David Lowry
@davidlowry.bsky.social
Professor of Plant Evolutionary Genetics at Michigan State University.
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From growing smaller leaves to shape-shifting its insides, a desert flowering plant goes all in to flourish in the harshest of conditions. ☀️ Learn how in this @sciencenews.bsky.social story about the remarkable research of Dr. Karine Prado from @rheelab.bsky.social.
#PlantScience #PlantResilience
#PlantScience #PlantResilience
A special shape shift helps a shrub thrive in blistering heat
A microscope reveals an algae-like adaptation that might future-proof crop photosynthesis in extreme heat.
www.sciencenews.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
From growing smaller leaves to shape-shifting its insides, a desert flowering plant goes all in to flourish in the harshest of conditions. ☀️ Learn how in this @sciencenews.bsky.social story about the remarkable research of Dr. Karine Prado from @rheelab.bsky.social.
#PlantScience #PlantResilience
#PlantScience #PlantResilience
New preprint from former Lowry Lab postdoc, Kathy Toll, providing evidence that delayed flowering time by coastal perennial Mimulus guttatus may be advantageous through avoidance of high wind speeds and salt spray.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
New preprint from former Lowry Lab postdoc, Kathy Toll, providing evidence that delayed flowering time by coastal perennial Mimulus guttatus may be advantageous through avoidance of high wind speeds and salt spray.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Just a reminder that the application deadline for the @uncbiology.bsky.social tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology position closes in a week (Nov 17). Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Just a reminder that the application deadline for the @uncbiology.bsky.social tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology position closes in a week (Nov 17). Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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New paper is online! We used single cell RNA-seq & phylogenetics to identify 2 additional cell type specific TFs that control late-stage vinca alkaloid biosynthesis. The key insights originated from Camptotheca, another species that produces alkaloids. doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantScience #SecMet
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
New paper is online! We used single cell RNA-seq & phylogenetics to identify 2 additional cell type specific TFs that control late-stage vinca alkaloid biosynthesis. The key insights originated from Camptotheca, another species that produces alkaloids. doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantScience #SecMet
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This will spark some great papers: an open digital dataset of roads in the Roman Empire
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
www.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This will spark some great papers: an open digital dataset of roads in the Roman Empire
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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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.
So many more em dashes…
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
So many more em dashes…
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New research out of Death Valley from @rheelab.bsky.social! 🏜️ Learn how one desert plant beats the heat through photosynthetic acclimation in their @currentbiology.bsky.social paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#PlantScience #PlantResilience
#PlantScience #PlantResilience
Photosynthetic acclimation is a key contributor to exponential growth of a desert plant in Death Valley summer
Heat waves, now more frequent and longer due to climate change, devastate plant productivity. Although they are rare, thermophilic plants could hold k…
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November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
New research out of Death Valley from @rheelab.bsky.social! 🏜️ Learn how one desert plant beats the heat through photosynthetic acclimation in their @currentbiology.bsky.social paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#PlantScience #PlantResilience
#PlantScience #PlantResilience
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As the park's temperatures top 120°F, one native species thrives.
Scientists conduct groundbreaking study in Calif.'s Death Valley National Park
As the park's temperatures top 120°F, one native species thrives.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
As the park's temperatures top 120°F, one native species thrives.
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
Nice piece highlighting MSU’s Beal Seed Experiment in the context of other long-term experiments…and space missions. www.snexplores.org/article/long...
These ultra-long experiments outlive their scientists — on purpose
To study phenomena that unfold over decades or even centuries, scientists may launch long-running projects they may never see finished.
www.snexplores.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Nice piece highlighting MSU’s Beal Seed Experiment in the context of other long-term experiments…and space missions. www.snexplores.org/article/long...
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Interested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat.... Please repost!
2026 Salt and Water Stress in Plants Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Salt and Water Stress in Plants will be held in Les Diablerets, Vaud (fr) Switzerland. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Interested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat.... Please repost!
Harvesting our switchgrass stand planting for the first time. Gosh, this is easy with the right farm equipment.
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Harvesting our switchgrass stand planting for the first time. Gosh, this is easy with the right farm equipment.
Meiosis is amazing.
November 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Meiosis is amazing.
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Bay Area Pop Gen conference Dec 6! One of my favorite conferences. Registration is free! Only controversy is how to pronounce BAPG (bap-guh is the right answer). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration for BAPG 2025, Stanford Dec 6 2025
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November 2, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Bay Area Pop Gen conference Dec 6! One of my favorite conferences. Registration is free! Only controversy is how to pronounce BAPG (bap-guh is the right answer). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Awesome aerial photo of our switchgrass harvest at the @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social by Ruben Ulbrich. You can see the progression of the harvest from right to left: cut plants to tied plants to soon to be tied plants. @msupri.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Awesome aerial photo of our switchgrass harvest at the @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social by Ruben Ulbrich. You can see the progression of the harvest from right to left: cut plants to tied plants to soon to be tied plants. @msupri.bsky.social
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Nice to see this great write-up about our recent paper in Molecular Ecology. "Chromosomal Rearrangements Might Play a Central Role in Adaptation" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Nice to see this great write-up about our recent paper in Molecular Ecology. "Chromosomal Rearrangements Might Play a Central Role in Adaptation" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Nice to see this great write-up about our recent paper in Molecular Ecology. "Chromosomal Rearrangements Might Play a Central Role in Adaptation" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Nice to see this great write-up about our recent paper in Molecular Ecology. "Chromosomal Rearrangements Might Play a Central Role in Adaptation" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The great switchgrass harvest of 2025 has begun at @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social.
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The great switchgrass harvest of 2025 has begun at @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social.
Oh my. This seems like an impossible task with all the nuance and different approaches to authorship across fields and even sub-disciplines. The incentive to leave early career technicians and others off of papers as authors is going to be high. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
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October 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Oh my. This seems like an impossible task with all the nuance and different approaches to authorship across fields and even sub-disciplines. The incentive to leave early career technicians and others off of papers as authors is going to be high. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
October 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
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Anyone looking for an undergrad research assistant this coming summer? I have a truly phenomenal undergrad with expertise in genetic mapping, long read sequencing & bioinformatics who wants experience in another lab before grad school. She has been in our lab for 3 years & writing her first paper!
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Anyone looking for an undergrad research assistant this coming summer? I have a truly phenomenal undergrad with expertise in genetic mapping, long read sequencing & bioinformatics who wants experience in another lab before grad school. She has been in our lab for 3 years & writing her first paper!
Great visit this morning to the Carnegie Institution for Science and Jasper Ridge with Joanna Feehan and @lauracleventhal.bsky.social. Sat at the “co-evolution” table and found some photos of young Clausen, Keck, and Hiesey.
October 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Great visit this morning to the Carnegie Institution for Science and Jasper Ridge with Joanna Feehan and @lauracleventhal.bsky.social. Sat at the “co-evolution” table and found some photos of young Clausen, Keck, and Hiesey.
Last bloom of the season for the magnificent monkeyflower in Northern California.
October 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Last bloom of the season for the magnificent monkeyflower in Northern California.
Woooo-hooooo!!!!!
Check out our new preprint on monkeyflower salt spray adaptation, with coauthors @pcdurant.bsky.social, Katherine Egeler, and @davidlowry.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Woooo-hooooo!!!!!