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Molecular ecologist, focusing on landscape genetics and conservation of freshwater ecosystems.
Postdoctoral Researcher, PA Fish & Wildlife Co-op at Penn State
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Digital illustrator: www.marathonrana.com (Commissions Open)
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You can also read more about this work in the Penn State press release here:
www.psu.edu/news/researc...
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We found specific genes that vary with temperature. As we learn how these genes vary across populations and environmental conditions, we can use them to find fish that are particularly stressed by heat or may be most able to adapt to future climate conditions! (5/5)
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...which lets us compare the paths that gene expression takes through time in each stream. All the streams followed similar paths, especially during the second heatwave when changes in gene expression were the most pronounced. (4/5)
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We used TagSeq to quantify the relative amounts of different mRNAs. Because we sampled the same streams multiple times, we could track how the composition of genes being expressed changed with temperature. We tracked these changes using a trajectory analysis... (3/5)
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Climate change makes heatwaves more frequent, hotter, and longer, which is bad news for brook trout which need cool streams in which to spawn, grow, and live.
We collected gill samples from brook trout in streams around Penn State across two heatwaves during the summer of 2023 (2/5)
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I second the rec for lots of RAM
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I'm in the same boat. What a time to be an ECR! š
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Thanks!
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Side note: at some point I added Solomon's ASCII art as a shortcut on my keyboard so every time I type out G A R it shows up like this: C>=',==,==,cā¢===-
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I'd love to be added Davide! I'm a postdoc who works on conservation genetics in fishes & amphibians. Thanks!
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Yeah, I thought about seeing if there was anyone who wanted to split a vendor booth, but I don't really have the inventory right now to justify it.
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Haha, it's so lucrative when all your key demo is in the same place!