Super excited about our new paper entitled ‘Convergence in carnivorous pitcher plants reveals a mechanism for composite trait evolution’ just out in @ScienceMagazine and featured on the cover!
Congratulations Patrick Sydow for earning Best Overall in the Biology Department at the CofC Expo! Patrick will participate in the "Best of the Best" competition for SSM! #cofcssm#cofcexpo#CofCBiology
I wish career status (e.g. early career scientist) was somehow standardized for teaching load. Seven years of research when you teach 4/3 or 4/4 is much different than seven years of research when you teach 1/1.
Had a lot of fun giving a talk on Venus flytrap transcriptomics at ASB 2022. Good to be back in person. Thanks for the art, Andy! @sebiologists@TheAndyBowShow
Experiments failing? Try this for instant beautiful results ✨
A drop of 50% isopropanol w/ 1% methyl blue over a bed of sunflower oil. Evaporation of the alcohol at the edge causes a difference in surface tension, generating a flow and ejection of droplets (Marangoni effect)