Outreach Projects
- Development of educational websites for the Tree of Life and the diversity of flowers
- Development of a kiosk-style exhibit for natural history museums on the diversity of plants (in collaboration with the Peabody Museum, Yale)
- Participation in Sensational Science
- Consultant to Lincoln Middle School science teachers for development of “paleobotany garden” and molecular biology
Courses Taught
Bot 2710, Practical Plant Taxonomy (50%), alternate fall semesters (odd)
Bot 5725, Taxonomy of Vascular Plants (50%), alternate spring semesters (even)
PCB 6605, Principles of Systematics (33%), alternate spring semesters (odd)
Bot 6935, Molecular Systematics (50%), alternate fall semesters (even)
Bot 6936, Systematics Journal Club, every semester
Graduate Students
Rodrigo Vergara, Ph.D. Candidate
Email: rvergara69@hotmail.com
Genetic diversity and hybridization in Nothofagus