Lucas Albano
@lucasjalbano.bsky.social
Plant evolutionary ecologist ☘️🇨🇦
Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution at Stanford University 🌲
Previously:
Postdoc at NC State 🔴⚪️⚫️
Ph.D. at University of Toronto 🔵⚪️
M.Sc. at University of Guelph 🔴⚫️🟡
B.Sc. at Western University 🟣⚪️
Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution at Stanford University 🌲
Previously:
Postdoc at NC State 🔴⚪️⚫️
Ph.D. at University of Toronto 🔵⚪️
M.Sc. at University of Guelph 🔴⚫️🟡
B.Sc. at Western University 🟣⚪️
Today marks my first day as a full-time Lecturer in the Department of Biology at Stanford University! Looking forward to teaching ecology and evolution in the lecture hall, lab, and field and training many emerging biologists! And a big shout out today to those who inspired me in my own training! 🌲
September 1, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Today marks my first day as a full-time Lecturer in the Department of Biology at Stanford University! Looking forward to teaching ecology and evolution in the lecture hall, lab, and field and training many emerging biologists! And a big shout out today to those who inspired me in my own training! 🌲
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Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB!
Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1
I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions
Spread the word!
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Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1
I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions
Spread the word!
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
eeb.msu.edu
August 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB!
Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1
I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions
Spread the word!
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1
I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions
Spread the word!
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
Very excited to have started as a contract teaching faculty @laurierbiology.bsky.social for 300-level Evolution this spring and looking forward to providing a creative and engaging educational experience focused on active learning!
May 6, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Very excited to have started as a contract teaching faculty @laurierbiology.bsky.social for 300-level Evolution this spring and looking forward to providing a creative and engaging educational experience focused on active learning!
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Join us here at @laurentianu.bsky.social as we rebuild our ecology/evolution group.
We are hiring an assistant professor in animal ecology
Working with me is a treat, so that's a bonus not mentioned in the ad.
laurentian.ca/about/career...
We are hiring an assistant professor in animal ecology
Working with me is a treat, so that's a bonus not mentioned in the ad.
laurentian.ca/about/career...
laurentian.ca
April 1, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Join us here at @laurentianu.bsky.social as we rebuild our ecology/evolution group.
We are hiring an assistant professor in animal ecology
Working with me is a treat, so that's a bonus not mentioned in the ad.
laurentian.ca/about/career...
We are hiring an assistant professor in animal ecology
Working with me is a treat, so that's a bonus not mentioned in the ad.
laurentian.ca/about/career...
☘️New paper!☘️ Very excited that my 3rd and final data chapter of my PhD with @evoecolab.bsky.social is now published in JEB! We manipulated precipitation and herbivory at field sites in Ontario and Louisiana to test their effects on white clover HCN chemical defense phenotypes
A field experiment by @lucasjalbano.bsky.social et al. assessing the roles of drought, herbivory, and local climate on cyanogenesis cline formation and local adaptation in Trifolium repens:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
A field experiment assessing the roles of drought, herbivory, and local climate on cyanogenesis cline formation and local adaptation in Trifolium repens
Abstract. Projecting how populations will adapt to environmental changes requires a mechanistic understanding of selection imposed by various biotic and ab
doi.org
March 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
☘️New paper!☘️ Very excited that my 3rd and final data chapter of my PhD with @evoecolab.bsky.social is now published in JEB! We manipulated precipitation and herbivory at field sites in Ontario and Louisiana to test their effects on white clover HCN chemical defense phenotypes
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Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867
Cornell University, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Job #AJO31867, WDR-00057721 Postdoctoral Associate, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
March 26, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867
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Big congrats to former Lowry Lab postdoc Daniel Anstett, who's paper: "Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought" is out in Science today. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought
Populations that are declining as a result of climate change may need to evolve to persist. Although evolutionary rescue has been demonstrated in theory and in the laboratory, its relevance to natural...
www.science.org
March 12, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Big congrats to former Lowry Lab postdoc Daniel Anstett, who's paper: "Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought" is out in Science today. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
☘️NEW PAPER☘️ I am incredibly excited to announce that the centrepiece of my PhD was just published in Ecological Monographs! This was a massive transcontinental common garden experiment using white clover with researchers from UToronto 🇨🇦, UL Lafayette 🇺🇸, CNRS 🇫🇷, and SLU 🇸🇪 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
doi.org
February 17, 2026 at 10:53 PM
☘️NEW PAPER☘️ I am incredibly excited to announce that the centrepiece of my PhD was just published in Ecological Monographs! This was a massive transcontinental common garden experiment using white clover with researchers from UToronto 🇨🇦, UL Lafayette 🇺🇸, CNRS 🇫🇷, and SLU 🇸🇪 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
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Are you anywhere in the world (other than Canada) and want to do a PhD in my lab in Canada at Queen's University? We have a prestigious scholarship for 3-years of PhD funding. Get in touch, applications due early February. Must love plants and evolution!
friedmanlab.ca
friedmanlab.ca
Friedman Lab
Visit the post for more.
friedmanlab.ca
January 27, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Are you anywhere in the world (other than Canada) and want to do a PhD in my lab in Canada at Queen's University? We have a prestigious scholarship for 3-years of PhD funding. Get in touch, applications due early February. Must love plants and evolution!
friedmanlab.ca
friedmanlab.ca
Extremely proud of the outcome of this very cool experiment with @seemasheth.bsky.social that involved imposing a heatwave treatment on scarlet monkeyflower seedlings. It was really fun to be able to explore some plant ecophysiology concepts and put them in an evolutionary context. Please share!
Rangewide responses of #Mimulus cardinalis to an extreme heat event
New #AJB research by Lucas Albano, Robin Bingham, Sulma Correa, Catherine Laufenberg, Cristina Payst, Christopher Muir & Seema Nayan Sheth
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #monkeyflower #climatechange
New #AJB research by Lucas Albano, Robin Bingham, Sulma Correa, Catherine Laufenberg, Cristina Payst, Christopher Muir & Seema Nayan Sheth
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #monkeyflower #climatechange
January 15, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Extremely proud of the outcome of this very cool experiment with @seemasheth.bsky.social that involved imposing a heatwave treatment on scarlet monkeyflower seedlings. It was really fun to be able to explore some plant ecophysiology concepts and put them in an evolutionary context. Please share!
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We are pleased to announce the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Urban Evolution and Ecology which will be held from Jan. 31 - Feb. 5, 2027. Please save the dates, and we look forward to welcoming you to beautiful Ventura Beach, California!
January 7, 2026 at 6:55 PM
We are pleased to announce the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Urban Evolution and Ecology which will be held from Jan. 31 - Feb. 5, 2027. Please save the dates, and we look forward to welcoming you to beautiful Ventura Beach, California!
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Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)
December 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)
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A resurrection study of scarlet monkeyflower populations across the species' range finds relatively little adaptive response to a seven-year drought event, showing that evolutionary rescue is not as predictable as we might hope 🌿
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December 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A resurrection study of scarlet monkeyflower populations across the species' range finds relatively little adaptive response to a seven-year drought event, showing that evolutionary rescue is not as predictable as we might hope 🌿
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I'm hiring a full time fixed-term 1yr lab tech to assist with field and greenhouse projects related to floral evolution and plant reproductive ecology. Please share! Ideal start date early 2026.
jobs.clemson.edu/psc/ps/JOBS/...
jobs.clemson.edu/psc/ps/JOBS/...
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I'm hiring a full time fixed-term 1yr lab tech to assist with field and greenhouse projects related to floral evolution and plant reproductive ecology. Please share! Ideal start date early 2026.
jobs.clemson.edu/psc/ps/JOBS/...
jobs.clemson.edu/psc/ps/JOBS/...
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We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
Temporary Plant Evolutionary Ecology Field Technician
The Sheth plant evolutionary ecology lab in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) is currently seeking field technician to participate in an NS...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
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New paper from PhD student @ellmartin.bsky.social provides compelling experimental evidence that urbanization drives local adaptation, life history divergence and eco-evo feedbacks on a diverse community. Congrats Ella! 🌎🌆 #urbanecology #urbanevolution #evoeco
Part one of my common garden experiment is out today in Nature E&E!! We compare how urban and rural environments affect selection on HCN production, local adaptation, and eco-evo dynamics in white clover doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Effects of urbanization on local adaptation and eco-evolutionary feedbacks in white clover - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Evidence of adaptation to the urban environment remains limited. Using reciprocal transplants of white clover in urban and rural environments, this study shows divergent selection on an antiherbivore ...
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
New paper from PhD student @ellmartin.bsky.social provides compelling experimental evidence that urbanization drives local adaptation, life history divergence and eco-evo feedbacks on a diverse community. Congrats Ella! 🌎🌆 #urbanecology #urbanevolution #evoeco
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Part one of my common garden experiment is out today in Nature E&E!! We compare how urban and rural environments affect selection on HCN production, local adaptation, and eco-evo dynamics in white clover doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Effects of urbanization on local adaptation and eco-evolutionary feedbacks in white clover - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Evidence of adaptation to the urban environment remains limited. Using reciprocal transplants of white clover in urban and rural environments, this study shows divergent selection on an antiherbivore ...
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Part one of my common garden experiment is out today in Nature E&E!! We compare how urban and rural environments affect selection on HCN production, local adaptation, and eco-evo dynamics in white clover doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Incredibly proud to be a part of this amazing and ambitious collaboration and looking forward to putting all of the data together and exploring the results in the coming months!
Yesterday was the last day of data collection for our scarlet monkeyflower project involving a resurrection study in 3 latitudinally arrayed common gardens. With tons of support from family, friends, and colleagues along the way, the literal seeds of this project developed in 2010.
September 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Incredibly proud to be a part of this amazing and ambitious collaboration and looking forward to putting all of the data together and exploring the results in the coming months!
Bittersweet to be completely finished field work at the beautiful Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, the site of the southern common garden of the PERSIST project on adaptation to climate in scarlet monkeyflower with @seemasheth.bsky.social. On to the central garden next!
August 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Bittersweet to be completely finished field work at the beautiful Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, the site of the southern common garden of the PERSIST project on adaptation to climate in scarlet monkeyflower with @seemasheth.bsky.social. On to the central garden next!
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Now out in Oecologia! Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Now out in Oecologia! Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Very honoured to be involved in this huge collaboration investigating global invasion in ☘️ by contributing fitness data from the transcontinental common garden experiment I completed during my PhD with @evoecolab.bsky.social! Well done to @brandonhendrickson.bsky.social and many many others!
Whole-genome sequences and field experiments focusing on the global invasive forage crop, white clover, show high levels of genetic variation across continents and parallel signatures of selection in five haploblocks www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Haploblocks contribute to parallel climate adaptation following global invasion of a cosmopolitan plant - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Whole-genome sequences and field experiments focusing on the global invasive forage crop, Trifolium repens, show high levels of genetic variation across continents and parallel signatures of selection...
www.nature.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Very honoured to be involved in this huge collaboration investigating global invasion in ☘️ by contributing fitness data from the transcontinental common garden experiment I completed during my PhD with @evoecolab.bsky.social! Well done to @brandonhendrickson.bsky.social and many many others!
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Hi #evol2025, our paper came out yesterday and I'd love to chat about it. We used an underused tool for studying parasite local adaptation, the Host Reciprocal Transplant, to study switchgrass and its fungal rust.
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
June 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hi #evol2025, our paper came out yesterday and I'd love to chat about it. We used an underused tool for studying parasite local adaptation, the Host Reciprocal Transplant, to study switchgrass and its fungal rust.
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Presenting the first paper to come out of my postdoc with @seemasheth.bsky.social at #Evol2025 tomorrow. Results from a growth chamber experiment on adaptation to heatwaves in Mimulus cardinalis, led by Robin Bingham! Adaptation IV in Athena CD at 5pm! 🔥
June 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Presenting the first paper to come out of my postdoc with @seemasheth.bsky.social at #Evol2025 tomorrow. Results from a growth chamber experiment on adaptation to heatwaves in Mimulus cardinalis, led by Robin Bingham! Adaptation IV in Athena CD at 5pm! 🔥
Very excited to see this final product from a cool study led by @brandonhendrickson.bsky.social that adds to the story of the invasion success of white clover across the globe 🌎☘️🌏☘️🌍
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Evolution of drought resistance strategies following the introduction of white clover (Trifolium repens L.)
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
June 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Very excited to see this final product from a cool study led by @brandonhendrickson.bsky.social that adds to the story of the invasion success of white clover across the globe 🌎☘️🌏☘️🌍