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Michael McKain

@mrmckain

Evolutionary biologist|botanist|bioinformatician. Associate Professor @UofAlabama Biology. Curator @UofAlabama #Herbarium @CONSERVE_group Tweets are my own.

 Tuscaloosa, AL
github.com/mrmckain
Joined May 2009
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Tenured! Excited to build a bigger plant biodiversity genomics program here at @UaDeptBSC!
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Interested in target capture sequencing? @madiraibullock and I are happy to announce a new service at TTU. Send us DNA, get reads enriched for your probes. Angiosperms353, GoFLAG, Compositae1061 & more! Funds go to grad student stipends and tuition! mossmatters.com/blog/TargetC…
Home Search Notifications Chat Feeds Lists Profile Settings New Post Search Following Discover Popular With Friends More feeds Feedback · Privacy · Terms · Help Flyer for Target Capture DNA Sequencing at Texas Tech by the TTU Center for Biotechnology and Genomics. We provide targeted DNA sequencing for $30/sample for Angiosperms353, GoFLAG408, and other probe sets. Funds from our service go to fund a graduate student who is running the samples. We can use as little as 100 ng of DNA in 30 uL and provide at least 1 million reads per sample from a NovaSeq6000 SP 2x250 Illumina sequencing. For more information and the full text of this flyer, visit mossmatters.com/blog/TargetCaptureService.html

ALT Home Search Notifications Chat Feeds Lists Profile Settings New Post Search Following Discover Popular With Friends More feeds Feedback · Privacy · Terms · Help Flyer for Target Capture DNA Sequencing at Texas Tech by the TTU Center for Biotechnology and Genomics. We provide targeted DNA sequencing for $30/sample for Angiosperms353, GoFLAG408, and other probe sets. Funds from our service go to fund a graduate student who is running the samples. We can use as little as 100 ng of DNA in 30 uL and provide at least 1 million reads per sample from a NovaSeq6000 SP 2x250 Illumina sequencing. For more information and the full text of this flyer, visit mossmatters.com/blog/TargetCaptureService.html

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@szintri11 Nov 2024
How to effectively write in collaborative environments. (A rant).
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Our Tansley Insight is out @NewPhyt !!! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…. From synthetic communities to synthetic ecosystems: exploring causalities in plant-microbe-environment interactions. Big congrats @Chesneau_G, @HerpellJohannes @mpipz_cologne #SynComs #SynEcos.
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🧠 The system I WISH I'd had in year 1 for reading papers: A thread about what actually works 🧵
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Harvard vs Duke: A study in contrasting views on biodiversity research
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New Phytologist@NewPhyt28 Oct 2024
Ancient large-scale gene duplications and diversification in #bryophytes Shen et al. @ShenChao111 @HaoLi_Biology 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
Chronologically dated bryophyte phylogenetic tree highlighting large-scale gene duplications and diversification rate upshifts in bryophytes.

ALT Chronologically dated bryophyte phylogenetic tree highlighting large-scale gene duplications and diversification rate upshifts in bryophytes.

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Razvan Borza@rborza_29 Oct 2024
⚠️Here’s yet another option other than BioRender! ⚠️ 📢 SciDraw is a free repository of high quality drawings of animals, scientific setups, and anything that might be useful for scientific presentations and posters. 🔁❤️Free Science! RIP BioRender!!
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ChatGPT generates fake references to papers that don't exist. So, researchers at Stanford built Storm. It's an AI-powered app that generates well-researched articles with references to published sources. Here's how to use it:
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Check out the amazing work ceramics students showcased at the Kentuck Festival of the Arts! Read more at the link below!🏺🎨 as.ua.edu/2024/10/24/ceramic…
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Come explore the spooky side of biology at the UA ArBOOretum on Tuesday, October 29 from 6-8PM! New activities for 2024! Return of the Trick-or-Treat Trail! @UaDeptBSC @UA_AS @uamuseums @UofAlabama @tuscaloosacity
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This new R package is wild. It's called ggalign. Here's what it can do:
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Xian Wu@Xiansonnet20 Oct 2024
I’m joining @UT_Dallas as an Assistant Professor starting January 1, 2025, and I’m looking for 1–2 #PhD students to join my lab to study Climate Dynamics and Prediction. Feel free to reach out, and retweets are appreciated!
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How do sorghum plants adapt to different environments? Mapping the genes controlling phenotypic plasticity for flowering time and plant height by testing 300+ sorghum varieties in eighteen different environments across the USA (14 to train and 4 to test).
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Reference Genome Choice and Filtering Thresholds Jointly Influence Phylogenomic Analyses academic.oup.com/sysbio/arti… @systbiol
Reference Genome Choice and Filtering Thresholds Jointly Influence Phylogenomic Analyses

Reference Genome Choice and Filtering Thresholds Jointly Influence Phylogenomic Analyses

Abstract. Molecular phylogenies are a cornerstone of modern comparative biology and are commonly employed to investigate a range of biological phenomena, s

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‼️For the Fall 2025 semester, I am looking for a PhD student to study predator-prey interactions in fossil and modern mollusks from the Isthmus of Panama as part of a collaborative @NSF-funded project. Please share widely, and get in touch if interested. @UAMNH @uamuseums @UA_AS
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James Schnable
@szintri14 Oct 2024
Procedurally generated 3D sorghum models produce training data that teaches AI models how to segment individual leaves in photos of real plants. Really fun project with the Benes lab team at @PurdueCS. @UNL_PSI @unlagrohort (1/2)
Ian Ostermann, Bedrich Benes, Mathieu Gaillard, Bosheng Li, Jensina Davis, Ryleigh Grove, Nikee Shrestha, Michael C. Tross, James C. Schnable (2024) "Sorghum segmentation and leaf counting using in silico trained deep neural model." The Plant Phenome Journal doi: 10.1002/ppj2.70002

ALT Ian Ostermann, Bedrich Benes, Mathieu Gaillard, Bosheng Li, Jensina Davis, Ryleigh Grove, Nikee Shrestha, Michael C. Tross, James C. Schnable (2024) "Sorghum segmentation and leaf counting using in silico trained deep neural model." The Plant Phenome Journal doi: 10.1002/ppj2.70002

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Very excited to see our @PNASNews paper led by @leg2015 on deep learning maps of plant species using remote sensing highlighted in Berkeley News! news.berkeley.edu/2024/10/11… @UCBerkeley @Cal #MOILAB
Using AI and iNaturalist, scientists build one of the highest resolution maps yet of California...

Using AI and iNaturalist, scientists build one of the highest resolution maps yet of California...

Citizen scientists can help monitor the state's plants in the face of global change

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Dear botanical friends, in our new paper we show that Rafflesiaceae and Apodanthaceae come back together! using >1000 single copy nuclear genes and rDNA. Check it out for historical facts and potential synapomorphies. #cienciacriolla #madeincolombia shorturl.at/6HdwU
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790324002094?via%3Dihub

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Tina Termini@CterminiPhD9 Oct 2024
More than just speaker panels: I'm tired of homogeny within leadership positions, grant awardees, new hires, scientists in media... #LatinxAtlas was designed to make identifying deserving candidates outside the majority easier - spread the word to those who need to know! 🧵
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Tired of wondering why conference speaker panels are not more diverse, Fred Hutch Faculty member and #latina @CterminiPhD , decided to do something about it. She created the Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx #Scientists . bit.ly/3zZjNKT
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