Michael McKain

Congratulations, @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social !!!!!

24.04.2025 22:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cat is out of the bag! Later this summer I’ll make a big jump across the pond for 4 years to work on polyploid genome evolution and diploidization patterns across angiosperms as part of this awesome grant and team

24.04.2025 17:14 — 👍 161    🔁 15    💬 23    📌 0

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

Fun announcement this morning. A testament to all the fantastic talented folks I've had the privilege of working with over the last 15 years! www.nasonline.org/programs/awa...

22.01.2024 17:06 — 👍 133    🔁 29    💬 41    📌 4

Accurate inference of population history in the presence of background selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.18.576291v1 All published methods for learning about demographic history make the simplifying assumption that th

Accurate inference of population history in the presence of background selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.18.576291v1

20.01.2024 10:36 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

SLEDGe: Inference of ancient whole genome duplications using machine learning bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

A new preprint from the lab with @sutherlandbl.bsky.social on using machine learning to infer WGDs in Ks plots. Check it out below!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

19.01.2024 19:13 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Species Tree Topology Impacts the Inference of Ancient Whole-Genome Duplications Across the Angiospe... bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

A new preprint from the lab on the distribution of ancient whole-genome duplications across the angiosperm phylogeny. Great work led by PhD student Michael McKibben! We used a variety of methods and different species trees to infer and place WGDs across the phylogeny.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

19.01.2024 19:17 — 👍 15    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve seen a lot of good #SICB2024 talks, but none more important than this one by Sam Sharpe. Hit the QR code to view all of the slides. #sex #gender #teaching #scicomm

05.01.2024 18:15 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

We have an REU program here at The University of Alabama! www.etap.nsf.gov/award/634/op...

06.01.2024 03:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to share a new pre-print from our lab that demonstrates surprisingly repeatable genome evolution in replicated Xiphophorus hybrid populations! Led by former postdoc Quinn Langdon with substantial contributions from Jeff Groh from @gcbias.bsky.social's lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

23.12.2023 23:23 — 👍 43    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 2

Two panels: A Google Maps satellite image of desert scrubland with white arrows pointing out large Joshua trees, which cast distinctive shadows; and a large Joshua tree in a desert landscape tinted green with spring growth

A map of the Mojave Desert with the predicted presence of Joshua trees indicated by blue (low probability of presence) to red (high probability) shading

New paper out today: An "unprecedented" range map of the eastern and western Joshua tree, based on Google Maps satellite imagery for more than SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND quarter-square kilometer grid cells

Blog post rundown: lab.jbyoder.org/2023/12/14/n...

And the paper: doi.org/10.3389/fevo...

14.12.2023 20:54 — 👍 68    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 4

Inaugural Bluesky post (👋 Everyone!): The Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Dept. at Iowa State U. (my dept!) is conducting an open search at the rank of Professor for a new Dept. Chair!

isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...

07.12.2023 21:59 — 👍 61    🔁 52    💬 1    📌 1

Professor William Powell, SUNY ESF, who spent 30 years doing research to restore American chestnut to our forests. He is holding a potted chestnut and standing in a greenhous surrounded by young chestnuts.

The fruit of an American chestnut holding three nuts. Source: SUNY ESF

Chestnuts have long been associated with the holidays, and will soon return to our forests. Dr. William Powell engineered effective blight resistance into chestnut, and field tests have begun. Bill passed away this week, but we will be thanking him for generations as chestnuts return to the wild.

16.11.2023 21:35 — 👍 162    🔁 34    💬 8    📌 5

Examples of floral, fruit, and foliar diversity in Onagraceae

Our new paper on the phylogenomics of Onagraceae is out! A family of diverse breeding systems, chromosomes, and ecologies--and hence with much to teach us. doi.org/10.1186/s128...

17.11.2023 17:18 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

A target enrichment probe set for resolving phylogenetic relationships in the coffee family, Rubiace... Premise Rubiaceae is among the most species-rich plant families, as well as one of the most morphologically and geographically diverse. Currently available phylogenies have mostly relied on few geno.....

🎉New #LagoLab paper hot off the presses🎉

@L_DBall et al, “A target enrichment probe set for resolving phylogenetic relationships in the coffee family, Rubiaceae” now (finally) available in @Botanical_ APPS! ☕️🧬📈👩🏿‍💻🪴

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

18.11.2023 00:36 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Same here! Give me Michael or Dr. McKain. Mr. McKain feels off. Doesn’t help that it is my initials. Worst one ever was an email that started, “Hey Mitch.”

01.11.2023 13:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

UW Genome Sciences is hiring a new Assistant Professor working in computational biology! apply.interfolio.com/135108

31.10.2023 18:20 — 👍 32    🔁 45    💬 0    📌 3

More details re: NSF shutdown here.

28.09.2023 11:43 — 👍 11    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0