matt-kustra.bsky.social
Evolutionary ecologist with a focus on sexual selection and speciation. Currently a Miller postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. PhD from UCSC '24. BS from UVA '18 Biol + CS. Website: https://kustra-matt.github.io/
👤 Joined on 25 September 2023
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@matt-kustra.bsky.socialVery excited to be part of the 2026 #PackardFellows from the Packard Foundation @packardfdn.bsky.social This will enable us to pursue bold studies of rapid evolution in plants, from the Arabidopsis plant to neotropical rainforests! www.packard.org/2026fellows ls.berkeley.edu/news/mois%C3...
Show PostSpent so much time worrying about if I was picking a good paper for reading group but it ended up being a student told me they thought it was really interesting and thanked me for picking the paper, so that's way better of a response than I was expecting Guess I shouldn't worry so much
Show PostVery excited to share our latest paper, with my terrific student @prakharj.bsky.social, and wonderful collaborators Dan Coombs, Caroline Wagner, and @troyday.bsky.social We use simple models to explore how interventions could mitigate post-infection morbidity www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Show PostNew paper just dropped! Read on if you want to read about how traumatic insemination shapes the evolution of the bedbug seminal proteome, where we show rapidly evolving sperm proteins and an expansion of sperm leucylaminopeptidases. www.mcponline.org/article/S153... #Proteomics #Evolution #Bedbugs
Show Post#Speciation in miniature. #RiceEEB PhD student @maryamrfaghihi.bsky.social and a team of amazing #RiceUniversity undergrads are raising thousands of galls to collect 1mm wasp inquilines to test for reproductive isolation associated with host use (ecology) and geography.
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