Jill Hamilton
@jillahamilton.bsky.social
Associate Professor & Director of the Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics 🇨🇦 at Pennsylvania State University, Forest genomics, conservation, and restoration www.jillahamilton.com
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I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.
Thanks so much to @arcastilla.bsky.social, the entire Castilla Lab and the Department of Biology for such a wonderful visit to Oklahoma State! Such fun scientific conversations and beyond!! with great ideas generated with faculty, graduate and undergraduate students! Leaving inspired!
November 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Thanks so much to @arcastilla.bsky.social, the entire Castilla Lab and the Department of Biology for such a wonderful visit to Oklahoma State! Such fun scientific conversations and beyond!! with great ideas generated with faculty, graduate and undergraduate students! Leaving inspired!
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Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share!
Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu
Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share!
Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu
Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu
When cheering for the opposing team hockey team in Philly - folks at home may text you pictures of your face on the Canadian broadcast #GoJetsGo @winnipegjets.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
When cheering for the opposing team hockey team in Philly - folks at home may text you pictures of your face on the Canadian broadcast #GoJetsGo @winnipegjets.com
First (annual?) Hamilton lab off-grid camping trip to Bald Eagle State Forest. Good company, scenery, s’mores and so much more. Food for the soul!! I’m a very #luckyPI to work with this amazing group!
September 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
First (annual?) Hamilton lab off-grid camping trip to Bald Eagle State Forest. Good company, scenery, s’mores and so much more. Food for the soul!! I’m a very #luckyPI to work with this amazing group!
A little adventure through the roads around State College this evening while the sky put on a show #happyvalley #nofilter
September 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
A little adventure through the roads around State College this evening while the sky put on a show #happyvalley #nofilter
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Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
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University of Calgary is hiring a tier I CRC professorship in crop genomics. Come work in one of the most beautiful corners of the world!
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...
Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Translational Crop Genomics in Sustainable Agriculture in
Calgary,
...
Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Translational Crop Genomics in Sustainable Agriculture in
Calgary,
...
careers.ucalgary.ca
September 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
University of Calgary is hiring a tier I CRC professorship in crop genomics. Come work in one of the most beautiful corners of the world!
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...
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Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Working/Functional Title
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System
Position Summary
The Plant Resilience Institute (PRI) at Michigan State University invites applications for multiple tenure-st...
careers.msu.edu
September 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...
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‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals
‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals
Subtle DNA changes in trees demonstrate Charles Darwin’s natural selection – although human help may be needed
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals
Excited to be in Ottawa this week for the Canadian Forest Genetics Association meeting!! Great to wake up and walk around the national capital to start the morning ❤️🇨🇦
August 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Excited to be in Ottawa this week for the Canadian Forest Genetics Association meeting!! Great to wake up and walk around the national capital to start the morning ❤️🇨🇦
Super sad to be missing out on #Botany2025, but Hamilton Lab is represented by @sammymuraguri.bsky.social - be sure to drop by his poster to learn about the genomic architecture of adaptive introgression across repeated contact zones between two sister Poplar species #PopUpPoplars
July 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Super sad to be missing out on #Botany2025, but Hamilton Lab is represented by @sammymuraguri.bsky.social - be sure to drop by his poster to learn about the genomic architecture of adaptive introgression across repeated contact zones between two sister Poplar species #PopUpPoplars
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Climate and hybridization shape stomatal trait evolution in Populus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.665994v1
July 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Climate and hybridization shape stomatal trait evolution in Populus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.665994v1
Sporting the ultimate of common garden experiment fashion this year - @krunkg.bsky.social shows how you too can fashion the literally cutting edge of field supply fashion while protecting your trees from hungry little rodents #blackash #commongarden #fieldfun @krlopicc.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Sporting the ultimate of common garden experiment fashion this year - @krunkg.bsky.social shows how you too can fashion the literally cutting edge of field supply fashion while protecting your trees from hungry little rodents #blackash #commongarden #fieldfun @krlopicc.bsky.social
Exhausted but so happy!! Thanks so much to all participants near and far for making #forestgenetics2025 a success!! Our community is strong, supportive, and resilient, just like our trees. I’m inspired!!! Until next time…..
June 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Exhausted but so happy!! Thanks so much to all participants near and far for making #forestgenetics2025 a success!! Our community is strong, supportive, and resilient, just like our trees. I’m inspired!!! Until next time…..
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Thanks Kew!
The paper itself can be found here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The paper itself can be found here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
BIG NEWS! We’ve found that ash trees are fighting back against ash dieback disease! 🌳💪
Scientists at Kew & QMUL @qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍
Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
#PlantScience #SciNews
Scientists at Kew & QMUL @qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍
Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
#PlantScience #SciNews
June 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Thanks Kew!
The paper itself can be found here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The paper itself can be found here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rapid polygenic adaptation in a wild population of ash trees under a novel fungal epidemic | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rapid polygenic adaptation in a wild population of ash trees under a novel fungal epidemic
Rapid evolution through small shifts in allele frequencies at thousands of loci is a long-standing neo-Darwinian prediction but is hard to characterize in the wild. European ash tree (Fraxinus excelsi...
www.science.org
June 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Rapid polygenic adaptation in a wild population of ash trees under a novel fungal epidemic | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
When the Canadian organizes the banquet at the hockey arena obviously the conference logo goes up on the score board 😉#forestgenetics2025
June 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM
When the Canadian organizes the banquet at the hockey arena obviously the conference logo goes up on the score board 😉#forestgenetics2025
So impressed by our Featured Student Speakers presenting in the keynote sessions. Just: wow! The future of forest genetics is bright #forestgenetics2025
June 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
So impressed by our Featured Student Speakers presenting in the keynote sessions. Just: wow! The future of forest genetics is bright #forestgenetics2025
Thanks so much to our amazing Field Trip team for organizing awesome field excursions for #forestgenetics2025. So many unique forest sites, stories, and applications of forest research and genetics at Rothrock State Forest and Penn Nursery and more #teamwork
June 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Thanks so much to our amazing Field Trip team for organizing awesome field excursions for #forestgenetics2025. So many unique forest sites, stories, and applications of forest research and genetics at Rothrock State Forest and Penn Nursery and more #teamwork
Honored to be appointed a Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Leadership Fellow position. I am deeply grateful and thrilled to provide creativity and leadership within interdisciplinary spaces, emphasizing graduate training and evolutionary biology. www.psu.edu/news/faculty...
Huck announces 2025-26 Leadership Fellows | Penn State University
Faculty members Jill Hamilton, Wenrui Hao and Gustavo Nader have been named the 2025-26 Huck Leadership Fellows. As fellows, they will take part in a yearlong, high-level professional development prog...
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June 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Honored to be appointed a Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Leadership Fellow position. I am deeply grateful and thrilled to provide creativity and leadership within interdisciplinary spaces, emphasizing graduate training and evolutionary biology. www.psu.edu/news/faculty...
It begins!! Welcome to #forestgenetics2025 - where all the cool kids are hanging! #trees4everyone @michellezavala.bsky.social @diegodelorbe.bsky.social @krlopicc.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It begins!! Welcome to #forestgenetics2025 - where all the cool kids are hanging! #trees4everyone @michellezavala.bsky.social @diegodelorbe.bsky.social @krlopicc.bsky.social
Getting ready to go!! Beautiful center pieces courtesy of our PSU graduate students, @michellezavala.bsky.social and @krlopicc.bsky.social at #forestgenetics2025 How well do you know your trees? We’ll find out!! Counting down to welcome all to the Happy Valley!! forestgeneticsconference2025.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Getting ready to go!! Beautiful center pieces courtesy of our PSU graduate students, @michellezavala.bsky.social and @krlopicc.bsky.social at #forestgenetics2025 How well do you know your trees? We’ll find out!! Counting down to welcome all to the Happy Valley!! forestgeneticsconference2025.com
One week to go!!! So excited to host our colleagues next week in the Happy Valley of Pennsylvania! Over 150 registrants from around the world!! If you’re interested in coming but unable to join in person - email me to learn about virtual options forestgeneticsconference2025.com #forestgenetics2025
June 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
One week to go!!! So excited to host our colleagues next week in the Happy Valley of Pennsylvania! Over 150 registrants from around the world!! If you’re interested in coming but unable to join in person - email me to learn about virtual options forestgeneticsconference2025.com #forestgenetics2025
Admittedly we might be a little early in the season - but we are so grateful for the tour and lesson on how to tap trees and make maple syrup at our colleagues Sugar Shack deep in the QC forest #Canadiangold #maplesyruplove @krlopicc.bsky.social @lucieanderson.bsky.social @jacobmazza.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Admittedly we might be a little early in the season - but we are so grateful for the tour and lesson on how to tap trees and make maple syrup at our colleagues Sugar Shack deep in the QC forest #Canadiangold #maplesyruplove @krlopicc.bsky.social @lucieanderson.bsky.social @jacobmazza.bsky.social