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New podcast episode: heterosis in strawberries

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Published: January 23, 2025

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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Conference presentation: AGA 2024

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Published: October 15, 2024

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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Published: October 03, 2024

“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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Published: April 15, 2024

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.

Filipinas in STEM

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Published: August 04, 2023

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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Published: June 08, 2023

NSF GRFP

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Published: April 01, 2023

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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Published: February 17, 2023

My website is now up and running - welcome!