Wolf L. Eiserhardt

Job @KewScience: Bioinformatician - Completing the #Plant #Tree of Life Project🧬🌵🧬🌳🧬 Deadline: 11 Oct 2022. Please RT! #PAFTOL #phylogenomics #Angiosperms353 APPLY HERE!👇 careers.kew.org/vacancy/bioinf…

Seven days to the deadline - please apply now, or spread the word! Exciting postdoc position @EcoinfAU in close collaboration with @KewScience

This paper gives a great summary of the methods issues covered in our #APPS special issue "Exploring #Angiosperms353" @mossMatters @Calyptrochaeta @DrSDodsworth @FelixForest1 @jentate01 @angelajmcd @NormWickett @susann_wicke @Botanical_ bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ap…

If you're interested in our #AJB special issue "Exploring #Angiosperms353", then you'll find this paper a useful intro #phylogenomics @mossMatters @Calyptrochaeta @DrSDodsworth @FelixForest1 @jentate01 @angelajmcd @NormWickett @susann_wicke @Botanical_ bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

It gets even better!!! A SECOND #OpenAccess special issue in #APPS on exploring #Angiosperms353 for plant #phylogenomics. Big thanks to @Botanical_, editors @mossMatters @angelajmcd @NormWickett @susann_wicke, and fantastic team of authors bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450/2…

And it's out! #OpenAccess special issue of #AJB exploring #Angiosperms353 for plant #phylogenomics. Huge thanks to @Botanical_, fab eds & authors!! @mossMatters @Calyptrochaeta @DrSDodsworth @FelixForest1 @jentate01 @angelajmcd @NormWickett @susann_wicke bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197/2…

Exciting postdoc opportunity in plant #phylogenomics: international.au.dk/about/profile/… Want to work out the evolutionary history of one of the most important and exciting tropical plant families? Apply now! (deadline 13/9) @AarhusUni @NatSci_AU @BiologyAarhus @EcoinfAU @GroupPeb

Super-excited to announce new paper just out in @systbiol describing our comprehensive #phylogenomic platform for the #angiosperm #TreeofLife (see also thread) academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance… @KewScience @FelixForest1 @Calyptrochaeta @mossMatters @DrSDodsworth @NormWickett @w_eiserhardt

Our #TreeofLife endeavours rest on the incredible #phylogenomic wealth of the world’s natural history collections. We owe a huge debt to those #herbarium collectors and curators whose treasures we now decipher genetically in the lab. @KewScience #PAFTOL

We’ve just launched the Kew #TreeofLife Explorer with a vast new public dataset for #angiosperm tree of life research @KewScience #PAFTOL #phylogenomics #Angiosperms353 #OpenAccess treeoflife.kew.org

Small, but mighty! Local & small #herbaria are very important sources for plant information. Thanks @SandyKnapp for this very informative presentation! #SOTWPF @UniHohenheim

Four excellent principles from @SandyKnapp to ensure #collections can truly help us stop biodiversity loss #SOTWPF @KewScience @NHM_Botany

First discovered as fruits in the tombs of ancient Egypt, the argun palm (Medemia argun) is accurately listed on @IUCNRedList at last. This rare and vulnerable Nubian desert palm is severely threatened by gold mining and climate change. @KewScience iucnredlist.org/species/30401/…

The TropiToL project at Aarhus University is looking for a PhD student to work on global plant macroecology and evolution with focus on tropical rain forest! Read more here: phd.scitech.au.dk/for-applicants… DEADLINE 1 MAY @EcoinfAU peb-group.net

Palm #FunFact: the leaves of Kerriodoxa elegans are often chewed by fruit #bats to create a roost. Today, the bats aren't home so I can safely stand underneath. Interestingly, this also happens at Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden, far North of the #palm's native range. @EcoinfAU

Why are angiosperms so successful, in terms of species and ecologies? I reviewed trait-dependent diversification and transition rates, showing that 'trait flexibility' could be important @NewPhyt : nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…, and a bit more background onsteinison.wordpress.com

Very grateful to Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden for letting us use their facilities and showing me their amazing living #palm collection (here: Kerriodoxa elegans, a southern Thailand endemic). Already arranged to come back next year and spend more time. #floraofthailand @EcoinfAU

Tremendously enjoyable day in the dry dipterocarp forest of Ob Khan NP in N Thailand, together with their super knowledgeable and helpful rangers. Not many palms (just Phoenix loureiroi), but plenty other #plants to collect for the #herbarium, and lots of hills to climb...

Collecting spiny #rattan #palms for the #herbarium is fun - but watching somebody else do it is even better. Showing my colleagues in Thailand how this is done - no pain, no gain (why did I forget to bring my gloves??) #floraofthailand @EcoinfAU