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Cam Durant

@pcdurant.bsky.social

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🦡 EEB PhD Student at UMich. 🐂 UTexas Class of 2022. I do normal things to leaves.

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

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Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct molecular and physiological experiments to understand the causes of genetic va...

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Madison Plunkert (she/her) @madisonplunkert.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Check out our new preprint on monkeyflower salt spray adaptation, with coauthors @pcdurant.bsky.social, Katherine Egeler, and @davidlowry.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Diagrams of salt spray resilience mechanisms in sensitive inland (left) and resilient coastal (right) plants and tissues. (A) Salt spray avoidance shown as a tall inland and short coastal plant, with salt spray (shown as orange circles) landing mostly on the tall plant. (B) Salt spray exclusion shown as the cuticle and leaf epidermal cells of a leaf surface, with salt spray entering one leaf surface at a greater rate than the other. (C) Tissue tolerance shown as two plant cells with cell wall, plasma membrane, vacuole, and nucleus shown. One cell is plasmolyzed due to salt exposure, with salt found in the cytoplasm, while the other cell is healthy with salt found in the vacuole.

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

Genetically correlated leaf tensile & morphological traits are driven by growing season length in a widespread perennial #grass New #AJB research by @pcdurant.bsky.social, Amit Bhasin, Thomas Juenger & Robert Heckman bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #crops

A map of the locations and growing season lengths of origin for genotypes and leaf strength distribution for three switchgrass subpopulations. The Gulf subpopulation had the strongest leaves, followed by the Atlantic subpopulation, and then the Midwest subpopulation. Leaves from plants originating from sites with long growing seasons were typically stronger than those from sites with shorter growing seasons.

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