Postdoc in the Sheth Evolutionary Ecology Lab at NC State Former PhD in the EvoEcoLab at University of Toronto Plant evolutionary ecologist (rapid adaptation in white clover and scarlet monkeyflower)https://bsky.app/profile/lucasjalbano.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucasjalbano.bsky.social/post/3mi32utti222n☘️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 [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Mar 2026 21:30 +0000at://did:plc:mqi7oxts65u2ticenczcjfkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi32utti222nhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucasjalbano.bsky.social/post/3mf3nrne7722f☘️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 🇸🇪 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70043 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70043Digital17 Feb 2026 22:53 +0000at://did:plc:mqi7oxts65u2ticenczcjfkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3nrne7722fhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucasjalbano.bsky.social/post/3mcic2arg3c24Extremely 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! [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Jan 2026 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:mqi7oxts65u2ticenczcjfkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcic2arg3c24https://bsky.app/profile/lucasjalbano.bsky.social/post/3lxwsrqy3yk2eIncredibly 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! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2025 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:mqi7oxts65u2ticenczcjfkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxwsrqy3yk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/lucasjalbano.bsky.social/post/3lwh5vhpdrk2rBittersweet 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!15 Aug 2025 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:mqi7oxts65u2ticenczcjfkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwh5vhpdrk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucasjalbano.bsky.social/post/3ltwonar2qk2xVery 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! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Jul 2025 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:mqi7oxts65u2ticenczcjfkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltwonar2qk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucasjalbano.bsky.social/post/3ls3c2ovk2c2zPresenting 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! 🔥21 Jun 2025 00:24 +0000at://did:plc:mqi7oxts65u2ticenczcjfkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls3c2ovk2c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucasjalbano.bsky.social/post/3lrspkqpq2c2zVery 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 🌎☘️🌏☘️🌍 [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jun 2025 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:mqi7oxts65u2ticenczcjfkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrspkqpq2c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucasjalbano.bsky.social/post/3lom7ervt422h🚨New preprint with @seemasheth.bsky.social! A resurrection experiment led by Robin Bingham (Western CO) showed that Mimulus cardinalis responded favourably to a heatwave treatment, plus enviro-specific divergent evol responses to a recent natural extreme heat event. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.01.651703v107 May 2025 20:11 +0000at://did:plc:mqi7oxts65u2ticenczcjfkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lom7ervt422h