ForestGenomicsLab

The Forest Genomics Lab is at the #PAG31 conference in San Diego! We are giving 6 presentations to showcase our lab's research projects in population genomics, genomics of drought stress and epigenomics of disease resistance.

👏🏾Good news on the 👩🏽‍🔬XXVI IUFRO World Congress👨🏾‍🔬 🇸🇪Stockholm, Sweden 🗓️23-29 June 2024 📰The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 1⃣5⃣ June 2023! ⏭️ iufro2024.com/call-for-congr… #IUFRO2024

Join us at #IUFRO2024 congress in Stockholm! Deadline for abstracts submission is June 2nd.

Congratulations to Isabella Qualls for receiving the Hooper Undergraduate Research award at NAU! @NAU_UGResearch Isabella will be working on estimating differences in disease resistance among populations of the endangered species whitebark pine

Our new paper on GWAS of heat and drought stress of Douglas fir was published today!! academic.oup.com/aobpla/advance…

The NAU Forest Genomics lab is at #PAG30! Our group will give 3 talks, 3 posters and organize 1 workshop. Topics range from transcriptomics and epigenomics of disease resistance, to hybridization and population genomics.

Come join us at the Forest Tree Genomics session at #PAG30 at Palm 1-2, on Sunday 15th 8-12pm. Chairing the session with @rcronn1. See you there!

Four Fall2023 Graduate #fellowships (M. Sc) available at SoF! Interested in plant conservation/ecology/physiology and genetics? join us at the forest genomics lab! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… candidates must be American citizens from underrepresented groups in STEM. Deadline:Jan15th

Deadline extended until Jan 25th! #postdoc position in #Conservation and Population genomics of endangered species whitebark pine. Please RT!

Our lab is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work in Conservation Genomics of the endangered species whitebark pine. Please look for position 606828 in "Current opening" in the link below. Deadline is January 2nd. Please RT! in.nau.edu/human-resource…

How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance? An interesting @newscientist article by @PennySarchet that comments on some of the results of our work on contrasting rates of molecular evolution between gymnosperms and flowering plants.

A very much deserved break at the top of the mountains, thank you all for a great day at the Snow bowl! @NAUForestry @nau_cefns

Today we welcome Pablo Pelaez, a new postdoc in our lab. Pablo will be working in our recently funded @NSF CAREER grant in hybridization, epigenomics and stress tolerance in Douglas fir

Our lab is proud to be involved in this new collaborative effort to train Latinx undergraduates in Forest Science research @nau_cefns @NAUResearch, thank you @USDA_NIFA for the support!

Amazing team work @laura_fc @stilljustakriti @Amee_loketyang collecting samples for RNA and DNA methylation in our @USDA_NIFA funded project with @JillWegrzyn

Sean took some very nice pictures of his field work this summer. The first generation (F1) Douglas fir hybrids are 49-years old and growing beautifully in Idaho!

We welcome Sean Collins as a new PhD student in our group. Sean will be working on estimating species' genome-wide diversity and the genomic basis of drought tolerance in Ponderosa pine.

Last week to apply for the genomics postdoc at FGL @NAUForestry @nau_cefns Send us your application by August 1st. Interviews will start next week.

Congrats to Susan @slmcevoy !!! It's been great to have you as collaborator in our NIFA epigenomics project. Good luck in your new postdoc!

We are hiring a postdoc to work on a NSF-funded project in plant genomics, epigenomics and hybridization for 2 years. If interested, please go to in.nau.edu/human-resource… and look for "Staff Openings", position #606354