Erika R Moore-Pollard

My first first author manuscript has posted! I’m very excited to share SWIF-TE with yall. It is a fast, memory efficient tool to identify novel TE insertions from short-read data. 🧬 #TEworldwide #transposons

The 2025-2026 BSA Board (most of us), wishing everyone who attended #Botany2025 safe travels home!

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Thank you so much to everyone that came to see my talk and poster! It was so great connecting with so many new people and sharing my project and art!💚 all the nice comments really meant so much🌻

Hi #Botany2025 - In my quest to never do flow cytometry again, I am collecting sequence data (radseq, target enrichment, WGS, ect.) with confirmed ploidal level. If you have samples, reach out!

Want to hear a little story about this beautiful Northeastern Cactus? Come visit the germinating idea section today! #Botany2025

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Hey #Botany2025 peeps! Come watch me blab about Comps tomorrow! Phylogenomics 2, Santa Rosa room, at 2:30 pm!

While it didn't work out to be a vendor in California for #Botany2025 this week, I'm excited to be there virtually through social media! This week only - the entire shop is 10-25% off. I'll be adding more pieces over the next several days, too. BlueBeehiveStudio.Etsy.com

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If you see me at #Botany2025, I might have some goodies to share! 🌿🌻

Hey #Botany2025! Be sure to check out CapituLab talks from grad student @saristolochia.bsky.social and postdoc Vandana Gurung! And a huge thanks to @botsocamerica.bsky.social for travel support!!

Title slide for Detecting whole genome duplication in the present and the past with Michelle Gaynor, Keyi Feng, Doug Soltis, Pam Soltis, and Stephen Smith.

Almost ready for #Botany2025 - come see the first project of my postdoc with @blackrim.bsky.social on Tuesday at 1:45pm in Mesquite B.

The Budke Lab in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee (http://jmbudke.github.io/) is seeking a Post-Doctoral Research Associate to work on an NSF-funded project. This project is investigating morphological evolution in a phylogenetic context using moss plants as the experimental system. The research responsibilities will include (1) assembling morphological datasets using the literature and herbarium specimens, (2) compiling DNA sequence datasets from publicly available resources and laboratory-based methods using herbarium specimens, and (3) combining these data to analyze the evolution of morphological structures across a phylogeny. Opportunities will also be available to develop novel research questions focusing on the functional morphology, physiology, and evolution of the parent-offspring relationship in mosses. Supervising and mentoring undergraduate researchers in both the laboratory and herbarium will be required. An additional aim of this project is to build awareness of and appreciation for plants and botanical natural history collections. As part of the team, the postdoc will participate in hands-on outreach events, such as Darwin Day. The postdoc will also co-lead a May-term course for undergraduate students on collections-based research. Apply by 17 August 2025 for full consideration.

Looking for a #postdoc position in evolutionary biology?
Come join the Budke Lab @utknoxville.bsky.social! Read more about the lab jmbudke.github.io & apply here fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Please share widely. Thanks!
#Postdocposition #PostdocOpportunity

Other symposia I'll shoutout:
Disabled in Botany: Breaking Barriers in Plant Science Research - Monday 1:30-5:30, Catalina

Trees, Traits, and Time - Wednesday 1:30-5:30, Catalina

ALL the germinating ideas talks Wednesday afternoon! Those are always a delight.
#Botany2025

Flier that reads "Heyduk Lab @ Botany 2025" along the top. The rest of the flier has photos of presenters along with their presentation titles and times: The next section says "Posters - Monday 5:30-7:00PM Claire Marino “A Li-Cor walks into a muddy forest: photosynthetic physiology and genomics of Symplocarpus foetidus” (P143) Ed McAssey “Late-flowering phenology shifts in Witch-hazel, Hamamelis virginiana” (P14) Lizzy Doan “Plasticity and ontogenetic variability of a Joshua Tree common garden study” (P119) Elena Foust “Medicinal succulent, molecular mystery: assessing the role of abiotic stress in mesembrine alkaloid production in Kanna (Sceletium tortuosum)” (P225)" The next section lists the following talkss: David Wickell, Wed. 10:30 am, Madera "Cutting the Gordian Knot: Can HybSeq help resolve reticulate relationships in Isoetes?” Anna Pardo, Wed. 10:15 am, SmoketreeAB "Conservation of a key CAM gene triplication in a hybrid Yucca species” Karolina Heyduk, Wed. 2:45 pm, Catalina "Physiological plasticity across time and space in Joshua trees” Erika Moore-Pollard Wed. 9:00 am, SmoketreeAB "Comparative Genomics in Asterales: Foundations for understanding evolutionary and functional dynamics in Asteraceae” Wed. 2:45 pm, Santa Rosa "Phylogenomic challenges in polyploid-rich lineages: Insights from orthology inference and reticulation methods using the complex genus Packera” Also check out “Belonging In Botany: the immigrant experience” Tues. 11-12, Ventura Featuring panelists from our Botany community" The final section is titled "Germinating Ideas - Mesquite C" and lists two talks: G Young Kim "Cacti under the snow: unveiling physiological mechanisms behind the overwintering cacti, Opuntia humifusa” - Wed 2:25pm Elena Foust "Microbial analysis of Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia & Yucca jaegeriana) rhizosphere: an amplicon sequencing approach" - Wed 1:50 pm"

Less than a week to go until #Botany2025 - as you work on your schedules, check out some of the lab's talks!!

I am also attending! Please add me to list!

Dr. Laura Lagomarsino smiling at the camera while conducting fieldwork in a tropical environment. She wears a colorful striped knit hat with red trim and a light-colored field jacket with yellow straps. Behind her is a distinctive tropical plant with large, paddle-shaped leaves arranged in a rosette pattern, characteristic of high-altitude Andean vegetation.

Meet Dr. Laura Lagomarsino, who fell in love with plants during childhood camping trips in California's redwood forests. Her passion for plant-pollinator relationships began with a magical moment watching hummingbirds visit curved flowers in Costa Rica's cloud forests.

#Botany 🧪

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V pumped for #Botany2025! So much so that I just can’t wait to post all the projects the #BulbousLab will be sharing with everyone! 🌷🧅🪻🧄

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Please spread the word! Authors based in Latin America receive discounts from 35-100% when they publish in #AppsPlantSci, thanks to Wiley's Open Access Pricing Power Parity Pilot (OAPPP Pilot).

Discover your discount at authorservices.wiley.com/author-resou... #OpenAccess #SocietyJournal #botany

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So excited for this opportunity to join @kheyduk.bsky.social and team! 💚

Is anyone aware of any publicly available data on individuals who have been SNP chipped AND WGS with short reads? Preferably a diploid. Your girl needs some test data to check her pipeline works before assuming a problem with her input data
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Happy to see this out and for the opportunity to contribute!! The puzzle of Asteraceae inflorescence development jumps one step forward (a big step 😅) 🌻

Floral innovation through modifications in stem cell peptide signaling. Understanding how evolution shapes genetic networks to create new developmental forms is a central question in biology. Flowering shoot (inflorescence) architecture varies significantly across plant f...

We are absolutely thrilled to share this work on CLV signaling in the sunflower family! This project was only possible through the efforts and contributions of our incredible collaborators! It also represents the CapituLab’s first preprint! (more to come soon though…)
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Floral innovation through modifications in stem cell peptide signaling. Understanding how evolution shapes genetic networks to create new developmental forms is a central question in biology. Flowering shoot (inflorescence) architecture varies significantly across plant f...

A new really exciting preprint from @thecapitulab.bsky.social, my PhD lab, and many others
One of the many interesting findings - The sequence evolution of CLV3 and changes to CLV signaling is required for capitulum development. CLEs make sunflowers!
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Hey #botany2025 friends, is anyone going to the conference who wants to volunteer to be the "host" of the Botanists of Color affinity group meetup? The initial host can't attend the meetings :( Being host = being the contact person w/ BSA, and maybe saying a few welcome statements before event.

I SHOULD promote my talk (which I honestly think is a fun bit of science storytelling 🤓), but I'm hopping on the #evol2025 hashtag to look for potential running buddies who'll be in Athens during the conference. I've heard there are great trails, but I'm cautious about running solo.

Karolina Heyduk, taking a selfie on fieldwork. She is in a dry landscape with brown, parched vegetation. Above is a strikingly blue sky. She is looking into the camera, wearing a cactus-themed top, a light brown sun hat and sunglasses. In one lens of the sunglasses is a reflection of her hand taking the selfie. I've remembered I'm colour-blind, so take any references to brown with a pinch of salt.

Meet the botanist, Karolina Heyduk. She works at the University of Connecticut, where she investigates photosynthesis, the process where plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into food. So why would she in the lab at midnight?

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#Botany #PlantScience 🧪

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity

we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that

what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

Are you a #botany professional who makes a comfortable living and is currently not feeling job-stressed? Tenured faculty, I'm looking at you 👀. 🧪

I dare you to meet or beat my $100 donation 💯 to keep PLANTS afloat in the face of @botsocamerica.bsky.social's grant termination!!

Conglomerate Mesa is one of the most incredible sky islands in the West—rising like a giant cupcake above the desert, frosted with rare plants like the Inyo rock daisy.

Now, Canadian mining company K2 is nearly approved to drill it for gold.

#ProtectConglomerateMesa #PublicLands #botany