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We aim to understand molecular pathways of developmental adaptability to a changing climate,  using herbaria as windows into the past.

How can plants respond to climate change? 

Which molecular mechanisms are modulated to generate these responses? 

How does this change plant development?

To address these questions, we  time-travel through the last ~200 years by following phenotype and genotype changes in historical herbarium specimens, and combine herbarium genomics, population genetics, evolution and molecular biology to functionally understand plant developmental responses to environmental change on day- to century-scales.

For more information, visit the lab web: http://www.patricialang.org

Century-long timelines of herbarium genomes predict plant stomatal response to climate change
Lang P.^, Erberich J.M.**, Lopez L., Weiss C.L., Amador G., Fung H.F., Latorre S.M., Lasky J.R., Burbano H.A., Esposito-Alonso M. & Bergmann D. (bioRxiv preprint, 2022)

Hybridization ddRAD-Sequencing for Population Genomics of Non-Model Plants Using Highly Degraded Historical Specimen DNA
Lang P., Weiß C.L., Kersten S., Latorre S.M., Nagel S., Nickel B., Meyer M. and Burbano H.A. (Molecular Ecology Resources, 2021)

Alternative usage of miRNA-biogenesis co-factors in plants at low temperatures
Re D.A.*, Lang P.*, Yones C., Arce A.L., Stegmayer G., Milone D. and Manavella P.A. (Development, 2019)

Using herbaria to study global environmental change
Lang P., Willems F.M., Scheepens J.F., Burbano H.A. and Bossdorf O. (PeerJ preprint | New Phytologist, 2018)

For the most updated publication list, see Patricia's Google scholar
* co-first authors    |    ** student-mentee    |    ^ corresponding author