Brandon M. Lind
brandonlind.bsky.social
Brandon M. Lind
@brandonlind.bsky.social
Current postdoc with @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social at UConn. Previously with @drk-lo.bsky.social at Northeastern; previously with @sallyaitken.bsky.social at UBC. PhD with Andrew Eckert at VCU.
🌱 What if plant data could be easily reused across space, time, and studies to unlock eco-evolutionary insight? Our new manuscript covers the capabilities and updates to CartograPlant, a platform built for integrative, FAIR, and scalable analysis of plant biological data🧵 1/n doi.org/10.32942/X2Q...
CartograPlant: Bridging genomic, phenotypic, and environmental data to advance plant resilience and eco-evolutionary insight
doi.org
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
>900 propagated feltleaf willow (Salix alaxensis) cuttings heading back to Fairbanks tomorrow from @toolikfieldstation.bsky.social to overwinter before planting two common gardens next spring. #EVOME #arcticresearch
July 17, 2025 at 4:11 AM
July 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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First season @toolikfieldstation.bsky.social #arctic - #EVOME is investigating species’ responses to rapid climatic changes in stream environs @uconnresearch.bsky.social @uconneeb.bsky.social @brandonlind.bsky.social SamiraObbu @airianna-mcguire.bsky.social MaryRutter #REU SarahAntebi #NSF-funded
June 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Well deserved!!! Congrats, @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social !!
January 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Now online! Our perspective on the genomic offset simulation paper of @brandonlind.bsky.social and @drk-lo.bsky.social. In short: Genomic offset can predict fitness under changed environments, but performance is reduced under highly novel environments.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Go check out the Org.one workshop at #pag32! Org.one offers free ONT long-read sequencing costs for building reference genomes of IUCN endangered/critically endangered/extinct in the wild species. Today I just received confirmation for sequencing longleaf pine and the red-cockaded woodpecker!
January 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Today is the @botsocamerica.bsky.social virtual symposium “Plant resilience and conservation for a changing climate” starting at 11:00am ET. I’ll be presenting some of my recent genomic offset work at 2:00! Hope to “see” you there! bit.ly/bsa_climate_...
Plant Resilience and Conservation for a Changing Climate
bit.ly
November 14, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Out now in Molecular Ecology Resources

doi.org/10.1111/1755...
August 30, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Excited to present recent work on genomic offsets -
@sse-evolution.bsky.social #Evol2024. Unfortunately I couldn't be there in person, so if you missed my recorded talk, here are QR codes to the manuscripts and here is a link to the talk bit.ly/3WJGVVp
July 29, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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Excited about our bioRxiv paper led by postdoc Megan Ruffley in our lab & Uli Lutz from @plantevolution.bsky.social , using CRISPR on 50 Arabidopsis wild type populations to test a conflict in natural selection between favoring early flowering and water use!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 24, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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Happy to see this out! @brandonlind.bsky.social tested genomic maladaptation (offset) estimates with common garden data for 2 conifers. Climate adaptation candidate loci were no better than random loci. Populations included in model building matter. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
How useful are genomic data for predicting maladaptation to future climate?
Global Change Biology is an environmental change journal tackling issues such as sustainability, climate change and environmental protection.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 1, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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DEADLINE 3.15.24 - APPLY NOW! Want to go to grad school in #MarineScience #EnvironmentalScience #Socioecology #Sustainability? Unsure how? Join our all-expenses-paid June workshop. Priority #firstgen and applicants from marginalized groups. cos.northeastern.edu/beaches/
February 21, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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New paper co-led by postdoc Drew Larson!
There are crazy levels of gene tree discordance among the white oaks.

(Thanks to the Jim Beam Institute for funding 🥃)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Very happy to announce the release of my newest manuscript with Katie Lotterhos! "The limits of predicting maladaptation to future environments using genomic data (1 / n)
February 10, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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eerrec.ucdavis.edu/program (says paused but we will be accepting apps for this year!)
Program
The Challenge Successful stewardship of natural ecosystems critically depends on understanding the ecological and evolutionary impacts of rapid, human-mediated habitat change, establishment of non-nat...
eerrec.ucdavis.edu
January 5, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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I've been searching for the breakpoints of this adaptive chromosomal inversion for 15 years. We have now finally found those breakpoints and have discovered that the inversion contains an even older large inversion. This and more in this new preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The role of breakpoint mutations, supergene effects, and ancient nested rearrangements in the evolut...
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
December 8, 2023 at 9:41 PM
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Check out this new #AJB On the Nature of Things (OTNOT) essay by Jill Anderson!

The consequences of winter #climatechange for plant performance

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #phenology
November 30, 2023 at 5:10 PM
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New in MER! Study led by PhD student, Michelle Zavala Paez shows how whole-genome sequencing can be a game-changer for measuring telomere length in plants and help us assess their responses to stress. We’re super excited to continue to expand this work!!
buff.ly/3sDj6Dy
November 21, 2023 at 4:06 PM