Cait Barnes

PhD in @StephanieKivlin lab at @UTK_EEB. Plant-mycorrhizal interactions, biodiversity ecosystem function.

[Cait Barnes @CaitBarnes96]

Had some great conversations about dual-mycorrhizal systems in our organized session at Global Soil Biodiversity Conference in Victoria, Canada last month! @gsbc2026 @jedward_s

[Cait Barnes @CaitBarnes96]

Check out our new article!

https://t.co/yTvx2DbSLs

[Journal of Ecology @JEcology]

🦠Tree mycorrhizal associations predict fungal communities and indirectly affect ecosystem functions via soil microbial communities @CaitBarnes96 @stephaniekivlin @jedward_s
🔍 Article: https://t.co/lR546MF6nP

[PLOS Climate @PLOSClimate]

In a new Latitude blog post, we highlight the breadth of research recently published in PLOS Climate that addresses key questions at the nexus of climate change and ecology.

https://t.co/1YHb92I0Cc

[Rich Phillips @RichPhillipsLab]

Collaborations make us smarter & lead to better science (imo). Many thanks to SERC collabs for hosting 2d of data & ideas. From 300yr-old tulips to 11yr-old BiodiversiTrees to lone handkerchief tree (& forest orchids) - we saw it all. Hard to beat science, schnitzel & crab cakes!

[Cait Barnes @CaitBarnes96]

New Paper!!
Identifying ecological and evolutionary research targets and risks in climate change studies to break barriers to broad inference | PLOS Climate
⁦@stephaniekivlin⁩ ⁦@sarahjlove_⁩ ⁦@UTK_EEB⁩ https://t.co/XHBIWCSDmv

[Courtney L. Schreiner @C_Schreiner1326]

New paper out!!

Check out the work from my MS thesis with @NuismerScott, Chris Remien, and Andrew Basinski, where we investigate how seasonality affects optimal timing of vaccine delivery with self-disseminating vaccines.

https://t.co/iZrHHNKzud

[Cait Barnes @CaitBarnes96]

A few photos from a hike during the IMEMEBA workshop (Insights from Macro-Ecology & Macro-Evolution for Biodiversity Assessment) in Schoodic, Maine. @ Schoodic, Maine https://t.co/UZArKQzifG

[Stephanie Kivlin @stephaniekivlin]

Bailey-Kivlin-Schweitzer labs know that lab meetings should always be outdoors! @UTK_EEB @Schweitzer_JA

[Dr. Amelia R. Zietlow 🦎 @TyrantLzrdQueen]

Undergrads & new grad students - NOW is the time to start thinking about applying for the @nsf GRFP!
A thread of advice I've accumulated on how to write a successful application...🧵
#AcademicChatter #phdchat #NSFfunded #STEM #scicomm #sciencetwitter #NSFGRFP
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[Cait Barnes @CaitBarnes96]

Paper No. 2! Happy to have been apart of @RamonaPRussell 's work.
Specific Bacterial Pathogen Phytosensing Is Enabled by a Synthetic Promoter-Transcription Factor System in Potato https://t.co/piCjBX3bfF

[Cait Barnes @CaitBarnes96]

First published paper from my time in #CostaRica !!
Variation in cloud immersion, not precipitation, drives vascular epiphyte leaf trait plasticity and water relations during an extreme drought https://t.co/lV84nYsQik
#tropicalecology #epiphytes

[Cait Barnes @CaitBarnes96]

@MossPlants @UTKnoxville @xingli_giam @NickDygert @boomit12 @WadeBishopUTK @DiversityUTK @UTKWIN Safety first! @biologybynicole @alex_neild @TaraEmpson