Postdoctoral fellow at MOBOT * Liverworts fan * Phylogenetics enthusiast * Dog mom * Ball is life
I'm an evolutionary biologist interested in macroevolution, biogeography, and fossils! Extra points if it's a plant with conspicuous gametophytes
Ixchel González-Ramírez
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From "contaminants" to data, the idea of using WGS bacterial reads to study liverwort associations started during a class I took during my PhD. Today it is published!
Fun collaboration with @mickischill.bsky.social and @emehlferber.bsky.social.
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Dogs evolved to eat your leftovers! Comparing dog & wolf genomes revealed dogs have up to 30 EXTRA copies of the amylase gene (AMY2B) that helps digest starch. This is a key genomic signature of living alongside humans & table scraps for thousands of years 🐕 www.nature.com/articles/nat... #2026MMM
I’m especially proud of this work because it’s one example of how integrating morphology, molecular data, and fossils (treated as part of the evolutionary process) can bring us closer to understanding the timing and patterns of evolution of a group — and the limits of what we can know.
This exciting project was done in collaboration with @rociodeanna.bsky.social and @iochromaland.bsky.social who are not just excellent researchers, but life and science role models to me!
Our paper inferring the timing of evolution of Solanaceae using a Bayesian total-evidence dating approach is now out in Annals of Botany! 🥔🌱
It will be part of a special issue highlighting the fundamental role of the fossil record in understanding the history of life.
tinyurl.com/327354tb
It posted more than a week ago, but I finally find time to share my work with @iochromaland.bsky.social and @rociodeanna.bsky.social on the divergence times of Solanaceae! It has been one of the greatest collaborations in my lifetime with two inspiring scientists! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The recovery of non-target organism reads, especially when whole organisms are sampled, constitutes a great opportunity for studying microbial communities. The increase in whole genome seque.....
Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social
It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program!
Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025.
Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...
Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF...
@systbiol.bsky.social
Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...
On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
