Poster at Evolution 2025
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I presented a poster at Evolution 2025 in Athens, GA titled “Dynamics of inbreeding depression and gene flow in a pedigreed wild population of Florida Scrub-Jays”!
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2025
Press coverage for Anna’s Hummingbird work
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We’re pleasantly surprised that our Anna’s Hummingbird work has been receiving a lot of press and popular science attention. We’re so grateful for the opportunity to share this cool story with the world: (read more)
New publication: Anna’s hummingbirds’ range and bill morphology have changed in association with feeder availability
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I’m thrilled to share that Alexandre, Romero, & English et al., “Supplemental Feeding as a Driver of Population Expansion and Morphological Change in Anna’s Hummingbirds” was published in Global Change Biology today! (read more)
2025 awards roundup
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I’m very grateful to have received a handful of awards in the first few months of 2025:
- Robert K. Wayne Award in Evolutionary, Ecological, or Conservation Genomics, American Genetics Association
- Open Scholarship Award, University of Rochester
- Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund, American Museum of Natural History
New podcast episode: heterosis in strawberries
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Is there such a thing as “good” inbreeding? Find out by listening to the newest episode of the GSA’s podcast “Genetics in Your World”: Breeding Better Berries: Inbreeding and Hybrid Vigor in Strawberries – A Conversation with Dr. Steven J. Knapp! In this episode, I interview Dr. Steven Knapp (UC Davis) about the fascinating genetics underlying hybrid vigor in strawberry cultivars and the genomic challenges facing plant breeders of the future.
Listen to Genetics in Your World wherever you get your podcasts!
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2024
Conference presentation: AGA 2024
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I was an abstract-selected speaker at AGA 2024: Genomic Technologies and the Future of Conservation. I presented “The genetics of inbreeding depression in a pedigreed wild population of Florida Scrub-Jays”. View the highlights from my talk and others here!
New publication: Florida Scrub-Jay genome
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“A new high quality genome assembly for the Federally Threatened Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)” was just published in G3:Genes|Genomes|Genetics!
New pre-print: Florida Scrub-Jay genome
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Check out our new pre-print for a new Florida Scrub-Jay genome assembly and annotation. Long-read sequencing and a linkage map helped us add ~260 Mbp of sequence and find a few more chromosomes in comparison to previous assemblies.
2023
Filipinas in STEM
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I was interviewed by Science Corps Education & Research Fellow Swastika Issar (in partnership with the Central Visayan Institute Foundation) on my experience as a Filipino-American woman in STEM. There aren’t many Filipinos and Fil-Ams in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and we often go unseen (like so many others) due to being lumped under the monolith of “Asian”. I was honored to share my story and research!
I passed my qualifying exams!
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NSF GRFP
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I was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation! I’m so grateful to the mentors and colleagues who helped me along the way, especially my advisor Dr. Nancy Chen and the whole Chen lab.
New website!
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My website is now up and running - welcome!