@brooklebee

Evolutionary biologist & quantitative geneticist. I study interesting and useful plants. Assistant professor @UMassBoston. Pronouns: she/her.

 Boston, MA
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Joined December 2008
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Excited to be part of this community!
Joint Genome Institute@jgi6 Sep 2023
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Pickleweeds are small salt marsh plants with a big capacity to accumulate heavy metals in their tissues. @Brooklebee of @UMassBoston will explore how these plants respond to their environments and how we can leverage their unique biology to address metal contamination.
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Joint Genome Institute@jgi6 Sep 2023
Congrats to this round of 16 #2023CSPNewInvestigators selected to work with the @JGI. These folks, all new to the JGI, will do important work with synthetic biology, sequencing and metabolomics. Check out their projects! (🧵) @BerkeleyLab @doescience jgi.doe.gov/jgi-announces-se…
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My first Botany meeting was so much fun! Lovely to see these shiny old friends and meet new ones, lots of great research and conversations. @UOkinedo even won a poster award! I'll be back, #Botany2023
Three warm botanists cheese it up for the camera in front of Boise Center: me, Kathryn Turner, and Jill Hamilton, director of trees

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Some of the Nigerian contigent and our Venezuelan sister at the ongoing #Botany2023 in Boise-Idaho. It's been nice meeting new friends and listening to all the great talks from everyone, representing different institutions, from far and near.
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Rousing final #Botany2023 afternoon talk by @naomibot on rare plants threatened by energy projects (solar, Li mining): there's hope, we have tools, and we can have both biodiversity and renewable energy development #Teambuckwheat
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Tamir Gonen@gonenlab26 Jul 2023
Sometimes you meet PIs who seem friendly but their students tell a completely different story. Talk to the students and postdocs. If the PI doesnt want you to - something is off so run to the hills. Always ask lab members about lab culture and environment. Best advice I ever got
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Hi #Botany2023 friends! You are welcome to my talk Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 pm in room 110B. There will be a surprise ploidy reveal (the thrills!!!)
My title slide, a picture of PhD student Alice Palmer in a lovely Massachusetts salt marsh, with the title "Salicornia depressa: genomics of a highly salt and metal tolerant plant" and author names (Brook T. Moyers, Cooper Kimball-Rhines, and Alice Palmer) above the date and venue.

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I can promise you lots of pictures of this weird little guy: Salicornia aka pickleweed, sea beans, sea asparagus, swamp fire, samphire, glasswort, and apparently titines de souris if you're a Francophone Canadian!
A green, yellow, and red Salicornia!

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A pink, yellow, and green Salicornia!

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A green Salicornia!

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A vivid magenta Salicornia!

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My #Botany2023 is off to a fantastic start! A subalpine hike at Bogus Basin yesterday (pictured) and four excellent morning talks (following)
A smiling selfie in front of a subalpine meadow at Bogus Basin in Idaho. In the distance, other botanists closely examine the flora.

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Nic Kooyers and GLUE network colleagues demonstrate convincing evidence for increased diversity & cold adaptation in invasive white clover populations: invasive populations are not just subsets of native populations
My hand holding the stem of a clover inflorescence with small white flowers

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@njkooyers Twitter (X) couldn't find your handle earlier! Functional site, no notes
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In two poplar species (P. trichocarpa & balsamifera), introgression might be increasing hybrid individual capacity for growth (fitness) across novel environments, particularly extra cold places. @jilla_hamilton #Botany2023 #PopUpPoplar
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Lauren Frankel demonstrates that substitution rate across lineages (biologically real but assumed not important) makes a HUGE difference for the performance of our standard hybridization-detection methods! Read more on bioRXiv! #Botany2023
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From >13,000 records of poplar trees, @YingyingXie4 finds that responses to changing climates over time vary by sex, and predicts that the differences between male and female flowering will increase. Bad news for poplars and also for people allergic to their pollen!
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And in an absolutely stunning illustrated talk, @KaseyKPham finds preliminary evidence that a range-restricted eucalypt in Tasmania has contributed specific genetic material to the widespread E. globus (my old California "friend"). Is the rare species being swamped?
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Pea hacking ✌🏼
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance21 Jul 2023
No-one has ever been able to replicate Gregor Mendel's observations of pea plants. They're a little "too perfect", lacking even random statistical noise that would have been expected from small sample sizes. Was it scientific fraud?
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Dr. Corrie Moreau@CorrieMoreau21 Jul 2023
📢📢📢 The new 2023-2024 list is out! Please share widely! If you are looking for a faculty position or postdoc in ecology & evolutionary biology check out this great community run resource: docs.google.com/spreadsheets…

ecoevojobs.net 2023-24

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SSE@sse_evolution19 Jul 2023
One week left to apply to join our awesome team of graduate students and postdocs who represent student and postdoc interests to SSE leadership, organize events at @evol_mtg, and create new programs for our community! Apply by July 26: rb.gy/dsjny @SSEgrad
Current GSAC members at the GSAC booth at the Evolution 2023 meeting: Susu Cong, Henry Arenas Castro, Jill Syrotchen, Robert Driver, Cathy Hernandez, and Léonard Dekens.

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Calling all #Botany2023 virtual & on-site attendees! The Lightning Talk & Recent Topics Poster deadlines are Monday, July 17. Visit botanyconference.org to learn more. There is still time to register for Botany 2023, this year's hybrid botanial science conference, join us!
A landscape of Boise Idaho in the distance and green hill in the front with a shard of lightning showing on top. Text: Botany 2023. Boise, Idaho - July 22-26. Call for Lightning Talks and Recent Topics Posters. Deadline July 17, 2023.

ALT A landscape of Boise Idaho in the distance and green hill in the front with a shard of lightning showing on top. Text: Botany 2023. Boise, Idaho - July 22-26. Call for Lightning Talks and Recent Topics Posters. Deadline July 17, 2023.

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