Dr. Anna Forsman

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Bird-chasing and microbe-wrangling Ecoimmunologist. Teacher-scholar. Daytime home: UCF Genomics & Bioinformatics Cluster 🐦🦠🧬🇸🇪
Websitehttps://sciences.ucf.edu/biology/annaforsman/
Beautiful morning in the Florida scrub. Hoping for a productive day of fieldwork! Bring on the jays 😍
Quick visit to my snowy new home, Colby College! I’m so excited 😆
Big life news for 2023!! This fall, I will be joining the Biology Department at Colby College as Assistant Professor! The Wild Symbioses Lab is on the move. Maine next 😃
Good morning, Saigon!
Officially on winter break! Let’s do this!!
A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA - Nature

Analysis of two-million-year-old ancient environmental DNA from the Kap København Formation in North Greenland shows there was an open boreal forest with diverse plant and animal species, of which several taxa have not previously been detected at the site, representing an ecosystem that has no present-day analogue.

Nature
We've made it!
3000 users on ecoevo.social 🎉 
I have extra assistance with lecture prep today! Laptop incubation is a very important step to the process of producing the perfect presentation 🤣
Introductory post: I'm an entomologist/evolutionary biologist that's interested in the evolution of Hymenoptera 🐝 🐜 , in particular gall inducing/ parasitic wasps. Currently I'm a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Edinburgh, using phylogenomics 🧬 , community ecology 💻 , and morphological taxonomy 🔬 to figure out who's who, and who eats who in a tritrophic system consisting of 🌹 -> 🌹gall wasps->their natural enemies.