What a great New Phytologist issue. Happy to see our work on spore dimorphism in Rhizophagus irregularis being part of it. doi.org/10.1111/nph.19…

Building environments for genome analyses will be the end of me. Setting these up is taking longer than actually doing the analyses.

Congrats to Dr. Brianna Almeida for publishing her last dissertation chapter on phyllosphere fungal diversity impacts on plant productivity using experimental consortia. Out in New Phytologist doi.org/10.1111/nph.19…. Congrats to former undergrad Elan Tran on 1st paper! Details below. 1/5

How do microbial symbionts affect host responses to environmental variability? Our new publication in Ecology Letters answers this question using amazing long-term data for grasses and their fungal symbionts. -> onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Stop by at Ecology of Mycorrhizal Fungi session at 11:15 for my talk and at Genomics session at 4:00 for Damian Hernandez talk! #MSAfungi24

New preprint on my molecular evolution work with John Stinchcombe and Megan Frederickson! Inspired by work in parasite literature, we looked for evidence of increased rates of molecular evolution in mutualistic interactions. What did we find?

Check out my e-poster for #ASM2024 or see it live on Sun. June 16 at Session HMB01 Host Microbe Interactions Using Non-Vertebrate Model Systems!

If you're at #Evol2024 come check out my talk if you want to hear about some snowy Arabidopsis!

🚨 JOB ALERT Looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our team and explore the nuclear dynamics of #arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi for our #ERC-funded project NUCLEAR MIX. Apply and join a fantastic scientific environment in Amsterdam. Please share ! workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/post…

I'm recruiting students / postdocs to join my new lab at the University of Rochester for Fall 2025 onwards! If you're interested in phylogenetic comparative methods, genome evolution, and/or computational biology, please get in touch! More info: mhibbins.github.io

There is still time to apply to join us in Amsterdam. The deadline is this coming Monday.

I am interested in recruiting PhD students in the area of plant ecological genetics! Potential topics include ecological genomics in Arabidopsis, morning glory, or ragweed; plant-microbe interactions; or new topics at the intersection of quant gen and pop gen.