The Jones Lab

Pollen count is high in Corvallis.  Andy talks pollen evolution to Oregon Public Broadcasting

Dusty Gannon’s work on Heliconia is highlighted in this blog post

Dusty has a paper that has just been published in the “Scientific Naturalist” section of Ecology. Read it here.  Well done, Dusty and all!

Tyler Schappe successfully defended is M.S. thesis in August.  Congratulations Tyler!

Nate Swenson and Andy coedited a Special Feature in the Journal of Ecology that has just been published.  You can read a blog post we wrote about it here.  The issue features a paper by MS student Tyler Schappe and postdoc Felipe Albornoz.

As fall quarter looms, we welcome two new lab members.  Felipe Albornoz joins us as a postdoctoral scholar. Felipe completed his Ph.D. in at Western Austrualia and will be working on the interactions between oomycetes and trees in the Wind River plot in Southern Washington. Dusty Gannon is a new Ph.D. student and NSF fellow […]

Kristen Finch was interviewed by Mongabay about her research.  Read it here.

Summer is in full swing in the lab.  Kristen is at a genetics workshop in New Mexico, Tyler is doing field work at Wind River forest in Washington, and Andy will present research results at the ATBC meeting in Montpellier, France, mentor students and scientists at the CTFS Analytical Workshop in Hainan, China, and visit field […]

Zalamea et al. just published an article in the New Phytologist on tropical seedling responses to phosphorus.  You can read the article here.  Well done all.

Postdoctoral Position in Plant Oomycete Pathogen interactions at Oregon State University A postdoctoral scholar position to apply genomic approaches to understanding the ecology and evolution of oomycete pathogens and their plant hosts is open in the laboratory of Drs. Andy Jones, Nik Grunwald, and Brett Tyler at Oregon State University.  The NSF-funded Dimensions of Biodiversity […]