Please consider submitting to our "PARADIGM SHIFTS IN FLOWER COLOR" symposium!

Petunia goddess hits the front page of The Plant Cell again ! This wonderful picture illustrates our work on the role of cell layers in petal morphogenesis.

I say this every time news of GRFP news come out: many amazing students worked hard and won them. And also, many amazing students worked hard and didn’t win them. Either way, you belong in STEM and we can’t wait to see you shine❤️

Are you looking for a host lab working in genomic data analysis and plant diversity and/or evolution ? Do you like the idea of living in the sunny Valencia while you dig in the secrets of the genomic information? Contact us.

Introgression! Sex! Mud! First-ever Potamopyrgus genome assemblies published! Check out our new paper GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution), led by Peter Fields, Joseph Jalinsky, & John Logsdon, along with Chelsea Higgins, Phoenix Group, @KE_McElroy, @jsharbro, et al. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16…

Plant friends - how have you moved your seed collection? Mine are kept in airtight containers with silica and at 8C. Think 24-48hrs at room temp (or honestly a little warmer…) would be ok for them if they’re kept dry? #newPI

Colour, UVIVF and UV photo of Lychnis chalcedonica. What the bees see from UV induced visible fluorescence is not different from what we see: approximately nothing.

New viewpoint paper with Klaus Lunau Judith Trunschke Zong-Xin Ren in Plant Biology Wiley Plant Science. #flowers #pollination #openaccess SCAPE Pollination Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pl…

Hey #IBC2024 ! I’m sorry that I can’t be there but please visit the symposium I co-organized with Justen Whittall, Edu Narbona, and José del Valle on Thursday: Paradigm shifts in flower color 🌸

Check out these amazing talks at #Evol2024 ! I miss them all so much!

If you didn't get a chance to check out @PatrickMcKen_Z 's talk, here it is! Red flower power!

What are your latest and greatest experiments on floral color? Discover or elaborate on new roles of pigments? We would LOVE to hear about it.

🌼TODAY IS THE DEADLINE!🌼 #AJB invites proposals for the “Paradigm Shifts in #Flower Color” Special Issue Led by editors: Justen Whittall, Eduardo Narbona, José Carlos del Valle García & Andrea Berardi bit.ly/3yIoEzI Wiley Plant Science Wiley Ecology & Evolution #botany

An elevational cline in leaf variegation: Testing anti-#herbivory & abiotic heterogeneity hypotheses in maintaining a #polymorphism New #AJB research at Cierra Sullivan & mika hkoski doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1… #botany #ecophysiology #@wileyplantsci

Join us!! I'm recruiting a postdoc and grad student to work with us on parallel trait evolution, quant and pop gen, and speciation in penstemons. Find out more about our research interests here: wessingerlab.github.io Informal inquiries welcome!

Going to do some hummingbird pollination observations this spring, and exploring having backup camera/photos to supplement in-person observations. Curious if anyone has successfully used camera traps/game cameras to capture hummers? Don't want to use regular video cams.