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Graduate Students at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Students with Web sites are hyperlinked below.

Current Students 2007

Kyra Burraston  
PhD, WU, Advisor: P.Raven. Pollination in Onagraceae.
Paulo Camara  
PhD, UMSL, Advisors: Kellogg/Magill. Taxithelium (mosses).
Nuala Caomhanach  
PhD, UMSL, Advisor: P. Stevens. Undecided.
Monica Carlsen  
PhD, UMSL, Advisors: Croat/P. Stevens. Anthurium (Araceae).
Mauricio Diazgranados  
Ph.D., SLU, Advisor: Barber. Andean Asteraceae
Sara Fuentes  
PhD, UMSL, Advisors: Al-Shehbaz/Kellogg. Systematics of Cruciferae.
Amanuel Ghebretinsae  
PhD, SLU, Advisor: Barber. Cuphea (Lythraceae).
Shih-Chung Hsu  
PhD, WU, Advisors: Raven/Schaal. Vitis (Vitaceae).
David Kenfack  
PhD, UMSL, Advisor: P. Stevens. Carapa (Meliaceae)
Marck Menke  
PhD, WU, Advisors: Schaal/Raven/Al-Shehbaz. Aethionema (Brassicaceae).
Brad Oberle  
PhD, WU, Advisor: Schaal. Dodecatheon (Primulaceae).
Rosa Ortiz  
PhD, UMSL, Advisors: Kellogg/van der Werff. Menispermaceae.
Taina M. Price  
PhD, WU, Advisors: Schaal/Raven. Portulacaceae.
Pamela Puppo  
MS, UMSL, Advisor: P. Stevens. Calceolaria.
Gonzalo Rivas  
MS, UMSL, Advisor: Loiselle. GIS of alien grasses.
Carolina Romero  
PhD, SLU, Advisor: Miller. Legumes of Colombia.
Danielle Sampliner  
MS, SLU, Advisor:Miller. Horseradish - Armoracia.
Patrick Sweeney  
PhD, UMSL, Advisors: Kellogg/P. Stevens. Phylogeny of Garcinia (Clusiaceae).
Kate Waselkov  
PhD, WU, Advisor: Schaal. Chenopodium.
Guoqin Yu  
PhD, WU, Advisors: Schaal/Raven. Oryza (Poaceae) and Ambrosia (Asteraceae).
Felipe Zapata  
PhD, UMSL, Advisor: P. Stevens. Escalloniaceae.

Recent Students 2006-2007

Ph.D.
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.

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