Darin S. Penneys

curriculum vitæ – October 2008

Contact Information:

California Academy of Sciences	office:	415-379-5389
Golden Gate Park	email:	dpenneys@calacademy.org
55 Music Concourse Drive	website:	www.flmnh.ufl.edu/melastomes
San Francisco, CA 94118 U.S.A.

Education:

2007 Ph.D., Botany University of Florida

2001 M.S., Botany University of Florida

1992 B.S., Biology Southern Connecticut State University

Dissertation:

Phylogeny and character evolution in the Blakeeae (Melastomataceae): Neotropical hemiepiphytes with

mite and ant domatia. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Committee: Walter S. Judd (Chair),

Douglas E. Soltis, Frank Almeda, Norris H. Williams, Jon Reiskind.

Thesis:

A systematic revision and cladistic analysis of Charianthus (Miconieae: Melastomataceae) using

morphological and molecular characters. Master's Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Committee:

Walter S. Judd (Chair), J. Dan Skean, Jr., Norris H. Williams, Jon Reiskind.

Grants, Awards, and Honors:

2006 Deep Time Travel Award. $500

2005 National Science Foundation – Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. Phylogeny

and character evolution in the Blakeeae (Melastomataceae): Neotropical

hemiepiphytes with mite and ant domatia. NSF DEB:0508582. $12,000

2005 New England Botanical Club - Merritt Lyndon Fernald Award for best paper

published in volume 106 of Rhodora

2004 Botanical Society of America - Karling Award. $500

2004 American Society of Plant Systematists - Graduate Student Research Grant. $900

2004 Deep Time Travel Award. $500

2002 Graduate Student Teacher Award, University of Florida. $750

2002 Deep Time Travel Award. $500

2001 Deep Time Travel Award. $500

Epidendrum penneystigma Hágsater & García-Cruz. In: Icones Orchidacearum, fasc. 3(2): t. 368. 1999.

Research Experience:

2008-present John J. Rose Postdoctoral Research Fellow, California Academy of Sciences

2007-2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The BRIDGE, Université Paul Sabatier – CNRS, France

2005-2006 Research Assistant in Melastome Systematics, Department of Botany, University of

Florida

2002-2005 Research Assistant in Plant Systematics, Department of Biological Sciences, University

of Florida

2000-2006 Melastomataceae identifications, United States National Herbarium, Missouri Botanical

Garden, New York Botanical Garden, plus national and local herbaria in

Dominica, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador

2001 Botanical Field Technician, Florida Natural Areas Inventory

1997-1998 Database Technician, University of Pennsylvania, Dan Janzen laboratory, Lepidoptera

of Guanacaste Conservation Area

1995-1996 Field Botanist, Flora of Monteverde, Costa Rica (Missouri Botanical Garden)

1994-1995 Field Botanist, Santa Elena Reserve, Monteverde, Costa Rica

1993-1994 Conservation Gardener, North Carolina Botanical Garden, University of North Carolina -

Chapel Hill

1991-1992 Botanical Technician, United States Forest Service, Fremont National Forest, Oregon

Teaching Experience:

2003 Instructor, Biology I. Cells, Organisms, & Genetics, Department of Biological Sciences,

University of Florida (Lecture)

2001-2002 Instructor, Local Flora of North Florida, Department of Botany, University of Florida

(Lecture & lab)

2000 Graduate Teaching Assistant; Tropical Botany, Department of Botany, University of

Florida (Lab)

2000 Graduate Teaching Assistant; Introductory Plant Systematics, Department of Botany,

University of Florida (Lab)

1998-1999 Graduate Teaching Assistant; Integrated Principles of Biology I, Department of

Biological Sciences, University of Florida (Lab)

1996 Teaching Assistant, Tropical Biology, Council on International Educational Exchange,

Monteverde, Costa Rica (Lecture & lab)

1995 Teaching Assistant, Tropical Dendrology, Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve, Costa Rica

Manuscripts:

Penneys, D.S., W.S. Judd, and F.A. Michelangeli. Henriettieae: A new berry-fruited tribe of neotropical

Melastomataceae. In prep.

Penneys, D.S., and W.S. Judd. A morphological cladistic analysis of the Blakeeae (Melastomataceae).

In prep.

Publications:

Almeda, F., M. Alvear, D.S. Penneys, and F.A. Michelangeli. Melastomataceae. In: R. Bernal (ed.).

Catalogue of the plants of Colombia. Submitted.

Morales-Puentes, M.E., and D.S. Penneys. Nuevas especies de Chalybea Naud. y Huilaea Wurdack.

Submitted.

Varassin, I.G., D.S. Penneys, and F.A. Michelangeli. 2008. Comparative anatomy and morphology of

nectar-producing Melastomataceae. Annals of Botany 102: 899-909.

Goldenberg, R., D.S. Penneys, F. Almeda, W.S. Judd, and F.A. Michelangeli. 2008. Phylogeny of

Miconia (Melastomataceae): Patterns of stamen diversification in a megadiverse neotropical

genus. International Journal of Plant Sciences 169: 963-979.

Judd, W.S., J.D. Skean, Jr., D.S. Penneys, and F.A. Michelangeli. 2008. A new species of Henriettea
(Melastomataceae) from the Sierra de Baoruco, the Domincan Republic. Brittonia 60: 217-227.

Bécquer-Granados, E. R., K.M. Neubig, W.S. Judd, F.A. Michelangeli, J.R. Abbott, and D.S. Penneys.

2008. Preliminary molecular phylogenetic studies in Pachyanthus (Miconieae,

Melastomataceae). Botanical Review 74: 37-52.

Michelangeli F.A., W.S. Judd, D.S. Penneys, J.D. Skean, Jr., E.R. Becquer-Granados, R. Goldenberg,

and C.V. Martin. 2008. Multiple events of dispersal and radiation of the tribe Miconieae

(Melastomataceae) in the Caribbean. Botanical Review 74: 53-77.

Almeda, F., P.E. Berry, A. Freire-Fierro, A. Gröger, B.K. Holst, N.G. Luckana, F.A. Michelangeli, T.

Morley, D.S. Penneys, S.S. Renner, O.R. Robinson, J.J. Wurdack, K. Yatskievych. 2007.

Melastomataceae. Pp. 397-417. In: V. Funk, T. Hollowell, P. Berry, C. Kelloff, and S.N.

Alexander (eds.). Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar,

Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States

National Herbarium, Washington D.C.

Blanco, M.A., W.M. Whitten, D.S. Penneys, N.H. Williams, K.M. Neubig, and L. Endara. 2006. A

simple and safe method for rapid drying of plant specimens using forced-air space heaters.

Selbyana 27: 83-87.

Penneys, D.S., and E. Cotton. 2005 [2007]. Melastomataceae. In: Libro rojo de las plantas endémicas

del Ecuador 2005, II Edition. Herbario QCA, Pontifícia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.

Penneys, D.S., and W.S. Judd. 2005. A cladistic analysis and systematic revision of Charianthus

(Miconieae: Melastomataceae) using morphological and molecular characters. Systematic

Botany 30: 559-584.

Judd, W.S., and D.S. Penneys. 2004. Taxonomic studies in the Miconieae (Melastomataceae). VIII. A

revision of the species of the Miconia desportesii complex on Hispaniola. Rhodora 106: 124-147.

Michelangeli, F.A., D.S. Penneys, J. Giza, D.E. Soltis, M.H. Hils, and J. Dan Skean, Jr. 2004. A

preliminary phylogeny of the tribe Miconieae (Melastomataceae) based on nrITS sequence data

and its implications on inflorescence position. Taxon 53: 279-290.

Penneys, D.S., and W.S. Judd. 2004. Two new species of Charianthus (Melastomataceae: Miconieae)

from the Lesser Antilles. Brittonia 56: 19-27.

Judd, W.S., D.S. Penneys, and J.D. Skean, Jr. 2004. Rediscovery of Ossaea alloeotricha, an endemic of

the high-elevation Massif de la Hotte, Haiti, and its transfer to Miconia (Melastomataceae:

Miconieae). Brittonia 56: 56-62.

Penneys, D.S., and W.S. Judd. 2003. The resurrection and lectotypification of Tetrazygia fadyenii

(Melastomataceae: Miconieae): A hummingbird-pollinated treelet endemic to Jamaica. Sida 20:

877-884.

Penneys, D.S. 2001- onward. Melastomataceae of the World [online]. Florida Museum of Natural

History. Available at: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/melastomes

Penneys, D.S. 1996. A guide to the common flowering plant families of Monteverde, Costa Rica.

Published by the author. 65 pp.

Presentations:

Varassin, I.G., D.S. Penneys, and F.A. Michelangeli. Comparative anatomy and morphology of nectar

producing Melastomataceae. Botany & Plant Biology Joint Congress, 7-11 July 2007, Chicago,

Illinois.

Michelangeli, F.A., W.S. Judd, D.S. Penneys, J.D. Skean, Jr., E. Bécquer, R. Goldenberg, and C.V.

Martin. La tribu Miconiaeae (Melastomataceae) en las Antillas: múltiples eventos de dispersión y

radiación. IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Botánica, 19-25 June 2006, Santo Domingo,

Dominican Republic.

Bécquer, E., D.S. Penneys, K.M. Neubig, and W.S. Judd. Sistemática, Taxonomía y Biogeografía de

Pachyanthus (Miconieae, Melastomataceae), un género endémico de las Antillas Mayores. IX

Congreso Latinoamericano de Botánica, 19-25 June 2006, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Bécquer, E., D.S. Penneys, K.M. Neubig, W.S. Judd, and J.R. Abbott. Análisis filogenético preliminar

de Pachyanthus (Miconieae: Melastomataceae) basado en datos moleculares. IX Congreso

Latinoamericano de Botánica 19-25, June 2006, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Morales-P, M., D.S. Penneys, W.S. Judd, and F. Gonzalez. Estudio preliminar de las relaciones

filogenéticas de los generos Huilaea Wurd. y Chalybea Naud. en la tribu Blakeeae

(Melastomataceae). IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Botánica, 19-25 June 2006, Santo Domingo,

Dominican Republic.

Michelangeli, F.A., R. Goldenberg, W.S. Judd, D.S. Penneys, C.V. Martin, J. D. Skean, Jr, & E. Becquer.

Estudos Filogenéticos em Miconieae (Melastomataceae). 56 Congresso Nacional de Botănica,

October 2005, Curitiba, Brasil.

Penneys, D.S., F.A. Michelangeli, W.S. Judd, J.D. Skean, Jr. Henrietteeae, a new tribe of neotropical

Melastomataceae. Botany 2004, 31 July-5 August 2004, Snowbird, Utah.

Judd, W.S., D.S. Penneys, and J.D. Skean, Jr. Systematic diversity of Miconia (Melastomataceae) on

Hispaniola. Botany 2004, 31 July-5 August 2004, Snowbird, Utah.

Almeda, F., R. Goldenberg, F.A. Michelangeli, D.S. Penneys, and S.S. Renner. 2003. Progress in

Miconia (Melastomataceae): 1531 names, 1061 readily distinguishable entities. Systematics 2003.

4th Biennial Meeting of the Systematics Association. 18-23 August 2003. Dublin, Ireland.

Penneys, D.S. and W.S. Judd. A cladistic analysis of Charianthus (Miconieae: Melastomataceae)

using morphological and molecular characters. Botany 2001, 12-16 August 2001, Albuquerque,

New Mexico.

Poster:

Penneys, D.S., W.M.Whitten, N.H. Williams, and W.S. Judd. Huilaea and the Blakeeae

(Melastomataceae): phylogenetic relationships reconsidered. Botany 2004, July 31 – August 5,

Snowbird, UT.

Professional Affiliations:

American Society of Plant Taxonomists

Botanical Society of America

International Association of Plant Taxonomists

Society of Systematic Biologists

Collaborator:

Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Melastomataceae treatment

A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Miconieae (Melastomataceae) based on molecular and morphological

characters: NSF DEB:0515665 $178,273

Deep Time: A comprehensive phylogenetic tree of living and fossil angiosperms. NSF IOB:0090283

$499,351

Reviewer:

Brittonia, Selbyana, Systematic Botany

Travels (Number of trips / total number of weeks):

Americas: All of U.S.A. (except Alaska and Kentucky), Canada (1 / 3), Mexico (3 / 7), Nicaragua (4 / 3), Costa Rica

(lived there for three years 1994-1996, afterwards, 2 / 6), Panama (1 / 5), Colombia (1 / 1), Ecuador (3 / 10), Peru (1 / 3),

Bolivia (1 / 3), French Guiana (1 / 4), Puerto Rico (1 / 1), Dominica (1 / 2), Martinique (1 / 2), Europe: Holland (2 / 2),

Belgium (1 / 1), France (3 / 60), Monaco (1 / 0.5), Italy (1 / 2).

Languages:

Spanish, French; reading ability in Portuguese.