Welcome to the Ashman Lab
International & national collaborative research & synthesis.
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Polyploidy & biodiversity
The Ashman Lab is part of a new Biology Integration Institute: Pi3 Polyploidy Integration Innovation Institute in which we will study polyploidy across scales and biological systems with Colleagues from U Florida, Duke, Cornell, U Kentucky, U Minnesota, U Mississippi and more !
Pollination in biodiversity hotspots
Dr. Ashman collaborates with Drs. Victor Para Tabla, Conchita Alonso, ad Gerardo Arceo-Gomez to study taxonomic, functional and interaction biodiversity in species-rich regions of the world. In a new initiative funded by Fulbright we will address how pollination has changed over the last decade!
Polyploidy & biodiversity
Mechanisms of sex determination
The Ashman Lab is leading an international collaboration to address how polyploidy contributes to biodiversity using wild strawberry (Fragaria) that has centers of diversity in China and North America. This is a collaboration between Ashman, Liston, Cronn labs in the USA and Li and Dong Labs in China. More information can be found on our project website: http://wildstrawberry.org/
Drivers of of Pollen limitation
Dr. Ashman is co-leading along with Dr. Tiffany Knight and Dr. Janettte Steets an international group to address global and temporal patterns of pollen limitation. Linkig these to causes and consequences is key to sustainabiity and biodiveristy preservation. This is funded by iDiv website: https://www.idiv.de/?id=153
Dr. Ashman is a member of the Tree of Sex consortium that seeks to uncover overarching similarities and key disparities in the evolution of sexual systems and sex chromosomes. See more at http://treeofsex.org/
Pollen virome
The Ashman lab has partnered with the Pipas lab to study the next viral frontier--pollen grains using a metagenomic and phylogenetic approach.