
santiago ramirez
@santiaguetz
Associate Professor at UC Davis. Evolutionary biology. Bee Biology. Speciation. Chemical Ecology. Plant-Pollinator interactions. Comparative Genomics.
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http://www.sanramlab.org 30-06-2011 01:49:54
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Over the moon to share that I will be joining the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington IU Biology as an assistant professor in January 2024!!



1. Ever wondered why nothing eats the daffodils you planted in your garden? In this latest preprint from our lab, Niraj Mehta et al. look at defense toxin biosynthesis in daffodils - a thread #plant #plantsci biorxiv.org/content/10.110…


I am happy to share this note about my arrival at the New York Botanical Garden (#NYBG), an unrivaled botanical institution full of scientific treasures and opportunities. I hope you like it! New York Botanical Garden nytimes.com/2023/07/31/sci…


In case anyone is still on Twitter to see this (?), I'm really excited to be starting a lab at the University of Toronto University of Toronto EEB in July 2024! For more details, see here: freedman-lab.ca.

Great to see this fun project published with Andrew Goffinet, Nicholas Saleh santiago ramirez @MaddieOstwald & Stephen Buchmann. We found that the larger valley carpenter bee males with darker glands produce higher amounts of pheromone, which acts as a long-range attractant.



How does behaviour affect gene expression? We investigated changes in gene expression following perfume collection in orchid bees and didn't find any differences in the tissues we expected! santiago ramirez





📢 NEW GENOME ALERT: santiago ramirez & team present the first draft genome of an #orchid pollinated by scent-collecting bees 🐝 paving the way for future studies into the genetic basis of floral scent biosynthesis & orchid diversification. Read in #G3journal: bit.ly/4dXcHp6




Convergent floral scent loss following transition to hummingbird pollination in spiral gingers (Costus). I had so much fun on this project with Kathleen Kay and santiago ramirez and am thrilled to see it published now in Molecular Biology and Evolution! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42…

