Our last post showcasing the contributions of our students Jorin and Kirby at the Karen L. Smith Undergraduate Research Symposium! www.arcastilla.com/blognews/sho...

Showcasing Undergraduate Research in Our Lab: Kirby and Jorin at the Karen L. Smith Undergraduate Research Symposium, Department of Biology, OSU

We are proud to highlight the contributions of our undergraduate researchers, Kirby Wilcox and Jorin Stockebrand , to the Karen L. Smith Undergraduate Research Symposium organized by the Department...

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#TansleyReview: Costs of #reproduction in #flowering #plants Marcel Dorken, Mark van Kleunen & Marc Stift 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Fieldwork in Monahans Sandhills State Park, one of the study sites for our research focused on how local adaptation and hybridization shape genetic variation in shinnery oak—a foundational species that stabilizes sand dunes in the south-central US.

Here are some photos from our fieldwork at Big Bend Ranch State Park! We collected leaf samples from Quercus hinckleyi to investigate epigenetic variation within populations. This research is supported by the International Oak Society.

Can plants keep up with fire regime changes through evolution? by @ltkelly.bsky.social et al. @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1l8-bcZ3X3... To what extent do novel fire regimes generate trait-fire regime mismatches? 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🌾🪴 wildfre #ecoevo #PlantBiology

Luke Kelly@ltkelly.bsky.social · last yr.

Our new paper 'Can plants keep up with fire regime changes through evolution?' is in press at Trends in Ecology & Evolution - with Hoffmann, Nitschke & @jgpausas.bsky.social Free to read & download: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l8-bcZ3X3... @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social #fireecology #plants 🔥🌿

Antelope Hills, western OK.

New from the Castilla Lab! Undergraduate researchers Jorin Stockbrand, Kieby Wilcox, and Lainey Kirshberger share highlights from their presentations at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. www.arcastilla.com/blognews/ref...

Reflections from the Undergraduate Research Symposium

This month, three of our undergraduate researchers, Lainey Kirshberger, Jorin Stockebrand, and Kirby Wilcox, presented their work at the Oklahoma State University Undergraduate Research Symposium....

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Fieldwork in western OK! Today we scouted for shinnery oak populations in Quartz Mountains and surroundings. What a cool place Quartz Mountains State Park! Finally, we found our study population near Blair. Ryan has another piece of information for his assessment of the species’ genomic variation!

Do you want to hear more about the interests of our awarded PBEE senior student, Lainey Kirshberger? Check the new post on the Castilla Lab website. We are proud of Lainey and of contributing to providing research experiences to @okstate.edu undergrad students! www.arcastilla.com/blognews/int...

Kayleen Sugianto, one of my former General Ecology students, was recognized as the Ideal Graduate! It’s truly rewarding to be on the other side of the room and watch my students achieve such ambitious goals. I’m confident you’ll go on to do great things, Kayleen—congratulations! @okstate.edu

Enjoying some social time with my team! I'm grateful to work with such an enthusiastic and inspiring group. One of the great things about academia is the constant interaction with new generations of scientists—it's energizing to feel their passion for science!

Our colleague Lainey Kirshberger was awarded as PBEE senior outstanding undergraduate student. We cannot be prouder of you Lainey! @okstate.edu

Really interesting post by my colleague @benebachelot.bsky.social about long-term monitoring of biotic interactions and how unexpected disturbances can open new opportunities! news.okstate.edu/articles/art...

Bachelot sees new opportunities amongst fire’s destruction of research site - Oklahoma State University

When wildfires began to tear through the Stillwater region on March 14, Oklahoma State University’s Dr. Benedicte Bachelot wasn’t thinking about her research at the McPherson Botanical Preserve eight ...

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This semester, three outstanding undergraduate students—Lainey Kirshberger, Kirby Wilcox, and Jorin Stockebrand—are taking PBIO 4400: Undergraduate Research in Plant Biology and conducting their research projects at Castilla Lab. Learn more about them on our website! www.arcastilla.com/our-team.html

The Castilla Lab website has been updated! If you want to hear more about our research, please visit this link: www.arcastilla.com

THE CASTILLA LAB

At Castilla Lab, we work at the intersection of plant ecology, molecular ecology, and evolutionary biology. To address our questions, we used an interdisciplinary approach that combines genomics,...

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The calendar with the activities of the OSU Botanical Society for the spring semester is out! If you like plants, join us and have fun!

The OSU Botanical Society in the Involvement Fair!

Gotta say I’m digging the #Botany2025 logo. Grateful to everyone who found us a new conference venue so quickly after the planned 1 fell through! @loristrong.bsky.social @hcacanindin.bsky.social Melanie, at al. #iamabotanist #botany #plantfam

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Botany 2025 symposia & colloquia have been announced & workshop submissions are reopened until Feb 1. Check out the latest details: mailchi.mp/botany.org/botany2025. We look forward to seeing you this summer in Palm Springs, CA, July 26-30, 2025! #Botany2025 #IamaBotanist #ItIsaDryHeat

⏰ 🌿 Reminder! The second edition of AoBP Awards for Emerging Voices in Botany is still open for submissions! 📚 Don’t miss this opportunity to share your work. More info 👉 https://buff.ly/40qvBQO 🗓️ Deadline: 31 March 2025 #PlantScience #EmergingVoices

📈 In 2024, greenhouse gases reached their highest annual levels ever recorded in the atmosphere. 🌁 Carbon dioxide concentrations reached 422 ppm, 2.9 ppm higher than in 2023, & methane 1897 ppb, 3 ppb higher. ▶️ All details, charts and data in the #GCH2024 report: bit.ly/40kQpcz

So cool!! “The only (known) vertebrate-alga endosymbiosis”!!! An earlier paper has described this relationship “Intracellular invasion of green algae in a salamander host” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... but being able to see the amazing details from microscope is just 🤩🤩🤩!! 🔬🧪

John Burns@burnsajohn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Keeping with the #symbiosky green alga from yesterday, this amazing video shows where each little algal cell is (green dots) inside a salamander embryo. The only vertebrate-alga endosymbiosis. We are still trying to understand the interaction. Light sheet microscopy. #protistaday #protistsonsky

We are hiring a PhD students for our recently NASA-funded HI-GRASS project, which combines microbiome and plant communities with animal telemetry and remote sensing to uncover the factors influencing grassland biodiversity www.bachelotlab.com/join.html Thanks @arcastilla.bsky.social for the pic

Some pics of Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve! What a cool place!

🌵🌴 Big news! Botany 2025 is now heading to sunny Palm Springs, CA (July 25-31, 2025)! While plans shifted from Tucson, we're excited to stay in the Southwest. See you there! More information will be coming in early January at www.botanyconference.org #Botany2025

Describing the phenotype of a long-lived plant can be tricky. My recent paper in @eco-aeet.bsky.social shows that shapes of lifetime fecundity schedules of individual lavender shrubs differ widely among individuals and is subject to phenotypic selection [paper in English] doi.org/10.7818/ECOS...

If you missed last night's lecture and are interested in learning a bit about oak reproduction, dispersal, species and hybrids, and phylogeny, the lecture is posted here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoCI...

Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life with Andrew Hipp

YouTube video by Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science

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Did you know showy mistletoes are incredibly diverse, with host diversity varying by genus? Australia is a hotspot for mistletoes! Check out the taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of hosts for Australian showy mistletoes. 🌿 #Mistletoes #Australia bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Continental‐scale interactions of Australian showy mistletoes and their hosts

Premise Showy mistletoes are obligate hemiparasites of woody plants. Host specificity is therefore a fundamental determinant of mistletoe diversity, persistence, geographic distribution, and abundan...

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Each year, we offer several #awards for undergraduate & graduate botanical #research, training and symposia. Applications are open for this winter, the deadline for submissions Feb 15, 2025! Learn more and apply here: www.torreybotanical.org/grants-awards/ #botany #grants 🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾

A study of 632 freshwater fish species from 9,989 locations finds climate warming affects fish abundances, with increases at the poleward edges of species’ distributions and declines at the equatorward edges of species’ distributions. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I am excited to announce that registration and abstract submission is now open for Forest Genetics 2025 – ‘Harnessing Genetic Diversity for Resilient Forests’. Join us in State College, Pennsylvania from June 23-27, 2025 - all are welcome! forestgeneticsconference2025.com #forestgenetics2025