Congratulations to Ivanna Caspeta, whose poster presentation on vacant niches at a recent WAESO conference won a first place award! Ivanna also more recently presented her work at ASU’s SOLUR symposium, which was held virtually via Zoom – where she also gave a great presentation. Thanks to lab postdoc Pierre for leading mentoring for this…

It is the end of an era… but both of the lab’s first two postdocs have now wrapped up their contracts and are on their way to their next jobs. I will miss the energy and community spirit they each brought to the lab, and look forward to return visits and future collaborations. In the…

Global plant trait relationships hold even at the cold extremes of plant life on Earth. Check out our new paper led by Haydn Thomas from Team Shrub with over 100 coauthors from the Tundra Trait Team, and led by Dr. Anne Bjorkman and Dr. Isla Myers-Smith. The main finding is that plant life in some…

Congratulations to Ivanna Caspeta and Miguel Duarte, who both presented posters yesterday at the Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities annual conference. Ivanna and Miguel are both undergraduate students who are working in the Arizona State University part of the lab. The conference draws people from across the country, but luckily the conference was hosted…