Justin Conover

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Assistant Member and Principal Investigator Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis MO Interested in plants, popgen, polyploidy, and puns.

Stephen Schaeffer, professor emeritus at Penn State, stands at a podium to the right during a talk at the Evolution Conference. On the left, a slide is shown with a list of acknowledgements, including “Funding: Social Security Administration.”
A mathematical equation that represents the first order partial differential equation for the change in gamete frequencies for a tetraploid with polysomic inheritance. The expression is long, and is in a tiny text, to highight that it is impossible to intuit anything from this expression alone.
Shadowy silhouettes of several tall saguaro cacti, backlit by a beautiful Arizona sunset. The sky is painted with oranges and yellows, juxtaposed against the Sonoran desert flora.
Justin standing next to a sign of the logo of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. In the background is the building of the Danforth Center, which sits within a lush green prairie that surrounds the building.