FLORIDA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

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FLAS Herbarium

Concurrent Appointments

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

Research Interests

My research focuses on two main general areas: 1) taxonomy, systematics, and biogeography and 2) biodiversity informatics and phyloinformatics.

1. I study the systematics and biogeography of two major flowering plant groups, Melastomataceae and Campanulaceae. Particularly, I focus on the Sonerileae, an Old World tribe that includes the complex Sonerila generic alliance, a poorly understood group of 12 or fewer genera, with 180-200 species, distributed from southern India to the Indo-Pacific Islands. In addition, I study the systematics and biogeography of Mediterranean Campanulaceae, especially the endemic lineages found in the Aegean area (eastern Mediterranean Sea). This area has a complex historical biogeography, highly rich in endemics and species complexes. Moreover, this is one of the most anthropogenic areas on Earth, where human pressure has dramatically shaped the landscape and biodiversity. Many taxa, whether endemics or not, are often highly localized and dependent on the preservation of a particular habitat. The Campanulaceae are an excellent group of study in this area because they are particularly diverse and rich in endemics, several of which may be facing extinction.
2. I am a co-developer of several tools (TOLKIN, HERBIS, and RegNum) that serve the biodiversity and phyloinformatics communities. I am especially interested in automated data capture, data storage, management, and analyses. A major goal of my research is to integrate existing technologies to provide a user-friendly environment where to carry out day-to-day operations, from a simple data query to image storing, scoring of morphological characters, uploading of DNA sequences, and analyses.

Courses Taught

• PCB 6605 Principles of Systematics (25%)
• BOT 5625 Plant Geography

Representative Publications

WANGWASIT, K.*, CELLINESE, N.* & NORSAENGSRI, M. Phyllagathis nanakorniana (Melastomataceae), a new species from Thailand. Blumea, Accepted (*equal contributors).

CELLINESE, N. Campanulaceae. Pp. xx-yy in de Queiroz, K., Cantino, P.D., & Gauthier, J. (eds). Phylonyms: a companion to the PhyloCode. University of California Press. Accepted (2011).

CELLINESE, N., SMITH, S.A., EDWARDS, E.J., KIM, S., HABERLE, R.C., AVRAMAKIS, & M., DONOGHUE, M.J. Historical Biogeography of the endemic Campanulaceae of Crete. 2009. Journal of Biogeography 36: 1253-1269 (invited paper, special issue on Mediterranean Biogeography).

Haberle, R.C., Dang, A., Lee, T., Peñaflor, C., Cortes-Burn, H., Oestreich, A., Raubenson, L., CELLINESE, N., Edwards, E., Kim, S.-T., Eddie, W.M.M., & Jansen, R.K. 2009. Taxonomic and biogeographic implications of a phylogenetic analysis of the Campanulaceae based on three chloroplast genes. TAXON 58: 715-734.

DE NATALE, A. & CELLINESE, N. Imperato, Cirillo, and a series of unfortunate events. – A novel approach to assess the unknown provenance of historical herbarium specimens. 2009. TAXON 58: 963-970.

CELLINESE, N. 2007. Two new species in the genus Poikilogyne (Melastomataceae) from Papua New Guinea. Novon 17(1): 20-23

JARVIS, C. (N. Cellinese, Contributor) 2007. Order Out of Chaos: Linnean Plan Names and their Types. Linnean Society & Natural History Museum. ISBN: 0950620777

LAURIN, M., DE QUEIROZ, K., CANTINO, P., CELLINESE, N., & OLMSTEAD, R. 2005. The Phylocode, types, ranks and monophyly: a response to Pickett. Cladistics 21(6): 605-607.

CELLINESE, N., BEAMAN, R.S., HEIDORN, P.B., GREEN, A., & GUO, Y. 2005. Rapid digital specimen image and data capture: a web service solution. In XVII International Botanical Congress Abstracts, pp. 24. Vienna: Robidruck

KALMBACHER, R., CELLINESE, N. & MARTIN, F. 2005. Seed obtained by vacuuming the soil surface after fire. Native Plants Journal 6: 233-240.

CELLINESE, N. 2004. Melastomataceae. In: The Plants of Mount Kinabalu, 5. Dicotyledon Families Magnoliaceae to Winteraceae (Beaman, J.H. & C. Anderson, eds). Natural History Publications (Borneo) & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

BEAMAN, R.S. & CELLINESE, N. 2004. Eight new species and a new name in the genus Elatostema (Urticaceae) on Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Blumea 49(1): 135-144.

TERRELL, J.H., HART, J.P., BARUT, S., CELLINESE, N., CURET, A., DENHAM, T., KUSIMBA, C., LATINIS, K.D., OKA, R., PALKA, J., POHL, M.E.D, & POPE, K., WILLIAMS, P.R., HAINES, H. & STALLER, J.E. 2003. Domesticated Landscapes: The Subsistence Ecology of Plants and Animal Domestication. J. Archaeological Method and Theory 10(4): 323-368.

CELLINESE, N. 2003. Revision of the genus Phyllagathis Blume (Melastomataceae: Sonerileae). II. The species of Borneo and Natuna Island. Blumea 48(1): 69-97.

CELLINESE, N. 2002. Revision of the genus Phyllagathis Blume (Melastomataceae: Sonerileae). I. The species of Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra. Blumea 47(3): 463-492.

RENNER, S.S., CLAUSING, G., CELLINESE, N. & MEYER, K. 2001. Melastomataceae, in K. Larsen and I. Nielsen (eds.), Flora of Thailand, 7: 412-496. Royal Forest Department, Bangkok, Thailand.

CELLINESE, N. 1997. A new Sonerila (Melastomataceae) from Central Kalimantan, Borneo. Novon 7(2): 103-105.

CELLINESE, N. & RENNER, S.S. 1997. New species and combinations of Sonerila and Phyllagathis (Melastomataceae) from Thailand. Novon 7(2): 106-112.

CELLINESE, N. 1997. Notes on the systematics and biogeography of the Sonerila generic alliance (Melastomataceae) with special focus on fruit characters. Tropical Biodiversity 4(1): 83-93.

SALICK, J., CELLINESE, N. & KNAPP, S. 1997. Indigenous Diversity of Cassava: Generation, maintanance, use and loss among the Amuesha, Peruvian Upper Amazon. Economic Botany 51(1): 6-19.

CELLINESE, N., JARVIS, C.E., PICHI-SERMOLLI, R.E.G., PRESS, J.R., SHORT, M.J. & VICIANI, D. 1996. The Threatened Plants of Italy: Pteridophyta. Mem. Accad. Lunigianese Sci. 66: 117-145.

Grant Funded Research Activities

2010	NSF-DEB 0953677 CAREER: Evolution in the Eastern Mediterranean Campanulaceae - Integrating Information Management and Scientific Workflows in Daily Research and Teaching: $865,251. PI.
2006	NSF-IIS 0629702 Collaborative Research: Core Database Technologies to enable the Integration of AToL Information: $201,215. PI (with Reed Beaman and Bill Piel).
2006	NSF-PBI 0614791 Collaborative Research: EuphORBia - a global inventory of the spurges: $622,000. PI (with Reed Beaman).
2006	NSF-BDI 0630503. Herbarium Cyberinfrastucture Workshop: $30,818. PI.
2006	NSF-AToL 0629686. Collaborative Research: Gymnosperms on the Tree of Life: Resolving the Phylogeny of Seed Plants: $335,017. PI (with Reed Beaman).
2006	Botanical Society of America & American Society of Plant Taxonomists. A Symposium on Cyberinfrastructure, Annual Botany Meeting, Chico, California, July 28th-August 3rd, 2006: $2,000. PI.
2005	NSF-AToL 0531749. Collaborative Research: Assembling the Liverwort Tree of Life: A Window into the Evolution and Diversification of Early Land Plant: $378,176. PI (with Reed Beaman).
2004	NSF-BDI 0345341. Collaborative Research: Rapid Digital Specimen Image and Data Capture: A Web Services Solution: $525,804. Co-PI (with Reed Beaman and Michael Donoghue).
2004	NSF-AToL 0431258. Collaborative Research: Resolving the Trunk of the Angiosperm Tree and 12 of its Thorniest Branches: $1,015,268. Co-PI (with Michael Donoghue, Reed Beaman, and Leo Hickey).
2004	NSF-BDI 0402795. A Workshop on Establishing a Comprehensive Database for Plant Systematics: $50,000. Co-PI (with Pam Soltis, Doug Soltis, and Reed Beaman).

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