Recent & Upcoming Talks

2022

Genetic Variation in Ontogenetic Patterns in Leaf Anatomical Traits in a Long-Term Field Experiment

Ontogeny refers to the genetically regulated shifts in phenotypic traits across developmental phases. While ontogenetic variation is …

Finding genes responsible for evolution of complex 3D leaf anatomy using tomographic microscopy

Traits in wild relatives of crop species can help breed sustainable crop varieties that produce more food with fewer resources. To make …

2021

Eons of pore decisions: how selection shapes the stomatal morphospace

The paleontologist David Raup introduced the concept of a morphospace, the theoretical limits on morphological variation among …

2020

How will climate change affect the variance in fitness? An empirical test in the perennial herb Mimulus cardinalis

George Gilchrist’s fly lab at the College of William and Mary studied adaptation to climate on ecological time scales. Now a …

licorer: Software to read and process LI-COR photosynthesis data files in R

Measuring photosynthesis is important in a variety of fields, such as botany and agriculture, as there is much to be learned from it. …

Independent evolution of ab-and adaxial stomatal density enables adaptation

Are organisms free to reach their adaptive optima or constrained by hard-wired developmental programs? Recent evidence suggests that …

2019

Assimilation in silico and in practice: Open source computational tools for simulating CO2 assimilation and fitting models to data

Click the “PDF” link above to download the poster I’m presenting at the Gordon Research Conference: CO2 Assimilation in Plants from Genome to Biome. And if you’re at the conference, please swing by!

2018

Symposium S1: Integrative Plant Biology

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