BILL DAHL GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS
including the J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD and the AJ HARRIS GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD

GSRA

History of the Awards
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 The award was originally made possible in 1997 by a gift from the late Dr.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.

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.  In July 2017, it was announced that the GSRAs would be renamed the Bill Dahl Graduate Student Resarch Awards in honor of BSA's first Executive Director who was a strong proponent for student support and involvement in the Society. In 2019 BSA increased these awards to $1500 each! 

In 2023 a new graduate student research award was established in memory of AJ Harris. AJ was a long-time member of BSA and and the leading organizer of the Beringia symposium at Botany 2022 in Anchorage, has led Colloquia at Botany Conferences, and was a staunch supporter and promoter of women in botany and diversity at all levels. Her research endeavors were highly integrative, spanning traditional specimen-based science, paleobotany, phylogenomics, biogeography, and computational biology. The AJ Harris Graduate Student Research Award was given for the first time in 2024 to a GSRA applicant whose research aligned with AJ's and was in he amount of $1200. 

This award is now open for applications.

Deadline to submit an application is February 17, 2025. 


Submit Your Application

Current BSA members can access the awards portal by clicking here and logging in with your BotanyID/Password. Once signed in, click on the "2025 - Graduate Student Research Award" link and you should see a blue button that says "+ Create New Nomination" at the bottom if your login was successful. 


Please feel free to email bsa-manager@botany.org with any questions about the nomination and application process.

Purpose and Eligibility

This award group (including the John S. Karling Award) is designed to promote graduate student research in the botanical sciences. To be eligible, one must be a member of the Botanical Society of America (BSA), a registered full-time graduate student, have a faculty research advisor who is also a member of the BSA, and not have won the award previously. Applicants and advisors are advised to join the BSA if they are not already members to facilitate the application process.

Applications will be evaluated by the Graduate Student Research Award Committee. Evaluation criteria include the significance/potential for contribution to the field of botany, the conceptual background, connection between the objectives and design of the research, citation of the relevant literature, a clear and justified budget request, and overall quality.

Proposal Guidelines
The application shall consist of:

  1. Title page (must include: title of proposal, name of student, student's institutional and departmental affiliation, year of student's study, and student's sectional affiliation(s) within BSA)
  2. Abstract and Research Proposal (two pages ) Must include: a description of the research, including appropriate conceptual background, purpose or objective, brief outline of methodology, and potential contribution or significance to an area of the botanical sciences)
  3. Budget, (one page) clearly detailing/justifying how the funds would be used.  If BSA funds are just funding a portion of the project, please detail the other funding sources to complete the project.
  4. Bibliography (one page)
  5. Biographical Sketch (one page; can be a CV or a written narrative)
  6. A letter of support (one page) from the student's research advisor. (The letter of support can be directly uploaded by the student applying or may be emailed by the advisor to bsa-manager@botany.org)
  7. Applicants will also be asked to address (in less than 200 words) how they or their work contribute to diversity and inclusivity in Botany and/or the BSA.

Note: The Abstract and Narrative should not exceed two single-spaced pages. All pages in the proposal must have a minimum of one- inch margins all around with a font size not smaller than 11 point. All items in the above list (except for items 6 and 7) should be combined into a single PDF.  

This award is NOT limited to students in the United States.

Salaries are NOT considered a research expense for this award. Awarded funds, can, however, be used to pay hourly wages for student research assistants. 

Award Level and Announcement

The award provides $1500 to support each recipient’s research proposal. This award may not be used for overhead, however, awarded funds can be used to pay hourly wages for student research assistants.  The award winners will be announced at the Botany conference reception held in conjunction with the Botany 2026 Conference. Funds for the awards come from membership dues, contributions to the J. S. Karling Fund and the Graduate Student Research Award Fund, and additional funds from the BSA operating budget.


Sample Applications:

2024 Winner - Emma Chandler:
Impacts of climate change on the maintenance of gynodioecy: the pattern, mechanism, and demographic processes underlying population level sex ratio

2024 Winner - Kaitlyn Dawson:
Fitness consequences of divergent selection on clonal reproduction in a perennial plant



Members are encouraged to contribute to the Graduate Student Research award program through the BSA Bill Dahl GSRA and J. S. Karling Funds. Please contact the BSA Executive Director for further details, hcacanindin@botany.org

 

2024 J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award

Chinedum Anajemba, Utah State University, For the Proposal: Unraveling the Macroevolutionary Fate of Polyploids: A Comprehensive Study of the Cystopteridaceae Fern Family
2024 BSA Graduate Student Research Awards

Richard Baker-Strader, San Francisco State University, For the Proposal: The genome, origins , and evolution of the Hawaiian tetraploid Chenopodium oahuense

Martín Batalla, Old Dominion University, For the Proposal: Biogeography of Nototriche (Malvaceae), one of the most diverse plant genera endemic to the high-Andes

Bridget Bickner, Harvard University, For the Proposal: Genetic architecture of the flower size/number and seed size/number tradeoffs in Phlox

Thomas Buchloh, Clemson University, For the Proposal: Investigating the Role of Diploid Gamete Formation on Polyploid Abundance in a Widespread Fern

Emma K. Chandler, University of Georgia, For the Proposal: Impacts of climate change on the maintenance of gynodioecy: the pattern, mechanism, and demographic processes underlying population level sex ratio

Nikhil R. Chari, Harvard University, For the Proposal: How will plant root exudation respond to climate change in situ?

Kaitlyn Dawson, Queen's University, For the Proposal: Fitness consequences of divergent selection on clonal reproduction in a perennial plant

Aidan Harrington, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, For the Proposal: The establishment and persistence of neopolyploid plants and consequences for geographic range

Rachel Hopkins, State University of New York: College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF), For the Proposal: Plants on the move: Tracking 60 years of climate-induced vegetation shifts on a northeastern mountain

Sierra Jaeger, University of South Carolina, For the Proposal: Do pollinators or herbivores select on floral betalain pigmentation in sand verbenas?: A multiple-year field experiment

José Esteban Jiménez, University of Florida, For the Proposal: Phylogenomics of two poorly known terrestrial subgenera in Peperomia

Daniel Mok, Michigan State University, For the Proposal: Investigating the carnivorous genus Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae) as a candidate novel model system of plant resilience research

Lydia Morley, Texas A&M University, For the Proposal: Using spatially explicit phylogenetic networks to uncover variation in gene flow across Spiranthes lineages

Aislinn Mumford, Louisiana State University, For the Proposal: Evolution of Fruit Color and Nutritional Signaling in Palicourea, a Genus of Neotropical Flowering Plants

Austin T. Nguyen, University of Kansas, For the Proposal: Investigating Homology, Heterochrony, and Trait Evolution in the Cypress Family

Carlos J. Pardo De la Hoz, Duke University, For the Proposal: Opening the black box of horizontal transmission of symbionts: do environmental aposymbiotic communities shape the communities within symbiotic systems?

Kyle Simpson, Texas A&M University, For the Proposal: On the origin of (rare) species: Combining phylogenetic biogeography and niche modeling to understand the diversification of rare plant species

Cameron So, McGill University, For the Proposal: Testing gene flow effects on range-edge population fitness and range expansion success

Edward Sun, University of British Columbia, For the Proposal: Revealing plant adaptations to mycoheterotrophy using a high-quality chromosome-scale genome assembly

Ryan Thummel, Cornell University, For the Proposal: Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Predict the Phylogenetic and/or Ecological Affinities of Moss Spores

April Wallace, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, For the Proposal: Exploring shikimate pathway disruption as a possible intrinsic isolating barrier in trees

Elizabeth White, University of Florida, For the Proposal: Comparative phylogeography along a seepage slope gradient: a case study in the genus Xyris with implications for patterns of speciation and endemism in the North American Coastal Plain

Ziqi Xie, Portland State University, For the Proposal: Fitness Effects of Adaptive SNPs in a Recent Ranunculus Hybrid Zone

Matthew Yamamoto, Claremont Graduate University, For the Proposal: A Flora of the McGee Creek Watershed, Mono County, California

 

2023 J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award

Jordan Argrett, University of Georgia, For the Proposal: Stealing from the rich to give to the poor: Are hemiparasitic plants the "Robinhood" of sub-alpine communities?
2023 BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
Anna Becker, University of Florida, For the Proposal: The Evolution of Hawaiian Blueberries
Akriti Bhattarai, University of Connecticut, For the Proposal: Exploring the Genetic Mechanisms of White Pine Blister Rust Disease Resistance in Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis) and Siberian Pine (P. sibirica)

Ryan Carlson, University of Minnesota Duluth, For the Proposal: Resolving Euphrasia Taxonomy in Minnesota

Brendan Connolly, Northwestern University and The Chicago Botanic Garden, For the Proposal: Not all pollinators are created equal: The effects of differences in pollination efficiency on plant genetic diversity and reproductive success

Alexander Damian-Parizaca, University of Wisconsin-Madison, For the Proposal: Evolution, Taxonomy and Pollination of New World Vanilla (Orchidaceae)

Anthony Dant, University of Arizona, For the Proposal: Beyond sidewalks: using a dynamic urban classification system to study the evolution of an invasive plant

Melissa Duda, Northwestern University, For the Proposal: Using reproductive biology and ecological niche models to predict the potential impact of hybridization in rare species

Caroline Edwards, Indiana University, For the Proposal: The spatial scale and environmental drivers of local adaptation in Viola pubescens

Emma Fetterly, Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden, For the Proposal: Understanding biotic and abiotic drivers of floral color polymorphism in Castilleja coccinea to inform restoration in a changing climate

Clayton W. Hale, University of Georgia, For the Proposal: Left in the Shade: Understanding the Impacts of Phenological Mismatch Between Overstory Leaf Out and Understory Herbs

Brooke Kern, University of Minnesota, For the Proposal: Is low hybrid fitness driving selection for increased reproductive isolation between Clarkia xantiana subspecies?

Ashmita Khanal, Texas Tech University, For the Proposal: Unravelling the genetic basis of sex chromosome evolution in Black Willows (Salix nigra Marshall)

Izai Kikuchi, University of British Columbia, For the Proposal: Reconstructing the evolution of mycoheterotrophy in Gentianaceae and Dioscoreales using nuclear phylogenomics

G Young Kim, University of Connecticut, For the Proposal: Facultative CAM (Crassulacean Acid Metabolism) photosynthesis in Native Hawaiian Peperomia

Kira Lindelof, North Carolina State University, For the Proposal: Applied conservation genetics: GBS and building a genetic inventory for the recovery of Houstonia montana, an imperiled high-elevation, southern Appalachian endemic

Amee Maurice, University of Connecticut, For the Proposal: Molecular Mechanisms of White Pine Blister Rust Disease Resistance Among the Threatened Whitebark Pines

Hannah McConnell, University of Washington, For the Proposal: Using the model fern Ceratopteris richardii to Investigate Genes Regulated by LEAFY Orthologs

María de Jesús Méndez Aguilar, Autonomous University of Yucatan, For the Proposal: Populational structure of the traditional Chaya (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius, Euphorbiaceae) used by Mayan communities in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Thomas H. Murphy, University of Florida, For the Proposal: Linking morphological and niche evolution in a ubiquitous neotropical climber

Rodrigo Nicolao, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, For the Proposal: The role of hybridization in the evolution of the Southeastern South American wild potatoes (Solanum ser. Commersoniana, Solanaceae)

Diego Paredes-Burneo, Louisiana State University, For the Proposal: The role of the Amotape-Huancabamba zone on the diversification of the high-Andean flora: a case study of the genus Brachyotum (Melastomataceae)

Seth J. Raynor, University of Colorado Boulder, For the Proposal: Lichens of the Indian Peaks Wilderness, Towards a Complete State Inventory

Senna Robeson, University of Chicago, For the Proposal: Seeking the source of geographic range shifts in tarflowers (Bejaria, Ericaceae)

Katie Kobara Sanbonmatsu, Texas A&M University, For the Proposal: Phylogenetics and Biogeography of Macromitrioideae (Orthotrichaceae): A Diverse but Understudied group of Mosses

Parikrama Sapkota (Pari), University of Texas at El Paso, For the Proposal: Unraveling above-belowground interactions that support restoration of dryland plants communities

Rory Schiafo, Northwestern University and Chicago Botanic Garden, For the Proposal: Understanding the role of light availability and species' characteristics for driving priority effects in oak woodland plant communities

Rachel Tageant, Claremont Graduate University, For the Proposal: A Floristic Inventory of the Owens River Headwater Area, Mono County, CA

Rina Talaba, Northwestern University, For the Proposal: Investigating the differences of Cirsium pitcheri’s floral scent according to the predation of novel weevil, Larinus planus

Daniel Tucker, University of Victoria, For the Proposal: Magic carpets of the canopy: the role of epiphytic bryophyte functional structure in driving hydrologic ecosystem processes in a tropical montane cloud forest

Selena Vengco, Claremont Graduate University, For the Proposal: Conservation Genetics and the Maintenance of Flower Color Polymorphisms in a Non-Model System of Erythranthe discolor (Phrymaceae)

Mari Wilson, University of British Columbia, For the Proposal: Comparative transcriptomic analysis of mycoheterotrophy in fern gametophytes

 

2022 J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award

Jessie Pelosi, University of Florida, For the Proposal: Beyond the genome: methylomics of the alternation of generations
2022 BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
Sam Anderson, University of Wisconsin Madison, For the Proposal: The Forgotten Forest Layer: A multivariate gradient analysis and physiological comparison of understory shrubs in northern mesic forests
Juan Angulo, City University of New Yotk, For the Proposal: The evolution of dioecy and its consequences on plant diversification: phylogenetic and comparative studies on neotropical Miconia section Cremanium (Melastomataceae)
Derek Denney, University of Georgia, For the Proposal: Evaluating selection induced by climate change on water-use efficiency in Boechera stricta
Trinity Depatie, University of South Carolina, For the Proposal: Understanding the Genetic Basis of Personate Flowers in Penstemon
Erin G. Eichenberger, North Carolina State University, For the Proposal: Population vital rates and pollinator community of an endangered Southeastern prairie perennial, Echinacea laevigata (Boynton & Beadle) Blake
Rosemary Glos, Michigan State University, For the Proposal: Trichome-mediated defense in Mentzelia (Loasaceae)
Kaleb Goff, North Carolina State University, For the Proposal: A functional trait perspective on alpine plant community responses to rapid climate change in a xeric mountain range
Hansika Herath, University of Kentucky, For the Proposal: Intraspecific variation of acquired thermotolerance in the liverwort Marchantia inflexa
Hossein Madhani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, For the Proposal: The role of immune system incompatibilities in the evolution of isolating barriers within an ongoing adaptive radiation
Kathleen Madsen, Ohio University, For the Proposal: The Fitness Consequences of Gypsum Endemsim
Sylvie Martin-Eberhardt, Michigan State University, For the Proposal: Insect signaling by anthocyanins in the carnivorous plant Sarracenia purpurea
Sebastián Martínez-Salazar, Universidad de Antioquia, For the Proposal: Molecular basis underlying nectar spur development in tropaeolaceae
Jared B. Meek, Columbia University, For the Proposal: Towards a comprehensive phylogeny of North American Delphinium (Ranunculaceae)
Nicole Mitidieri Rivera, University of Wisconsin-Madison, For the Proposal: Evolutionary pathways to becoming a fig: a phylogenetic comparative approach
Oluwatobi Oso, Yale University, For the Proposal: Developmental Anatomy and Evolution of Overwintering Buds in Viburnum
Evan Perkowski, Texas Tech University, For the Proposal: The influence of nitrogen fixation and soil nutrient availability on leaf and whole plant acclimation to elevated CO2
Rebecca Rooney, University of Minnesota - Duluth, For the Proposal: Coordination of Phloem Function and Anthocyanin Accumulation in Young and Senescing Leaves of Quercus rubra
Kyle Rosenblad, University of California, Berkeley, For the Proposal: Climate change and evolutionary potential in a montane meadow-dependent species
Catherine Sherry, North Carolina State University, For the Proposal: How Does Fire Kill Trees? Impacts of Stem Heating on Plant Hydraulics
Abrianna Soule, Michigan State University, For the Proposal: Evolution of the chemical defense of aspen (Populus tremuloides) and specialist herbivores (Chrysomela) across latitude
Kailin Sun, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, For the Proposal: Phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Myricaria
Keana Tang, University of Kansas, For the Proposal: Fossil flowers and their role in uncovering the evolutionary and biogeographic history of Lauraceae
Piotr Tuczapski, University of Georgia, For the Proposal: Specificity of mycorrhizal symbionts in four sympatric Lepanthes species (Orchidaceae) and the possible role of symbionts in driving orchid diversification
Mackenzie Urquhart-Cronish, University of British Columbia, For the Proposal: Testing the influence of historical range expansion on contemporary plant mating system evolution
Alyson Van Natto, Queen's University, For the Proposal: Evolutionary genomic consequences of invasion of Mimulus guttatus into New Zealand
Susana Vega Betancur, Universidad de Antioquia, For the Proposal: Understanding the diversity of spikemosses in the Neotropics: taxonomy of Selaginella (Selaginellaceae) for Antioquia, Colombia
Leah Veldhuisen, University of Arizona, For the Proposal: Facilitation & Phylogenetic Structure of Montane Plant Communities
Christopher Waters, Tennessee Technological University, For the Proposal: Documenting effective pollinator species and metabarcoding pollinator environmental DNA across the range of Physaria globosa (Brassicaceae)
Katherine Wolcott, University of Miami, For the Proposal: 3D pollination biology of Theobroma cacao and its relatives, Ayenia euphrasiifolia, Guazuma microphylla, Herrania umbratica (Byttnerioideae)
Rieka Yu, University of Missouri - St. Louis, For the Proposal: Differences in pollinators as drivers of plant population genetic change in disturbed landscapes

 

2021 J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award

Isabela Lima Borges, Michigan State University, For the Proposal: The effects of plant inbreeding on the legume-rhizobia mutualism
2021 BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
Laymon Ball, Louisiana State University, For the Proposal: Mutualisms, mountains, and machine learning: Disentangling drivers of evolution in a florally diverse Neotropical plant clade, Hillieae (Rubiaceae)
Philip Bentz, University of Georgia, For the Proposal: Origins and evolution of genetic sex-determination and sex chromosomes in the genus Asparagus
Haley Branch, University of British Columbia, For the Proposal: Remembering the hard times: how stress memory evolves in response to environmental pressure
Stephanie Calloway, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, For the Proposal: Saving a rare plant species from extinction on Anacapa Island
Anri Chomentowska, Yale University, For the Proposal: Investigating the evolution of syndromes: life history, mating system, and environmental niche of a desert-alpine lineage in the plant family Montiaceae
Eva Colberg, University of Missouri - St. Louis, For the Proposal: The effects of prescribed fire on ant-mediated seed dispersal of Sanguinaria canadensis
Mari Cookson, Cal State Fullerton, For the Proposal: Investigating systematics and host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics in dwarf mistletoes (Arceuthobium spp.) using population genomics
Brandon Corder, University of Wisconsin-Madison, For the Proposal: Partial Mycoheterotrophy in North American Orchids: Incorporating Evolutionary Ecological and Molecular Evolutionary Approaches
Sontosh Deb, University of Alabama, For the Proposal: Evolution of flooding tolerance in maize relatives
Caroline Dowling, University College Dublin, For the Proposal: The Genetic Architecture of Flowering Time in Cannabis sativa
Samar El-Abdallah, Humboldt State University, For the Proposal: Constructing whole plant concepts for two Early Devonian fossil plants in the assemblages of the Beartooth Butte Formation (Wyoming)
Paige Fabre, The Ohio State University, For the Proposal: Patterns of Staminode Evolution in Penstemon (Plantaginaceae)
Laura Fehling, Miami University, For the Proposal: Context-dependency of reward complementarity in a multispecies mutualism
Emma Frawley, Washington University in St. Louis, For the Proposal: Little Barley: Variation, Domestication, and Adaptation in a North American Lost Crop
Elsa Godtfredsen, Northwestern University, For the Proposal: Early Snowmelt, Changing Phenology and Increased Drought Exposure: Consequences for Plant Survival and Reproduction of Four Subalpine Plant Species
Nikolai Hay, Duke University, For the Proposal: Locating a “missing link” using microsatellite data from herbarium specimens
Zhe He, Harvard University, For the Proposal: Pit Membranes and Plant Resistance to Cavitation
Samuel Lockhart, Ohio University, For the Proposal: Population genetic structure and breeding system characterization of four mixed-breeding violets and one exclusively chasmogamous violet
Diana Macias, University of New Mexico, For the Proposal: Adaptability of piñon pine (Pinus edulis) populations to future hot droughts
Janet Mansaray, Louisiana State University, For the Proposal: Plants, Ants, and Curvy Bills: the Evolution of Mutualisms in Neotropical Bellflowers
Skylar McDaniel, Utah State University, For the Proposal: Floral microbiome assembly and function in the face of phenological change
Michael McKibben, University of Arizona, For the Proposal: The Contribution of Paleopolyploidy to Adaptation in Diploid Descendants
Elise Miller, University of Minnesota Duluth, For the Proposal: How do sources, sinks, and physical constraints impact phloem hydraulic conductivity?
Carina Motta, Universidade Estadual Paulista – Rio Claro, For the Proposal: Contribution of a Naturalized Tropical Tree to Bird Diet in Secondary Forest Fragments
Taryn Mueller, University of Minnesota, For the Proposal: Ecological genetic drivers of foliar fungal endophyte community assembly in Clarkia xantiana
Olivia Murrell, Northwestern University, For the Proposal: Influence of metapopulation dynamics on genetic structure: Case study of the endangered and exceptional species Amorphophallus titanum
Deannah Neupert, Miami University, For the Proposal: The Evolution and Development of the Aerial Bulbil: A study of novelty in Mimulus
Megan Nibbelink, Humboldt State University, For the Proposal: Anatomically-preserved zosterophylls of the Battery Point Formation (Québec, Canada) and a new analysis of zosterophyll relationships
Kasey Pham, University of Florida, For the Proposal: What got swapped? Investigating the genomic consequences of hybridization in two species of Eucalyptus
Alyssa Phillips, UC Davis, For the Proposal: Origins of polyploidy and their impact on adaptation in Andropogon gerardi
Neill Prohaska, University of Arizona, For the Proposal: How does leaf microclimate affect population density and diversity of microbes living on leaves in tropical forest canopies?
Austin Rosen, Colorado State University, For the Proposal: Uncovering taxonomic boundaries in a group of seep-loving desert thistles (Asteraceae: Cirsium)
Malia Santos, University of Idaho, For the Proposal: Investigating species relationships and evolutionary patterns of defense strategies in Tricalysia (Rubiaceae)
Amber Stanley, University of Pittsburgh, For the Proposal: Have floral traits of Impatiens capensis responded to pollinator mismatches caused by climate change and urbanization? A retrospective study using herbarium specimens.
Christina Steinecke, Queen's University, For the Proposal: Investigating correlated evolution of sexual and asexual reproduction in Mimulus guttatus
Andrea Turcu, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, For the Proposal: The Evolution of Divergent Mating Systems Across Temporally and Spatially Heterogeneous Environments
Emma Vtipilthorpe, North Carolina State University, For the Proposal: Relationships between Niche Breadth and Geographic Range Size in Liatris
Sophie Young, Lancaster University, For the Proposal: Phloem loading in the context of C4 photosynthesis in tree-form Hawaiian Euphorbia
Joseph Zailaa, Yale University, For the Proposal: Investigating drought impacts on native-California shrubland vegetation from cells to communities

 

2020 J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award

Veronica Iriart, University of Pittsburgh, For the Proposal: The Fate of Plant Mutualisms Under Anthropogenic Stress
Hanna Makowski, University of Virginia, For the Proposal: The role of plant mating systems in colonization
2020 BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
Ioana Anghel, University of California, Los Angeles, For the Proposal: Species boundaries and mechanisms of divergence in sympatric species of Linanthus
Betsabé Castro Escobar, University of California, Berkeley, For the Proposal: Phylogeography and Domestication of calabash trees (Crescentia cujete) in the Caribbean
Nevin Cullen, University of Pittsburgh, For the Proposal: Can adaptation to toxic elements facilitate microbially-mediated speciation in plants?
Victoria DeLeo, Pennsylvania State University, For the Proposal: Testing tradeoffs in different components of fitness due to frugivory in the common Caribbean tree Metopium toxiferum
Estefania Pilar Fernandez Barrancos, University of Missouri-St. Louis, For the Proposal: Effects of forest restoration on the recovery of coarse woody debris and associated arthropods
Clarice Guan, Cornell University, For the Proposal: Pieces of the puzzle: Morphological, genetic, and histological investigations of spiromonostichy, a unique phyllotactic pattern with associated helical growth in spiral gingers (Costus, Costaceae)
Katherine Holmes, Cornell University, For the Proposal: Plasticity and local adaptation of secondary metabolites to herbivory in Eutrochium maculatum
Nina House, Claremont Graduate University (Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden), For the Proposal: A Vascular Flora of the Manter and Salmon Creek Watersheds, Tulare County, CA
Yi Huang, University of California, Riverside, For the Proposal: Species delimitation in Arctostaphylos
Amanda Katzer, University of Kansas, For the Proposal: Modified-Trichome Nectary Development in Penstemon
Thomas Lake, University of Minnesota, For the Proposal: Does adaptation facilitate or impede future plant invasions?
Bing Li, Northwestern University, For the Proposal: Genetic and Morphological Changes of Oenothera organensis during Ex Situ Conservation
Martin Llano, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, For the Proposal: Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of Anthurium section Dactylophyllium (Araceae)
Elena Loke, Northwestern University, For the Proposal: Incorporating Phased Alleles to Reconstruct a Recent and Rapid Radiation
Natalie Love, University of California, Santa Barbara, For the Proposal: Using field and herbarium collections to detect the ecological and evolutionary causes of geographic variation in pollen size and production in the California mountain jewelflower (Streptanthus tortuosus, Brassicaceae)
Victoria Luizzi, University of Arizona, For the Proposal: Investigating the potential microbial drivers of interactions between leafcutter bees (Megachile spp.) and cottonwoods (Populus fremontii)
Valerie Martin, Utah State University, For the Proposal: Microbial Facilitation of Exploitation in a Plant-Pollinator Mutualism
Susan McEvoy, University of Connecticut, For the Proposal: From genome to methylome: detection of epigenetic marks for two forest tree species
Bailey McNichol, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, For the Proposal: Characterizing plant diversity and distribution at an ecological crossroads in an era of global change
Heather Phillips, Cornell University, For the Proposal: Quantifying the Ontogeny of Development of Fused Structures in the Zingiberales
Brandie Quarles, Duke University, For the Proposal: Phenological Tracking via Dormancy: Facilitating Survival and Adaptation to Climate Change
Maryam Sedaghatpour, University of California, Berkeley, For the Proposal: Silene (Caryophyllaceae) of mediterranean Lebanon
Elena Stiles, University of Washington, For the Proposal: Linking cordilleran uplift and landscape aridification in the northeastern Andes
Amy Waananen, University of Minnesota, For the Proposal: Time is the Longest Distance: Temporal Outcrossing in a Fragmented Environment

2018 J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award

Rebekah Mohn,  University of Minnesota, Advisor: Dr. Ya Yang, For the Proposal: Dissecting the Evolutionary History of North American Sundews (Drosera, Droseraceae)

2018 BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
Jared Beck,  University of Wisconsin-Madison, Advisor: Dr. Donald Waller, For the Proposal: Do natural enemies regulate herbaceous plant diversity? Examining patterns of distance- and density-dependent mortality in temperate forests  
Taylor Chae,  Miami University,  Advisor: Dr. Richard Moore, For the Proposal:  Differential gene expression in Carica papaya associated with reverse sexual transition from dioecy to hermaphroditism
Joseph Charboneau, University of Arizona, Advisor: Dr. Michael Sanderson, For the Proposal: Verifying and screening for chloroplast genome inversions in New World Astragalus (Fabaceae)
Katherine Culatta, North Carolina State University, Advisor: Dr. Alexander Krings, For the Proposal: Taxonomy, Population Genetics, and Status Assessment of Nuphar sagittifolia (Walter) Pursh (Nymphaeaceae)  
Aayudh Das, University of Vermont, Advisor: Dr. Jill Preston, For the Proposal: Testing the influence of extrinsic versus intrinsic factors on the evolution of grass stress tolerance  
Andrea Fetters, University of Pittsburgh, Advisor: Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman, For the Proposal: Pollination gone viral: pollinators as novel agents of plant pathogen transmission  
Mahboubeh Hosseinalizadeh Nobarinezhad, Mississippi State University, Advisor: Dr. Lisa Wallace, For the Proposal: Fine-scale genetic structure in rhizosphere microbial communities associated with Chamaecrista fasciculata (Fabaceae)  
Stacy Jorgensen, University of Arizona, Advisor: Dr. Mark Beilstein, For the Proposal: Transcriptomic desiccation response in diploid and polyploid xerophytic species of Selaginella subg. Rupestrae  
Christopher Krieg, University of Florida, Advisor: Dr. Emily Sessa, For the Proposal: How understanding the evolution of physiological traits and environmental niche can help save the world’s most threatened plant group
Katherine Kucera, Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden, Advisor: Dr. Andrea Kramer, For the Proposal: Characterizing genetic changes in the production of multi-source seed lots in Penstemon pachyphyllus
Kali Mattingly, The Ohio State University, Advisor: Dr. Steven Hovick, For the Proposal: Assessing the extent of hybridization between the invasive species Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) and the horticultural species L. virgatum
Samuel McCauley, University of Idaho, Advisor: Dr. David Tank, For the Proposal: Biogeographically-mediated evolution and diversification of Thalictrum (Ranunculaceae)  
Juan Isaac Moreira Hernandez, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Advisor: Dr. Nathan Muchhala, For the Proposal: Interspecific pollen transfer and gene flow during the rapid diversification of Neotropical bat-pollinated bellflowers (Campanulaceae: Burmeistera)
Kirsten Nolting, University of Connecticut, Advisor: Dr. Kent Holsinger, For the Proposal: What makes a ‘biodiversity hotspot’ hot? Trait-mediated species coexistence in seedling communities in a fire-driven ecosystem
Lindsey Riibe, University of Florida, Advisor: Dr. Emily Sessa, For the Proposal: Phylogeny & biogeography of endemic ferns in a biodiversity hotspot
Gabriella Rossetto, Pennsylvania State University, Advisor: Dr. Peter Wilf, For the Proposal: Araucarian conifer fossils of Eocene Patagonia may reveal an Australasian rainforest connection  
Aniket Sengupta, University of Kansas, Advisor: Dr. Lena Hileman, For the Proposal: Of central importance: control of carpel zygomorphy in tribe Antirrhineae by CYCLOIDEA-RADIALIS interaction  
Shengchen Shan, Florida Museum of Natural History, Advisor: Dr. Doug Soltis, For the Proposal: Developmental and genetic dynamics of the inflorescence in reciprocally formed allopolyploid Tragopogon miscellus (Asteraceae)
Mathew Sharples, University of Colorado-Boulder, Advisor: Dr. Erin Tripp, For the Proposal: Investigating the Origins of Apetaly in the Cosmopolitan Genus Stellaria L. (Caryophyllaceae) 


2017 J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Awards

Ya  Min, Harvard University,  Advisor: Elena Kramer, For the Proposal: The Genetic Architecture of Stamen Whorl Variation in Aquilegia
2017 BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
Prabha  Amarasinghe, University of Florida,  Advisor: Nico Cellinese, For the Proposal: An integrated approach for understanding the drivers of diversification in Memecylon (Melastomataceae)
Lauren  Audi, Northwestern University, Advisor: Nyree J C Zerega, For the Proposal: Genetic characterization of Caribbean Breadfruit: Advancing food security and local sustainable agriculture via germplasm conservation and collaboration with local growers.
Nicholas  Bard, University of Colorado at Denver, Advisor: Leo P Bruederle, For the Proposal: The Diversity of Adaptation: A Population Genomic Study of Two Disjunct Conspecific Plant Taxa
Amanda  Benoit, University of Tennessee, Advisor: Susan Kalisz, For the Proposal: Sit-and-wait predators as drivers of plant mating system evolution
Brittany  Cavazos, Iowa State University, Advisor: Haldre S. Rogers, For the Proposal: The impact of frugivorous bird extinction on plant reproductive traits
Alexa  DiNicola, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Advisor: Kenneth J. Sytsma, For the Proposal: Evolution of the Potentilla breweri complex: adaptation, hybridization, and radiation in the Great Basin sky islands
Anna  Farrell, Northern Illinois University, Advisor: Nicholas A. Barber, For the Proposal: Functional Plant Trait Variation Along Disturbance Gradients in Restored Prairies
Jessica  Hoch, Columbia University, Advisor: Matthew I. Palmer, For the Proposal: Drivers of microbial assemblages, plant-microbial mechanisms, and ecosystem services in urban green infrastructure
Johanna  Jantzen, University of Florida, Advisor: Pamela S. Soltis, For the Proposal: Diversification and niche evolution in Neotropical Tibouchina s.s. (Melastomataceae)
Melanie  Kazenel, University of Vermont, Advisor: Alison K Brody, For the Proposal: Assessing the consequences of bumblebee declines for native plants and pollinators
Xiaoxian  Liu, University of Florida, Advisor: Doug Soltis. For the Proposal: Evolutionary impact of genome duplication on alternative splicing: Genome-wide assessment in a polyploid plant (Tragopogon)
Chelsea  Pretz, University of Colorado at Boulder, Advisor: Stacey D. Smith, For the Proposal: Pollination biology and hybridization among Tomatillo (Physalis) Species in the Southwestern Region of North America
Adam  Ramsey, University of Memphis, Advisor: Jennifer Mandel, For the Proposal: The Effects of Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy on Individual Fitness in Wild Carrot
Jon  Richey, University of California at Davis, Advisor: Isabel Montanez, For the Proposal: Reconstructing Paleo-Plant Physiology and Vegetation-Climate Feedbacks of Late Paleozoic Seasonally-Dry Tropical Biomes
Rosa  Rodriguez-Pena, Ohio State University, Advisor: Andrea D. Wolfe, For the Proposal: Investigating the agents driving diversification in Penstemon using high-throughput sequencing technology
Annika  Smith, University of Florida, Advisor: Pamela S. Soltis, For the Proposal: Floral evolution & diversity in the nasturtiums (Tropaeolum)
Elizabeth  Stunz, University of Texas at El Paso, Advisor: Michael L. Moody, For the Proposal: Landscape genetics of Arctic dwarf birch (Betula nana) in the context of gene flow and climate change
Katherine  Wenzell,  Northwestern University, Advisor: Jeremie Fant, For the Proposal: Geographic variation in floral traits and pollinators in relation to population genetic  structure of two Castilleja species (Orobanchaceae)
Colby  Witherup, Northwestern University, Advisor: Norm Wickett, For the Proposal: Investigating the evolutionary history of meiosis genes in genera with diploid and polyploid clades



2016 J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Awards

Jonathan P. Spoelhof, University of Florida, Advisor: Douglas Soltis, For the Proposal: Connecting Adaptation and Expression in Neopolyploid Arabidopsis thaliana

 2016 BSA Graduate Student Research Awards

Ana María Bedoya, University of Washington, Seattle, Advisor: Richard Olmstead, For the Proposal: Andean uplift and the transformation of aquatic ecosystems: Impacts on the evolutionary patterns in aquatic plants of northern South America
Alexander C. Bippus, Humboldt State University, Advisor: Alexandru M.F. Tomescu, For the Proposal: Exploring the Phylogeny of Basal Tracheophytes: The Early Devonian Radiation
Megan Bontrager, University of British Columbia, Advisor: Amy Angert, For the Proposal: The roles of geography and environment in determining population genetic structure and performance at the northern range edge of Clarkia pulchella
Matthew Chmielewski, Portland State University, Advisor: Sarah Eppley, For the Proposal: Does local dispersal of bryophytes by birds matter?: Testing temporal shifts in bryophyte movement via birds and wind in a Pacific Northwest forest
Taylor Crow, University of Wyoming, Advisor: Kristina Hufford, For the Proposal: Alternative methods for delineating seed transfer zones
Timea Deakova, Portland State University, Advisor: Sarah Eppley, For the Proposal: <em>A novel finding: Exploring the role of isoprene emission from germinating Polytrichum juniperinum moss spores
Evan Eifler, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Advisor: Tom Givnish, For the Proposal: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Diversification in Geissorhiza (Iridaceae): Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Vulnerability in the Cape Floristic Province
Jonathan A. Flickinger, Florida International University, Advisor: Javier Francisco-Ortega, For the Proposal: Systematics of the Lathberry Clade of Eugenia L. (Myrtaceae) in the Caribbean Islands
Luiz Henrique Martins Fonseca, Universidade de São Paulo, Advisor: Lúcia G. Lohmann, For the Proposal: SYSTEMATICS, PHYLOGENY AND DIVERSIFICATION OF ADENOCALYMMA (BIGNONIEAE, BIGNONIACEAE)
Diana Gamba, University of Missouri – St. Louis, Advisor: Nathan Muchhala, For the Proposal: Is speciation faster in the tropics? Effects of seasonality and mutualists on angiosperm genetic structure
Ian Gilman, University of Idaho, Advisor: David Tank, For the Proposal: Phylogeography of Cordylanthus and Pseudocordylanthus: a framework for assessing the role of niche evolution and conservatism in the process of speciation
Nathan Paul Hartley, Duke University, Advisor: Paul Manos, For the Proposal: Diversification of a neotropical litter-trapping epiphyte clade (Anthurium section Pachyneurium): a preliminary assessment of phylogenetic niche conservatism
Caitlin Maraist, Portland State University, Advisor: Sarah Eppley, For the Proposal: Effects of phyllospheric fungi on sexual effort and chemical cues in the dioecious moss, Ceratodon purpureus
F. Nicolas Medina, Claremont Graduate University, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Advisor: J. Travis Columbus, For the Proposal: Phylogenetic insights into the New World strangler figs (Ficus subgen. Urostigma sect. Americana): testing for hybridization and introgression
Chelsea Miller, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Advisor: Charles Kwit, For the Proposal: Does the presence of entomopathogenic fungi on myrmecochorous seeds affect seed-handling and dispersal behaviors in Aphaenogaster ants?
Andre A. Naranjo, University of Florida, Advisor: Pamela Soltis, For the Proposal: The Comparative Phylogeography of Eastern North American Wetland Forest Species
Chathurani Ranathunge, Mississippi State University, Advisor: Mark E. Welch, For the Proposal: Elucidating the adaptive role of microsatellites in natural populations of Helianthus annuus (Asteraceae)
María Adolfina Savoretti, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Instituto de Botánica Darwinion, Advisor: Alexandru M.F. Tomescu, For the Proposal: Systematic affinities of Early Cretaceous mosses of western North America – an inquiry into the deep history of bryophytes
Katelin D. Stanley, Florida State University, Advisor: Austin R. Mast, For the Proposal: A Comparative Anchor for Anchored Phylogenomics: Systematic Discovery of Elephantopodinae (Asteraceae) from within the “Evil Tribe”



2015 J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award

Anne Lucy Stilger Virnig, New York Botanical Garden & The Graduate Center of the City University of New York - Advisor, Dr. Amy Litt, From molecular systems to human systems: An interdisciplinary approach to evaluating antioxidant activity and conservation in the neotropical blueberries

2015 BSA Graduate Student Research Awards

Daniella Allevato, Cornell University - Advisor, Dr. Kevin C. Nixon, Modeling the evolution of phytochemical diversity in Pilocarpus via a combined phylogenetic and environmental analysis

Jennifer Blake, Rutgers University - Advisor, Dr. Lena Struwe, Temporal, spatial, and environmental dimensions of variable sex expression in striped maple, Acer pensylvanicum (Sapindaceae)

Katharine Cary, University of California, Santa Cruz - Advisor, Dr. Jarmila Pittermann, Small trees, big problems: leaf function under extreme edaphic stress in the pygmy forests of northern California

Chloe P. Drummond, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Advisor, Dr. Kenneth J. Sytsma, Great Lakes-Western North America Disjuncts: a study on the phylogeography, timing, and climate niche space of three representative lineages

Katherine Eisen, Cornell University - Advisor, Dr. M. A. Geber, Ecological and evolutionary consequences of pollinator sharing in flowering plant communities

Claire Ellwanger, Northwestern University & The Chicago Botanic Garden - Advisor, Dr. Jeremie Fant, Genetic assessment of management and restoration practices of the federally threatened orchid, Platanthera leucophaea (The Eastern Fringed Prairie Orchid)

Nicole J. Forrester, University of Pittsburgh - Advisor, Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman, Do Doubled Genomes Double Species’ Ranges? Implications for Plant Invasions

Jacob M. Heiling, Dartmouth College - Advisor, Dr. Rebecca Irwin, Ecological significance of pollen secondary chemistry

Julie Herman, University of California, Santa Cruz - Advisor, Dr. Kathleen M. Kay, A Phylogenetic Approach to Plant Chemical Defense

Israel Jimenez Luna, California State University, Los Angeles - Advisor, Dr. Kirsten Fisher, Meiotic sex ratios in the Mojave Desert moss Syntrichia caninervis

Joshua Scott Lynn, University of New Mexico - Advisor, Dr. Jennifer Rudgers, King of the Hill? Potential for novel biotic interactions to limit plant elevational distributions

Nora Mitchell, University of Connecticut - Advisor, Dr. Kent Holsinger, Using natural hybrids to investigate trait-environment associations and stress response in an evolutionary radiation

Nabil Nasseri, University of Vermont - Advisor, Dr. Alison K. Brody, Ant-Hemipteran Mutualisms: Host Plant Antagonist or "Budding" Mutualist?

Juliet Oshiro, University of California, Santa Cruz - Advisor, Dr. Laurel Fox, Predicting flowering phenology responses to climate: integrating long-term data, plant traits and experiments

Amber Paasch, Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History - Advisors, Drs. Eunsoo Kim and Susan Perkins, Characterization of a Unique Method of Bacteria Ingestion in Green Algae by Fluorescence and Electron Microscopy

Wilnelia Recart, University of California, Irvine - Advisor, Dr. Diane Campbell, Beyond the ecological: can presence of an invader affect floral selection in a native species?

Anthony Slominski, Montana State University - Advisor, Dr. Laura Burkle, The effects of climate-driven phenological shifts on plant-pollinator interactions and plant and pollinator reproductive success

Rebecca Stubbs, Florida Museum of Natural History and University of Florida - Advisors, Drs. Nico Cellinese and Doug Soltis, Understanding the Arctic flora: Using a model plant group to study evolution at high latitudes

Brittany L. Sutherland, University of Virginia - Advisor, Dr. Laura F. Galloway, Interploid Gene Flow at Independent Contact Zones in Campanula rotundifolia

Christine Urbanowicz, Dartmouth College - Advisor, Dr. Rebecca E. Irwin, The influence of neighboring plants on pollination and plant reproduction across a stress gradient

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'"

Society Awards

» Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America
» BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
» BSA Undergraduate Student Research Awards
» BSA Emerging Leader Award
» BSA Young Botanist Awards

Student Travel Awards

» Developmental & Structural Section Student Travel Awards
» Ecological Section Student Travel Awards
» Economic Botany Section Student Travel and Presentation Awards
» Genetics Section Student Travel Awards
» Pteridological Section & American Fern Society Student Travel Awards

Named Awards

» Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award
» Vernon I. Cheadle Student Travel Awards
» Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant
» TRIARCH "Botanical Images" Student Travel Award
» Isabel Cookson Award - Paleobotanical
» Darbaker Prize
» Katherine Esau Award - Developmental & Structural Section
» BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
» Margaret Menzel Award - Genetics
» Maynard Moseley Award - Developmental & Structural and Paleobotanical
» Jeanette Siron Pelton Award
» Remy, Remy, and Winslow Award - Paleobotanical
» A. J. Sharp Award - ABLS/Bryological and Lichenological Section
» Grady L. Webster and Barbara D. Webster Structural Botany Publication Award
» Edgar T. Wherry Award - Pteridological

Sectional Awards

» Ecological Section Best Student Presentation & Poster Awards
» Genetics Section Graduate Student Research Awards
» Genetics Section Poster Presentation Award
» Emanuel D. Rudolph Award - Historical
» Li-COR Prize - Physiological and Ecophysiological
» Physiological and Ecophysiological Section Best Student Presentations

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» James M. and Esther N. Schopf Fund - Paleobotanical

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