up on this site when it keeps giving me presents like this 🤯
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@StevenXGe19 Dec 2022
Happy holidays! Introducing RTutor.ai, an AI-powered app that lets you chat with your data in English! RTutor uses Davinci (#ChatGPT’s sibling) to turn requests into R code, which is executed & results are shown instantly, available as a HTML report in seconds. 1/8
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Landscape connectivity, plants, and ants, who wouldn't want to read this paper??!! Taking a break from my Twitter hiatus to say...congrats Melissa 🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Also, how lucky am I that my student is helping me network with amazing people like @Julian_Resasco and @nickmhaddad
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It's not too late to apply 🌵🦎🐸🦒🐀🍄🦌🐐🦜🦈🕷️🐞🦠🌳🌿
Susan Whitehead@WhiteheadLabVT29 Aug 2022
In case you haven't heard: @VTBiology is hiring! We have two searches in #ComputationalBiology and #OrganismalBiology, both very broadly defined. Review of applications starts 09/26 and 10/01. Please RT and share widely!
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Are you a plant scientist applying for the NSF GRFP? Join us again this year for the BSA's GRFP workshop, where you will work with other students and mentors to improve your GRFP application! Apply to join the workshop by September 12th, we hope you will join us!
Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Visit https://forms.gle/pgqnVcMoJxqwTXpW7 for more information.

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In case you haven't heard: @VTBiology is hiring! We have two searches in #ComputationalBiology and #OrganismalBiology, both very broadly defined. Review of applications starts 09/26 and 10/01. Please RT and share widely!
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We are really open to different areas of expertise and are looking holistically for candidates that will also advance our teaching mission and our dept and college values of equity, diversity & inclusion #DiversityMatters #DiversityinSTEM
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I am really happy in this department and at VT in general. So many great colleagues and resources to help us succeed. Plus, look at these mountains! It's a beautiful place to live. Happy to chat if you want to know more.
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Huge congrats to the amazing @Laurenaceae for successfully defending her PhD on Friday!! Such a huge accomplishment and she did it with a whole lot of style
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🧵We're hiring TT faculty in @VT_Biology! Assistant Profs of (1) Computational Biology/Bioinformatics & (2) Integrative Organismal Biology. I felt very supported as pre-tenure faculty here - our goal is to hire good folks, help them be successful, & keep them at @virginia_tech 1/
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I defend my dissertation TOMORROW! Stop by to hear about species interactions and the mechanisms that shape them!
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Virginia Tech's Department of Biological Sciences is hiring an Assistant Professor studying Integrative Organismal Biology, broadly defined. If you have any questions about @VT_Biology or the job ad, feel free to get in touch. Please share widely! careers.pageuppeople.com/968…
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Annika Nelson@AnnikaSNelson14 Aug 2022
Hi #ESA2022 #CSEE2022! Can't wait to share some of my postdoc research on the chemical ecology of seed dispersal! I'll be giving a talk titled "Fruit Secondary Metabolites Decrease the Quantity and Quality of Secondary Seed Dispersal" on Tuesday at 2:15 in room 520C.
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Check it out!! More awesome work led by @Laurenaceae
Lauren Maynard, Ph.D.@Laurenaceae13 Aug 2022
We put climate chambers in a tropical rainforest understory, and guess what we found? 🌱🌡️☁️ Climate change can have indirect, cascading consequences on plant resource allocation, even where direct effects are not observable. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9198 w/ @WhiteheadLabVT @chem_eco

Effects of climate change on plant resource allocation and herbivore interactions in a Neotropical...

Climate change could impact plant–herbivore systems directly by altering species traits or abundances or indirectly by altering the strength and direction of the relationships that govern organismal...

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Apple foraging has become an important part of NY cidermaking. To better understand the trend, researchers Dr. Maria Kennedy of Rutgers University and Dr. Gregory Peck of Cornell will lead the Foraged Fruit Project. #foragedfruit #apples #cider #nycider foragedfruitproject.com/2022…

Media Release: Foraged Fruit Project Launch

Media Release – Fruit Foraging in the Cider Industry Research Project August 9, 2022 Contact: Maria Kennedy, [email protected] Apple foraging among New York’s cider producers has slow…

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Robert Schaeffer@rnschaeffer10 Aug 2022
We're hiring! NSF-funded postdoc @USUaggies w/ fieldwork @RMBLGothic on the chem ecology of plant-microbe-pollinator intxns. App review will begin immediately. Informal inquiries welcomed. Please RT. social.icims.com/viewjob/pt1…
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