September 15, 2026

Congrats to Meghan Myles on delivering a fantastic talk at the HWA manager’s meeting in Ohio!  She presented on the role of genetics in examining tolerance to HWA in eastern hemlock!

September 15, 2026

Congrats to the amazing EVOME team (Brandon Lind, Samira Obbu, Jenna Kent, and Airianna McGuire) for their work in Alaksa! Our willow common garden is in and the willows are happy with lots of new growth already, willow landscape sampling continues with new sites, grayling karyotyping is underway, and we’re grabbing stoneflies and mayflies at our sites.

August 20, 2026

Farewell to Gabe Barrett who has been with the team since the Summer of 2020! He is off to a new position at IBM in North Carolina!

August 20, 2026

Congrats to our presenters at the 3rd NAFGS including Meghan Myles who won the people’s choice poster award in Quebec City, Canada!

July 8, 2026

Congrats to Airianna McGuire for a great talk during the pangenome pre-meeting at PEQG in Asilomar, California!

July 8, 2026

Congrats to Vidya on a fantastic talk on the generation of high quality fir genomes for the USDA funded CTRE project In North Carolina!

August 20, 2026

Congrats to Cynthia Webster on fantastic presentation on our Juglans genomes for the BuTRI team In Vermont!

July 8, 2026

Congrats to the 2nd RaMP cohort including Mary Rutter and Airianna McGuire for their mink focused work! https://today.uconn.edu/2026/05/caught-in-the-act-of-evolution/ https://www.ccsu.edu/article/study-central-and-uconn-scientists-reveals-genetic-divides-rare-mink-populations

August 20, 2026

Congrats to our presenters, Vidya and Michelle, at the Tree Species in Peril All Hands Meeting in North Carolina!

July 8, 2026

Congrats to Cynthia Webster! External review of her prospectus is complete and she passed with flying colors! She is officially A.B.D.!

May 14, 2026

Apply Now! Molecular Lab Coordinator — Plant Computational Genomics Lab – http://plantcompgenomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Molecular-Lab-Coordinator-1.pdf

July 8, 2026

Congrats to Michelle Neitzey on our webinar on Beech (and Butternut!) sampling through Adventure Scientists which kicked off today!

July 8, 2026

Congrats to Airianna McGuire and Mary Rutter on the Heredity podcast featuring the mink pangenome! https://www.nature.com/hdy/podcast

July 8, 2026

Congrats to our UConn biology graduates – Nicholas Hancox, Alan Rodger, Anthony He, and Andrew Deierlein!

July 8, 2026

Tyler Cocchiola was awarded an EEB summer undergraduate research award to develop an Acer (maple) pangenome!