Postdoc, botanist, and evolutionary biologist

Michigan State University

I am a National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology in the lab of Dr. Robert VanBuren at Michigan State University. My research is broadly focused on the evolution of plant photosynthesis from genes and gene regulation to plant anatomy and life history. This work varies greatly in form and scale; for example, sequencing the genome of single species with a rare photosynthetic system to measuring the correlations between anatomy and photosynthesis across all flowering plants. The common thread throughout my research is the use of comparative methods, as nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution (Dobzhansky).

Interests

Flowering plants
Comparative biology
Phylogenomics
Plant ecophysiology
Single-cell “omics”
Gene networks and regulation

Education

PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 2023
Yale University
MSc in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 2021
Yale University
MSc in Biological Sciences, 2017
University of Idaho
BSc in Physics, 2015
Bucknell University

Experience

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology (Area 3, Plant Genomes)

Michigan State University

June 2023 – Present East Lansing, MI, USA

I am a member of the Horticulture Department and Plant Resilience Institute. My current project aims to use single-nuclei RNA sequencing and chromatin accessibility assays to describe photosynthetic gene regulatory networks in the flowering plant Portulaca amilis, which is capable of using both C4 photosynthesis and Crassulacean acid metabolism.

Publications

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Ian S Gilman, Karolina Heyduk, Carlos A Maya-Lastra, Lillian P Hancock, Erika Edwards (2024). Predicting photosynthetic pathway from anatomy using machine learning. New Phytologist.

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Ian S Gilman, J Andrew C Smith, Joseph A M Holtum, Rowan F Sage, Katia Silvera, Klaus Winter, Erika J Edwards (2023). The CAM lineages of planet Earth. Annals of Botany.

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Rowan F Sage, Ian S Gilman, J Andrew C Smith, Katia Silvera, Erika J Edwards (2023). Atmospheric CO2 decline and the timing of CAM plant evolution. Annals of Botany.

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Ian S Gilman, Jose J Moreno-Villena, Zachary R Lewis, Eric W Goolsby, Erika J Edwards (2022). Gene co-expression reveals the modularity and integration of C4 and CAM in Portulaca. Plant Physiology.

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Jose J Moreno-Villena, Haoran Zhou, Ian S Gilman, S Lori Tausta, C Y Maurice Cheung, Erika J Edwards (2022). Spatial resolution of an integrated C4+CAM photosynthetic metabolism. Science Advances.

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