Anna O'Brien

@anna_mobrien

Post-doc at University of Toronto. Ecological consequences of evolution in species interactions, especially those between plants and microbes.

Joined August 2018

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    Jan 31
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    Jan 14

    DEADLINE EXTENSION: The deadline to apply for the SSE Diversity Committee is being extended to Friday, January 24. Please RT!

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    Jan 14

    From the upcoming Special Issue on plant–environment interactions: Resource availability alters fitness trade‐offs: implications for in stressful environments (new research by & )

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    Jan 13

    Excited to see my final chapter published We found that odorant receptor tuning is linked to the evolution of sexual signaling in orchid bees using a combination of chemical ecology, population genetics, whole-genome resequencing, and neurophysiology

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    Jan 14

    How does dirt shape food webs? With , we find that generalist caterpillar species narrow their diet breadth in serpentine soil plant communities, shifting the plant-herbivore network towards a more stable structure. Fave PhD chapter :-)

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    Jan 11

    Interesting Result: Tire crumb rubber, a type of , reduces pigmentation in the eyes of larval fish. Read more in our new study just published in ES&T: ping

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    The lab is working on a statement of values! Do people have favorites? Or recommendations? We're all ears! 👂🌽

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    Jan 9

    Excited to see the second chapter on my dissertation online in ⁦⁩! This paper describes my biggest experiment: 6 monarch butterfly populations from around the globe reared on 6 milkweed species. Stay tuned for more from this system!

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    27 Dec 2019

    [2/2] (This image shows one experimental replicate of responses to salt (NaCl) & benzotriazole (BZT) stressors, with (+) & without (-) their microbiome, for three separate genotypes of duckweed (MT, KSR, and BH).)

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  10. 27 Dec 2019

    Excited to see this out! Our first duckweed paper published and part of an exciting collaboration with chemical engineer colleagues. [1/2]

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    20 Dec 2019

    So jazzed to be part of this project! We are looking for more collaborators all over the globe - check out our website get in touch if you are interested in getting involved. And please RT broadly! 💚🌿🍃☘️🍀🌵

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    Hey look! ’s paper on biotic interactions and local adaptation in teosinte made the cover! Photo (by Anna) of a population of teosinte growing on the Aztec ruins of Cuauhtinchanjust above the town of Malinalco. 1/2

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    Looking forward to heading to the conference tomorrow in Norway. As I prepared my talk about pollution in the ocean, I was very interested and disheartened by this figure from about how little pollution is considered in ecological science.

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    A favorite thesis chapter is online at Evolution! Microbes may alter plant adaptation to climate: root microbes alter teosinte's expression & genetic covariance of traits adaptively diverged across environments w/ & Ruairidh Sawers

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    Two postdoc positions available on the population and quantitative genetics of transposable elements. Join and I doin’ some evolutionary genetics awesome as part of a collaboration with , & . Please RT!

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    I’m excited to officially announce that as of July 1 my lab will be moving 300m west to the Dept. of Evolution and Ecology at UC Davis!

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    Happy to see this great work by accepted at Evolution! Anna collected wild populations of the maize relative teosinte and grew half-sib families in soil inoculated with collections from three of the populations. 1/3

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    6 May 2019
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  20. 30 Apr 2019

    Reminded of neat work today led by : Root microbes dramatically alter plant defense - but not via the same mechanisms as plant genetic variation! - because thoughts of mine on eco-evo implications just came out

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