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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · 9d

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🔗 cartograplant.org 9/9 @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social @meghanmyles.bsky.social

Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · 9d

CartograPlant is actively expanding:
🔄 Two-way integration with the European Variation Archive
📦 Support for pangenomes, structural variants, and high-throughput phenotyping
🌐 Enhanced interoperability with primary repositories 8/n

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · 9d

CartograPlant offers workflows with NextFlow, GEMMA, LFMM2, and more—plus PCA, marker filtering, and population structure inference with fastSTRUCTURE.
⚙️📈 7/n

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · 9d

CartograPlant supports both model and non-model species, including forest trees, crops, and species of conservation interest. It’s also integrated with citizen science platforms like TreeSnap. 6/n
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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · 9d

Researchers can explore over 25 million individuals across 846 species from 400+ studies—all georeferenced and standardized for cross-study synthesis. 5/n
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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · 9d

Built as a Tripal module, CartograPlant supports:
✅ FAIR data ingestion
✅ Ontology-based trait mapping
✅ Interactive map-based visualization
✅ HPC-powered workflows for GWAS, GEA, population structure, and more. 3/n

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · 9d

CartograPlant is a web-based platform that integrates genomic, phenotypic, and environmental data from georeferenced plant individuals. It enables scalable, reproducible eco-evolutionary analyses.
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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · 9d

🌱 What if plant data could be easily reused across space, time, and studies to unlock eco-evolutionary insight? Our new manuscript covers the capabilities and updates to CartograPlant, a platform built for integrative, FAIR, and scalable analysis of plant biological data🧵 1/n doi.org/10.32942/X2Q...

CartograPlant: Bridging genomic, phenotypic, and environmental data to advance plant resilience and eco-evolutionary insight

doi.org

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · Aug 22

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A comparison of 27 Arabidopsis thaliana genomes and the path toward an unbiased characterization of genetic polymorphism - Nature Genetics

New concepts for comparing the genomes of 27 naturally inbred Arabidopsis thaliana accessions provide essential insights into obtaining a less biased view of whole-genome polymorphism.

www.nature.com

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · Jul 17

>900 propagated feltleaf willow (Salix alaxensis) cuttings heading back to Fairbanks tomorrow from @toolikfieldstation.bsky.social to overwinter before planting two common gardens next spring. #EVOME #arcticresearch

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · Jul 13

One month later @toolikfieldstation.bsky.social #EVOME #arcticresearch

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Jill Wegrzyn @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social · Jun 23

First season @toolikfieldstation.bsky.social #arctic - #EVOME is investigating species’ responses to rapid climatic changes in stream environs @uconnresearch.bsky.social @uconneeb.bsky.social @brandonlind.bsky.social SamiraObbu @airianna-mcguire.bsky.social MaryRutter #REU SarahAntebi #NSF-funded

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · Apr 14

Excited to see our article on the cover! @drk-lo.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17550998...

Molecular Ecology Resources: Vol 25, No 4

Molecular Ecology Resources is a broad journal publishing computer programs, statistical & molecular advances & more for studies in evolution, ecology & conservation.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · Jan 17

Well deserved!!! Congrats, @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social !!

Jill Wegrzyn @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social · Jan 16

Honored to receive the #PECASE award from #NSF! This recognition speaks to the incredible students & trainees who bring these ideas to life! So excited to continue developing software, asking questions, and mentoring in the realm of biodiversity genomics www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

President Biden Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists | OSTP | The White House

Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outst...

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · Jan 10

@mhurteau.bsky.social would be a good person to ask!

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Christian Rellstab @christian-rellstab.bsky.social · Jan 8

Now online! Our perspective on the genomic offset simulation paper of @brandonlind.bsky.social and @drk-lo.bsky.social. In short: Genomic offset can predict fitness under changed environments, but performance is reduced under highly novel environments.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · Jan 7

Go check out the Org.one workshop at #pag32! Org.one offers free ONT long-read sequencing costs for building reference genomes of IUCN endangered/critically endangered/extinct in the wild species. Today I just received confirmation for sequencing longleaf pine and the red-cockaded woodpecker!

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · Nov 14

Today is the @botsocamerica.bsky.social virtual symposium “Plant resilience and conservation for a changing climate” starting at 11:00am ET. I’ll be presenting some of my recent genomic offset work at 2:00! Hope to “see” you there! bit.ly/bsa_climate_...

Plant Resilience and Conservation for a Changing Climate

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · Aug 30

Out now in Molecular Ecology Resources

doi.org/10.1111/1755...

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · Jul 29

Excited to present recent work on genomic offsets -
@sse-evolution.bsky.social #Evol2024. Unfortunately I couldn't be there in person, so if you missed my recorded talk, here are QR codes to the manuscripts and here is a link to the talk bit.ly/3WJGVVp

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · Jun 24

Excited about our bioRxiv paper led by postdoc Megan Ruffley in our lab & Uli Lutz from @plantevolution.bsky.social , using CRISPR on 50 Arabidopsis wild type populations to test a conflict in natural selection between favoring early flowering and water use!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · Apr 1

Happy to see this out! @brandonlind.bsky.social tested genomic maladaptation (offset) estimates with common garden data for 2 conifers. Climate adaptation candidate loci were no better than random loci. Populations included in model building matter. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How useful are genomic data for predicting maladaptation to future climate?

Global Change Biology is an environmental change journal tackling issues such as sustainability, climate change and environmental protection.

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Northeastern MES/CSI/MSC @northeasternmes.bsky.social · Feb 21

DEADLINE 3.15.24 - APPLY NOW! Want to go to grad school in #MarineScience #EnvironmentalScience #Socioecology #Sustainability? Unsure how? Join our all-expenses-paid June workshop. Priority #firstgen and applicants from marginalized groups. cos.northeastern.edu/beaches/

Flyer for workshop June 2-5 ‘24, with students smiling on a rocky coastline

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Feb 16

New paper co-led by postdoc Drew Larson!
There are crazy levels of gene tree discordance among the white oaks.

(Thanks to the Jim Beam Institute for funding 🥃)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · Feb 10

We discuss this, its implications for future use, and more in our manuscript. Comments are welcome! As always, our code is directly referenced within the main and supplemental text. (10/10)

ms: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
code: github.com/modelValidat...

GitHub - ModelValidationProgram/MVP-offsets

Contribute to ModelValidationProgram/MVP-offsets development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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