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Chloee McLaughlin

@chloeemc.bsky.social
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Current computational biologist @ the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center | mostly crop diversity & adaptation | chloee-mclaughlin.github.io

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John Lovell @jotlovell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The January issue of New Phytologist is online now, featuring on the cover @roseamarks.bsky.social’s article on the physiology and genomics of the resurrection plant, Myrothanus flabellifolia. doi.org/10.1111/nph.... (I’m posting here for Dr. Marks, who is currently doing field work off the grid)
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The architecture of resilience: a genome assembly of Myrothamnus flabellifolia sheds light on desiccation tolerance and sex determination
Myrothamnus flabellifolia is a dioecious resurrection plant endemic to southern Africa that has become an important model for understanding desiccation tolerance. Despite its ecological and medicina...
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Chloee McLaughlin @chloeemc.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Grateful to the organizers for the invitation and excited to talk about climate adaption + genomic offsets this summer! 🧬
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
New — with @joannarifkin.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social, and many more — we created seven new high-quality genomes and explored pangenomic variation in the emerging oilseed crop pennycress (Thlaspi arvense). 1/
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Structure and sequence evolution in the pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) pangenome
Summary · Eukaryotic genomes harbor many forms of variation, including nucleotide diversity and structural polymorphisms, which experience natural selection and contribute to genome evolution and biod...
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Erica H Lawrence-Paul @ehlawrence-paul.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Honored to have been selected for this award! 😊 Happy national postdoc appreciation week everyone!
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Mark Ranger @markr4nger.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
‪This was a fun story to write. Last year, environmental police in Brazil stumbled upon thousands of climbing bumblebee catfish. Scientists know almost nothing about this species, which only became known to science in 2017. 🧪🌿🌎
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Axel Visel @axelvisel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🌿Plant pangenomes🌿 have a LOT of genomic presence-absence-variation. Or do they??? A new @jgi.doe.gov preprint by @tomasbruna.bsky.social @jotlovell.bsky.social @avril-m-harder.bsky.social Avinash Sreedasyam takes a closer look www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A two-panel Scooby-Doo meme. In the top panel, Fred pulls the mask off a villain labeled “Presence-absence-variation in plant genomes.” In the bottom panel, the unmasked villain is revealed to be “Annotation artifacts.”
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Weirdly this doesn't mention that the woman Trump put in charge of reviewing the Smithsonian is his Florida criminal defense attorney who didn't like some of the museum's exhibits when she visited after the inauguration so she convinced Trump to sign an executive order putting her in charge
The letter, dated Tuesday, Aug. 12, and viewed by The Wall Street Journal, was signed by White House senior associate Lindsey Halligan, the director of the domestic policy council, Vince Haley, and the director of the office of Management and Budget, Russ
Vought. "This is about preserving trust in one of our most cherished institutions," Halligan said in a statement. "The Smithsonian museums and exhibits should be accurate, patriotic, and enlightening- ensuring they remain places of learning, wonder, and
national pride for generations to come." The White House review of the Smithsonian's massive collection of art and historical artifacts comes as the president has sought to reform the country's cultural institutions, including top universities, and demonstrates Trump's efforts to recast
parts of American history in a more positive light.
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Chloee McLaughlin @chloeemc.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Very happy to share our preprint on sorghum strigolactone diversity! 🌱 Sorghum naturally varies in strigolactones, plant hormones that can sometimes protect against the parasitic plant Striga. We asked if this diversity could be connected to potential trade-offs in host resistance strategies.
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Joel Masanga @masangaj.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Excited to see our pangenomic breeding network preprint out www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Delivering trait-enhanced varieties to African smallholders through a pangenomic breeding network
Pangenomics has been promoted to accelerate breeding of orphan crops, but smallholder farmers in developing nations have seen little benefit so far. To address this gap, we built a global pangenomic b...
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John Lovell @jotlovell.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This began as a @jgi.doe.gov Community Science Program (CSP) project in 2017 with the goal of uniting the diverse sorghum breeding and mapping populations in the framework of a 'pangenome'. Thanks to a huge efforts across many stakeholders, the article was preprinted today. A 🧵 w/ what we found:
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I'll never get over this poem a child wrote with one of my poetry prompts.
Mammoths and Ants

Look at the fragile mushrooms.
Look at the Black Widow.
Pause with me a moment,
and hear the cicadas humming.
Here is where I'm home,
among the Mammoth Redwoods.
When I was lost, the ants absorbed me,
calling me to the smallness of Earth.
There I heard the Song of Silence.
Come with me through the minuscule.
Listen. The Cicadas are humming.
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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Branching out...🎋🌼 Kuno et al. show that #Arabidopsis CYP722A1 synthesizes a noncanonical SL that specifically regulates floral transition, suggesting structural diversification of #strigolactones are required for specialized functions in #plantdevelopment 🆓🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience
Schematic diagram showing strigolactone (SL) synthesis from carlactone precursor via distinct pathways to produce canonical or non-canonical SLs; with the latter product produced by CYP722A1, and required for flowering regulation. To the right is an image of the first author, Masaki Kuno.
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Kevin Folta @kevinfolta.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Talking Biotech 459 - where did the key domestication mutations in corn come from? Were they present in resident gene pools waiting to be selected, or new mutations? I discuss with @jrossibarra and his student Regina Fairbanks. @aspb @ASHS_Hort @UF_IFAS share.transistor.fm/s/bed2ffa6
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Chloee McLaughlin @chloeemc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Very excited to see this PhD project get published in @natcomms.bsky.social! Our paper on modeling maladaptation in cereal crops following a scenario of rapid climate change is out! 🌾 🧵👇
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John Lovell @jotlovell.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Wow, the cover looks great! Nice work Patrice and @roederlab.bsky.social The GENESPACE plot uses our new @jgi.doe.gov Pennycress and Brassica rapa genomes built in collaboration with @spicybotrytis.bsky.social & Katie Greenham, hosted on phytozome
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It's all in the timing: vegetative phase change alters selection under drought and contributes to local adaptation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Ancient pangenomic origins of noncanonical NLR genes underlying the recent evolutionary rescue of a staple crop www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
In 1825, a skilled Black artisan taught a young medical student, Charles Darwin, how to preserve animal specimens via taxidermy, a skill he used in his exploration of the Galapagos. John Edmonstone was born a slave in Guyana, but freed when the family who owned him moved back to Scotland.
"Artist’s impression of John Edmonstone teaching Darwin to preserve birds."  A Black man appears to work on a piece of cardboard that will become a preserved bird's wing.  He wears a workman's apron, and Darwin, young and also wearing an apron, stands nearby with a tool in one hand a dead bird in the other.
CREDIT: State Darwin Museum
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
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Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
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Michelle Stitzer @mcstitzer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
New preprint featuring my favorite maize-relatives, the Andropogoneae! We sequenced the genomes of 27 species, including lemongrass, kangaroo grass, little and big bluestem, and more -- key species that shape grasslands and prairies worldwide. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
On top, five Andropogoneae grass species, from left to right Zea mays subsp. mays, Hemarthria uncinata, Miscanthus sinensis, Sorghum bicolor, Andropogon gerardi. On bottom, a map of the world, with collection sites of Andropogoneae grasses in points. A green background shows the distribution of Andropogoneae grasses throughout tropical and temperate latitudesOn left, a phylogeny of Andropogoneae species, with 14 independent polyploidy origins noted. On right, genome size and repeat content of each assembly. Across all assemblies, average assembly size is 1.9 Gb, and average repeat size is 1.5 Gb.
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Evolution of species' range and niche in changing environments www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Anna Brüniche-Olsen @annabruniche.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments - Conservation Genetics
Genetic diversity is critical for adaptation in response to changing environments and provides a valuable metric for predicting species’ extinction risk. The International Union for Conservation of Na...
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Chloee McLaughlin @chloeemc.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Super happy to share that our perspective piece on why and how genetic data should be incorporated into IUCN Red List assessments is published! This was a passion project that came out of a grad-level class taught by @jillahamilton.bsky.social 🌿🦇🐞🪼🦧🌳🧬 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments - Conservation Genetics
Genetic diversity is critical for adaptation in response to changing environments and provides a valuable metric for predicting species’ extinction risk. The International Union for Conservation of Na...
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