Dr. Paola Rubiano-Buitrago
@paolarb93.bsky.social
🇨🇴 Nat.prod.chemist interested on phytochemical diversity and its role on ecology & evolution hypothesis.. currently at EEB Cornell as Postdoc in. Agrawal's lab. Living for art, nonfiction books and football ⚽.. 🐈 /🐕 person
Congrats!! 🎉🎉
🌍🦋 Across 6 continents, 21 sites & 15,000 paper moths, we joined a worldwide experiment led by @wlallen.bsky.social & Iliana Medina, showing how ecological context shapes the evolution of animal colouration.
Proud to be part of this global team effort: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Proud to be part of this global team effort: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
September 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Congrats!! 🎉🎉
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We are proud to announce that Sol Yepes has successfully defended her PhD thesis on intraspecific chemodiversity in Black Poplar supervised by @sunsicker.bsky.social. Her work advances our understanding of plant diversity as a foundation for ecosystem resilience. Congratulations!
September 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We are proud to announce that Sol Yepes has successfully defended her PhD thesis on intraspecific chemodiversity in Black Poplar supervised by @sunsicker.bsky.social. Her work advances our understanding of plant diversity as a foundation for ecosystem resilience. Congratulations!
A must read!
August 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
A must read!
All the well-deserved spotlight for this amazing researcher!
Featured on NPR: @shabmohammadi.bsky.social and her team study how predators adapted to toxic substances to safely consume toxic prey. Humans have used these toxins for thousands of years, even prescribing them to treat heart failure. Listen to the whole story: www.npr.org/2025/08/19/n...
Toxicity is a good defense, until it isn't : Short Wave
Imagine, you’re a toxic toad hanging around South America. No other animals are gonna mess with you, right? After all, you’re ~toxic~! So if anyone tries to eat you, they’ll be exposed to something ca...
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August 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
All the well-deserved spotlight for this amazing researcher!
Good news! And also ..don't they look adorable eating like that?
Some good news!
Researchers at Kew, Oxford and Delft have engineered a food supplement to help save bees
Bee colonies grew 15 fold with the supplement
h/t Professor @philstevenson.bsky.social
Researchers at Kew, Oxford and Delft have engineered a food supplement to help save bees
Bee colonies grew 15 fold with the supplement
h/t Professor @philstevenson.bsky.social
Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold
Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...
www.sciencedaily.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Good news! And also ..don't they look adorable eating like that?
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And I had the opportunity to present our work (led by Mileidy Betancourth) on the impact of habitat disturbance on the morphology and behaviour of the Little Devil’s poison frog in Colombia # ATBC2025 @klivvvienna.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
And I had the opportunity to present our work (led by Mileidy Betancourth) on the impact of habitat disturbance on the morphology and behaviour of the Little Devil’s poison frog in Colombia # ATBC2025 @klivvvienna.bsky.social
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Our group’s first study on fire salamanders is out! 🟡⚫️🦎⚫️🟡 🧪🌍We report differences in predation rates between managed and non-managed forest areas, due mostly to increased 🐦 attacks in managed areas. Both types of areas differ mainly in 🌳 diversity and evenness (1/2) doi.org/10.1111/jzo....
July 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Our group’s first study on fire salamanders is out! 🟡⚫️🦎⚫️🟡 🧪🌍We report differences in predation rates between managed and non-managed forest areas, due mostly to increased 🐦 attacks in managed areas. Both types of areas differ mainly in 🌳 diversity and evenness (1/2) doi.org/10.1111/jzo....
Every spring in Ithaca I get a pretty badass aposematic companion at home...today Fajita is having her 1st time stretching her wings 🥹🖤🧡🤍 #monarchbutterfly
May 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Every spring in Ithaca I get a pretty badass aposematic companion at home...today Fajita is having her 1st time stretching her wings 🥹🖤🧡🤍 #monarchbutterfly
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Reposted by Dr. Paola Rubiano-Buitrago
The Mass Spectrometry Query Language (MassQL) is an open-source language for instrument-independent searching across mass spectrometry data for complex patterns of interest via concise and expressive queries without the need for programming skills.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The Mass Spectrometry Query Language (MassQL) is an open-source language for instrument-independent searching across mass spectrometry data for complex patterns of interest via concise and expressive queries without the need for programming skills.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to an amazing scientist!
Congratulations to Melissa Diaz Morales for successfully defending her PhD thesis on the "Evolution of sex-pheromone receptors in Drosophila" supervised by Nicole van Dam, Markus Knaden and Bill Hansson! 👏 🎓 💐
May 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Congrats to an amazing scientist!
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Reposted by Dr. Paola Rubiano-Buitrago
Great to spend a packed day with Prof. Dan Fagan (NYU), a Pulitzer prize-winning environmental journalist. He gave a special lecture at Cornell Univ. including readings from his forthcoming book on monarch butterflies. It can be viewed here:
vod.video.cornell.edu/media/Dan+Fa...
vod.video.cornell.edu/media/Dan+Fa...
April 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Great to spend a packed day with Prof. Dan Fagan (NYU), a Pulitzer prize-winning environmental journalist. He gave a special lecture at Cornell Univ. including readings from his forthcoming book on monarch butterflies. It can be viewed here:
vod.video.cornell.edu/media/Dan+Fa...
vod.video.cornell.edu/media/Dan+Fa...
Aposematic cutie just emerging today in the lab @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Aposematic cutie just emerging today in the lab @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social
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Join us at the next SciCafe on Wednesday, May 7! Jessica Goodheart, assistant curator in the Museum’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology, will be talking about sea slugs & nudibranchs!
SciCafe is 21+ and free with RSVP. For more details and to reserve tickets, visit: bit.ly/4ipH4WC
SciCafe is 21+ and free with RSVP. For more details and to reserve tickets, visit: bit.ly/4ipH4WC
Sea Slugs: Using Toxin for Defense - May 7 | AMNH
Discover how sea slugs steal toxins to survive, rewriting the rules of survival in their underwater world.
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April 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Join us at the next SciCafe on Wednesday, May 7! Jessica Goodheart, assistant curator in the Museum’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology, will be talking about sea slugs & nudibranchs!
SciCafe is 21+ and free with RSVP. For more details and to reserve tickets, visit: bit.ly/4ipH4WC
SciCafe is 21+ and free with RSVP. For more details and to reserve tickets, visit: bit.ly/4ipH4WC
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This Saturday, the California National Geographic Explorer's Hub is putting on an event in collaboration with Sports Basement and NerdNite SF! There will be >20 lightning talks about all sorts of things! Click here to learn more and RSVP: sites.google.com/view/wonderf...
April 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This Saturday, the California National Geographic Explorer's Hub is putting on an event in collaboration with Sports Basement and NerdNite SF! There will be >20 lightning talks about all sorts of things! Click here to learn more and RSVP: sites.google.com/view/wonderf...
So happy for this amazing researcher!!
We are happy to announce that Marianna Boccia, who did her PhD on the elucidation and metabolic engineering of plant alkaloid and terpene biosynthetic pathways in the @oconnorlab.bsky.social, has been awarded the Beutenberg Campus Prize. Congratulations!
www.ice.mpg.de/493514/Beute...
www.ice.mpg.de/493514/Beute...
Plants as biofactories
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April 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
So happy for this amazing researcher!!
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Using a new phylogeny of the Brassicaceae (www.cell.com/current-biol... with a ton of papers on glucosinolate occurrence we did a meta analysis across the family authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S.... Chemical diversity changes quickly and doesn’t track phylogenetic relationships. #secmet
March 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Using a new phylogeny of the Brassicaceae (www.cell.com/current-biol... with a ton of papers on glucosinolate occurrence we did a meta analysis across the family authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S.... Chemical diversity changes quickly and doesn’t track phylogenetic relationships. #secmet
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Happy to share my first major PhD work, where we show that Heliconiini caterpillars have developed more puncture resistant cuticle as a counter-adaptation against sharp Passiflora trichomes. However, we also show that the trichomes affect post ingestion, suggesting that the arms-race continues!
Caterpillar counter-adaptations to hooked trichomes: does the coevolutionary arms race continue? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.22.644295v1
March 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Happy to share my first major PhD work, where we show that Heliconiini caterpillars have developed more puncture resistant cuticle as a counter-adaptation against sharp Passiflora trichomes. However, we also show that the trichomes affect post ingestion, suggesting that the arms-race continues!
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Proudly presenting our latest paper in @plantphys.bsky.social by @axeltouw.bsky.social and coauthor showingvthat #nematode #infection facilitates cabbage root fly larval performance via #systemic #induced #root #responses. Team work is the dream work! @igzleibniz.bsky.social @idiv and @FSUJena
Root-knot nematode infection enhances the performance of a specialist root herbivore via plant-mediated interactions (Axel J Touw, Nhu Tran, Andreas Schedl, Jessil A Pajar, Cong Van Doan, Henriette Uthe, Nicole M van Dam) academic.oup.com/plphys/advan... #PlantScience
March 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Proudly presenting our latest paper in @plantphys.bsky.social by @axeltouw.bsky.social and coauthor showingvthat #nematode #infection facilitates cabbage root fly larval performance via #systemic #induced #root #responses. Team work is the dream work! @igzleibniz.bsky.social @idiv and @FSUJena
People in up state New York should definitely need to catch up with the best comedian rn .. so excited to see him in Syracuse!
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March 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
People in up state New York should definitely need to catch up with the best comedian rn .. so excited to see him in Syracuse!
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We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here: www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs
IMPRS
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March 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here: www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs
I couldn't be more proud of DR. Protti Sánchez!! An amazing fearless researcher..she does it all! brain chicks, poison frogs, color studies, behavioral analysis..aposematism research is brighter with her in it 💜💜💜
We are very proud - today, Francesca Protti Sánchez very successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Predator psychology and signal conspicuousness in the evolution of aposematism". Francesca was supervised by Hannah Rowland.
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
March 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I couldn't be more proud of DR. Protti Sánchez!! An amazing fearless researcher..she does it all! brain chicks, poison frogs, color studies, behavioral analysis..aposematism research is brighter with her in it 💜💜💜
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Reposted by Dr. Paola Rubiano-Buitrago
New research in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecological Monographs led by @oksanabuzh.bsky.social
Different facets of plant diversity differentially affect energy dynamics across trophic levels and below- or aboveground compartements. 🌱🍃🪲🪱
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
Different facets of plant diversity differentially affect energy dynamics across trophic levels and below- or aboveground compartements. 🌱🍃🪲🪱
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
March 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
New research in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecological Monographs led by @oksanabuzh.bsky.social
Different facets of plant diversity differentially affect energy dynamics across trophic levels and below- or aboveground compartements. 🌱🍃🪲🪱
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
Different facets of plant diversity differentially affect energy dynamics across trophic levels and below- or aboveground compartements. 🌱🍃🪲🪱
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....