Lauren Frankel
@laufran.bsky.social
evolutionary biologist (phylogenetic network methods, plant systematics) | postdoc @ University of Washington | PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison | 🏃🏻♀️✨🌈🌻🧬 she/her
excited to announce I'll soon be starting as a postdoctoral scholar with Carrie Tribble @tribblelab.bsky.social at the University of Washington! Seattle here I come! 🎉🥳
October 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
excited to announce I'll soon be starting as a postdoctoral scholar with Carrie Tribble @tribblelab.bsky.social at the University of Washington! Seattle here I come! 🎉🥳
from first to last day of grad school! on Monday I successfully defended and became Dr. Lauren Frankel :)
August 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
from first to last day of grad school! on Monday I successfully defended and became Dr. Lauren Frankel :)
hi friends, let me know if you'd like a zoom link for my defense next week!
August 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
hi friends, let me know if you'd like a zoom link for my defense next week!
sent my dissertation to my committee after much agonizing that I was taking too long!!
... only to get auto away responses from 4/5 committee members lmfao
... only to get auto away responses from 4/5 committee members lmfao
August 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
sent my dissertation to my committee after much agonizing that I was taking too long!!
... only to get auto away responses from 4/5 committee members lmfao
... only to get auto away responses from 4/5 committee members lmfao
Accuracy also decreased with increasing number of reticulations and the network level. For these networks, accuracy was low even from large data sets with low mutation rate, under a molecular clock, and retaining many top-scoring graphs.
July 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Accuracy also decreased with increasing number of reticulations and the network level. For these networks, accuracy was low even from large data sets with low mutation rate, under a molecular clock, and retaining many top-scoring graphs.
Accuracy was extremely poor to infer complex networks, in which a reticulation is part of a small cycle of only 3 nodes in some subnetwork.
For example in the network on the left, the minimum cycle size of the blue hybridization event is 3 (shown in the the right subnetwork obtained from the left)
For example in the network on the left, the minimum cycle size of the blue hybridization event is 3 (shown in the the right subnetwork obtained from the left)
July 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Accuracy was extremely poor to infer complex networks, in which a reticulation is part of a small cycle of only 3 nodes in some subnetwork.
For example in the network on the left, the minimum cycle size of the blue hybridization event is 3 (shown in the the right subnetwork obtained from the left)
For example in the network on the left, the minimum cycle size of the blue hybridization event is 3 (shown in the the right subnetwork obtained from the left)
submitted revisions back to the journal for my second dissertation chapter!!!!!!!!!
July 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
submitted revisions back to the journal for my second dissertation chapter!!!!!!!!!
earlier today @laymonstera.bsky.social gave a real ball-er talk (pardon the pun) on Hillia, integrating niche data, pollinator syndromes, and biogeography! check out her recent paper: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... #evol2025 #lagolab
June 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
earlier today @laymonstera.bsky.social gave a real ball-er talk (pardon the pun) on Hillia, integrating niche data, pollinator syndromes, and biogeography! check out her recent paper: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... #evol2025 #lagolab
amazing talk by SSB prez Corrie @corriemoreau.bsky.social this morning!
it was her videos on the Brain Scoop with @ehmee.bsky.social 10yrs ago that first introduced me to the field of evolutionary biology, so I don't know if I'd be here without her! such inspiring work! 🐜
it was her videos on the Brain Scoop with @ehmee.bsky.social 10yrs ago that first introduced me to the field of evolutionary biology, so I don't know if I'd be here without her! such inspiring work! 🐜
June 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
amazing talk by SSB prez Corrie @corriemoreau.bsky.social this morning!
it was her videos on the Brain Scoop with @ehmee.bsky.social 10yrs ago that first introduced me to the field of evolutionary biology, so I don't know if I'd be here without her! such inspiring work! 🐜
it was her videos on the Brain Scoop with @ehmee.bsky.social 10yrs ago that first introduced me to the field of evolutionary biology, so I don't know if I'd be here without her! such inspiring work! 🐜
tune in tomorrow during Virtual #Evol2025 for my talk in the Mayr Award Symposium! I'll be presenting 2:45pm EDT, the symposium starts 1:30pm EDT. Come hear about the limits of inferring admixture graphs (aka phylogenetic networks) from f-statistics!
May 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
tune in tomorrow during Virtual #Evol2025 for my talk in the Mayr Award Symposium! I'll be presenting 2:45pm EDT, the symposium starts 1:30pm EDT. Come hear about the limits of inferring admixture graphs (aka phylogenetic networks) from f-statistics!
today I walked the walk (received an empty diploma case on stage), now I just gotta talk the talk (finish writing my dissertation and defend in August)
May 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
today I walked the walk (received an empty diploma case on stage), now I just gotta talk the talk (finish writing my dissertation and defend in August)
today I turn 28! I feel so thankful it was my happiest year yet. in my 27th year I: ran my first marathon, did my first triathlon, traveled to Mexico and Canada, saw some of my best friends get married. here's some happy memories:
November 12, 2024 at 4:18 PM
today I turn 28! I feel so thankful it was my happiest year yet. in my 27th year I: ran my first marathon, did my first triathlon, traveled to Mexico and Canada, saw some of my best friends get married. here's some happy memories:
🚨 juice is loose 🚨 happy halloween!!!
November 1, 2024 at 2:26 AM
🚨 juice is loose 🚨 happy halloween!!!
had the best time hosting @tropicalbotany.bsky.social in Madison yesterday! we spent the day in the herbarium going over new results, looking at specimens, and chatting by the lake. it's hard to express in a single post just how much her mentorship since I was an undergrad 6 years ago means to me 💗
October 24, 2024 at 3:16 PM
had the best time hosting @tropicalbotany.bsky.social in Madison yesterday! we spent the day in the herbarium going over new results, looking at specimens, and chatting by the lake. it's hard to express in a single post just how much her mentorship since I was an undergrad 6 years ago means to me 💗
your weekend update from Wisconsin:
October 21, 2024 at 1:26 AM
your weekend update from Wisconsin:
my last in person Evolution conference was in 2019, before the pandemic and before I started my PhD! excited to present some work from my dissertation at #Evol2024.
I'll be presenting on Saturday in the "Networks in population genetics and phylogenetics" symposium at 12pm in 516D.
I'll be presenting on Saturday in the "Networks in population genetics and phylogenetics" symposium at 12pm in 516D.
July 22, 2024 at 3:46 PM
my last in person Evolution conference was in 2019, before the pandemic and before I started my PhD! excited to present some work from my dissertation at #Evol2024.
I'll be presenting on Saturday in the "Networks in population genetics and phylogenetics" symposium at 12pm in 516D.
I'll be presenting on Saturday in the "Networks in population genetics and phylogenetics" symposium at 12pm in 516D.
took a crack at my top album of the year from '08-'23. mostly indie pop/rock-ish, with some bluegrass and neo-r&b creepin in
January 3, 2024 at 1:22 AM
took a crack at my top album of the year from '08-'23. mostly indie pop/rock-ish, with some bluegrass and neo-r&b creepin in
We also found the power to detect hybridization events decreased when there were more hybridizations, for all three tests. So it seems that hybridization events can "hide" each another if they occur within a small subset of taxa. (3/4)
December 18, 2023 at 4:24 PM
We also found the power to detect hybridization events decreased when there were more hybridizations, for all three tests. So it seems that hybridization events can "hide" each another if they occur within a small subset of taxa. (3/4)
Variation of rates between lineages had the largest impact on false discovery of reticulation (type-1 error) across all three methods. D3 was the most sensitive with ~80% type-1 error. (2/4)
December 18, 2023 at 4:23 PM
Variation of rates between lineages had the largest impact on false discovery of reticulation (type-1 error) across all three methods. D3 was the most sensitive with ~80% type-1 error. (2/4)
had an A+ weekend running a 50 mile relay race with besties, seeing northern lights for the first time, soaking in all the fall colors up in Door County
October 23, 2023 at 7:36 PM
had an A+ weekend running a 50 mile relay race with besties, seeing northern lights for the first time, soaking in all the fall colors up in Door County
it's full-blown hot-latte-drinking-Nebraska-listening-sweater-wearing-leaf-falling fall here
October 5, 2023 at 4:26 PM
it's full-blown hot-latte-drinking-Nebraska-listening-sweater-wearing-leaf-falling fall here
happy challah-days (pumpkin challah w/ choc chips for YK break-fast)
September 26, 2023 at 2:47 AM
happy challah-days (pumpkin challah w/ choc chips for YK break-fast)
a lil midday sail right on campus: not a bad way to start the semester
September 6, 2023 at 11:25 PM
a lil midday sail right on campus: not a bad way to start the semester
back in 2020 I told my mom when (if?) Bruce ever goes back on tour, I wanted nothing more to see the Boss at home in the Meadowlands together. yesterday that dream finally came true 💗
September 5, 2023 at 1:18 AM
back in 2020 I told my mom when (if?) Bruce ever goes back on tour, I wanted nothing more to see the Boss at home in the Meadowlands together. yesterday that dream finally came true 💗