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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!!

More info to come but I will be looking for grad students, postdocs, lab tech. Come find me at SSE #Evol2023 and Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution #SMBE2023 this summer or reach out to chat more if interested!

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…

Job op: Dr. Jon Koch and I at USDA are looking for a postdoc to lead a project in which we seek to develop non-lethal bee survey methods for monitoring bees in CA refuges. We'd like to get apps by the end of the month. Please spread the word and apply.

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.

Here’s my Best picture of a Bar Bee.

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

¿Cómo afecta el comportamiento a la expresión génica? Investigamos los cambios en a expresión génica después de la recolección de perfume en abejas de las orquídeas y no encontramos ninguna diferencia en los tejidos que esperábamos.

"memoria sobre la nivelación de las plantas que se cultivan en la vecindad del ecuador". 1802, francisco josé de caldas. the development of plant geography owes much to this colombian naturalist, cartographer, and astronomer still little known in the global north. 1/n

check the full story here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… and please provide feedback! 7/n

The life strategies of #parasitoids are stunningly diverse, but no wasps that attack and develop inside adult flies have ever been described. Our article describes the first one. Its hosts: Drosophila melanogaster and other species of #Drosophila #Entomology #Braconidae

📢 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

Seen over davis, string of light cruising fast

Video of unusual string of lights cruising over Davis, CA

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…

The SchulzLab worked out how to make HNDB, a species-specific perfume compound of the orchid bee Euglossa dilemma - and here they are collecting their freshly synthesized compound of choice!! santiago ramirez @megarhyssamar Now published in Synlett: thieme-connect.de/products/ejour…