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Exciting Announcement! We are thrilled to announce the publication of our latest paper in collaboration with Fairchild Challenge doi.org/10.5334/cstp.6… #openaccess article with @CitSciAssoc @kjfeeley Amy Padolf #BrianSidoti #JiShen #StacyAssael #MonicaBistrain

Out this morning! Where we argue the need for genus-level model systems in fungi and why Suillus should be one of them, provide a primer on the genus, and how the International Suillus Consortium is addressing grand challenges to system development.  doi.org/10.1111/nph.19…

Building environments for genome analyses will be the end of me. Setting these up is taking longer than actually doing the analyses.

Congrats to Dr. Brianna Almeida for publishing her last dissertation chapter on phyllosphere fungal diversity impacts on plant productivity using experimental consortia. Out in New Phytologist doi.org/10.1111/nph.19…. Congrats to former undergrad Elan Tran on 1st paper! Details below. 1/5

How do microbial symbionts affect host responses to environmental variability? Our new publication in Ecology Letters answers this question using amazing long-term data for grasses and their fungal symbionts. -> onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New preprint on my molecular evolution work with John Stinchcombe and Megan Frederickson! Inspired by work in parasite literature, we looked for evidence of increased rates of molecular evolution in mutualistic interactions. What did we find?

If you're at #Evol2024 come check out my talk if you want to hear about some snowy Arabidopsis!

I'm recruiting students / postdocs to join my new lab at the University of Rochester for Fall 2025 onwards! If you're interested in phylogenetic comparative methods, genome evolution, and/or computational biology, please get in touch! More info: mhibbins.github.io

I am interested in recruiting PhD students in the area of plant ecological genetics! Potential topics include ecological genomics in Arabidopsis, morning glory, or ragweed; plant-microbe interactions; or new topics at the intersection of quant gen and pop gen.