A Brief History of Gerald J. Gastony's Botanical Career.A Brief History of Gerald J. Gastony's Botanical Career.--After graduating from St. Ignatius High School St. Ignatius High School can refer to:
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. , Gerald J. Gastony (1940-) attended St. Louis University for his undergraduate training. His initial focus was on the humanities and in 1964 he received his Bachelor's Degree in the College of Philosophy and Letters. Through this focus, he became fluent in Latin and comfortable in Greek, skills that aided his future career as a plant systematist. Jerry also became interested in botany through a course from the distinguished taxonomist and floristician, John Dwyer John Dwyer may refer to:
Founding/early history The University dates from 1834 as the Medical College of Louisiana.<ref name="facts" /> With the addition of a law department, it became The University of Louisiana , where eventually he was advised by the noted naturalist and botanical historian, Joseph Ewan while supported by a predoctoral pre·doc·tor·al adj. Of, relating to, or engaged in advanced academic study in preparation for a doctorate: predoctoral course work; a predoctoral student. fellowship from NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. . It was during his work at Tulane that Jerry became interested in ferns, which would be the focus of his doctoral work and future career. Ewan and Walter Hodge Walter Hodge is a Puerto Rican basketball guard who plays collegiately for the Florida Gators. A reserve point guard his first two seasons with the Gators, he is expected to be a key starter for the two-time defending national champions in the 2007-08 season. (then at NSF NSF - National Science Foundation ) were among those who encouraged Jerry to accept a Master's Degree (in 1966) from Tulane and to apply to the doctoral program at Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. (although this meant abandoning his NASA fellowship for support through a grant from NSF). There, he completed his Ph.D. in 1971 under Rolla Tryon, one of the preeminent classical fern systematists of his time. Jerry's doctoral work on the taxonomy of the tree fern tree fern, any fern having a treelike trunk. Sometimes other similar primitive plants are also called tree fern, e.g., species of cycad. tree fern genus Nephelea (Gastony, 1973) not only prepared him for a career in systematics systematics: see classification. , but it also stimulated his interest in related topics, such as the comparative morphology of fern spores, variation in the fern life cycle, and speciation speciation Formation of new and distinct species, whereby a single evolutionary line splits into two or more genetically independent ones. One of the fundamental processes of evolution, speciation may occur in many ways. . Jerry accepted a faculty position at Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. in 1970, straight from graduate school. His initial research in Bloomington focused primarily on the spore morphology of tree ferns (Gastony, 1974, 1979, 1981, 1982; Gastony and Tryon, 1976). However, several years into his position, Jerry became aware that in order to lead a successful career in a department that emphasized evolutionary studies beyond the organismal level, he would have to expand the focus of his research to address basic questions in evolutionary biology Evolutionary biology is a sub-field of biology concerned with the origin and descent of species, as well as their change, multiplication, and diversity over time. . In order to gain technical skills that would allow him to broaden his research program. Jerry sat in on several courses at Indiana University on biochemistry and genetics. He then applied this knowledge to a new effort to adapt the developing field of isozyme isozyme /iso·zyme/ (i´so-zim) one of the multiple forms in which an enzyme may exist in an organism or in different species, the various forms differing chemically, physically, or immunologically, but catalyzing the same reaction. electrophoresis to ferns. He also spent his first sabbatical sab·bat·i·cal also sab·bat·ic adj. 1. Relating to a sabbatical year. 2. Sabbatical also Sabbatic Relating or appropriate to the Sabbath as the day of rest. n. A sabbatical year. in Leslie Gottlieb's lab at the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Davis, where he perfected his isozyme techniques and began to apply them to evolutionary and population genetic studies in ferns. At the time, existing protocols to extract, resolve, and genetically interpret the banding patterns of common enzyme systems mostly did not work with ferns (Soltis et al., 1983), and Jerry was challenged to prove himself in the Gottlieb lab. Ferns in the genus Pellaea Noun 1. genus Pellaea - genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae Pellaea fern genus - genera of ferns and fern allies are abundant and cytologically diverse in California, and these became Jerry's model system for many future studies involving taxonomic relationships, population genetics Population genetics The study of both experimental and theoretical consequences of mendelian heredity on the population level, in contradistinction to classical genetics which deals with the offspring of specified parents on the familial level. , formation of polyploids, and the contributions of apogamous taxa to fern evolution (Gastony and Gottlieb, 1982, 1985; Gastony, 1988, 1990, 1991, Gastony and Windham, 1989). The coupling of classical and molecular techniques led to Jerry's pioneering work on fern isozymes, and his lab (known as "Sky Lab" because of its location on the top floor of Jordan Hall Jordan Hall is a 1,019-seat concert hall in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and part of the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music. It is located one block away from Symphony Hall, and together they are considered two of America's most acoustically perfect performance spaces for ) became a popular destination and invaluable resource for graduate and postdoctoral students interested in plant systematics and evolution. In the mid-1980s, Jerry and his students and collaborators further expanded the lab's repertoire to include restriction-site variation of DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. . Jerry's lab was one of the first to use variation in fern chloroplast chloroplast (klōr`əplăst', klôr`–), a complex, discrete green structure, or organelle, contained in the cytoplasm of plant cells. DNA to understand historical relationships among fern species and genera (Yatskievych et al., 1988, Stein et al., 1989; Gastony et al., 1992). A few years later, Jerry began studying DNA sequence DNA sequence Genetics The precise order of bases–A,T,G,C–in a segment of DNA, gene, chromosome, or an entire genome. See Base pair, Base sequence analysis, Chromosome, Gene, Genome. data for phylogenetic phy·lo·ge·net·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to phylogeny or phylogenetics. 2. Relating to or based on evolutionary development or history. analyses of ferns, which eventually led to the first comprehensive phylogeny for ferns (Hasebe et al., 1995). Most recently, his lab generated the first genetic linkage Genetic linkage occurs when particular genetic loci or alleles for genes are inherited jointly. Genetic loci on the same chromosome are physically connected and tend to segregate together during meiosis, and are thus genetically linked. map for a fern, which will provide an important and permanent resource for fern genetics (Nakazato et al., 2006). [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Because of the great diversity of Jerry's contributions to fern systematics and evolution, it is difficult to summarize all of them here. For example, his early work on spore morphology of the Cyatheaceae (Gastony, 1974, 1979; Gastony and Tryon, 19761 provided some of the initial evidence that the prevailing generic classification was unnatural. He was the first to count the chromosomes of the sporophyte-less taxon taxon (pl. taxa), in biology, a term used to denote any group or rank in the classification of organisms, e.g., class, order, family. , Vittaria appalachiana Farrar & Mickel, which required adapting existing cytological cytological, cytologic pertaining to cytology. cytological examination examination of material for purposes of cytology. Carried out on cerebrospinal fluid, joint fluid, aspirates of body cavities and cystic lesions. protocols to the special demands of mitotic mitotic pertaining to mitosis. mitotic activity degree to which a cell population is proliferating; used as an index of tumor aggression. cells in gametophytic tissue (Gastony, 19771. He also demonstrated that ferns have diploid diploid /dip·loid/ (dip´loid) 1. having two sets of chromosomes, as normally found in the somatic cells; in humans, the diploid number is 46. 2. an individual or cell having two full sets of homologous chromosomes. isozyme expression patterns despite their high chromosome numbers and that, contrary to prevailing wisdom at the time, homosporous ferns are highly heterozygous het·er·o·zy·gous adj. 1. Having different alleles at one or more corresponding chromosomal loci. 2. Of or relating to a heterozygote. rather than homozygous ho·mo·zy·gous adj. Having the same alleles at one or more gene loci on homologous chromosome segments. Homozygous Identical genes controlling a specified inherited trait. (Gastony and Gottlieb, 1982, 1985). He later showed that fern genes can become silenced following genome doubling (Gastony, 1991). His work on cheilanthoid ferns provided the first robust phylogeny of that large and taxonomically difficult group (Gastony and Rollo, 1995, 1998), but he also has made substantial contributions to the understanding of other fern groups, in such families as Apleniaceae (Gastony, 1971; Gastony, 1986; Gastony and Johnson, 2001), Onocleaceae (Gastony and Ungerer, 19971, and other subfamilies of Pteridaceae (Gastony and Baroutsis, 1975; Baroutsis and Gastony, 1978; Gastony and Johnson, 2001; Nakazato and Gastony, 2003). [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] In 1995, Jerry Gastony (Fig. 1) received the Edgar T. Wherry Award from the Botanical Society of America (Anonymous, 1995). In 2006, he was one of the honorees for a Centennial Medallion Award from the Botanical Society of America. He was chairman of the Pteridological Section of the Botanical Society of America (1979-1980) and also served as vice president (1994-1996) and president (1996-1998) of the American Fern Society. He has been an Associate Editor of the American Fern Journal since 1973 and was editor-in-chief of Systematic Botany from 1992 through 1995. Thus far, three species of plants new to science have been named in his honor: a Caribbean moss, Macrocoma gastonyi Norris & Vitt (1973); a Mexican polystichoid fern Phanerophlebia gastonyi Yatskievch (1992), and the uncommon allopolyploid Pellaea gastonyi Windham (1993). In addition to his contributions to scientific research and service to several scientific societies, Jerry Gastony has been a caring and skilled teacher of both undergraduate and graduate students. His Vascular Plants course was widely recognized as one of the best courses in the Department of Biology at Indiana University, and in 2001 he was honored with the Department of Biology Senior Class Award for Teaching Excellence in Biology and Dedication to Undergraduates. He has also been a much loved and respected mentor to a small dynasty of graduate students, several of whom have gone on to become eminent plant systematists in their own right (Fig. 2, Table 1). During his tenure as director of the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Graduate Program in the IU Department of Biology from 1991 to 2002, this program developed into one the strongest of its kind in the country. Even after Gerald Gastony's retirement in 2006, he has continued to be a major force in pteridology and to interact with many researchers and students in the field.--MICHAEL S. BARKER, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia Locations Vancouver The Vancouver campus is located at Point Grey, a twenty-minute drive from downtown Vancouver. It is near several beaches and has views of the North Shore mountains. The 7. , 3529-6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, CANADA, and Department of Biology, Indiana University Jordan Hall 142, 1001 E Third St., Bloomington, IN 46405-3700 and GEORGE YATSKIEVYCH, Missouri Botanical Garden The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located in St. Louis, Missouri, and is also known informally as "Shaw's Garden" (named for founder Henry Shaw, a botanist and philanthropist). , P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 TABLE 1. Biographical summary of individuals in the Academic Genealogy of Gerald J. Gastony. See Fig. 2 for chronology and context. 1. Charles A. Weatherby. Academic grandfather. See American Fern Journal 40(1) for information. 2. Rolla M. Tryon, Jr. Academic father. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1941. See American Fern Journal 92(1): 1-9, 2002 for further information. 3. Gerald J. Gastony. Ph.D. 1971, Harvard University. Currently Professor of Biology Emeritus, Indiana University, Bloomington. 4. Judith E. (Baroutsis) Gordon. Ph.D. 1976 (as Judith G. Baroutsis), Indiana University, Bloomington. Currently Professor of Biology Emerita, Department of Biology, Augusta Sate University, Augusta, GA. 5. Christopher H. Haufler. Ph.D. 1977, Indiana University, Bloomington. Currently Professor and Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence. 6. Douglas E. Soltis. Ph.D. 1980, Indiana University, Bloomington. Currently Professor and Chair, Department of Botany, University of Florida, Gainesville. 7. James E. Vogelmann. Ph.D. 1983, Indiana University, Bloomington. Currently Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Sioux Falls, SD and Adjunct Professor, South Dakota State University, Brookings. 8. George Yatskievych. Ph.D. 1990, Indiana University, Bloomington. Currently Curator and Director of the Flora of Missouri Project, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis and Research Associate Professor and Adjunct Graduate Faculty, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Research Associate, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson. 9. Takuya Nakazato. Ph.D. 2005, Indiana University, Bloomington. Co-advised by Loren H. Rieseberg. Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee. Also see number 60. 10. Michael S. Barker. Ph.D. 2009, Indiana University, Bloomington. Co-advised by Loren H. Rieseberg. Currently Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 11. Thomas A. Ranker. Ph.D. 1987, University of Kansas. Currently Professor and Chair, Department of Botany, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI. 12. Michael Windham. Ph.D. 1988, University of Kansas. Currently Research Scientist and Curator of Vascular Plants, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC. 13. Ralph Brooks. Ph.D. 1989, University of Kansas. Currently Senior Environmental Scientist Black & Veatch, Lake Oswego, OR. 14. Elizabeth Andrews Hooper. Ph.D. 1994, University of Kansas. Currently Associate Professor of Biology, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO. 15. Jianwei Li. Ph.D. 1996, University of Kansas. Currently Bioinformatics Engineer III, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD. 16. Jay Therrien. Ph.D. 2003, University of Kansas. Currently Director of Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan, Illumine, Inc., Scoresby VIC, Australia. 17. Terri Hildebrand. Ph.D. 2005, University of Kansas. Currently Assistant Professor of Botany, Department of Biology, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT. 18. Loren H. Rieseberg. Ph.D. 1987, Washington State University. Currently Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington. 19. Steven J. Brunsfeld. Ph.D. 1990, Washington State University. Professor, Department of Forest Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow. Deceased, 2007 (http://www.cnrhome.uidaho.edu/ default.aspx?pid=96887). 20. Paul Wolf. Ph.D. 1990, Washington State University. Advised by Pamela Soltis, co-advised by Douglas Soltis. Currently Professor, Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan. 21. Bryan Ness. Ph.D. 1992, Washington State University. Currently Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA. 22. Michael S. Mayer. Ph.D. 1993, Washington State University. Advised by Pamela Soltis, coadvised by Douglas Soltis. Currently Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA. 23. Gregory Plunkett. Ph.D. 1994, Washington State University. Currently Curator and Director, Cullman Program in Molecular Systematic Studies, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY. 24. Qiu-Yun Xiang. Ph.D. 1995, Washington State University. Currently Associate Professor, Department of Plant Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 25. Leigh Johnson. Ph.D. 1996, Washington State University. Currently Associate Professor and Herbarium Curator, Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. 26. Joanna Schultz. Ph.D. 1996, Washington State University. Advised by Pamela Soltis, coadvised by Douglas Soltis. Currently Senior Consultant, Earth Informations Systems, Houston, TX. 27. Linda Cook. Ph.D. 1998, Washington State University. Advised by Pamela Soltis, co-advised by Douglas Soltis. Currently Lecturer part time, Washington State University, Pullman. 28. T. Michael Hardig. Ph.D. 1998, Washington State University. Advised by Pamela Soltis, coadvised by Douglas Soltis. Currently Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Mathematics, University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL. 29. Robert K. Kuzoff. Ph.D. 1998, Washington State University. Co-advised by Larry Hufford. Currently Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. 30. Mark E. Mort. Ph.D. 1999, Washington State University. Currently Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Associate Curator of the McGregor Herbarium, University of Kansas, Lawrence. 31. Matthew Gitzendanner. Ph.D. 2000, Washington State University. Advised by Pamela Soltis, co-advised by Douglas Soltis. Currently Associate Scientist, Department of Botany, University of Florida, Gainesville. 32. Jason Koontz. Ph.D. 2000, Washington State University. Advised by Pamela Soltis, co-advised by Douglas Soltis. Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL. 33. Michael Zanis. Ph.D. 2002, Washington State University. Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. 34. Pablo Speranza. Ph.D. 2005, University of Florida. Advised by Pamela Soltis, co-advised by Douglas Soltis. Currently Profesor Adjunto de Fitotecnia, Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay. 35. Ashley B. Morris. Ph.D. 2006, University of Florida. Advised by Pamela Soltis, co-advised by Douglas Soltis. Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile. 36. Christine E. Edwards. Ph.D. 2007, University of Florida. Co-advised by Douglas Soltis and Pamela Soltis. Currently Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie. 37. Monica Arakaki. Ph.D. 2008, University of Florida. Currently Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI. 38. Joshua Clayton. Ph.D. 2008, University of Florida. Currently seeking employment in UK. 39. Anna M. Arft. Ph.D. 1995, University of Colorado, Boulder. Currently homemaker. 40. Chrissen E. C. Gemmill. Ph.D. 1996, University of Colorado, Boulder. Currently Senior Lecturer ([approximately equal to] Associate Professor in U.S.), Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Aotearoa, New Zealand. 41. Robin A. Bingham. Ph.D. 1997, University of Colorado, Boulder. Currently Professor, Department of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Western State College, Gunnison, CO. 42. Carla A. Wise. Ph.D. 1997, University of Colorado, Boulder. Yah Linhart, co-advisor. Currently independent Environmental and Science Writer, Corvallis, OR. 43. Jennifer M. O. Geiger. Ph.D. 2003, University of Colorado, Boulder. Currently Associate Professor, Department of Natural Sciences, Carroll College, Helena, MO. 44. Laura Mujica. Ph.D. 2004, University of Colorado, Boulder (as Laura Mujica-Crapanzano). Patrick Bourgeron co-advisor. Currently Term Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK. 45. Jennifer M. Ramp Neale. Ph.D. 2005, University of Colorado, Boulder. Sharon Collinge, coadvisor. Currently Associate Director of Research and Director of the Conservation Genetics Program, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, CO. 46. Shannon D. Fehlberg. Ph.D. 2006, University of Colorado, Boulder. Currently Conservation Biologist, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, AZ. 47. Jonathan Krieger. Ph.D. 2007, University of Colorado, Boulder. Robert P. Guralnick co advisor. Currently Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London. 48. Loreen Allphin. Ph.D. 1996, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Advised by Delbert Wiens, coadvised by Michael Windham. Currently Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. 49. Aaron Liston. Ph.D. 1990, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA. Nominally advised by Thomas S. Elias, co-advised by Loren H. Rieseberg. Currently Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Director of the OSU Herbarium, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. 50. Oscar Dorado. Ph.D. 1992, Claremont Graduate University. Currently Professor, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico. 51. Michael Hanson. Ph.D. 1993, Claremont Graduate University. Currently tenured botany Instructor, Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA. 52. Dulce M. Arias. Ph.D. 1994, Claremont Graduate University. Currently Professor, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico. 53. Peter Morrell. Ph.D. 1997, Claremont Graduate University. Currently Senior Research Geneticist, Monsanto Co., St Louis, MO. 54. Stanley Spencer. Ph.D. 1997, Claremont Graduate University. Currently Senior Biologist at LSA Associates, Inc. [environmental consulting firm], Riverside, CA. 55. Richard Noyes. Ph.D. 1999, Indiana University, Bloomington. Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR. 56. Mark Ungerer. Ph.D. 2000, Indiana University, Bloomington. Currently Assistant Professor, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. 57. Diana Wolf. Ph.D. 2000, Indiana University, Bloomington. Currently Assistant Professor, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks AK. 58. Mark Welch. Ph.D. 2002, Indiana University, Bloomington. Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS. 59. Eva Sanders Allen. Ph.D. 2002, Indiana University, Bloomington. Ellen Ketterson, co-advisor. Currently Grants Specialist, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington. 60. Keith Gardner. Ph.D. 2004, Indiana University, Bloomington. Currently Postdoctoral Fellow, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK. 61. Takuya Nakazato. Ph.D. 2005, Indiana University, Bloomington. Co-advised by Gerald J. Gastony. Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee. Also see number 9. 62. Cecile Edelist. Ph.D. 2007, Universite Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France. Advised by Christine Dillmann and Delphine Sicard, co-advised by Loren H. Rieseberg. Currently research engineer, Conservation des Especes, Restanration et Suivi des Populations, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. 63. Briana Gross. Ph.D. 2007, Indiana University, Bloomington. Co-advised by Elizabeth Kellogg, University of Missouri, St. Louis. Currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. 64. Nolan Kane. Ph.D. 2007, Indiana University, Bloomington. Currently Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 65. Abigail Hatter. Ph.D. 2008, Indiana University, Bloomington. Currently Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh, UK. 66. Troy Wood. Ph.D. April 2009, Indiana University, Bloomington. 67. Benjamin K. Blackman. Ph.D. May 2009, Indiana University, Bloomington. Co-advised by Scott Michaels. 68. Sedonia Sipes. Ph.D. 2001, Utah State University. Currently Associate Professor, Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. 69. Roy Murray. Ph.D. 1997, Utah State University. Currently code hacker, IEM. 70. Mark W. Ellis. Ph.D. May, 2009, Utah State University, Logan, UT. 71. Antoine N. Nicolas, Ph.D. May 2009, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. 72. Pedro Fiaschi Ph.D. anticipated, August 2009, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. 73. Chuanzhu Fan. Ph.D. 2003, North Carolina State University. Currently Assistant Research Scientist, Arizona Genomics Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 74. Wenhang Zhang. Ph.D. 2006, North Carolina State University. Michael Purugganan, coadvisor. Currently Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 75. Alexander Krings. Ph.D. 2007, North Carolina State University. Jon M. Stucky, co-advisor. Currently Extension Assistant Professor and Director of the Herbarium, Department of Plant Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 76. A. Jennifer Floyd. Ph.D. 2000, North Carolina State University. Nina Allen, co-advisor. Most recently Assistant Professor, Biology Program, University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam. 77. B. Terri L. Weese. Ph.D. 2004, Brigham Young University. Currently Editor, Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia. 78. Nicholas Levsen. Ph.D. 2008, University of Kansas. Currently Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK. 79. Francisco J. Camacho. Ph.D. 1999, Oregon State University. James M. Trappe co-advisor. Currently homemaker, San Juan Capistrano, CA. 80. John Wheeler. Ph.D. 1998, Oregon State University. Currently Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin, River Falls 81. Barbara Wilson. Ph.D. 1999, Oregon State University. Currently Partner, Carex Working Group LLC [botanical consulting firm], Eugene, OR. 82. John Syring. Ph.D. 2006, Oregon State University. Co-advised by Richard C. Cronn, USDA Forest Service PNW. Currently Assistant Professor, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR. 83. Jason Alexander. Ph.D. 2007, Oregon State University. Currently Herbarium Curator, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT. 84. Ann Willyard. Ph.D. 2007, Oregon State University. Currently Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD. Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Hendrix College, Conway, AR starting August, 2009. 85. Brian Knaus. Ph.D. 2008, Oregon State University. Co-advised by Richard C. Cronn, USDA Forest Service PNW. Currently Postdoctoral Research Geneticist, USDA Forest Service PNW, Corvallis, OR. |
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