Cait Barnes

Had some great conversations about dual-mycorrhizal systems in our organized session at Global Soil Biodiversity Conference in Victoria, Canada last month! @gsbc2026 @jedward_s

Check out our new article! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

🦠Tree mycorrhizal associations predict fungal communities and indirectly affect ecosystem functions via soil microbial communities @CaitBarnes96 @stephaniekivlin @jedward_s 🔍 Article: buff.ly/LMiLXXP

In a new Latitude blog post, we highlight the breadth of research recently published in PLOS Climate that addresses key questions at the nexus of climate change and ecology. latitude.plos.org/2024/10/discov…

Collaborations make us smarter & lead to better science (imo). Many thanks to SERC collabs for hosting 2d of data & ideas. From 300yr-old tulips to 11yr-old BiodiversiTrees to lone handkerchief tree (& forest orchids) - we saw it all. Hard to beat science, schnitzel & crab cakes!

New Paper!! Identifying ecological and evolutionary research targets and risks in climate change studies to break barriers to broad inference | PLOS Climate ⁦@stephaniekivlin⁩ ⁦@sarahjlove_⁩ ⁦@UTK_EEB⁩ journals.plos.org/climate/articl…

New paper out!! Check out the work from my MS thesis with @NuismerScott, Chris Remien, and Andrew Basinski, where we investigate how seasonality affects optimal timing of vaccine delivery with self-disseminating vaccines. journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…

A few photos from a hike during the IMEMEBA workshop (Insights from Macro-Ecology & Macro-Evolution for Biodiversity Assessment) in Schoodic, Maine. @ Schoodic, Maine instagram.com/p/CkZFUP9B5_s1…

Bailey-Kivlin-Schweitzer labs know that lab meetings should always be outdoors! @UTK_EEB @Schweitzer_JA

Undergrads & new grad students - NOW is the time to start thinking about applying for the @nsf GRFP! A thread of advice I've accumulated on how to write a successful application...🧵 #AcademicChatter #phdchat #NSFfunded #STEM #scicomm #sciencetwitter #NSFGRFP 1/20

Paper No. 2! Happy to have been apart of @RamonaPRussell 's work. Specific Bacterial Pathogen Phytosensing Is Enabled by a Synthetic Promoter-Transcription Factor System in Potato frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

First published paper from my time in #CostaRica !! Variation in cloud immersion, not precipitation, drives vascular epiphyte leaf trait plasticity and water relations during an extreme drought bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj… #tropicalecology #epiphytes

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