Can the Environment have a Genetic Basis? A Case Study of Seedling Establishment in Arabidopsis thaliana

Published in the Journal of Heredity

Sweta spent her summer investigating genetic variation in the inducibility and stability of environmentally induced phenotypes across generations. Specifically, she looked for differential responses to thermal cues based on parental exposures to those same conditions

Britany returns from teaching in Alaska

I was teaching with Duke in Alaska by the Global Education Office for Undergraduates in Juneau, Anchorage, Seward, and Barrow Alaska. We taught about the biodiversity of Alaska and how the glacial geological morphology of the land can influence the plants that live there which in turn affects but animals we see there as well. There was some basic lecturing and lots of time spent in the field learning how to identify plants and what to look for in categorizing ecosystems and communities we find around us.

Brandie Quarles joins the lab! She comes to us from the University of Virginia.  And congratulations, too, for receiving and NSF-GRF!  Welcome to the Donohue Lab!

Kathleen gives her Presidential Address to the American Society of Naturalists at the Evolution Meetings.  See it at:

youtu.be/PJNaOJkhqOM

This year our lab has pledged to make sustainability an integral part of our daily habits. For more information about the Green Labs at Duke program, click here.