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Apr 20, 2026 The Plant Resilience Institue at Michigan State awarded a seed grant to me and VanBuren Lab PhD candidate Jenny Schuster. Our project “Defining transcriptional cell states in desiccation tolerant plants with spatial RNAseq” will leverage a new 10X Visium machine at the RTSF Genomics Core to integrate spatial RNAseq into our single cell research on desiccation tolerant plants.
Dec 22, 2025 I accepted a position to join the Biology Department at Fairfield University next fall as an assistant professor!.
Aug 01, 2024 “Convergent evolution of desiccation tolerance in grasses” (Marks, Pas, Schuster, Gilman & VanBuren) published in Nature Plants.
Jan 01, 2024 “Predicting photosynthetic pathway from anatomy using machine learning” (Gilman, Heyduk, Maya-Lastra, Hancock & Edwards) published in New Phytologist.