News

Alexa publishes work describing the potential of historical/ancient RNA!

Alexa wrote an opinion piece on historical RNA describing what we can potentially learn from it. You can read it here. Also, the article was featured on the cover, image below and a huge thanks to the field museum for letting us use their sample in the photo.

Miles publishes Semblans!

Miles developed Semblans in the lab as an automated transcriptome assembler. It’s written in C++ and can be found here, the paper can be found here. Below is a picture of Miles receiving the research award for the work, with myself and Kevin his Ph.D. advisor.

Holly Visits!

Holly came to Chicago to spend some time in person with the lab. Here we are at dinner.

New Paper!

Natalia’s paper was published! The paper shows transcriptomes may be obtained from tissue that was silica-dried and investigates gene flow in the Pitcairnia of the Dominican Republic. You can read it here.

Conference!

We went to Botany 2024!

Dinner!

We went to Dinner!

Conference

We went to Botany!

New Paper

Alexa and Eric lead a paper with assistance from several folks in the lab. The paper explores conflicting phylogenetic signals between chloroplasts and mitochondria. Check it out here.