Lucas Albano
@lucasjalbano.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Sheth Evolutionary Ecology Lab at NC State
Former PhD in the EvoEcoLab at University of Toronto
Rapid adaptation in white clover and scarlet monkeyflower
Former PhD in the EvoEcoLab at University of Toronto
Rapid adaptation in white clover and scarlet monkeyflower
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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...
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New paper from PhD student @ellmartin.bsky.social provides compelling experimental evidence that urbanization drives local adaptation, life history divergence and eco-evo feedbacks on a diverse community. Congrats Ella! 🌎🌆 #urbanecology #urbanevolution #evoeco
Part one of my common garden experiment is out today in Nature E&E!! We compare how urban and rural environments affect selection on HCN production, local adaptation, and eco-evo dynamics in white clover doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Effects of urbanization on local adaptation and eco-evolutionary feedbacks in white clover - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Evidence of adaptation to the urban environment remains limited. Using reciprocal transplants of white clover in urban and rural environments, this study shows divergent selection on an antiherbivore ...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
New paper from PhD student @ellmartin.bsky.social provides compelling experimental evidence that urbanization drives local adaptation, life history divergence and eco-evo feedbacks on a diverse community. Congrats Ella! 🌎🌆 #urbanecology #urbanevolution #evoeco
Reposted by Lucas Albano
Part one of my common garden experiment is out today in Nature E&E!! We compare how urban and rural environments affect selection on HCN production, local adaptation, and eco-evo dynamics in white clover doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Effects of urbanization on local adaptation and eco-evolutionary feedbacks in white clover - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Evidence of adaptation to the urban environment remains limited. Using reciprocal transplants of white clover in urban and rural environments, this study shows divergent selection on an antiherbivore ...
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Part one of my common garden experiment is out today in Nature E&E!! We compare how urban and rural environments affect selection on HCN production, local adaptation, and eco-evo dynamics in white clover doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Incredibly proud to be a part of this amazing and ambitious collaboration and looking forward to putting all of the data together and exploring the results in the coming months!
Yesterday was the last day of data collection for our scarlet monkeyflower project involving a resurrection study in 3 latitudinally arrayed common gardens. With tons of support from family, friends, and colleagues along the way, the literal seeds of this project developed in 2010.
September 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Incredibly proud to be a part of this amazing and ambitious collaboration and looking forward to putting all of the data together and exploring the results in the coming months!
Bittersweet to be completely finished field work at the beautiful Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, the site of the southern common garden of the PERSIST project on adaptation to climate in scarlet monkeyflower with @seemasheth.bsky.social. On to the central garden next!
August 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Bittersweet to be completely finished field work at the beautiful Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, the site of the southern common garden of the PERSIST project on adaptation to climate in scarlet monkeyflower with @seemasheth.bsky.social. On to the central garden next!
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Now out in Oecologia! Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Now out in Oecologia! Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Very honoured to be involved in this huge collaboration investigating global invasion in ☘️ by contributing fitness data from the transcontinental common garden experiment I completed during my PhD with @evoecolab.bsky.social! Well done to @brandonhendrickson.bsky.social and many many others!
Whole-genome sequences and field experiments focusing on the global invasive forage crop, white clover, show high levels of genetic variation across continents and parallel signatures of selection in five haploblocks www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Haploblocks contribute to parallel climate adaptation following global invasion of a cosmopolitan plant - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Whole-genome sequences and field experiments focusing on the global invasive forage crop, Trifolium repens, show high levels of genetic variation across continents and parallel signatures of selection...
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July 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Very honoured to be involved in this huge collaboration investigating global invasion in ☘️ by contributing fitness data from the transcontinental common garden experiment I completed during my PhD with @evoecolab.bsky.social! Well done to @brandonhendrickson.bsky.social and many many others!
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Hi #evol2025, our paper came out yesterday and I'd love to chat about it. We used an underused tool for studying parasite local adaptation, the Host Reciprocal Transplant, to study switchgrass and its fungal rust.
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June 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hi #evol2025, our paper came out yesterday and I'd love to chat about it. We used an underused tool for studying parasite local adaptation, the Host Reciprocal Transplant, to study switchgrass and its fungal rust.
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Presenting the first paper to come out of my postdoc with @seemasheth.bsky.social at #Evol2025 tomorrow. Results from a growth chamber experiment on adaptation to heatwaves in Mimulus cardinalis, led by Robin Bingham! Adaptation IV in Athena CD at 5pm! 🔥
June 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Presenting the first paper to come out of my postdoc with @seemasheth.bsky.social at #Evol2025 tomorrow. Results from a growth chamber experiment on adaptation to heatwaves in Mimulus cardinalis, led by Robin Bingham! Adaptation IV in Athena CD at 5pm! 🔥
Very excited to see this final product from a cool study led by @brandonhendrickson.bsky.social that adds to the story of the invasion success of white clover across the globe 🌎☘️🌏☘️🌍
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Evolution of drought resistance strategies following the introduction of white clover (Trifolium repens L.)
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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June 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Very excited to see this final product from a cool study led by @brandonhendrickson.bsky.social that adds to the story of the invasion success of white clover across the globe 🌎☘️🌏☘️🌍
Reposted by Lucas Albano
Despite everything else going on, I'm proud of what everyone in the lab has accomplished. I got behind on updating our lab news, and just updated the past 1.5 years that were missing 🫠 Thankful to work with this amazing bunch! seemasheth.weebly.com
The Sheth Lab
Lab news Spring/Summer 2025 We had lots of fun interacting with Emily Josephs during her GGA seminar at NC State. Thanks to the Guerrero Lab for hosting! Lucas Albano received a Global One Health...
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June 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Despite everything else going on, I'm proud of what everyone in the lab has accomplished. I got behind on updating our lab news, and just updated the past 1.5 years that were missing 🫠 Thankful to work with this amazing bunch! seemasheth.weebly.com
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Preprint of our first manuscript from the PERSIST project (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species In Space and Time), with @lucasjalbano.bsky.social and many other co-authors not on BlueSky
Evolutionary responses to historic drought across the range of scarlet monkeyflower https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.20.655098v1
May 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Preprint of our first manuscript from the PERSIST project (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species In Space and Time), with @lucasjalbano.bsky.social and many other co-authors not on BlueSky
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Checkout new pre-print led by postdoc @lucasjalbano.bsky.social describing results from experiment led by sabbatical visitor Robin Bingham from Western Colorado U!
🚨New preprint with @seemasheth.bsky.social! A resurrection experiment led by Robin Bingham (Western CO) showed that Mimulus cardinalis responded favourably to a heatwave treatment, plus enviro-specific divergent evol responses to a recent natural extreme heat event.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Range-wide responses to an extreme heat event in Mimulus cardinalis
Premise: Extreme events are an understudied aspect of ongoing anthropogenic climate change that could play a disproportionate role in the threat that rapid environmental shifts pose to natural populat...
www.biorxiv.org
May 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Checkout new pre-print led by postdoc @lucasjalbano.bsky.social describing results from experiment led by sabbatical visitor Robin Bingham from Western Colorado U!
🚨New preprint with @seemasheth.bsky.social! A resurrection experiment led by Robin Bingham (Western CO) showed that Mimulus cardinalis responded favourably to a heatwave treatment, plus enviro-specific divergent evol responses to a recent natural extreme heat event.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Range-wide responses to an extreme heat event in Mimulus cardinalis
Premise: Extreme events are an understudied aspect of ongoing anthropogenic climate change that could play a disproportionate role in the threat that rapid environmental shifts pose to natural populat...
www.biorxiv.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
🚨New preprint with @seemasheth.bsky.social! A resurrection experiment led by Robin Bingham (Western CO) showed that Mimulus cardinalis responded favourably to a heatwave treatment, plus enviro-specific divergent evol responses to a recent natural extreme heat event.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Lucas Albano
Excited for @kalebgoff.bsky.social's 1st dissertation chapter to be out w co-authors M Oldfather, J Nachlinger, B Smithers, @mikoontz.bsky.social, J & C Bishop & M Burke. Limited Directional Change in Mountaintop Plant Communities over 19 years in Western North America
doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
March 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Excited for @kalebgoff.bsky.social's 1st dissertation chapter to be out w co-authors M Oldfather, J Nachlinger, B Smithers, @mikoontz.bsky.social, J & C Bishop & M Burke. Limited Directional Change in Mountaintop Plant Communities over 19 years in Western North America
doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
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Today I am elated to announce that the first chapter of my dissertation— is out today in Ecosphere! Click the link, read the story, and let me know what you think! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
March 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today I am elated to announce that the first chapter of my dissertation— is out today in Ecosphere! Click the link, read the story, and let me know what you think! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Our department (@EEBUofT) is searching for a Post-Doc! Post-docs funded by this fellowship are independently supported, with research funds available. We invite applications from innovative, collaborative candidates. See the job ad here:
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March 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Our department (@EEBUofT) is searching for a Post-Doc! Post-docs funded by this fellowship are independently supported, with research funds available. We invite applications from innovative, collaborative candidates. See the job ad here:
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🚨New preprint! I conducted a large field experiment with @evoecolab.bsky.social and Nic Kooyers, manipulating precipitation and herbivory in Ontario and Louisiana to study effects on ☘️. Wrapping my head around the complex results was an adventure, so I'm excited to hear what others think. Pls share!
A field experiment assessing the roles of drought, herbivory, and local climate on cyanogenesis cline formation and local adaptation in Trifolium repens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.07.642096v1
March 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚨New preprint! I conducted a large field experiment with @evoecolab.bsky.social and Nic Kooyers, manipulating precipitation and herbivory in Ontario and Louisiana to study effects on ☘️. Wrapping my head around the complex results was an adventure, so I'm excited to hear what others think. Pls share!
Very excited to become a member of the Botanical Society of America's Early Career Advisory Board for 2025-2027 (along with labmate @kalebgoff.bsky.social) and being a part of the publication process for some highly impactful society journals!
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January 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Very excited to become a member of the Botanical Society of America's Early Career Advisory Board for 2025-2027 (along with labmate @kalebgoff.bsky.social) and being a part of the publication process for some highly impactful society journals!
@botsocamerica.bsky.social
botany.org/home/publica...
@botsocamerica.bsky.social
botany.org/home/publica...
Earlier this week at the oCUBE Unconference, I gave my first ever pedagogical presentation, on causes and consequences of high school grade inflation for undergrads. I think it went well, but also definitely still learning in the teaching realm, so please reach out if want to chat #HigherEd with me!
December 19, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Earlier this week at the oCUBE Unconference, I gave my first ever pedagogical presentation, on causes and consequences of high school grade inflation for undergrads. I think it went well, but also definitely still learning in the teaching realm, so please reach out if want to chat #HigherEd with me!
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Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!
TT Assistant Professor of Plant Evolutionary Biology
The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in Plant Evolutionary Biology. This position is a 9-month, ten...
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December 17, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!
Last month I gave a virtual talk about my PhD work with @evoecolab.bsky.social in the BSA virtual symposium on Plant Resilience and Conservation for a Changing Climate. The recording is now available so check it out here if you're interested in rapid adaptation across space and time in ☘️!
2024 BSA Climate Change Symposium: Day 1, Session 1 - Contributed Talk AND Q&A: Lucas Albano
YouTube video by Botanical Society of America Videos
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December 4, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Last month I gave a virtual talk about my PhD work with @evoecolab.bsky.social in the BSA virtual symposium on Plant Resilience and Conservation for a Changing Climate. The recording is now available so check it out here if you're interested in rapid adaptation across space and time in ☘️!
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CSEE is now on Bluesky! We’ll be posting information about upcoming events, including our AGM, webinars and more, and news about the society. #Ecology #Evolution
December 3, 2024 at 12:15 AM
CSEE is now on Bluesky! We’ll be posting information about upcoming events, including our AGM, webinars and more, and news about the society. #Ecology #Evolution