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Luiza Aparecido

@luiza-aparecido.bsky.social
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Hot topics on Plant Ecophysiology! From the tropics to aridlands 🍃☀️ www.aparecidolab.com Assistant Professor, University of Utah (SLC) 🇧🇷>🇺🇸

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Fieldtrip throwback during #ESA26: a very hot, very fun day exploring Red Butte Canyon in SLC ☀️🌳! Huge thanks to our fantastic guides, Sarah Hinners, Nicole Smeeding, Alison Dernbach and Austin Green, for sharing their knowledge 👏
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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Looking for the Southwest Chapter at ESA 2026? You can find us at our table in the exhibit hall or at one of our events! We have an organized oral session, a business mixer and a career central event. We are excited to see everyone in Salt Lake City!🌵
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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Careers on the tenure track on Weds. 1:30PM at @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social in Career Central w/ Julia Bigwood (moderator), Jessica Gurevitch, @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social, Matt McCary and me. Promises to be good opportunity to learn with one another! Come check it out.
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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Submit an abstract to our #AGU2025 session "Microclimate Variation and Heat Impacts on Vegetation: From Molecules to the Biosphere" (agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...) @stephpau.bsky.social @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social @bposch.bsky.social @nicolebison.bsky.social @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social @agu.org
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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🔊ESA Southwestern Chapter is seeking nominations for 2026-2027 positions! No prior Chapter/Section experience needed - just an interest in Southwest ecosystems, academic service, outreach, and community building. Current officers are eligible for re-election.
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This month was a trifecta of invited seminar talks ranging from local to national to international. I am very appreciative of my seminar visit hosts at the U (Alyssa Stansfield), UBC (Sean Michaletz) and USDA (Julia Farias). (1/2)
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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Finished my third departmental seminar in 3 weeks. Thanks to my hosts @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social in Utah, @seanmichaletz.bsky.social at UBC, and Michelle Mack at NAU, their labs, and of course my own wonderful team!
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Share this amazing PhD opportunity widely!! The plants will be awesome, but the advisor will be even better!
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I’m at #AGU25 in NOLA and will be presenting my poster on hybrid oak physiology Monday morning! Would love to chat science, or just stop by to say hi!
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Sharon Collinge @collinges.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Introducing the Schnitzer Prize of the West: A new $50,000 award honoring innovators and collaborators shaping the future of the American West. Nominations now open! lnkd.in/g2nBfg5W
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Check out our new pub led by lab postdoc, Dr. Brad Posch! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Owen Atkin @owenatkin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Congrats to @bposch.bsky.social for leading the writing of the New Phytologist Tansley Review on High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants. @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants
The effect of high temperature on plant performance and survival is a topic of great interest given the ongoing rise in global heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity. The temperature at which ph...
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
Poster with QR code linking to the position
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Hi all! If you are a PhD or soon to be PhD looking for a postdoc in plant thermotolerance, I would love to discuss project ideas for the University of Utah Wilkes Center Postdoc Fellowship, app due late Jan 2026! Msg me if there is interest. Tnx! wilkescenter.utah.edu/funding-oppo...
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Wilkes Center Postdoctoral Program - The Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy
Apply to become a postdoctoral scholar! This postdoctoral scholar program will help create the next generation of leaders in climate science and policy. It endeavors...
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Bill Smith @wkolby.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
📢📢We are looking for a postdoc to join a NASA Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) project!! Please see the attached job ad and help us share widely!! @uarizona.bsky.social @ecology-awesome.bsky.social @villarreal-miguel.bsky.social 📢📢
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Such a gratifying conference, and so rewarding as chair of this amazing Chapter!!! Very grateful to everybody involved that made all of this happen! Can’t for what’s to come here in Salt Lake for ESA2026!!! 😎
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Lucas Cernusak @lucascernusak.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Congrats @kalimiddleby.bsky.social on this exciting paper showing local adaptation to warm temperatures in some tropical trees - and to coauthors @drrebeccajordan.bsky.social @martinbreed.bsky.social @awcheesman.bsky.social @mrossettorecer.bsky.social @dcrayn.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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Local Adaptation Drives Leaf Thermoregulation in Tropical Rainforest Trees
We tested whether tropical rainforest trees adjust their leaf traits and resulting leaf temperatures across their distributions within the Australian Wet Tropics. Using field measurements from across...
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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
@esa-sw.bsky.social look how cool our chapter is getting a high-five for being “good students” and getting all of our paperwork in which includes accomplishing expected activities :) #ESA2025 If you are in Baltimore, come join us at our social event on Wednesday and our OOS - Wed @3:30
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
In addition to our three awesome @esa-sw.bsky.social events tomorrow (Wed Aug 12), two of my lab members will be presenting some of our first lab research findings! Come check them out! #ecophys #southwest #ESA2025 @biancazorger.bsky.social @rebeccasenft.bsky.social
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Come find the @esa-sw.bsky.social at #esa2025!!
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
See you next week, y’all!!!
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Before this #PlantBio2025 thread closes: two exciting opportunities now open for early-career plant scientists. 1. Plantae Fellows program, apply by Aug 31 plantae.org/2026fellowsa... 2. @theplantcell.bsky.social Assistant Features Editor program, apply by Sep 15. blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
AGU25 abstract submission deadline is quickly approaching! Join us in NOLA by submitting to our session “B054 - Heat and Microclimate Impacts on Plant Functioning: From Molecules to the Biosphere”. Confirmed invited speakers: Chris Doughty (NAU) and Kim Novick (IU)!
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Attending AGU25? We have a “hot” session for u! Consider submitting to our session focused on thermal plant ecology. Share widely! 🌡️☀️🍃🌲🌳
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Check out our new pub led by @ilainematos.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 We contributed with leaf venation data from our Ecuador-Yasuni field collection funded by @ForestGEO 🌿
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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
In this just published paper we reconstructed the almost 400 million of leaf venation evolution!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Official Aparecido Lab photo unlocked!! These people make work feel less like work every day ❤️ @uofubiology.bsky.social #plantecophys #universityofutah
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Apply for the 2025 ESA Southwest Chapter travel awards!! Open to all early-career ecologists working in the Southwest US and Northern MX that are attending ESA 2025! Please share
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Bianca Butter Zorger @biancazorger.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
My PhD paper is out! We showed that both forest and grassland are vulnerable to drought, but the vulnerability is attributable to different reasons: higher sensitivity to drought in forests (narrower #SM50) and lower fog exposure in grasslands. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Bianca Butter Zorger @biancazorger.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New paper 📣🏔️ In tropical montane grassland, an increase of 3°C in temperature by 2100 will increase the proportion of species with entire leaves. In contrast, toothed leaves have higher stomatal conductance rates, making them vulnerable to atmospheric drought. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Dryland Plant Ecophysiology Lab @hultinelab.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
New paper published by Wilder et al. in the journal Global Change Biology reveals how recent anomalous drought and heat events are impacting native succulents in the Sonoran Desert. The paper can be accessed at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Nature @nature.com · 01/05/2025
The pointy edges of petals rely on a type of geometric feedback never before seen in nature. go.nature.com/3GuL0bw
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Revealed: the unusual mathematics that gives rose petals their shape
The pointy edges of petals rely on a type of geometric feedback never before seen in nature.
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A must read! 👏🏽👇🏽
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
And it’s a wrap!! My 1st semester (ever) teaching is now over, and it was actually quite great! Looking forward to many more years teaching Ecosystem Ecology 👩🏻‍🏫… but also glad to be able to focus on research again! 😅
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS 🌱 The #AJB announces a call for papers for a special issue, “Plant Resilience and Conservation for a Changing Climate,” led by guest editors J. Rentsch, E. Stacy, C. Mackenzie, J. Boyd & V. Negron-Ortiz.⁣ ⁣ Deadline for proposals: May 30, 2025. bit.ly/3GcyMUG
This image shows a hand holding a leaf that is half green and half burning and brown. The AJB logo is seen in the top left corner. Text: AJB Special Issue Call for Papers: Plant Resilience and Conservation for a Changing Cliimate. Proposal deadline: May 30, 2025.
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Kevin Hultine (@hultinelab.bsky.social) for his 3rd visit to our lab at the U! Thanks Kevin for our your valuable contributions to our lab, especially mentoring my now PhD Candidate @rebeccasenft.bsky.social (uhul!), and expanding our riparian ecophys research!
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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org Please share! #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
For folks in UT, save the date! My awesome grad students, Rebecca and Madeline, will be giving a talk on invasive plant species w/ a focus on the plants they’re studying for their PhD: russian olives and tumbleweeds! nhmu.utah.edu/events/natur... @rebeccasenft.bsky.social
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Nature 101: Survival of the Pushiest: The Power of Invasive Plants
How do you survive in an environment that you didn't evolve in? Invasive species must face this challenge as they attempt to establish in new areas.
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A busy day for the Aparecido lab! @biancazorger.bsky.social taught my Ecosystem Ecology class on warming effects on ecosystems. Later, lab undergrads, Tucker (mentored by @rebeccasenft.bsky.social) and Sydney, presented on their ug research at the College of Science res symp. Proud of this crew!! 😎🤩
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Excited to share our detailed and comprehensive protocol on leaf clearing that has been developed throughout the years and across institutions. Enjoy! :)
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Our opinion piece in our local newspaper - Cutting funding for science in Arizona hurts our economy and our future 🌐🧪🧮🌾 tucson.com/opinion/colu...
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Local opinion: Cutting funding for science in Arizona hurts our economy and our future
The cuts are leading us down a path that will cede the United States' world leadership in science, medicine and health.
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Interviewing prospective grad students for our PhD program, and dang everybody is just SO GOOD! The future is very bright for science when u have students this excited about research and caring about making an impact in the world 👏🏽👏🏽 #hopeful #eeob #uofusbs #ecology
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Bill Smith @wkolby.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Happy to share a new paper, "Effects of Hot Versus Dry Vapor Pressure Deficit on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Fluxes," led by the amazing Miriam Johnston w/ @mallorybarnes.bsky.social and others agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Fun day giving a seminar talk at the Earth Sciences department at Utah Valley University (UVU). Thank you for the invitation, @coleoptara.bsky.social!! 😊
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Wanna get to know a bit about me? Here is an article our College wrote about where I came from and how I got here 🍃🌳🌲 #blessed #plantecophys science.utah.edu/faculty/new-...
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New Bio Faculty: Luiza Aparecido | College of Science
New Bio Faculty: Plant Ecologist Luiza Aparecido January 13, 2025 Above: Luiza Aparecido Luiza Aparecido is a new assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences and an expert in plant ecophy...
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Christopher Krieg 🌿 @ckrieg.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
If you love the Forest Ecology Starter Pack, you might also love the Plant Ecophys Starter Pack! #plantecophys #botany go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7
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Dryland Plant Ecophysiology Lab @hultinelab.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
DPEL in the news! Check out Brad Posch discussing how cottonwood trees stay cool in the summer heat: www.12news.com/video/news/r...
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Trees able to cool themselves down even in extreme Arizona heat, research shows
Freemont cottonwoods found across Arizona can essentially sweat to cool themselves off.
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Happy holidays from the Aparecido Lab!! Wishing everybody successful field seasons, significant statistical results and grant money in 2025! 🎄🎉
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Rebecca survived her first AGU poster presentation! I couldn’t be there (yes, so much FOMO), but the lab is very much well represented through her and her research 🎉👏🏽👏🏽 Congrats, @rebeccasenft.bsky.social !!
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
As we close the semester and 2024, I want to acknowledge the amazing work of the undergrads in our lab. Lucy, Sydney, Tucker, Brandt and Cindy have been outstanding! As students that had no prior research experience, they learned quickly and pulled thru in presenting… (1/3)
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