Botany 2021
The Botany meetings are virtual again this summer, but the Sessa lab will still be there! Lab members will be giving several talks, and postdoc Cody Howard is speaking twice! […]
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NASA fieldwork
After a long, strange pandemic year in which very little travel or fieldwork could happen, I was finally able to get out to Colorado with the NASA ferns team to […]
Jerald defends!
Jerald was the first graduate student to join the lab, and today he defended his PhD! It was not the defense we originally had in mind, as it was held […]
Chris graduates!
Our first completed PhD from the lab graduated today! Congratulations Chris! He will be moving to Madison, WI to join Kate McCulloh’s lab at UW, where he will be working […]
C-Fern genome published
At long last, a genome assembly is available for a homosporous fern! Dr. Blaine Marchant led this project for his dissertation research in Doug and Pam Soltis’ lab here at […]
Funding from NASA!
We just received the great news that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded us $1.2 million for a collaborative, multi-institution study of the “fern spore spike”, a phenomenon in […]
1KP Capstone Paper published!
The capstone paper of the 10+ year 1KP project was published today in Nature! This project was a phenomenal undertaking by close to 200 plant biologists, led by Jim Leebens-Mack […]
Dryopteris RADseq paper published
We returned to the North American members of the genus Dryopteris for the most recent publication out of the lab. Sylvia Kinosian, from Paul Wolf’s lab at Utah State University, […]
Two new genera published!
A new paper led by Wes Testo was published today in Systematic Botany – this study recognizes two new genera in the Microsoroideae subfamily of Polypodiaceae, Dendroconche and Zealandia! Testo […]
Tenure!
As of today, I am officially an Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Florida. It feels pretty good!
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