Lab NewsDecember 1st, 2023
Welcome to Johan Tial Ling, our new postdoc in the lab! https://www.ohio.edu/cas/tcling May 7th, 2023 Congratulations to graduating seniors Lilly Osterday, Nevaeh Prater and Mekenzie Altman, we wish you the best of luck in all of your future endeavors! May 4th, 2023 Big kudos to Ellie Becklund who was just awarded the Barneby Award to study the evolution of legume flowers at the New York Botanical Garden! March 9th, 2023 Congratulations to Paige for receiving the College of Arts and Science travel grant! March 7th, 2023 Congratulations to Kate for receiving the OU Student Enhancement Award! December 13th, 2022 Congratulations to Ellie for her first publication! A really nice phylogenomic study of the legume genus Errazurizia, published in Systematic Botany. Link: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/aspt/sb/pre-prints/content-2100057 December 5th, 2022 Congratulations to Kate for successfully completing her doctoral comprehensive exams! November 18th, 2022 Congratulations to Ellie for successfully completing her doctoral comprehensive exams! October 28th, 2022 Congratulations to Ellie for being awarded the OU Original Work Grant! June 22nd, 2022 Paige has a new website, check it out! https://paigethebotanist.weebly.com/ June 20th, 2022 Congratulations to Kate for receiving the Bill Dahl Graduate Research award through the Botanical Society of America! May 30th, 2022 Congratulations to Kate for receiving the CAS travel award! May 20th, 2022 We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our lab! Apply through the OU portal: https://www.ohiouniversityjobs.com/postings/41476 May 15th, 2022 Welcome to three new undergraduate researchers in our lab this summer: Jamie, Emily, and Jenna! May 10th, 2022 Congratulations to Ellie for bringing home the trophy to the Schenk Lab for the PBIO 2022 Chili Cookout! April 25th, 2022 New paper out with fellow Loasaceae enthusiast - Dylan Cohen - Exploring the genetic structure of a blazingstars in the Mojave Desert. Cohen, D. H., and J. J. Schenk. 2022. Investigating phylogenetic placement and species-level relationships in a recent radiation of Mentzelia section Bartonia (Loasaceae) from the Mojave Desert. Systematic Botany 47:140–151. April 18th, 2022 Congratulations to Paige, Kate, and Ellie for being awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Research Awards! April 18th, 2022 Check out the article that features Riley's research published in the College of Arts and Science Forum: Ohio https://www.ohio.edu/news/2022/04/riley-rees-receives-garden-club-america-scholarship-summer-research-carnation-family?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Read%20more%C2%A0%20%3E&utm_campaign=forum_021522_CAS April 12th, 2022 Congratulations to Kate Madsen, who just received the Ohio University Original Work Grant! Great job Kate! April 8th, 2022 Congratulations to Riley Rees, who just received the Norman S. Cohn Summer Research Fellowship in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology. Riley's project title is “Evolutionary History and Floral Traits of Angiosperms using DNA Sequences”. April 7th, 2022 Congratulations to Lilly Osterday for winning second place for her poster on fitness measures on gypsum outcrops at the Student Expo! March 18th, 2022 Congratulations to Riley Rees, who just received The Joan K. Hunt and Rachel M. Hunt Summer Scholarship in Field Botany from The Garden Club of America! Riley will be working on his project looking at androecial and perianth evolution in Caryophyllaceae. February 23rd, 2022 Congratulations to Ellie Becklund, who just received the Student Enhancement Award; the most prestigious grant offered to OU students! February 22nd, 2022 We were just awarded an OU internship grant to bring an OU student into the lab for the summer. Please contact John if you are interested in working with us this summer. February 20th, 2022 Congratulations to Lilly Osterday for being awarded the OU Experiential grant to work on gypsum endemics in New Mexico! February 18th, 2022 Congratulations to Kate Madsen for being awarded the OCEES Fellowship to measure the fitness of gypsum endemics! January 15th, 2022 Welcome to Paige Fabre, who just joined our lab to work on our NSF grant that investigates the consequences of staminode evolution in Mentzelia! January 4th, 2022 Our paper that explores the genetic response to acute drought stress is out in BMC Genomics. You can read the paper here: https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-021-08178-w July 20th, 2021 Congratulations to Abby Moore and Andrea Appleton for delivering amazing talks this year at Virtual Botany 2021! June 26th, 2021 Happy to announce that I have been awarded an NSF grant, entitled: Macroevolutionary Consequences of Staminode Evolution in Integrated Floral Systems of Mentzelia section Bartonia (Loasaceae). I will be looking for one Ph.D. student to start in Spring or Fall of 2022 and a postdoctoral scholar to start in the Fall of 2022. See more here: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2117446 May 28th, 2021 Congratulations to Andrea, who was just awarded the ASPT Undergraduate Research Prize! May 19th, 2021 Check out Andrea's paper on staminode evolution in Paronychia, which just came out in the International Journal of Plant Sciences here. Appleton, A. D. and J. J. Schenk. 2021. Evolution and Development of Staminodes in Paronychia (Caryophyllaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 182:377–388. May 2nd, 2021 Check out Abby's interview in the OU Arts & Science Forum here. Congratulations Abby! April 28th, 2021 John's Coulter Review on adaptive radiations in plants is now out. Read it here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/713445 April 26th, 2021 Congratulations to Andrea and Abby, both of whom have been selected by the Botanical Society of America as their 2021 Young Botanist Awardees in recognition of all of their hard work! April 9th, 2021 Congratulations to Abby and Nevaeh who's hard work has resulted in superb presentations that both won awards! See their presentations here: https://vimeo.com/523582191 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcfvgSj1hqs @PBIO_OhioU April 8th, 2021 Please keep an eye out for Abby Moore's and Nevaeh Prater's presentations at the Ohio University Virtual Student Expo! Abby will talk about her work with genome evolution in Mentzelia and Nevaeh will talk about her work with floral evolution in Lepidium. Abby's presentation: https://vimeo.com/523582191 Nevaeh's presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcfvgSj1hqs April 2nd, 2021 Congratulations to Abby Moore who has just accepted an M.S. position in Ken Frost and Sagar Sathuvalli's lab at Oregon State University! March 15th, 2021 Congratulations to Andrea Appleton who has just accepted a Ph.D. position in Elena Kramer's lab at Harvard University! February 5th, 2021 Schenk lab is hosting Dr. Colin Hughes from the University of Zurich, Switzerland for our seminar speaker. January 14th, 2021 Andrea's paper on staminode evolution in Paronychia has been accepted at the International Journal of Plant Sciences. See an early view of her article here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/713918 December 18th, 2020 Our monograph on Mentzelia section Bartonia is now out, the citation is: Schenk JJ, L Hufford 2020 A phylogenetic monograph of Mentzelia section Bartonia (Loasaceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 110:1–239. July 30th, 2020 Andrea Appleton is presenting her work on staminode evolution in Paronychia at the virtual Botany 2020 conference. See her abstract here June 26th, 2020 We are very excited to welcome two new Ph.D. students to our lab this fall: Kate Madsen and Ellie Becklund! Kate is coming to us from University of Northern Iowa and Ellie is coming from Northern Arizona University. We are excited to see what amazing things they will do over the course of their degrees! June 25th, 2020 We have a new paper out in Systematic Botany on the phylogenetics and floral evolution of Mentzelia section Bicuspidaria.
June 24th 2020 Our lab is officially open under special circumstances. We have been closed down for a couple months now and are looking forward to getting back into research mode. June 20th 2020 Just to be clear, black lives matter! June 12th 2020 Congratulations to Abby Moore for obtaining summer funding to work on her genomics project. October 23rd We are happy to welcome three new undergraduate scholars into the lab: Abby Moore, Nick Chilson, and Nevaeh Prater. Abby is working on Mentzelia genomics, Nick is looking at anatomical adaptation to environmental variation in Mentzelia, and Nevaeh is working on staminode evolution and genetics in Lepidium. Expect great things from them! October 12-19th John is in Scotland at the PR Statistics Geometric Morphometric Workshop. Glasgow is an amazing city and I am excited to starting applying analyses of morphological shape evolution to staminode evolution. October 2-4th John visits the Hufford lab at Washington State University to obtain DNA and tissue samples of Mentzelia. September 1st 2019 We are ready to start filling the lab up with student scholars! If you are interested in pursuing research in our lab, please check out the Opportunities page and send John an e-mail. August 16th 2019 Today is the official start date of my academic appointment! I'm very excited to get new research projects off the ground and to start populating my lab. July 26-31 2019 Lab attended the annual Botany conference in Tucson Arizona. Undergraduate research Andrea Appleton presented her work on staminode homology and evolution in Paronychia, while John presented his work with undergraduate researcher Lucia Botnaru on staminode evolution and pollination in Mentzelia. April 5 2019 We presented a paper coauthored with undergraduate researcher Lucia Botnaru on staminode evolution in Mentzelia (Loasaceae) at the Association of Southeastern Biologists meeting in Memphis, Tennessee. The abstract can be found here: https://sebiologists.confex.com/sebiologists/2019/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/3149 |
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