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️Mon Dec 09 2024

On November 18, 2024, Nikolai Hay passed his PhD defense with flying colors!

Investigating Phylogenetic Relationships, Hybridization, and Evolutionary Origins in Boechera and Related Genera (Brassicaceae).

We wish him the very best as he heads to North Carolina State University to start a post-doc in the “VanLab” where they use evolutionary genetics to understand weeds and invasive species.

We will miss you, Nik! Good to know you will still be close by!

Nik confirming the intergeneric status of B. tiehmii at his defense talk

Nik sporting a truly awesome Brassicaceae crown and a wonderful smile at his defense party

Fauskee, Blake

Congratulations, Blake, on your awesome prelim performance on April 20, 2022! Blake passed with flying colors, of course, and now it is onwards with:

Investigating evolutionary patterns of RNA editing in fern organelles: are they related to DNA substitution rates?