Assistant Member and Principal Investigator Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis MO Interested in plants, popgen, polyploidy, and puns.https://bsky.app/profile/conjustover.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/conjustover.bsky.social/post/3mp333oyte22xBy far, the best acknowledgements slide I saw at Evolution this year came from @swsschaeffer.bsky.social, professor emeritus at Penn State University. “Thank you to Penn State for still giving me an office space. And I thank Social Security for my salary support.”24 Jun 2026 23:30 +0000at://did:plc:nrefuk2apjvj34j2nafalmo6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp333oyte22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/conjustover.bsky.social/post/3lxuqugycok23New Preprint! This one led by Sam Gibbon, an outstanding undergrad I've worked with for the past year. We take a look at whether segregation patterns in tetraploids (disomic v polysomic) affects mut-sel dynamics. We found some surprising results, and some subtleties: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.28.672890v102 Sep 2025 18:32 +0000at://did:plc:nrefuk2apjvj34j2nafalmo6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxuqugycok23https://bsky.app/profile/conjustover.bsky.social/post/3lwco6yzspk2eNew Paper! In 2019, my first dissertation chapter revealed complicated polyploidies in the cotton family (Malvaceae) but we lacked the tools and genomes to truly understand it. Now with better genomes and improved methods, it's much more complicated than we thought. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62644-7#citeas13 Aug 2025 20:31 +0000at://did:plc:nrefuk2apjvj34j2nafalmo6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwco6yzspk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/conjustover.bsky.social/post/3lsw2e76grc2lThe Conover Lab is open! I am so excited to join a group of talented, caring, and creative folks at the @danforthcenter.bsky.social, all in service of improving the human condition through plant science. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2025 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:nrefuk2apjvj34j2nafalmo6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsw2e76grc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/conjustover.bsky.social/post/3lo5b35rpk223Thanks for everything, Tucson! I arrived in St. Louis today, and am incredibly excited to see what this city has in store for me. Only one month until the Conover Lab officially opens at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center!01 May 2025 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:nrefuk2apjvj34j2nafalmo6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo5b35rpk223https://bsky.app/profile/conjustover.bsky.social/post/3lf64ug33o22uFirst statistical test of the year was p=0.053. It's going to be a good year.07 Jan 2025 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:nrefuk2apjvj34j2nafalmo6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf64ug33o22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/conjustover.bsky.social/post/3larvhulsr722Since #starterpacks have taken off, I couldn't find a great to way search for them within bluesky. But, you can you search all of the starterpacks here and follow as many as you like! https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all12 Nov 2024 22:37 +0000at://did:plc:nrefuk2apjvj34j2nafalmo6/app.bsky.feed.post/3larvhulsr722