Students with Web sites are hyperlinked below.

Burraston, Kyra PhD, WU, Advisor: P.Raven. Pollination in Onagraceae. Caomhanach, Nuala PhD, UMSL, Advisor: P. Stevens. Undecided. Camara, Paulo PhD, UMSL, Advisors: Kellogg/Magill. Taxithelium (mosses). Carlsen, Monica PhD, UMSL, Advisors: Croat/P. Stevens. Anthurium (Araceae). Diazgranados, Mauricio Ph.D., SLU, Advisor: Barber. Andean Asteraceae Fuentes, Sara PhD, UMSL, Advisors: Al-Shehbaz/Kellogg. Systematics of Cruciferae. Ghebretinsae, Amanuel PhD, SLU, Advisor: Barber. Cuphea (Lythraceae). Hsu, Shih-Chung PhD, WU, Advisors: Raven/Schaal. Vitis (Vitaceae). Kenfack, David PhD, UMSL, Advisor: P. Stevens. Carapa (Meliaceae). Menke, Marck PhD, WU, Advisors: Schaal/Raven/Al-Shehbaz. Aethionema (Brassicaceae). Oberle, Brad PhD, WU, Advisor: Schaal. Dodecatheon (Primulaceae). Ortiz, Rosa PhD, UMSL, Advisors: Kellogg/van der Werff. Menispermaceae. Price, Taina M. PhD, WU, Advisors: Schaal/Raven. Portulacaceae. Puppo, Pamela MS, UMSL, Advisor: P. Stevens. Calceolaria. Rivas, Gonzalo MS, UMSL, Advisor: Loiselle. GIS of alien grasses. Romero, Carolina PhD, SLU, Advisor: Miller. Legumes of Colombia. Sampliner, Danielle MS, SLU, Advisor:Miller. Horseradish – Armoracia. Sweeney, Patrick PhD, UMSL, Advisors: Kellogg/P. Stevens. Phylogeny of Garcinia (Clusiaceae). Waselkov, Kate PhD, WU, Advisor: Schaal. Chenopodium. Yu, Guoqin PhD, WU, Advisors: Schaal/Raven. Oryza (Poaceae) and Ambrosia (Asteraceae). Zapata, Felipe PhD, UMSL, Advisor: P. Stevens. Escalloniaceae. Recent Graduates (2006-2007) Ph.D.'s: John Atwood. Completed his MS in bryology on the systematics of Schlotheimia subgenus Stegotheca. James Beck. He worked on wild populations of Arabidopsis thaliana. Currently a postdoc working on ferns with Kathy Pryor at Duke University. Mark “Skip” Beilstein did a molecular phylogeny of the Brassicaceae and has been a postdoc at Harvard for some time now. Kuo-fang Chung worked on Oreomyrrhis in the Apiaceae, a circumpacific genus. Now a postdoc with Garden alumnus Ching-I Peng at Academica Sinica in Taiwan. Sangay Demay came here from Bhutan for her MS work. A non-thesis degree but she has been studying various species in Madagascar and Bhutan. Cynthia Hong-Wa studied endemic plants of Madagascar for her MS work and has remained in St Louis to do a PhD. Funded by Christensen Fund Fellowship for both MS and PhD studies. Wayne Law worked on medicinal plants in the eastern Himalayas of China. Now a postdoc with Mike Balick at New York Botanical Garden. Everything is going swimmingly – now working on warm Pacific islands instead of snowy/foggy mountain slopes. Cuong Nguyen came from Vietnam to work on the local species of Actinidiaceae. Now back in Vietnam. Matt Ogburn studies the anatomy of various members of the Portulacaceae for his MS work. He will continue this, and expand it, for his PhD work at Brown University. Heidi Schmidt worked on a group of ericads in Madagascar for her MS. She needed a lot of fieldwork and component analysis to try and work out what were the actual species in the genus Agarista. Heidi is now working for Flora North America. Ben Torke is the world expert on Swartzia, a papilionoid legume. Lots of fieldwork, herbarium time and molecular work is beginning to give him a handle on this large genus. Ben is now a postdoc at the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences. “Beto” Vicentini came to us from INPA in Manaus, in Amazonas state in Brazil to work on Pagamea in the Rubiaceae. Again, with a lot of field, herbarium, and lab work, Beto came up with novel ideas of studying speciation. He is now back at INPA in Manaus. This page was revised 09/05/07 Please contact Myriam Fica about technical/content matters or updates.