News

June 2023
Lab members are heading to Evolution 2023 in Albuquerque, NM. Emily and Nate are giving talks. Sophie, Asia, Mia, and Maya are giving posters. Good luck and stay cool!

June 2023
We welcome Magie Williams as the new research tech. in the lab!

April 2023
We welcome Chrissy Miller as a postdoc in the lab!

April 2023
Miles’ paper on expression and plasticity in Arabidopsis was accepted! Check it out here.

Febuary 2023
Maya’s paper on seasonal niche differentiation in native and invaded ranges of Capsella is out! Check it out AJB’s site

September 2021
Our lab was featured on MSU Today for our new grant studying the evolution of gene-environment interactions.

August 2021
We have a new paper on plasticity of gene expression and herbicide evolution is out in Evolution Letters. You can read more about it on the plant biology department website here.

August 2020
The lab is growing! Welcome to new postdoc Rebecca Panko, bioinformatician Adrian Platts, as well as rotation students Asia Hightower, Sophie Buysse, and Miles Roberts

August 2020
Some new work from the lab is out on biorxiv. First, Jennifer Blanc’s cool paper investigating local adaptation in maize gene expression. Second, collaborative work with Li Wang and Matt Hufford investigating parallel adaptation in highland maize

August 2019
Congrats to Josephs lab collaborator Jennifer Blanc for winning the award for best student poster at Midwest Population Genetics 2019!!

July 2019
The Josephs lab is hiring a postdoc for a funded project studying TE polymorphism effects on traits in maize. More info here.

March 2019
A few of Emily’s recent talks are now on the internet! You can watch a 5 minute lighting talk from the Green Life Science Symposium at the University of Michigan here and a 20 minute talk at the SMBE satellite meeting on polygenic adaptation in Vienna here.

January 2019
The Josephs Lab is open at MSU and now features both walls and furniture!

July 2018
The Josephs Lab website is live! The physical lab is in progress.