Aimee Schulz
@aimeejschulz.bsky.social
NSF PRFB Fellow at UMN | Miniature Horse and Australian Shepherd enthusiast | Cornell Plant Breeding PhD; Iowa State Genetics & Agronomy Alum
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New preprint from my PhD! How cis-regulatory evolution shaped grass diversification worldwide
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We looked across 589 (!) grass species to ask:
— What regulatory changes enabled grasses to adapt?
— How can this inform crop breeding for resilience?
Here’s what we found:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We looked across 589 (!) grass species to ask:
— What regulatory changes enabled grasses to adapt?
— How can this inform crop breeding for resilience?
Here’s what we found:
Extensive modulation of a conserved cis-regulatory code across 589 grass species
The growing availability of genomes from non-model organisms offers new opportunities to identify functional loci underlying trait variation through comparative genomics. While cis-regulatory regions ...
www.biorxiv.org
April 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
New preprint from my PhD! How cis-regulatory evolution shaped grass diversification worldwide
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We looked across 589 (!) grass species to ask:
— What regulatory changes enabled grasses to adapt?
— How can this inform crop breeding for resilience?
Here’s what we found:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We looked across 589 (!) grass species to ask:
— What regulatory changes enabled grasses to adapt?
— How can this inform crop breeding for resilience?
Here’s what we found:
Reposted by Aimee Schulz
Generations of dedicated public servants have, unseen by the general public, done all kinds of extraordinary things that benefit all of us—like preserving the genetic diversity of crop species that sustain humanity.
Musk is blindly slashing it all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
Musk is blindly slashing it all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article)
Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Generations of dedicated public servants have, unseen by the general public, done all kinds of extraordinary things that benefit all of us—like preserving the genetic diversity of crop species that sustain humanity.
Musk is blindly slashing it all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
Musk is blindly slashing it all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
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Folks, if you want to help protect science funding in this country, today is a really good day to call your US House Representative. A budget bill, likely filled with massive cuts, is going to the floor for a vote as soon as today.
February 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Folks, if you want to help protect science funding in this country, today is a really good day to call your US House Representative. A budget bill, likely filled with massive cuts, is going to the floor for a vote as soon as today.
Reposted by Aimee Schulz
“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.
January 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM