Chloee McLaughlin
@chloeemc.bsky.social
Current computational biologist @ the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center | mostly crop diversity & adaptation | https://chloee-mclaughlin.github.io/
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New — with @joannarifkin.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social, and many more — we created seven new high-quality genomes and explored pangenomic variation in the emerging oilseed crop pennycress (Thlaspi arvense). 1/
Structure and sequence evolution in the pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) pangenome
Summary · Eukaryotic genomes harbor many forms of variation, including nucleotide diversity and structural polymorphisms, which experience natural selection and contribute to genome evolution and biod...
www.biorxiv.org
September 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
New — with @joannarifkin.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social, and many more — we created seven new high-quality genomes and explored pangenomic variation in the emerging oilseed crop pennycress (Thlaspi arvense). 1/
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Honored to have been selected for this award! 😊 Happy national postdoc appreciation week everyone!
Happy to announce @plantpostdocs.bsky.social
#Sahyadri #OutstandingPostdoc 2025 during
National Postdoc Appreciation Week #NPAW2025
🎉Congratulations!!
Erica Lawerence-Paul, PSU
Penelope Lindsay, OSU
Elena Perry, LBNL
@ehlawrence-paul.bsky.social @penlindsay.bsky.social
#Sahyadri #OutstandingPostdoc 2025 during
National Postdoc Appreciation Week #NPAW2025
🎉Congratulations!!
Erica Lawerence-Paul, PSU
Penelope Lindsay, OSU
Elena Perry, LBNL
@ehlawrence-paul.bsky.social @penlindsay.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Honored to have been selected for this award! 😊 Happy national postdoc appreciation week everyone!
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This was a fun story to write.
Last year, environmental police in Brazil stumbled upon thousands of climbing bumblebee catfish. Scientists know almost nothing about this species, which only became known to science in 2017. 🧪🌿🌎
Last year, environmental police in Brazil stumbled upon thousands of climbing bumblebee catfish. Scientists know almost nothing about this species, which only became known to science in 2017. 🧪🌿🌎
Researchers have filmed thousands of climbing catfish scaling waterfalls, providing a rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4lDlFux
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4lDlFux
September 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This was a fun story to write.
Last year, environmental police in Brazil stumbled upon thousands of climbing bumblebee catfish. Scientists know almost nothing about this species, which only became known to science in 2017. 🧪🌿🌎
Last year, environmental police in Brazil stumbled upon thousands of climbing bumblebee catfish. Scientists know almost nothing about this species, which only became known to science in 2017. 🧪🌿🌎
Reposted by Chloee McLaughlin
🌿Plant pangenomes🌿 have a LOT of genomic presence-absence-variation.
Or do they???
A new @jgi.doe.gov preprint by @tomasbruna.bsky.social @jotlovell.bsky.social @avril-m-harder.bsky.social Avinash Sreedasyam takes a closer look
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Or do they???
A new @jgi.doe.gov preprint by @tomasbruna.bsky.social @jotlovell.bsky.social @avril-m-harder.bsky.social Avinash Sreedasyam takes a closer look
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🌿Plant pangenomes🌿 have a LOT of genomic presence-absence-variation.
Or do they???
A new @jgi.doe.gov preprint by @tomasbruna.bsky.social @jotlovell.bsky.social @avril-m-harder.bsky.social Avinash Sreedasyam takes a closer look
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Or do they???
A new @jgi.doe.gov preprint by @tomasbruna.bsky.social @jotlovell.bsky.social @avril-m-harder.bsky.social Avinash Sreedasyam takes a closer look
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Weirdly this doesn't mention that the woman Trump put in charge of reviewing the Smithsonian is his Florida criminal defense attorney who didn't like some of the museum's exhibits when she visited after the inauguration so she convinced Trump to sign an executive order putting her in charge
August 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Weirdly this doesn't mention that the woman Trump put in charge of reviewing the Smithsonian is his Florida criminal defense attorney who didn't like some of the museum's exhibits when she visited after the inauguration so she convinced Trump to sign an executive order putting her in charge
Very happy to share our preprint on sorghum strigolactone diversity! 🌱
Sorghum naturally varies in strigolactones, plant hormones that can sometimes protect against the parasitic plant Striga.
We asked if this diversity could be connected to potential trade-offs in host resistance strategies.
Sorghum naturally varies in strigolactones, plant hormones that can sometimes protect against the parasitic plant Striga.
We asked if this diversity could be connected to potential trade-offs in host resistance strategies.
Strigolactone effects on Sorghum bicolor ecophysiology and symbioses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669140v1
August 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Very happy to share our preprint on sorghum strigolactone diversity! 🌱
Sorghum naturally varies in strigolactones, plant hormones that can sometimes protect against the parasitic plant Striga.
We asked if this diversity could be connected to potential trade-offs in host resistance strategies.
Sorghum naturally varies in strigolactones, plant hormones that can sometimes protect against the parasitic plant Striga.
We asked if this diversity could be connected to potential trade-offs in host resistance strategies.
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Excited to see our pangenomic breeding network preprint out www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Delivering trait-enhanced varieties to African smallholders through a pangenomic breeding network
Pangenomics has been promoted to accelerate breeding of orphan crops, but smallholder farmers in developing nations have seen little benefit so far. To address this gap, we built a global pangenomic b...
www.biorxiv.org
August 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Excited to see our pangenomic breeding network preprint out www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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This began as a @jgi.doe.gov Community Science Program (CSP) project in 2017 with the goal of uniting the diverse sorghum breeding and mapping populations in the framework of a 'pangenome'.
Thanks to a huge efforts across many stakeholders, the article was preprinted today. A 🧵 w/ what we found:
Thanks to a huge efforts across many stakeholders, the article was preprinted today. A 🧵 w/ what we found:
Developing future resilience from signatures of adaptation across the sorghum pangenome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.667986v1
August 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This began as a @jgi.doe.gov Community Science Program (CSP) project in 2017 with the goal of uniting the diverse sorghum breeding and mapping populations in the framework of a 'pangenome'.
Thanks to a huge efforts across many stakeholders, the article was preprinted today. A 🧵 w/ what we found:
Thanks to a huge efforts across many stakeholders, the article was preprinted today. A 🧵 w/ what we found:
Reposted by Chloee McLaughlin
I'll never get over this poem a child wrote with one of my poetry prompts.
May 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I'll never get over this poem a child wrote with one of my poetry prompts.
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Branching out...🎋🌼
Kuno et al. show that #Arabidopsis CYP722A1 synthesizes a noncanonical SL that specifically regulates floral transition, suggesting structural diversification of #strigolactones are required for specialized functions in #plantdevelopment
🆓🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience
Kuno et al. show that #Arabidopsis CYP722A1 synthesizes a noncanonical SL that specifically regulates floral transition, suggesting structural diversification of #strigolactones are required for specialized functions in #plantdevelopment
🆓🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience
May 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Branching out...🎋🌼
Kuno et al. show that #Arabidopsis CYP722A1 synthesizes a noncanonical SL that specifically regulates floral transition, suggesting structural diversification of #strigolactones are required for specialized functions in #plantdevelopment
🆓🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience
Kuno et al. show that #Arabidopsis CYP722A1 synthesizes a noncanonical SL that specifically regulates floral transition, suggesting structural diversification of #strigolactones are required for specialized functions in #plantdevelopment
🆓🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience
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Talking Biotech 459 - where did the key domestication mutations in corn come from? Were they present in resident gene pools waiting to be selected, or new mutations? I discuss with @jrossibarra and his student Regina Fairbanks.
@aspb @ASHS_Hort @UF_IFAS share.transistor.fm/s/bed2ffa6
@aspb @ASHS_Hort @UF_IFAS share.transistor.fm/s/bed2ffa6
May 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Talking Biotech 459 - where did the key domestication mutations in corn come from? Were they present in resident gene pools waiting to be selected, or new mutations? I discuss with @jrossibarra and his student Regina Fairbanks.
@aspb @ASHS_Hort @UF_IFAS share.transistor.fm/s/bed2ffa6
@aspb @ASHS_Hort @UF_IFAS share.transistor.fm/s/bed2ffa6
Very excited to see this PhD project get published in @natcomms.bsky.social!
Our paper on modeling maladaptation in cereal crops following a scenario of rapid climate change is out! 🌾
🧵👇
Our paper on modeling maladaptation in cereal crops following a scenario of rapid climate change is out! 🌾
🧵👇
new paper in @natcomms.nature.com by my former student @chloeemc.bsky.social on nuclear winter impacts on crops
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Maladaptation in cereal crop landraces following a soot-producing climate catastrophe - Nature Communications
Global catastrophes such as nuclear war can generate soot that reduces the amount of light reaching the earth’s surface. Here the authors model how this kind of catastrophe would impact common crop gr...
www.nature.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Very excited to see this PhD project get published in @natcomms.bsky.social!
Our paper on modeling maladaptation in cereal crops following a scenario of rapid climate change is out! 🌾
🧵👇
Our paper on modeling maladaptation in cereal crops following a scenario of rapid climate change is out! 🌾
🧵👇
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Wow, the cover looks great!
Nice work Patrice and @roederlab.bsky.social
The GENESPACE plot uses our new @jgi.doe.gov Pennycress and Brassica rapa genomes built in collaboration with @spicybotrytis.bsky.social & Katie Greenham, hosted on phytozome
Nice work Patrice and @roederlab.bsky.social
The GENESPACE plot uses our new @jgi.doe.gov Pennycress and Brassica rapa genomes built in collaboration with @spicybotrytis.bsky.social & Katie Greenham, hosted on phytozome
Check out the beautiful cover to our focus issue on Translational research from Arabidopsis to crop plants and beyond. More articles coming shortly. Congrats Patrice Salome and @jotlovell.bsky.social. @theplantcell.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/issue...
May 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Wow, the cover looks great!
Nice work Patrice and @roederlab.bsky.social
The GENESPACE plot uses our new @jgi.doe.gov Pennycress and Brassica rapa genomes built in collaboration with @spicybotrytis.bsky.social & Katie Greenham, hosted on phytozome
Nice work Patrice and @roederlab.bsky.social
The GENESPACE plot uses our new @jgi.doe.gov Pennycress and Brassica rapa genomes built in collaboration with @spicybotrytis.bsky.social & Katie Greenham, hosted on phytozome
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It's all in the timing: vegetative phase change alters selection under drought and contributes to local adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653704v1
May 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's all in the timing: vegetative phase change alters selection under drought and contributes to local adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653704v1
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Ancient pangenomic origins of noncanonical NLR genes underlying the recent evolutionary rescue of a staple crop https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.11.648396v1
April 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Ancient pangenomic origins of noncanonical NLR genes underlying the recent evolutionary rescue of a staple crop https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.11.648396v1
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In 1825, a skilled Black artisan taught a young medical student, Charles Darwin, how to preserve animal specimens via taxidermy, a skill he used in his exploration of the Galapagos.
John Edmonstone was born a slave in Guyana, but freed when the family who owned him moved back to Scotland.
John Edmonstone was born a slave in Guyana, but freed when the family who owned him moved back to Scotland.
February 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
In 1825, a skilled Black artisan taught a young medical student, Charles Darwin, how to preserve animal specimens via taxidermy, a skill he used in his exploration of the Galapagos.
John Edmonstone was born a slave in Guyana, but freed when the family who owned him moved back to Scotland.
John Edmonstone was born a slave in Guyana, but freed when the family who owned him moved back to Scotland.
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Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
February 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
www.thepinknews.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:04 PM
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
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New preprint featuring my favorite maize-relatives, the Andropogoneae! We sequenced the genomes of 27 species, including lemongrass, kangaroo grass, little and big bluestem, and more -- key species that shape grasslands and prairies worldwide. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
New preprint featuring my favorite maize-relatives, the Andropogoneae! We sequenced the genomes of 27 species, including lemongrass, kangaroo grass, little and big bluestem, and more -- key species that shape grasslands and prairies worldwide. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Evolution of species' range and niche in changing environments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.16.633367v1
January 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Evolution of species' range and niche in changing environments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.16.633367v1
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Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments - Conservation Genetics
Genetic diversity is critical for adaptation in response to changing environments and provides a valuable metric for predicting species’ extinction risk. The International Union for Conservation of Na...
link.springer.com
January 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Super happy to share that our perspective piece on why and how genetic data should be incorporated into IUCN Red List assessments is published! This was a passion project that came out of a grad-level class taught by @jillahamilton.bsky.social 🌿🦇🐞🪼🦧🌳🧬
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments - Conservation Genetics
Genetic diversity is critical for adaptation in response to changing environments and provides a valuable metric for predicting species’ extinction risk. The International Union for Conservation of Na...
link.springer.com
January 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Super happy to share that our perspective piece on why and how genetic data should be incorporated into IUCN Red List assessments is published! This was a passion project that came out of a grad-level class taught by @jillahamilton.bsky.social 🌿🦇🐞🪼🦧🌳🧬
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...