He expands the use of HPLC-DAD by incorporating the entire absorbance spectra of peaks to gain insight into macroevolutionary correlations of chemical classes and their constituents while increasing the discrimination of classes with similar features via Gaussian Mixture Models

Hey new preprint from the lab and @justingambill.bsky.social’s first-first author paper ‘Untargeted Metabolomics of Plant Samples using HPLC-DAD and Gaussian Mixture Models’ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@melaniemadrigal.bsky.social developed a new software to look at complex growth patterns of hyphal networks. It’s the first of a deluge of papers coming describing the genetic architecture of Botrytis cinerea hyphal networks and their response to host cues & environmental stress

#botany2025 has been such a wild ride I have to shout out @melaniemadrigal.bsky.social who won best phytochemistry talk on HER FIRST TALK EVER! for her work on GWA of Botrytis resistance to plant VOCs

Wait is over !

Ending the year on an awesome note! 5/5 grad students passed quals, 1 GRFP honorable mention to Melanie, a Rhododendron grant to Justin, the undergrads showed out at their conference, 2 papers, >$12M of funding applied for next year, and plenty of talks at botany coming up!!

Cheers to my first snow day in 15 years! Plus new lab mascot drop

The lab’s killing it with their first mini conference. Everyone presented a poster on the results of their first couple months of work in the lab