PhD student @ry_folk lab. MSState University. Plant systematics. π± π΅π
Joined January 2022
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31 Oct 2025
happy halloween plant nerds π±
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24 Jun 2025
The Folk Lab at #Evolution2025. β¦@ry_folkβ© β¦@NickEngleWryeβ© β¦@dexcempβ© β¦@GiramPranotiβ© Shamim and John. #Athens #Georgia
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23 Jun 2025
@dexcemp presenting his recent work on edaphic island using Heuchera parviflora complex as model system #Evolution2025
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25 Oct 2024
NEW PAPER OUT!
Assessing drivers of leaf endophyte diversity and composition across a broad geographic and phylogenetic scale, we found that:
-assembly patterns differed between bacterial and fungal endophytes; (1/3)
25 Oct 2024
Continental sampling reveals core bacterial and environmentally driven fungal leaf #endophytes in #Heuchera
New #AJB research by @dexcemp, @NickEngleWrye, @hwillia8, @ry_folk et al.
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16428 #botany #fungi @wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol
ALT Map of sampling locations (pink circles) against genus range (purple).
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-bacterial communities were more similar in more closely related host taxa while fungal communities were more similar in geographically closer hosts; and (2/3)
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-fungal diversity was significantly influenced by aridity and precipitation while bacterial diversity was consistent across host taxa and environmental variables measured. (3/3)
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Dexcem Pantinople retweeted
22 Oct 2024
Something new every day in the lab...
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18 Oct 2024
I got to meet the pollinators of the Heuchera parviflora group in my 2-week field work across eastern US!
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Dexcem Pantinople retweeted
16 Oct 2024
βοΈPaper alert: Global assessment of diversity, endemism, threat & conservation of island plants π΄ποΈ
Key result: 31% of spp native / 21% endemic to islands, island endemics disproportionately threatened by extinction, islands insufficiently protected π§΅/1
doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-0β¦
ALT https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08036-1
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Dexcem Pantinople retweeted
17 Oct 2024
Researchers describe and illustrate a newly discovered aroid species from the Philippines. π΅π
π doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.24β¦
#Araceae
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Dexcem Pantinople retweeted
14 Oct 2024
See how - in a world first - a drone was used to discover a new plant species in Hawaii!
Learn more π
π Blog post: blog.pensoft.net/2024/10/09/β¦
π Research paper: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.24β¦
Video credit: @BenBotanical
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Dexcem Pantinople retweeted
12 Sep 2024
The life strategies of #parasitoids are stunningly diverse, but no wasps that attack and develop inside adult flies have ever been described. Our article describes the first one. Its hosts: Drosophila melanogaster and other species of #Drosophila
#Entomology #Braconidae
Nature research paper: Drosophila are hosts to the first described parasitoid wasp of adult flies go.nature.com/3MFgETh
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Nature research paper: Drosophila are hosts to the first described parasitoid wasp of adult flies go.nature.com/3MFgETh
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Dexcem Pantinople retweeted
2 Aug 2024
Great job from the students today at the MSU Undergraduate Research Showcase! Pictured: Sarah Demus, Bella Brownlee (herbarium mural project), and Hawinet Adugna (pollen metabarcoding).
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