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<h1>Alexa Tyszka</h1>
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Ph.D. Candidate, Ecology & Evolution<br>
University of Illinois at Chicago <br>
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<p>Nice to meet you! I am broadly interested in plant evolution and phylogenetics, specifically within <i>Caryophyllales</i> and carnivorous plants within many separate groups. In my work I optimize analyses of large-scale genetic data with tools in <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/"><i class="fa-brands fa-r-project"></i></a> and python <i class="fa-brands fa-python"></i>.</p>
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<p>Nice to meet you! I am broadly interested in plant evolution and phylogenetics, specifically within <i>Caryophyllales</i> and carnivorous plants across disparate families. In my work I attempt to optimize analyses of large-scale genetic data with tools in <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/"><i class="fa-brands fa-r-project"></i></a> and python <i class="fa-brands fa-python"></i>.</p>
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<li> <b>Tyszka AS</b>, Chia KS, Bretz EC, Mansour L, Larson DA, Carella P, Walker JF. Herbaria provide a valuable resource for obtaining informative mRNA. <i>bioRxiv preprint</i>. 2025:2025-02. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.12.637878">https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.12.637878</a></li>
<li>Grenz K, Chia KS, Turley EK, <b>Tyszka AS</b>, Atkinson RE, Reeves J, Vickers M, Rejzek M, Walker JF, Carella P. A necrotizing toxin enables Pseudomonas syringae infection across evolutionarily divergent plants. <i>Cell Host & Microbe</i>. 2025 Jan 8;33(1):20-9. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2024.11.014">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2024.11.014</a></li>
<li><b>Tyszka AS</b>, Larson DA, Walker JF. Sequencing historical RNA: unrealized potential to increase understanding of the plant tree of life. <i>Trends in Plant Science</i>. 2024 Nov 29. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.004">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.004</a></li>
<li> Ruiz-Vargas N, Ramanauskas K, <b>Tyszka AS</b>, Bretz EC, Yeo MT, Mason-Gamer RJ, Walker JF. Transcriptome data from silica-preserved leaf tissue reveal gene flow patterns in a Caribbean bromeliad. <i>Annals of Botany</i>. 2024 Mar 1;133(3):459-72. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae002">https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae002 </a></li>
<li><b>Tyszka AS</b>, Bretz EC, Robertson HM, Woodcock-Girard MD, Ramanauskas K, Larson DA, Stull GW and Walker JF (2023) Characterizing conflict and congruence of molecular evolution across organellar genome sequences for phylogenetics in land plants. <i>Front. Plant Sci.</i> 14:1125107.<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1125107">
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<li><b> July 2024: </b> Presented my first talk, titled <i>Prospects for expanding the plant tree of life
with historical RNA sequencing</i> at Botany 2024 in Montreal. </li>
<li> <b> July 2023:</b> Find a
<a href="01-pages/botany-23-supp/botany_23_Tyszka_poster.pdf">.pdf copy</a> of my Botany 2023 poster here.
<a href="01-pages/botany-23-supp/botany-23-supp.html">The interactive figures</a> and
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<li> <b>June 2022:</b> I attended Evolution 2022 in Cleveland, Ohio, and was excited to present a poster on the topic of <i>Cactus Virus X</i>. Photo below!</li>
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<li> <b>2021:</b> <a href="https://bios.uic.edu/news-stories/undergraduate-alexa-tyszka-awarded-national-science-foundation-graduate-research-fellowship/"><i>Alexa Tyszka wins the NSF GRFP award.</i></a></li>
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