Ben Stone
@benstemon
I’ve moved over to Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/benstemon.bsky.social NSF PGRP postdoc - University of South Carolina - incoming asst prof @msstate AU ‘25
Many folks know this already but wanted to make an official announcement: I am super pleased to share that I will be starting my lab at Mississippi State University @msstate in Fall 2025! We will be recruiting grad students and a lab tech to start as soon as August ‘25
NEW PAPER OUT! Assessing drivers of leaf endophyte diversity and composition across a broad geographic and phylogenetic scale, we found that: -assembly patterns differed between bacterial and fungal endophytes; (1/3)
Continental sampling reveals core bacterial and environmentally driven fungal leaf #endophytes in #Heuchera New #AJB research by @dexcemp, @NickEngleWrye, @hwillia8, @ry_folk et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1… #botany #fungi @wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol
Join us!! I'm recruiting a postdoc and grad student to work with us on parallel trait evolution, quant and pop gen, and speciation in penstemons. Find out more about our research interests here: wessingerlab.github.io Informal inquiries welcome!
The Budke Lab @UTK_EEB is recruiting #PhD students to start fall 2025. Applications due Dec 1. Check out our lab website to see if your research interests are a good fit jmbudke.github.io & then reach out via email. Please RT & thanks! #gradschool #phdjourney
Obligatory “I did a field trip last week and forgot to post pics” post Look at the difference in color in these two separate pops of Penstemon newberryi!
I’m hardly ever on this thing anymore, but I’ll be at #Evol2024! Come see me share @gabbrosandstone’s fantastic work on heterosis in Boechera! 4:30 on Saturday, Ecological Genetics I! Also, we’re recruiting! Looking for grads and pdocs. Feel free to reach out!
Looking forward to the Boraginales symposium today at 17:00 (5pm) in A10.08! I will be trying my best to fill Mike Simpsons shoes who unfortunately was not able to make the meeting. I can promise some beautiful nutlet photos! #IBC2024
So glad to be back at #Botany2024 If you’re around, come check out my talk tomorrow at 4:30 in the Molecular Ecology section. There are PENSTEMON HYBRID ZONES
Hey #Botany2024 stop by my talk tomorrow morning to FINALLY hear about what @carriewessi and I have learned about the genetic architecture of Penstemon’s personate flowers!! Tuesday - 8:30am- Development & Structure - Grand Gallery B
Come see Trinity’s talk!!!
Hey #Botany2024 stop by my talk tomorrow morning to FINALLY hear about what @carriewessi and I have learned about the genetic architecture of Penstemon’s personate flowers!! Tuesday - 8:30am- Development & Structure - Grand Gallery B
Very happy to see that my 'artificial winter' for our Rubus plants was largely a success. Read on for what we did. It's been ~a week, and I've found flowers coming out for several genotypes already. Two of which I'm certain would not have flowered w/out treatment. 1/
We have an open PhD student position in my group at Stockholm University to work on convergent evolution and loss of the balanced floral polymorphism distyly, using evolutionary genomic, transcriptomic and functional analyses. Apply at shorturl.at/acvFX by April 23 #PhD
Interested in working and living in Yosemite NP this summer?!? Do you like working outdoors w/ beautiful plants (#Mimulus)? Are you interested in adaptation? Apply to be a technician for the 2024 spring-summer field season in my lab!!! Please RT!!! #Mimuluspropaganda