Dr. Grusz awarded NSF EAGER grant!
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Dr. Grusz is awarded a US National Science Foundation EAGER grant to study the evolution of obligate apomixis in ferns.
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Myriopteris lendigera (Cav.) J. Sm.
Grant in Aid supports drought study @ UMD
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Dr. Grusz has been awarded a Grant in Aid from the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of Minnesota to study the biological and evolutionary implications of severe drought in deserts of North America.
Read MoreExploring global patterns of apomixis in Pteris
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New data from Picard et al. (2021) reveal frequent origins of obligate apomixis in Pteris L. globally. Click here to read more about how Kathryn and colleagues used museum specimens to explore worldwide patterns of geographical parthenogenesis in ferns.
Read MoreSarah presents the results of her bioinformatics-based UROP study!
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Check out the great work conducted by the Grusz Lab’s very own, undergraduate researcher Sarah Myint. Sarah’s UROP study leveraged comparative bioinformatics to test the power of genome skimming data for answering evolutionary questions in hybrid organisms. Click the link below to learn more about her work!
Read MoreFern apomixis in AJB!
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Click the link below to learn more about our newest publication in the American Journal of Botany special issue Life without water:
Grusz, A.L., M.D. Windham, K.T. Picard, E. Schuettpelz, K.M. Pryer, and C.H. Haufler. 2021. A drought-driven hypothesis for the origin of obligate apomixis in ferns: evidence from pellaeids (Pteridaceae). American Journal of Botany 108:263–283.
Read MoreSpring 2020, a new normal
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The Grusz Lab approached the onset of Covid-19 with a ‘can do’ attitude, embracing Zoom and shifting our focus toward supercomputing and conducting analyses using python, R, and other key bioinformatics programs and packages.
Read MoreStudent research highlighted @ UROP Showcase
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Senior UMD undergraduates Jacob Martin and Abigail Roufs presented the results of their summer research at the Fall 2019 Undergraduate Research Showcase. Martin conducted paid summer research in the Grusz lab with support from a BURST Fellowship (2019) and Roufs served as an undergraduate researcher at the Glensheen Historic Mansion.
Read MoreUndergraduate award winners @ Botany 2019
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Undergraduate researchers were on a roll at Botany 2019. The Grusz lab is proud to announce that Blake Fauskee (University of Minnesota Duluth, ‘19) received a Young Botanist Award from the Botanical Society of America, and undergraduate Hannah Ranft (Johns Hopkins University, ‘20; NMNH NHRE) earned the impressive Edgar T. Wherry Award for best paper in the Pteridological section at the annual Botany meetings.
Read MoreStudents spend the summer @ Smithsonian
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Grusz lab members Blake Fauskee and Noah Olson (UMN Duluth, class of '2019) will spend their summer exploring museum collections in the Department of Botany at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, contributing to a project exploring the evolutionary implications of asexual reproduction on organismal diversity.
Read MoreGrusz Lab undergraduate wins prestigious NSF-GRFP
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Grusz Lab undergraduate Blake Fauskee awarded prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Read MoreStudents participate in OTS Tropical Ferns & Lycophytes field course
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Grusz lab members Ashley Zenzen and Blake Fauskee had an incredible experience on the OTS Tropical Ferns & Lycophytes 2019 graduate field course. A huge thank you to course faculty and staff!
Read MoreUndergraduate wins GENOPITCH funds
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Undergraduate student Blake Fauskee was recently awarded $2,500 in sequencing-related costs from the University of Minnesota Genomics Center’s Genopitch North competition.
Read MoreLab retreat @ Itasca Biological Station
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Grusz lab members spent a weekend at the Itasca Biological Station. Itasca provided a perfect laboratory setting and we enjoyed a weekend of chromosome squashing, phylogenetic trees, and ferny films.
Read MoreGrusz Lab @ Evolution 2018
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Grusz lab research on genotypic diversity in asexual ferns—supported by the University of Minnesota Duluth UROP program for undergraduate research—presented at Evolution 2018 in Montpellier, France.
Read MoreMobile DNA shapes fern plastome evolution
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Grusz lab research published in Genome Biology and Evolution (October 2018) reveals that a suite of mobile DNA sequences shape plastome evolution in ferns.
Read MoreLab hosts AFS Fern Foray @ Botany 2018
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The Grusz Lab hosted the American Fern Society’s annual Fern Foray at Botany, 2018 (Rochester, MN). More than 40 botanists from around the world joined us for an exploration of the ferns and lycophytes native to the Driftless flora.
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