Related: if you know a great undergrad interested in grad school (or if YOU are interested), & they'd like to work in fungal biology using population genomics to study pathogenicity and genome plasticity, please encourage them to reach out!
See annehatmaker.com/contact/ for more info on how
I shared on LinkedIn already, but I wanted to post here as well since I've got a different audience: I will be joining the Department of Plant Pathology at the @universityofga.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor on Aug 1!! I will keep studying #Aspergillus & #Fusarium that infect plants & humans š„°
Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D.
Ilda McVeigh trained as a botanist and accidentally became one of Vandy's pioneering microbiologists.
Her work on antibiotic resistance and fungal pathogens in the 1950s and 60s was decades ahead of its time.
#ThrowbackThursday
Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt's Owen Jones just released Force of Nature ā arguing that natural selection's logic is already being used to design antennas, treat cancer, and create adhesives.
Evolution is not just history. It is a tool. š§¬
Check out Megan's talk Friday afternoon at #PEQG26! Navigating Growth-Survival Tradeoffs in Fluctuating Environments
Just saw a great session at #PEQG26 with Bryan Gitschlag and Brandon Ogbunu. Really cool work!
Dave McCauley spent 35 years overturning assumptions about how populations evolve.
1st w/ beetles; finding that single females could found entire new populations.
Then w/ plants; discovering that mitochondrial DNA is more dynamic and variable than expected.
Starting soon!!! #Evol2026 -- Who else is excited!?!? A keynote from *the* @neilshubin.bsky.social? If that wasn't cool enough - Evolutionary Studies will have a booth! Maybe the greatest thing to happen to Cleveland in at least 4 years...
Female birds sing ā and new research from Vanderbilt's Creanza Lab explains why.
Dr. Kate Snyder analyzed 1,000+ songbird species and found cooperative breeding and female song reinforce each other over evolutionary time.
Social bonds shape song. š¦š¶
Humans have 2 sex chromosomes. The platypus has 10 built up over 190MY through a chain of accidents.
And they share genes with both the human X AND the bird Z chromosome. Maybe mammal and bird sex systems did not evolve as independently as we thought?
š¦š§¬ #Evolution
Two grad students in the Behringer Lab are overturning assumptions.
William McLaughlin is proving mathematical chaos theory using living bacteria.
Owen Hale found that oxygen-free bacteria mutate more than expected b/c pop size matters more than oxygen.
Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt
Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt
Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt
Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt
Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt
Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt
Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt
Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt
Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt
Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt
Heading to #Evol2026 in Cleveland June 20-24!
Stop by the ESI booth for swag and a spin on the prize wheel. š” @evolmtg.bsky.social
#Evolution #Vanderbilt
