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I am bioinformatician and did my PhD at Max Planck Insitute for Chemical Ecology, Jena. Currently I am postdoc in UC Davis, working on climate adaptation in California’s mountain jewelflowers. I am mostly interested in natural history driven evolutionary questions, agnostic of any particular species. I like to observe the nature, and let it lead to questions which I think about testing them using whatever data I can get my hands on. I also love to capture the nature at the same time, especially birds, in my photo album.

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Publications

Ray R., Lyons J., Ashlock S., Quarles-Chidyagwai B., Gremer J.R., Maloof J.N., Magney T.S. "Spectral Network Analysis Illuminates Coordinated Trait Evolution Across Plant Populations"

Ray, R., Halitschke, R., Gase, K., Leddy, S.M., Schuman, M.C., Rodde, N., and Baldwin, I.T., 2023. "A persistent major mutation in canonical jasmonate signaling is embedded in an herbivory-elicited gene network", accepted in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Ray, R., Li, D., Halitschke, R. and Baldwin, I.T., 2019. "Using natural variation to achieve a whole‐plant functional understanding of the responses mediated by jasmonate signaling", The Plant Journal, 99(3), pp.414-425.

Ray, R. and Pandey, P., 2018. "piRNA analysis framework from small RNA-Seq data by a novel cluster prediction tool-PILFER", Genomics, 110(6), pp.355-365.

Blog posts

From Nature to Networks: How Light is Revolutionizing Plant Science - September 25, 2025

The Rebel Gene: How Plants Balance Growth and Defense Through Hidden Networks - July 31, 2023