Assistant Professor | @USUAggies | Interests: flowers, bees, microbes, sustainable ag, fermentation, mountains | Tweets are mine
Logan, UT
Joined August 2016
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We're hiring some more! 2-3 positions in Cell & Molec Bio @ Assistant or Associate level. Some areas of interest include neuro, development, systems bio, & functional genomics. Pls share! social.icims.com/viewjob/pt1…
We're hiring! Our dept. is seeking TWO Assistant Professors in Extension Entomology. @EntsocAmerica @IPMWest @NPDN social.icims.com/viewjob/pt1…
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Niche-Based Priority Effects Predict Microbe Resistance to Erwinia amylovora in Pear Nectar biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_plants
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New preprint with @rnschaeffer
We performed an in vitro study to investigate the effects of thermal environment on provision microbiome diversity and composition, and the resulting effects on the health and development of solitary bee larvae
bioRxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Interested in rearing the solitary mason bee, Osmia lignaria, in the lab? Check out this detailed protocol from Ph.D. candidate Mary-Kate Williams and collaborators at the USDA Bee Lab: protocols.io/view/osmia-lign…
Scaling use of the rust fungus Puccinia punctiformis for biological control of Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.): First report on a U.S. statewide effort biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
We're hiring! USU's Dept. of Plants, Soils, & Climate is seeking an Assistant Professor and Fruit Crop Extension Specialist @utahstate_ag @usuextension 🍒🍑🍎 Please RT. social.icims.com/viewjob/pt1…
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New review paper out now on bee-fungi associations with @rachelvannette and Makena Weston. We discuss some common fungal associations and their impacts on bees, and highlight how much there is to learn still about these interactions! doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiad0…
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Fascinating evidence for the COI between bees (which want to consume pollen) and plants (which want bees to transport pollen)! Based on a tremendous amount of careful field and lab work by Lucia Weinman.
*#AJB Accepted Article*
Individual #bee foragers are less efficient transporters of #pollen for the plants from which they collect the most pollen into their scopae (by Lucia Weinman, @TrentRess, Joel Gardner & Rachael Winfree)
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.… #botany @wileyplantsci
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Totally wild: scenes from our field work and @RMBLGothic from @mrkdrf 's film A New Nature are being displayed all over Times Square in NYC every evening at 11:57PM for the rest of April. If you are in NYC, check it out!
(📷 Michael Hull courtesy of Times Square Arts)
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A PostDoc position in Chemical Ecology is available in my lab, see t.uzh.ch/1sO
Please re-tweet to anyone potentially interested in the job!
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🚨Summer field technician job alert🚨
We're hiring 2 field research assistants to collect plant demographic data in the mountains of Colorado early/mid Jun-end Aug
Full ad & appl: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/18041…
Review begins March 17(!), continuing until filled
plz RT
🧵w/ more (1/n)
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A PhD position in plant adaptation/experimental evolution is available in my lab, check it out: t.uzh.ch/1sg
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Less than a month to submit abstracts to our @AmerChemSociety symposium 'Harnessing Chemical Ecology to Achieve Food Security'! Further details can be found below #ChemicalEcology #agriculture
Abstract submissions are now open for the @AmerChemSociety annual fall meeting, San Francisco, for which I'm co-organising the Early Career Symposium: 'Harnessing Chemical Ecology to Achieve Food Security', within @acsagrodiv. More details here: callforabstracts.acs.org/acs…
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#Botany2023 Abstract Submission is Now Open!
Submission deadline is April 3, 2023.
Visit 2023.botanyconference.org for more information or to see a list of topics for abstracts.
To submit your abstract visit: xcdsystem.com/botany/abstrac…
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Interested in learning about my approach to socio-ecological modeling using the microbiome and organic farming as study systems? Check out my department seminar! youtu.be/e46CPeTSUvg
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The Trivedi lab #CSU is hiring. Will be looking for a computational postdoc who will develop statistical and genome scale models to predict host-microbiome associations from -metagenomic datasets. Ad to be posted soon, but please contact me if interested!
Applications are now open for the Plant STEM #REU program @USUAggies! Please RT and/or share with students interested in 🌱🦠🐝 intxns. Additional info here: engineering.usu.edu/be/reu/p…
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#AJB welcomes applications for our 2023 AJB Synthesis papers and the $2000 AJB Synthesis Prize to showcase early-career scientists!
*Applications are due 1 February 2023.*
For full information, see botany.org/home/awards/award….
#AJBSynthesis #botany #iamabotanist @wileyplantsci
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