Shelly Gaynor
@shellygaynor
Incoming Assistant Professor at Florida State University | NSF Postdoc Fellow with U of Michigan | PhD from UF | polyploidy evolution + Botany
Extremely proud of @fkyeeb.bsky.social on receiving the Margaret Menzel Award for her #Botany2026 @botsocamerica.bsky.social talk! Keyi has accomplished so much this year, including finishing her PhD! Very proud to be part of her team! 🥳🎉
Though I will not make it to #Botany2026, Doug Soltis and Jacob Landis will tag-team my talk on Monday at 2:15 pm in Population Genomics (San Ignacio)!
At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.
Slowly updating my website to a lab site and having way too much fun. GEEP lab launching in Spring 2027!
I am not at #Evol2026, but @conjustover.bsky.social is! Go check out his talk on collaborative work we have been doing with John Wakeley on simulating autotetraploids tomorrow at 4:15pm.
Excited to share that I will be joining Florida State University as an Assistant Professor starting in January 2027! I’m thrilled to build my lab at FSU in the Ecology & Evolution Division within the Department of Biological Science — stay tuned! A huge thank you to my village for all the support!
This beautiful salamander is a 17 year old triploid. Such a cool paper.
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Allopolyploids would not have ears, and instead have a large proportion of alleles with a frequency of 0.5 - which is beautiful illustrated by Lloyd and Bomblies 2016 Figure 1 (doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...). (3/n)
When I built nQuack, I wanted to be able to capture both allopolyploids and autoployploids - which differ in expected proportions of heterozygotes. Specifically, we expected autopolyploids to look like cats or dogs (2/n)
Annual Mabel with a Lego PacBio Sequencer. This time the Vega, but we also have the Revio and Sequel Lego edition.
Spending my week in Michigan visiting the postdoc lab ~ @blackrim.bsky.social
Always excited for an increased salary submission! Congrats to the Department of Biological Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Tech for their stipend increase! This union-based win brings the pay almost to the 1:1 line! Update your department and find out more here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...
Last week, Julia Freeman visited the @soltislab.bsky.social to learn flow cytometry and chromosome squashing. It was a very successful week - genome size was estimated, and chromosomes were seen. And Julia made this beautiful watercolor of Galax!
Some photos from #Botany2025 ft. @fkyeeb.bsky.social @willweaver.bsky.social @tomacarruthers.bsky.social @soltislab.bsky.social and more
Hi #Botany2025 - In my quest to never do flow cytometry again, I am collecting sequence data (radseq, target enrichment, WGS, ect.) with confirmed ploidal level. If you have samples, reach out!
9 years ago I went to my first Botany with Julienne & @robertlaport.bsky.social lab when @willweaver.bsky.social and I were undergrads. All 3 undergrads in that photo now have PhDs and Robs an associate prof! #Botany2016 #Botany2025
Next up, JT Miller - a phd student in the @soltislab.bsky.social talking about occupancy models in the #Botany2025 soltis lab workshop.
Only three more talks left - first, Elizabeth White, a phd candidate from the @soltislab.bsky.social, presenting on post-enm analysis at the #Botany2025 Soltis lab workshop
Next up, Tyler Radtke, who just finished his BS, on null models at the #Botany2025 @soltislab.bsky.social workshop! Tyler is part of the PLANTs program this year and has a poster with @makenziemabryphd.bsky.social tomorrow!
Sebastian Fernandez, a soltis lab undergrad (who is about to graduate), presenting on ecological niche modeling in the @soltislab.bsky.social #Botany2025 workshop. Check out his poster with @makenziemabryphd.bsky.social tomorrow!
Starting back up at the Soltis lab #Botany2025 workshop with postdoc @makenziemabryphd.bsky.social
Undergrad Sydney Barfus now presenting on data exploration and environmental variables at the @soltislab.bsky.social #Botany2025 workshop! See her poster with @makenziemabryphd.bsky.social tomorrow!
Sarah Ellen Strickland, a first year PhD student in @soltislab.bsky.social, now presenting on Georeferencing herbarium records at the #Botany2025 lab workshop!
Packed room for the @soltislab.bsky.social #Botany2025 workshop. If you cannot make it, all the resources can be found here: github.com/soltislab/Bo...