Botanical Society Graduate Student Research Awards
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the BOTANICAL
SOCIETY OF AMERICA'S GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS
including the J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH
AWARD. The purpose of these awards is to support and
promote graduate student research in the botanical sciences. The
award was originally made possible in 1997 by a gift from the
late Dr. John Sidney Karling. Dr. Karling started his career at
Columbia and moved to Purdue as a full professor where he was
head of Biological Science for more than a decade. His research
interests were in cytology, marine fungi, and tropical biology.
He was an active member of both the Torrey Botanical Club and
the BSA.
The BSA provides 20, $500 awards in this group. In 2004, acknowledging the importance of graduate student
research, the BSA restructured the award to include one $500 J. S. Karling
Graduate Student Research Award in conjunction with nine $500 BSA Graduate
Student Research Awards. In 2012 we added another five awards, and in 2013 another five, for a total of 19.
2014 J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award
Catherine Rushworth, Duke University - Advisor, Dr. Thomas Mitchell-Olds, INSIGHTS INTO THE ORIGIN AND PERSISTENCE OF APOMIXIS IN THE BOECHERA HOLBOELLII SPECIES COMPLEX
2014 BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
Jason Berg, University of Maryland - Advisor, Dr. Elizabeth Zimmer, A molecular assessment of the potentially invasive plant species, Mimulus guttatus DC: Estimating genetic divergence, migration rates, and selfing rates for naturalized and invasive populations in North America and Europe
Andrew A. Crowl, University of Florida and the Folrida Museum of Natural History - Advisor, Dr. Nico Cellinese, Integrating Morphology, Cytology, Niche Modeling, and Phylogenetics to Understand the Evolutionary History of Endemic Campanula Species in the Mediterranean
Jessamine Finch, Northwestern University and Chicago Botanic Garden - Advisor, Dr. Kayri Havens-Young, The Effects of Climate Change on Plant Regeneration: Linking Neighborhood Size, Tolerance Range, and Species Responses
Elliot Gardner, Northwestern University and Chicago Botanic Garden - Advisor, Dr. Nyree Zerega, POLLINATION BIOLOGY OF DOMESTICATED ARTOCARPUS J.R. FORST. & G. FORST. (MORACEAE)
Alannie-Grace Grant, University of Pittsburgh - Advisor, Dr. Susan Kalisz, Testing the preemptive selfing hypothesis— Does self-pollination limit hybridization in co-flowering related species?
Kimberly Hansen, Northern Arizona University - Advisor, Dr. Tina J Ayers, Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Campanulaceae with NextGen Sequencing
Carla J. Harper, University of Kansas - Advisor, Dr. Thomas N. Taylor, Fungal diversity during the Permian and Triassic of Antarctica
Karolina Heyduk, University of Georgia - Advisor, Dr. Jim Leebens-Mack, Physiology and evolutionary genomics of CAM photosynthesis in Yucca (Asparagaceae)
Brian Hoven, Miami University - Advisor, Dr. David L. Gorchov, The effect of emerald ash borer-caused canopy gaps on understory invasive shrubs and forest regeneration
Kelly Ksiazek, Northwestern University and Chicago Botanic Garden - Advisor, Dr. Krissa Skogen, POLLEN MOVEMENT ON URBAN GREEN ROOFS
Emily Lewis, Northwestern University and Chicago Botanic Garden - Advisor, Dr. Krissa Skogen, Using pollinator foraging distance to predict genetic differentiation in hawkmoth- and bee-pollinated Oenothera species
Shih-Hui Liu, Saint Louis University and the Missouri Botanical Garden - Advisor, Dr. Jan Barber, Phylogeny of Ludwigia and polyploid evolution in section Macrocarpon (Onagraceae)
Blaine Marchant, University of Florida and the Folrida Museum of Natural History - Advisor, Drs. Douglas and Pamela Soltis, Investigations into the Fern Genome: Filling the Missing Link in Land Plant Genome Evolution
Renee Petipas, Cornell University - Advisor, Dr. Monica Geber, The Contribution of Root-Associated Microbes to Plant Local Adaptation
Clayton Visger, University of Florida and the Folrida Museum of Natural History - Advisor, Drs. Douglas and Pamela Soltis, Genomic consequences of autopolyploidy: Gene expression in diploid and autopolyploid Tolmiea (Saxifragaceae)
Emily Warschefsky, Florida International University and the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden - Advisor, Dr. Eric J. B. von Wettberg, Next-Generation Domestication Genetics of the Mango (M. indica L.)
Keir Wefferling, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Advisor, Dr. Sara Hoot, Speciation and hybridization in Caltha leptosepala s.l. (Ranunculaceae): Disentangling the subalpine marsh-marigold species complex
Kevin Weitemier, Oregon State University - Advisor, Dr. Aaron Liston, Genome-enabled phylogeography of a Great Basin milkweed, Asclepias cryptoceras
Brett Younginger, Portland State University - Advisor, Dr. Daniel Ballhorn, The diversity and functional role of foliar endophytes in stress-tolerant plants
2013 J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award
Gregory W. Stull, Florida Museum of Natural History and the
University of Florida - Advisor, Dr. Pamela S. Soltis, Integrating genomic, morphological, and fossil data for phylogenetic and biogeographic
reconstruction in the basal lamiid family Icacinaceae
2013 BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
Rafael E. Arévalo B., University of Wisconsin-Madison - Advisor, Dr. Kenneth M. Cameron, PHYLOGENY, FLOWER MICRO-MORPHOLOGY, AND FLORAL FRAGRANCES IN MORMOLYCA (ORCHIDACEAE)
Angelita Ashbacher, University of California Santa Cruz - Advisor, Dr. Laurel R. Fox, Effects of climate change on California wildflower community composition: The role of plant-pollinator interactions
John H. Chau, University of Washington - Advisor, Dr. Richard Olmstead, Molecular phylogenetics, inflorescence evolution, and historical biogeography in the genus Buddleja L. (Scrophulariaceae)
Hanna E. Dorman, Mississippi State University - Advisor, Dr. Lisa Wallace, Geographical variation in rhizobia associated with the Partridge Pea, Chamaecrista fasciculata (Fabaceae)
M. Kate Gallagher, University of California, Irvine - Advisor, Dr. Diane Campbell, Global climate change induced shifts in abiotic resources may alter pollination success: A test with Mertensia ciliata (Boraginaceae)
Richard Hodel, University of Florida - Advisors, Drs. Pamela and Douglas Soltis, Phylogeography and Conservation Genetics of Neo-tropical Mangroves (Avicennia germinans, Laguncularia racemosa and Rhizophora mangle)
Susan Yvonne Jaconis, University of Cincinnati - Advisor, Dr. Theresa M. Culley, Susceptibility of Plants to Diesel-Generated Particulate Matter in the Environment: Effects on Plant Growth, Ecophysiology and Reproduction
Carrie Kiel, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden/Claremont Graduate University - Advisor, Dr. Lucinda A. McDade, Pollinator Mediated Trait Evolution and Floral Diversification of Neotropical Justicia (Acanthaceae)
Rob Massatti, University of Michigan - Advisor, Dr. Tony Reznicek, Montane plant diversification on a continental scale: A dynamic barrier’s influence on the montane floras of Asia and North America
Kelly Matsunaga, Humboldt State University - Advisor, Dr. Alexandru M.F. Tomescu, The Beartooth Butte Formation flora of Wyoming: A window into Early Devonian plant diversity and basal lycopsid evolution
Theresa Melhem, Northwestern University and Chicago Botanic Garden - Advisor, Dr. Nyree Zerega, The Diversity and Origins of Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus, Lam.) in the Western of Ghats of India
Diego F. Morales-Briones, University of Idaho - Advisor, Dr. David C. Tank, Phylogeny and systematics of the genus Lachemilla (Rosaceae) in the Andes
Meagan F. Oldfather, University of California, Berkeley - Advisor, Dr. David Ackerly, Demographic stability in the trailing edge of a California alpine species
Audrey C. Ragsac, University of Washington - Advisor, Dr. Richard Olmstead, Is it easier to move or evolve?
Assessing the role of biome conservatism in Bignoniaceae diversification
Angela J. Rein, Oklahoma State University - Advisor, Dr. Mark Fishbein, Enigmatic Non-Twining Vines: Evolution and Systematics of Matelea subgenus Chthamalia (Gonolobinae, Apocynaceae)
Marisol Sánchez-García, University of Tennessee - Advisor, Dr. Edward E. Schilling, Systematics and evolution of the tribe Leucopaxilleae (Fungi: Agaricales)
Brandon T. Sinn, Ohio State University - Advisor, Dr. John V. Freudenstein, Species of A New Generation: The Integration of Next Generation Sequencing, Morphological and
Distributional Data for Species Discovery, Delimitation, and Reproductive Biology Characterization
Sally Marie Stevens, Purdue University - Advisor, Dr. Nancy C. Emery, Testing for Local Adaptation and Dispersal Limitation in a Plant Species Endemic to the Appalachian Mountains
Maria Wang, Northwestern University and Chicago Botanic Garden - Advisor, Dr. Nyree Zerega, THE DIVERSITY AND ORIGINS OF CHEMPEDAK (Artocarpus integer, Moraceae)
2012 J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award
Matthew P. Nelsen, University of Chicago - Advisor, Dr. Richard Ree, Early, on time or ‘fashionably’ late? The comparative dating of lichen symbionts
2012 BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
Guadalupe Borja, Oklahoma State University - Advisor, Dr. Andrew Doust, Integrating phylogeny, morphology, and population genetics: investigating species relationships in Paysonia (Brassicaceae)
Louisa G. Carter, University of Georgia - Advisor, Dr. Shu-Mei Chang, Range limits and conservation in species of a Florida endemic plant genus, Polygonella
Gretel Clarke, University of Vermont - Advisor, Dr. Alison K. Brody, Assessing the effects of pollinators, seed predators, and vertebrate herbivores on the demography of females and hermaphrodites in the gynodioecious plant, Polemonium foliosissimum
Julieta Gallego, Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio - Advisor, Dr. N.R. Cúneo, Analyzes of diversification rates of Patagonian Paleozoic and Mesozoic lineages of gymnosperms through calibration of molecular and morphological phylogenies
Rachel M. Germain, University of Toronto - Advisor, Dr. Benjamin Gilbert, Evolution of coexistence mechanisms in Mediterranean annual plant communities
Rachel A. Hackett, Central Michigan University - Advisor, Dr. Anna K. Monfils, Influence of landscape and local factors on plant communities
Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden & Claremont Graduate University - Advisor, Dr. Lucinda A. McDade, Testing adaptive radiation in the dry tropics: a phylogenetic approach to biogeography, inflorescence evolution, and hydraulic traits in the genus Varronia (Cordiaceae, Boraginales)
Laura Lagomarsino, Harvard University - Advisor, Dr. Charles C. Davis, Phylogeny and the Evolution of Vertebrate Pollination Syndromes in the Neotropical Lobelioideae, a Rapid, Recent Radiation in the Tropical Andes
Jacob B. Landis, University of Florida - Advisor, Dr. Pamela S. Soltis, Corolla length does matter: investigating genetic underpinnings of size
Vanessa Lopes Rivera, University of Texas at Austin - Advisor, Dr. Jose L. Panero, Reconstructing the spatiotemporal evolutionary patterns of the Brazilian Cerrado Eupatorieae and Lychnophorinae (Asteraceae)
Kristen Sauby, University of Florida - Advisor, Dr. Robert D. Holt, Determining the Consequences of Herbivory by the invasive South American cactus moth, Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), to native Opuntia Populations in Florida
Brian J. Sidoti, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Advisor, Dr. Kenneth M. Cameron, Molecular Phylogenetics and Population Genetics of the Tillandsia fasciculata Complex (Bromeliaceae): Biogeographical and Evolutionary Implications
Sarah Tepler, University of California, Santa Cruz - Advisor, Dr. Jarmila Pittermann, Understanding drivers of variability in the carbon physiology of the giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Jinshun Zhong, University of Missouri-St. Louis - Advisor, Dr. Elizabeth A. Kellogg, The evolution of floral symmetry across the order Lamiales
2011 J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award
Matthew Koski, University of Pittsburgh - Advisor, Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman, Breaking boundaries of human visual bias: selection on ultraviolet floral traits
2011 BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
Gerardo Acero-Gomez, University of Pittsburgh, - Advisor, Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman, Long live the flower: increasing flower longevity and outcrossing rate with increasing community diversity
Lavanya Challagundla, Mississippi State University, - Advisor, Dr. Lisa Wallace, Evolution of B chromosomes in the Genome of Xanthisma gracile (Asteraceae)
Grant T. Godden, University of Florida, - Advisor, Dr. Pamela S. Soltis, Out of the bushes and into the trees: Alternative approaches to a problematic mint phylogeny
Daniel M. Griffith, Wake Forest University, - Advisor, Dr. T. Michael Anderson, Adaptive Significance of Sodium and Grazing Tolerance in Serengeti Grasses
Stephanie Pimm Lyon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, - Advisor, Dr. Thomas J. Givnish, Systematics and biogeography of Corybas (Orchidaceae)
Rhiannon Peery, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, - Advisor, Dr. Stephen R. Downie, Understanding genome interactions within the carrot family (Apiaceae) using phylogenetic methods
Daniel Spalink, University of Wisconsin-Madison, - Advisor, Dr. Kenneth J. Sytsma, Phylogeny, biogeography, ecology, and population genetics of the North American bulrushes (Scirpus, Cyperaceae): assessing the implications of endemism in a changing climate
Simon Uribe_Convers, University of Idaho, - Advisor, Dr. David C. Tank, Inferring Patterns of Biodiversity in a young Andean ecosystem: developing a novel high throughput sequencing approach for phylogenetic and phylogeographic studies in Bartsia (Orobanchaceae)
Jose D. Zuniga, Claremont Graduate University & Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, - Advisor, Dr. Lucinda A. McDade, Systematics and biogeography of Sabiaceae with emphasis on Neotropical Meliosma.
2010 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipient
Michael Gruenstaeudl
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX - Advisor, Dr. Robert K. Jansen, CORRELATED DIVERSIFICATION OF VASCULAR PLANTS AND ASSOCIATED ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI – A CASE STUDY
2010 BSA GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients
Tanya Cheeke
Portland State University, Portland, OR - Advisor, Dr. Mitchell B. Cruzan, Effects of genetically modified Bt maize on symbiotic fungi in the soil ecosystem
Megan DeMarche
Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, CO - Advisor, Dr. Amy L. Angert, EThe Evolution of Reproductive Isolation through Divergent Adaptation
Jessica Forrest
University of Toronto, Toronto, OT,
Canada - Advisor, Dr. James D. Thomson, Testing adaptive explanations for floral variation in Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae)
Caitlin E. Lee
Portland State University, Portland,
OR, - Advisor, Dr. Mitchell B. Cruzan, Effects of Invasive Plants on Native Symbiotic Soil Fungi in Oregon Forests
Lucas C. Majure
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - Advisors. Dr. Douglas E. Soltis, Dr. Pamela S. Soltis and Dr. Walter Judd, The systematics and evolution of the Opuntia humifusa complex (Opuntioideae: Cactaceae)
George A. Meindl
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA - Advisor, Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman, Assessing the potential for cascading effects of soil heavy metals:
plants and pollinators
Kristin I. Powell
Washington University, St. Louis, MO - Advisors, Dr. Tiffany M. Knight, Understanding scale-dependent effects of plant invaders on native biodiversity through differential effects on common and rare species
Emily B. Sessa
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - Advisor, Dr. Thomas J. Givnish, Phylogeny, Reticulate Evolution, and Recurrent Polyploid Speciation
in North American Dryopteris (Dryopteridaceae)
Seema N. Sheth
Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, CO, - Advisor, Dr. Amy L. Angert, Role of evolutionary potential in limiting species’ distributions
2009 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipient
Andrew B. Schwendemann
University of Kansas, KS - Advisor, Dr. Thomas N. Taylor, Deep
time plant physiology and its implications for climate change
2009 BSA GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients
Madelaine Bartlett University of California,
Berkeley, CA - Advisor, Dr. Chelsea D. Specht, Evolution
of floral symmetry in the petaloid monocot order Zingiberales
Jessica M. Budke University of Connecticut,
Storrs, CT - Advisor, Dr. Cynthia Jones, Examining
the matrotrophic calyptra and its role in moss sporophyte development
using Funaria hygrometrica L. (Bryophyta).
Ben R. Grady University of Wisconsin, Madison,
WI - Advisor, Dr. Kenneth J. Sytsma, Systematics
and Edaphic Endemism in Eriogonum (Polygonaceae): An
Integrative Approach
Alison Hale University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
PA, - Advisor, Dr. Susan Kalisz, Testing
the stability of obligate mutualisms using the plant-arbuscular
mycorrhizal fungi interaction as a model system
Robert G. Laport University of Rochester,
Rochester, NY - Advisor. Dr. Justin Ramsey, Reproductive
Isolation in the North American Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata,
Zygophyllaceae)
Maribeth Latvis
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - Advisor, Drs. Pamela
S. & Douglas E. Soltis, Tracking
Migration, Diversification, and Gene Losses Across North and South
America in Agalinis (Orobanchaceae)
Nicole E. Miller Washington University, St.
Louis, MO - Advisor, Dr. Peter Hoch, Stress-adaptation and competition for pollinators:
Implications for endemism
Patricia Lu-Irving
University of Washington, Seattle, WA - Advisors, Dr. Richard
G. Olmstead, How do shifts in dispersal
strategy affect the distribution and diversification of species?
An example from the Lantana-Lippia complex (Verbenaceae)
Alexandra Sasha Rohde University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA, - Advisor, Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman, Temperature
and Water Effects on Phenology and Opportunity for Positive Assortative
Mating in Plantago
Jane E. Ogilvie University of Toronto, Toronto,
ON, Canada, - Advisor, Dr. James Thomson, Pollination Facilitation Subalpine in Gentians
Robert N. Schaeffer Dartmouth College, Hanover,
NH, - Advisor, Dr. Rebecca Irwin, Direct
and indirect effects of nectar microbial communities on pollinator
behavior and plant fitness
2008 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipient
Samuel Brockington University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL - Advisors, Drs. Pamela & Douglas Soltis,
Evolution and Development of Petals
within Aizoaceae (Caryophyllales)
2008 BSA GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients
Tatiana Arias University of Missouri, Columbia,
MO - Advisor, Dr. M. Alejandra Jaramillo, Did
adaptation to different light environments facilitate the diversification
of neotropical Piper (Piperaceae)? Phylogeny and evolution
of plant architecture of Piper clade Radula
Mauricio Diazgranados Saint Louis University
and Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO - Advisor, Dr. Janet
C. Barber, Phylogenetic and biogeographic
relationships between the frailejones (subtribe Espeletiinae,
family Asteraceae) of the South American páramos
Patrick Edger University of Missouri, Columbia,
MO - Advisor, Dr. J. Chris Pires, Resolving
the Phylogeny of the Mustard Family (Brassicaceae) and its application
to date two ancestral whole genome duplication events and to reconstruct
the ancestral karyotype for phylogenomics
Kyra Krakos Washington University, St. Louis,
MO, - Advisor, Dr. Peter H. Raven, Shifts
in Reproductive Biology Drive Diversification in Oenothera
Patrick McIntyre University of California, Davis, CA - Advisor. Dr. Sharon Y Strauss, Polyploidy,
niche variation, and local adaptation in the Claytonia perfoliata
(Portulacaceae) complex
Amy Parachnowitsch Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY - Advisor, Dr. Andre Kessler, Natural
Selection on Floral Traits by Mutualists and Antagonists
Olofron Plume Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY - Advisor, Dr. Jeff Doyle, Molecular
Systematics of Genus Calendula (Asteraceae): Species
phylogeny, origins of hybrid and polyploid taxa, and the evolution
of terpene diversity across the genus
Stein Servick University of Florida, Gainesville,
FL - Advisors, Drs. Pamela & Douglas Soltis, Genetic
Consequences of Autopolyploidy in Galax urceolata (Diapensiaceae)
Mackenzie Taylor University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN - Advisor, Dr. Joseph Williams, Comparative
Mating Systems in Cabombaceae (Nymphaeales)
2007 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipient
Pamela Steele University of Texas at Austin
- Advisor, Robert K. Jansen, Systematics
and Biogeography of the Neotropical Genus Psiguria (Cucurbitaceae)
2007 BSA GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients
Rob Baker University of Colorado, Boulder,
Advisor, Dr. Pamela Diggle, The Microevolution
of Plant Architectural Development: Cloning and Sequencing Monkeyflower
Branching Genes
Janelle Burke
Cornell University, Advisor, Melissa Luckow, The
systematics of the Neotropical genus Antigonon (Polygonaceae)
and its application to the study of invasiveness in Antigonon
leptopus
Laura Burkle
Dartmouth College,Advisor, Dr.
Rebecca E. Irwin, The Effects of Nitrogen
on Plant-Pollinator Mutualisms
Natalie Feliciano
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Advisor, Jill S. Miller,
Isolation of the Pollen SLF Self-Incompatibility
Gene in Lycium
Tracy Misiewicz
Northwestern University,
Advisor, Nyree Zerega, Investigating the
Evolutionary History and Pollination Biology of the genus Dorstenia
(Moraceae)
Gilberto Ocampo
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic
Garden, Claremont CA, Advisor, J. Travis Columbus, Systematics
of Portulaca L. (Portulacaceae), including its position
within the higher Caryophyllales
Patricia Ryberg
University of Kansas, Advisor, Edith L. Taylor, Permineralized
Glossopteris ovules and ovulate organs from the Permian
of Antarctica and Australia
Valerie Soza
University of Washington, Advisor,
Richard Olmstead, Molecular Systematics
and Evolution of Breeding Systems in Galium (Rubiaceae)
Cheng-Chiang Wu
Harvard University, Dr. Elena
M. Kramer, Gene Duplication and Functional
Evolution of Floral Homeotic Genes in Eudicots
2006 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH
AWARD Recipient
Joshua W. Clayton
University of Florida, Department of Botany, (Supervisor: Doug
Soltis) - "Molecular Phylogeny and Biogeography
of Simaroubaceae s.s. (Sapindales)"
2006 BSA GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD
Recipients
Monica Carlsen
University of Missouri – St. Louis, Department of Biology
and Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. (Supervisor: Dr. Peter
Stevens) “A Revision of the Sectional
Classification in Anthurium (Araceae) Integrating Morphology
and Molecular Phylogenetics”
Kate Hertweck
University of Missouri Columbia, Department of Biological Sciences
(Supervisor: Dr. J. Chris Pires) “Population
dynamics of polyploidy: Phylogenetics, cytogenetics, and hybridization
of Tradescantia”
Jamie H. Howard
Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences Graduate Program
(Supervisor: Dr. Martin F. Wojciechowski) “Symbiotic
Specificity of Irlc (Fabaceae) and Rhizobia with Unsaturated
Fatty Acid-type Nod Factors: An Evolutionary Perspective”
Gretchen M. Ionta
University of Florida, Department of Botany
(Supervisor: Dr. Walter Judd) “A phylogenetic
analysis of Periplocoideae (Apocynaceae s.l.) and insights into the evolution
of pollinia”
Aaron Jenks
University of California, Riverside, Department
of Botany and Plant Sciences, (Supervisor: Dr. Seung-Chul Kim) “Phylogeny
and Biogeography of Salvia L. subgenus Calosphace (Benth.)
Benth.”
Gabriel P. Johnson
Southern Illinois University, Department
of Plant Biology (Supervisor: Dr. Karen S. Renzaglia) “Developmental
changes in the placental transfer cells of Ceratopteris richardii”
Suzanne Joneson
Duke University, Biology Department (Supervisor:
Dr. François Lutzoni) “Differential
Gene Expression in Early Algal and Fungal Lichen Symbiosis”
Marcela Martínez Millán
Cornell University,
L. H. Bailey Hortorium and Department of Plant Biology (Supervisor: Dr. William
L. Crepet) “A Revision of the Early Fossil
Record of Astridae”
Cynthia Skema
Cornell University, L.H. Bailey Hortorium (Supervisor:
Dr. Melissa Luckow) “Systematics of Dombeya
(Malvaceae s.1.)”
2005 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH
AWARD Recipient
Daniel Fulop Harvard University (Supervisor: Elena M. Kramer)
- "Integrating phylogeny, biomechanics and pollination
ecology in a study of the genus Catasetum (Orchidaceae)"
2005 BSA GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD
Recipients
Michelle Barthet Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University (Supervisor: Khidir W. Hilu) – “Molecular
and Genetic analysis of the matK gene”
Iju Judy Chen
University of Florida (Supervisor: Steven R.
Manchester) – “Fossil records and phytogeography
of Vitaceae, the grape family”
Susan E. Elliott
Dartmouth College, (Supervisor: Rebecca E.
Irwin) – “Distinguishing between pollen-limitation
and pollinator-limitation of seed production for the perennial bumblebee-pollinated
plant, Delphinium barbeyi (Ranunculaceae).”
Courtney C. Finch
Saint Louis University (Supervisor: Janet
C. Barber) – “Pollination Biology and Evolution
of the Orchid Genus Thelymitra”
Nicole A. Hardiman
University of Cincinnati, Department of
Biological Sciences (Supervisor: Theresa Culley) – “Intra-Specific
Hybridization as a Mechanism of Invasiveness in Pyrus calleryana”
Rebecca Hufft
University of California, Santa Cruz, Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Supervisor: Ingrid M. Parker) – “Mechanisms
maintaining coexistence of sympatric cytotypes of Arnica cordifolia
(Asteraceae)”
Daniel M. Johnson
Wake Forest University, Department of Biology
(Supervisor: William K. Smith) – “Evaluation
of cloud emersion, acidic deposition, leaf wettability, and cuticle damage in
refugial populations of Fraser fir”
Shannon C. K. Straub
Cornell University, Department of Plant
Biology and L.H. Bailey Hortorium (Supervisor: Jeff J. Doyle) – “Systematics
of Amorpha L. (Fabaceae): phylogenetics, evolution, ecology, and conservation”
Ping Zhou
Duke University, Department of Biology (Supervisor:
Jonathan Shaw) – “Evolutionary history and
causation of Sphagnum cribrosum “wave form” in North Carolina”
2004 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipient
Krissa A. Skogen University of Connecticut (Supervisor: Kent
E. Holsinger) - "Understanding declines in Desmodium
cuspidatum (Fabaceae)"
2004 BSA
GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients
Orlando Alvarez-Fuentes Michigan State University (Supervisor:
Alan Prather) – “The Biogeography of Thelypteris
Subgenus Amauropelta”
Monica Arakaki
University of Florida (Supervisor: Doug Soltis
& Pam Soltis) – “Systematics and population
genetics of the genus Haageocereus Cactaceae”
Heather Driscoll
University of Vermont (Supervisor: David
S. Barrington) – “Evolutionary origins and
biogeographic relationships of Hawaiian Polystichum”
Cecile Gueidan
Duke University (Supervisor: Francois Lutzoni)
– “Molecular phylogeny of the Verrucariales”
Christopher T. Martine
University of Connecticut (Supervisor:
Gregory J. Anderson) – “The evolution and
natural history of sexual systems in the endangered nightshades”
Abraham J. Miller-Rushing
Boston University (Supervisor: Richard
B. Primack) – “Is Thoreau's Data Still Hot?”
Darin S. Penneys
University of Florida (Supervisor: Walter
S. Judd) – “Phlogeny and Character Evolution
in the Neotropical, Epiphytic Blakeeae”
Joey Shaw
University of Tennessee (Supervisor: Edward E. Schilling
& Randall Small) – “Toward an Understanding
of the North American Plums”
Juan Carlos Villarreal
Southern Illinois University (Supervisor:
Karen Renzaglia) – “Contributions of the Resolution
of the Phylogeny of Hornworts”
2003 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients
Mario Blanco – “ ”
Kuo-Fang Chung – “”
Laurie Cosaul – “”
Laurelin Evanhoe – “”
Susan Grose – “”
Shawn Krosnick – “”
Jeffrey Morawetz – “”
Julieta Rosell – “”
Jackeline Salazar – “”
Tyler Smith – “”
Jay Walker – “”
2002 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients
Aida Alvarez New York Botanical Garden – “Phylogeny
of Prescottinae and systematics of Gomphichis (Orchidaceae)”
Anthony Baumert
University of Pittsburgh – “Application
of resource competition theory to ecosystem succession”
John Bell
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee – “The
effect of interspecific competition for pollinator service on the mating patterns
and pollen dispersal in Mimulus ringens”
Helen Cortes-Burns
University of Texas – “Phylogenetic
and biogeographic study of Bell-flowers (Walhlenbergia) in the sourth ern hemisphere
of Oceanic Islands”
Aurea Cortes-Palomec
Ohio University – “Reproductive
systems and population genetics of a Mexican Viola species”
James Cronin
University of Pittsburgh – “Herbivory
and the top-down regulation of terrestrial plant communities: A test of two
prominent theoretical lineages”
Michael Dunn
Ohio University – “The
Mid-Carboniferous Floral Break: a crucial and enigmatic episode in the evolution
of the terrestrial ecosystem”
Felix Forest
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – “A
molecular systematic study of the South African endemic genus Muraltia (Polygalaceae)”
Genaro Hernandez-Castillo
University of Alberta – “Taxonomic
reevaluation and systematics of primative conifers from Euramerica”
Lisa Karst
Portland State University – “Phylogeny
of Sysrinchium (Iridaceae), genetic and morphological”
Michael Moody
University of Connecticut – “Phylogenetics,
hybridity and aquatic origins in the angiosperm family Haloragaceae”
Michael Moore
University of Texas – “The
roles of edaphic shifts and long distance dispersal in the evolution of the
American desert genus Tiquilia (Boraginaceae)”
Ashley Morris
University of Florida – “Exploring
the biogeographic history of eastern North American trees: a comparative phylogeographic
approach”
Julissa Roncal
Florida International University – “Evolution
of the Geonoma macrostachys (Palmae) complex”
Carla Rydholm
Duke University – “Lichenicolours
fungi systematics and the transition from mutualism to parasitism in Asomycetes”
Chelsea Specht
New York Botanical Garden – “Systematics
and evolution of the tropical plant family Costaceae”
Janette Steets
University of Pittsburgh – “Ecological
correlates of Pollen Limitation”
James Thompson
University of Florida – “Phylogeny
and the evolution of breeding systems in the moss Pohlia Cruda”
Stacey Thompson
University of British Columbia – “Transmission
of apomixis in a Townsendia hybrid zone”
Carrie Wu
University of California – “Ecophysiological
variation among natural hybrids in an Ipomopsis (Polemoniacae) hybrid zone”
2001 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH
AWARD Recipients
Fan Chuanzhu North Carolina State University (Supervisor:
Jenny Xiang) – “Molecular evolution of hybridization
and polyploidization in the dwarf dogwoods complex”
Maryam Farzad
Georgetown University (Supervisor: Martha Weiss)
– “Regulation of anthocyanin expression in
Viola”
David Hearn
University of Arizona (Supervisor: Lucinda McDade)
– “Evolution of growth form and phytochemical
consequences in Adenia (Passifloraceae)”
Michelle McMahon
Washington State University (Supervisor:
Larry Hufford) – “Morphological diversification
in Amorpheae (Papilionoideae, Fabaceae)”
Allison Miller
Washington University (Supervisor: Barbara
Schaal) – “Domestication in a tropical fruit
tree, jocote (Spondias purpurea L., Anacardiaceae)”
Elizabeth Powell
Wake Forest University (Supervisor: Kathleen
A. Kron) – “Peruvian species of Satyria
_ Critical to understanding species limits in Satyria and biogeography
in Neotropical Vaccinieae”
David Tank
University of Washington (Supervisor: Richard Olmstead)
– “Phylogenetic analysis of subtribe Castillejinae
(Orobanchaceae _ Tribe Rhinantheae)”
Alexandru Tomescu
Ohio University (Supervisor: Gar Rothwell)
– “Alexandru; In situ land plant fossils in
the Early Silurian (Llandoverian) Massanutten sandstone of Virginia”
Benjamin Torke
Washington University (Supervisor: Barbara
Schaal) – “Phylogenetic relationships and
diversification in Swartzia (Fabaceae), based on DNA sequence data”
Justen Whittall
University of California at Santa Barbara
(Supervisor: Scott Hodges) – “Phylogenetic
tests of ecological speciation in the North American columbines”
2000 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH
AWARD Recipients
Nicole Andrus Florida International University, Department
of Biological Sciences
James S. Boyer
State University of New York at Binghamton,
Department of Biological Sciences
Jutta Buschbom
Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department
Matthew H. Collier
University of Cincinnati, Department of Biological Sciences
Jennifer Ott Geiger
University of Colorado, Department of Environmental, Population, & Organismic Biology
Andrew Hipp
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Botany
Stefanie M. Ickert-Bond
Arizona State University, Department of Plant Biology
Frank Landis
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Botany
Lucia Garcez Lohmann
University of Missouri - St. Louis, Department of Biology
Kendra Millam
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Botany
David A. Moeller
Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Sasa Stefanovic
University of Washington, Department of Botany
Dorset W. Trapnell
University of Georgia, Department of Botany
Brian Vanden Heuvel
University of Texas at Austin, Section of Integrative Biology
Mark Vellend
Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
1998 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients
Sandra K. Floyd University of Colorado at Boulder (Supervisor:
William Friedman) – “Reproductive character
evolution in basal angiosperms: endosperm development and embryogeny”
Janet C. Barber
University of Texas at Austin (Supervisor:
Robert K. Jansen) – “Origin and evolution
of endemic Sideritis L. in Macaronesia”
Julie Beckstead
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Supervisor: Carol K. Augspurger) – “Microhabitat
factors affecting variation in success of invading cheatgrass”
Jeff P. Castelli
University of Pennsylvania (Supervisor: Brenda
B. Casper) – “Examining the functional significance
of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal diversity along a successional sequence
on serpentine soils”
Theresa M. Culley
Ohio State University (Supervisor: Allison
Snow) – “Genetic variability using isozyme
and ISSR markers in Viola pubescens, a herbaceous species with both chasmogamous
and cleistogamous flowers”
Sandra K. Floyd
University of Colorado at Boulder (Supervisor:
William Friedman) – “Reproductive character
evolution in basal angiosperms: endosperm development and embryogeny”
Leslie Goertzen
University of Texas at Austin (Supervisor:
Robert K. Jansen) – “The role of hybridization
in the evolution of Argyranthemum in Macaronesia”
Douglas Goldman
University of Texas at Austin (Supervisor:
Robert K. Jansen) – “Systematics of the orchid
genus Calopogon”
Susana Majallon-Puebla
The Field Museum (Supervisor: Peter
R. Crane) – “Phylogenetic relationships and
evolution of floral pat- tern among basal eudicots”
Randall Small
Iowa State University (Supervisor: Jonathan
F. Wendel) – “Nuclear-encoded genes for phylogeny
reconstruction in plants: alcohol dehydrogenase genes in Gossypium L. (Malvaceae)”
Anna Woodfill
Michigan State University (Supervisor: Alan
Prather) – “Adaptation and the correlates
of intra-specific varia- tion in floral morphology among populations of Pedicularis
densiflora”
1997 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients
This is the newest Botanical Society Award, and it was given for the first time this year. The award was made possible by a gift from the late John Sidney Karling. Dr. Karling started his career at Columbia and moved to Purdue as a full professor; he was head of Biological Science there for more than a decade. His research interests were in cytology, marine fungi, and tropical biology. He was an active member of both the Torrey Botanical Club and the BSA.
Justin Michael Ramsey University of Washington – "Processes
of polyploid evolution in the Achillea millefolium (Asteraceae) complex"
James P. Therrien
University of Kansas – "Phylogeny
of the Selaginellaceae and related 'lycopsids'"
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