It’s so fun to have visitors at the lab again! Check this thread for pictures from today’s tour!

We are conducting outreach for a Tree Improvement Specialist to design insect and disease resistance phenotyping and breeding studies of threatened forest tree species, with an emphasis on genetics and genomics in Delaware, OH. Outreach deadline is 2/14. fsoutreach.gdcii.com/?id=720EF1F834…

Great post-doc position at MSU: collaborate with FS researchers, examine interactions of multiple factors including EAB and parasitoid population density/establishment, ash species composition, spatial variation, tree health, etc in sites with lingering ash.

Ah spring- when breeders scramble to make controlled cross pollinations during a narrow time window! Shown here @Aletter_ForYou and University of Cincinnati intern Brynn McGrail cross-pollinating lingering ash trees to increase EAB resistance in the next generation of ash!

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New grafted lingering ash selections already flowering! Grafting allows us to use containerized "seed orchards" to do controlled cross pollinations safely and quickly. #EABresistance

Cross-pollination between two lingering ash parents is looking promising - can see the beginning of seed development. Hoping they make it all the way 🤞

Glad to have these lingering ash grafts & progeny back safely from winter storage. It's going to be a busy summer - this photo only shows about half of them!

Thankful our interns are on board to help with up-potting! Keeping trees as happy as possible before bioassay time is crucial for getting consistent data! #EAB #treeresistance

Beautiful day for coffee outside 💐

Lingering white ash x lingering white ash controlled cross pollinations coming along well! Left May 12, right May 30. Still a long way to go before we have seedling family for screening and genetic studies 🤞

Had a visitor in our nursery today. Guess we need to expand our definition of "nursery." Photo by intern Liz, who was able to safely guide the very scared little fawn out without damage to fence, trees or the baby 🦌

Hot mess in #oaks #genomics ! Dr.Meg Staton from UT Entomology & Plant Pathology UT AgResearch showed at #SFTIC2023 how fascinating and complex the #tree #genomes can be.

Last but certainly not least, presenting at #SFTIC2023 Schatz Symposium: Penn State Dr. Laura P. Leites on provenance trials under #ClimateChange

I am excited to share some of my grad work on Emerald Ash Borer induced host defense response to larval infestation, now published! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #EAB #metabolomics This would not have been possible without Jennifer Koch Therese Poland Aletta Doran and many others

Last of 5 weeks putting EAB eggs onto test trees. Grateful for all of our interns and dedicated lab techs (including those not shown) for all their hard work in the heat. Dissections start next week - stay tuned to see how many EAB resistant trees we find!

Training interns to dissect EAB from trees being tested for resistance! Julia Wolf and Aletta Doran (photo credit) explaining procedures and then they will get to practice on infested seedlings. Next week they will start on the experimental trees!

Seems like forestry and related sciences people have been less active on this platform. Just wondering what platforms people in this community may be switching to?

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Good morning, deer 🌞!