Botanical Society Graduate Student Research Awards

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA'S GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS
including the J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD. The purpose of these awards is to support and promote graduate student research in the botanical sciences. The award was originally made possible in 1997 by a gift from the late Dr. John Sidney Karling. Dr. Karling started his career at Columbia and moved to Purdue as a full professor where he was head of Biological Science for more than a decade. His research interests were in cytology, marine fungi, and tropical biology. He was an active member of both the Torrey Botanical Club and the BSA. In 2004, acknowledging the importance of graduate student research, the BSA restructured the award to include nine BSA Graduate Student Research Awards in conjunction with one J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award.

2009 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipient

Andrew B. Schwendemann
University of Kansas, KS - Advisor, Dr. Thomas N. Taylor, Deep time plant physiology and its implications for climate change

2009 BSA GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients

Madelaine Bartlett
University of California, Berkeley, CA - Advisor, Dr. Chelsea D. Specht, Evolution of floral symmetry in the petaloid monocot order Zingiberales

Jessica M. Budke
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT - Advisor, Dr. Cynthia Jones, Examining the matrotrophic calyptra and its role in moss sporophyte development using Funaria hygrometrica L. (Bryophyta).

Ben R. Grady
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - Advisor, Dr. Kenneth J. Sytsma, Systematics and Edaphic Endemism in Eriogonum (Polygonaceae): An Integrative Approach

Alison Hale
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, - Advisor, Dr. Susan Kalisz, Testing the stability of obligate mutualisms using the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi interaction as a model system

Robert G. Laport
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY - Advisor. Dr. Justin Ramsey, Reproductive Isolation in the North American Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata, Zygophyllaceae)

Maribeth Latvis
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - Advisor, Drs. Pamela S. & Douglas E. Soltis, Tracking Migration, Diversification, and Gene Losses Across North and South America in Agalinis (Orobanchaceae)

Nicole E. Miller
Washington University, St. Louis, MO - Advisor, Dr. Peter Hoch, Stress-adaptation and competition for pollinators: Implications for endemism

Patricia Lu-Irving
University of Washington, Seattle, WA - Advisors, Dr. Richard G. Olmstead, How do shifts in dispersal strategy affect the distribution and diversification of species? An example from the Lantana-Lippia complex (Verbenaceae)

Alexandra Sasha Rohde
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, - Advisor, Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman, Temperature and Water Effects on Phenology and Opportunity for Positive Assortative Mating in Plantago

Jane E. Ogilvie
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, - Advisor, Dr. James Thomson, Pollination Facilitation Subalpine in Gentians

Robert N. Schaeffer
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, - Advisor, Dr. Rebecca Irwin, Direct and indirect effects of nectar microbial communities on pollinator behavior and plant fitness

2008 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipient

Samuel Brockington
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - Advisors, Drs. Pamela & Douglas Soltis, Evolution and Development of Petals within Aizoaceae (Caryophyllales)

2008 BSA GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients

Tatiana Arias
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO - Advisor, Dr. M. Alejandra Jaramillo, Did adaptation to different light environments facilitate the diversification of neotropical Piper (Piperaceae)? Phylogeny and evolution of plant architecture of Piper clade Radula

Mauricio Diazgranados
Saint Louis University and Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO - Advisor, Dr. Janet C. Barber, Phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships between the frailejones (subtribe Espeletiinae, family Asteraceae) of the South American páramos

Patrick Edger
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO - Advisor, Dr. J. Chris Pires, Resolving the Phylogeny of the Mustard Family (Brassicaceae) and its application to date two ancestral whole genome duplication events and to reconstruct the ancestral karyotype for phylogenomics

Kyra Krakos
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, - Advisor, Dr. Peter H. Raven, Shifts in Reproductive Biology Drive Diversification in Oenothera

Patrick McIntyre
University of California, Davis, CA - Advisor. Dr. Sharon Y Strauss, Polyploidy, niche variation, and local adaptation in the Claytonia perfoliata (Portulacaceae) complex

Amy Parachnowitsch
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - Advisor, Dr. Andre Kessler, Natural Selection on Floral Traits by Mutualists and Antagonists

Olofron Plume
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - Advisor, Dr. Jeff Doyle, Molecular Systematics of Genus Calendula (Asteraceae): Species phylogeny, origins of hybrid and polyploid taxa, and the evolution of terpene diversity across the genus

Stein Servick
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - Advisors, Drs. Pamela & Douglas Soltis, Genetic Consequences of Autopolyploidy in Galax urceolata (Diapensiaceae)

Mackenzie Taylor
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN - Advisor, Dr. Joseph Williams, Comparative Mating Systems in Cabombaceae (Nymphaeales)

2007 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipient

Pamela Steele
University of Texas at Austin - Advisor, Robert K. Jansen, Systematics and Biogeography of the Neotropical Genus Psiguria (Cucurbitaceae)

2007 BSA GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients

Rob Baker
University of Colorado, Boulder, Advisor, Dr. Pamela Diggle, The Microevolution of Plant Architectural Development: Cloning and Sequencing Monkeyflower Branching Genes

Janelle Burke
Cornell University, Advisor, Melissa Luckow, The systematics of the Neotropical genus Antigonon (Polygonaceae) and its application to the study of invasiveness in Antigonon leptopus

Laura Burkle
Dartmouth College,Advisor, Dr. Rebecca E. Irwin, The Effects of Nitrogen on Plant-Pollinator Mutualisms

Natalie Feliciano
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Advisor, Jill S. Miller, Isolation of the Pollen SLF Self-Incompatibility Gene in Lycium

Tracy Misiewicz
Northwestern University, Advisor, Nyree Zerega, Investigating the Evolutionary History and Pollination Biology of the genus Dorstenia (Moraceae)

Gilberto Ocampo
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont CA, Advisor, J. Travis Columbus, Systematics of Portulaca L. (Portulacaceae), including its position within the higher Caryophyllales

Patricia Ryberg
University of Kansas, Advisor, Edith L. Taylor, Permineralized Glossopteris ovules and ovulate organs from the Permian of Antarctica and Australia

Valerie Soza
University of Washington, Advisor, Richard Olmstead, Molecular Systematics and Evolution of Breeding Systems in Galium (Rubiaceae)

Cheng-Chiang Wu
Harvard University, Dr. Elena M. Kramer, Gene Duplication and Functional Evolution of Floral Homeotic Genes in Eudicots

2006 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipient

Joshua W. Clayton
University of Florida, Department of Botany, (Supervisor: Doug Soltis) - "Molecular Phylogeny and Biogeography of Simaroubaceae s.s. (Sapindales)"

2006 BSA GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients

Monica Carlsen
University of Missouri – St. Louis, Department of Biology and Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. (Supervisor: Dr. Peter Stevens) “A Revision of the Sectional Classification in Anthurium (Araceae) Integrating Morphology and Molecular Phylogenetics”

Kate Hertweck
University of Missouri Columbia, Department of Biological Sciences (Supervisor: Dr. J. Chris Pires) “Population dynamics of polyploidy: Phylogenetics, cytogenetics, and hybridization of Tradescantia”

Jamie H. Howard
Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences Graduate Program (Supervisor: Dr. Martin F. Wojciechowski) “Symbiotic Specificity of Irlc (Fabaceae) and Rhizobia with Unsaturated Fatty Acid-type Nod Factors: An Evolutionary Perspective”

Gretchen M. Ionta
University of Florida, Department of Botany (Supervisor: Dr. Walter Judd) “A phylogenetic analysis of Periplocoideae (Apocynaceae s.l.) and insights into the evolution of pollinia”

Aaron Jenks
University of California, Riverside, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, (Supervisor: Dr. Seung-Chul Kim) “Phylogeny and Biogeography of Salvia L. subgenus Calosphace (Benth.) Benth.”

Gabriel P. Johnson
Southern Illinois University, Department of Plant Biology (Supervisor: Dr. Karen S. Renzaglia) “Developmental changes in the placental transfer cells of Ceratopteris richardii”

Suzanne Joneson
Duke University, Biology Department (Supervisor: Dr. François Lutzoni) “Differential Gene Expression in Early Algal and Fungal Lichen Symbiosis”

Marcela Martínez Millán
Cornell University, L. H. Bailey Hortorium and Department of Plant Biology (Supervisor: Dr. William L. Crepet) “A Revision of the Early Fossil Record of Astridae”

Cynthia Skema
Cornell University, L.H. Bailey Hortorium (Supervisor: Dr. Melissa Luckow) “Systematics of Dombeya (Malvaceae s.1.)”

2005 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipient

Daniel Fulop
Harvard University (Supervisor: Elena M. Kramer) - "Integrating phylogeny, biomechanics and pollination ecology in a study of the genus Catasetum (Orchidaceae)"

2005 BSA GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients

Michelle Barthet
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Supervisor: Khidir W. Hilu) – “Molecular and Genetic analysis of the matK gene”

Iju Judy Chen
University of Florida (Supervisor: Steven R. Manchester) – “Fossil records and phytogeography of Vitaceae, the grape family”

Susan E. Elliott
Dartmouth College, (Supervisor: Rebecca E. Irwin) – “Distinguishing between pollen-limitation and pollinator-limitation of seed production for the perennial bumblebee-pollinated plant, Delphinium barbeyi (Ranunculaceae).”

Courtney C. Finch
Saint Louis University (Supervisor: Janet C. Barber) – “Pollination Biology and Evolution of the Orchid Genus Thelymitra”

Nicole A. Hardiman
University of Cincinnati, Department of Biological Sciences (Supervisor: Theresa Culley) – “Intra-Specific Hybridization as a Mechanism of Invasiveness in Pyrus calleryana”

Rebecca Hufft
University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Supervisor: Ingrid M. Parker) – “Mechanisms maintaining coexistence of sympatric cytotypes of Arnica cordifolia (Asteraceae)”

Daniel M. Johnson
Wake Forest University, Department of Biology (Supervisor: William K. Smith) – “Evaluation of cloud emersion, acidic deposition, leaf wettability, and cuticle damage in refugial populations of Fraser fir”

Shannon C. K. Straub
Cornell University, Department of Plant Biology and L.H. Bailey Hortorium (Supervisor: Jeff J. Doyle) – “Systematics of Amorpha L. (Fabaceae): phylogenetics, evolution, ecology, and conservation”

Ping Zhou
Duke University, Department of Biology (Supervisor: Jonathan Shaw) – “Evolutionary history and causation of Sphagnum cribrosum “wave form” in North Carolina”

2004 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipient

Krissa A. Skogen
University of Connecticut (Supervisor: Kent E. Holsinger) - "Understanding declines in Desmodium cuspidatum (Fabaceae)"

2004 BSA GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients

Orlando Alvarez-Fuentes
Michigan State University (Supervisor: Alan Prather) – “The Biogeography of Thelypteris Subgenus Amauropelta”

Monica Arakaki
University of Florida (Supervisor: Doug Soltis & Pam Soltis) – “Systematics and population genetics of the genus Haageocereus Cactaceae”

Heather Driscoll
University of Vermont (Supervisor: David S. Barrington) – “Evolutionary origins and biogeographic relationships of Hawaiian Polystichum”

Cecile Gueidan
Duke University (Supervisor: Francois Lutzoni) – “Molecular phylogeny of the Verrucariales”

Christopher T. Martine
University of Connecticut (Supervisor: Gregory J. Anderson) – “The evolution and natural history of sexual systems in the endangered nightshades”

Abraham J. Miller-Rushing
Boston University (Supervisor: Richard B. Primack) – “Is Thoreau's Data Still Hot?”

Darin S. Penneys
University of Florida (Supervisor: Walter S. Judd) – “Phlogeny and Character Evolution in the Neotropical, Epiphytic Blakeeae”

Joey Shaw
University of Tennessee (Supervisor: Edward E. Schilling & Randall Small) – “Toward an Understanding of the North American Plums”

Juan Carlos Villarreal
Southern Illinois University (Supervisor: Karen Renzaglia) – “Contributions of the Resolution of the Phylogeny of Hornworts”

2003 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients

Mario Blanco – “ ”
Kuo-Fang Chung – “”
Laurie Cosaul – “”
Laurelin Evanhoe – “”
Susan Grose – “”
Shawn Krosnick – “”
Jeffrey Morawetz – “”
Julieta Rosell – “”
Jackeline Salazar – “”
Tyler Smith – “”
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2002 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients

Aida Alvarez
New York Botanical Garden – “Phylogeny of Prescottinae and systematics of Gomphichis (Orchidaceae)”

Anthony Baumert
University of Pittsburgh – “Application of resource competition theory to ecosystem succession”

John Bell
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee – “The effect of interspecific competition for pollinator service on the mating patterns and pollen dispersal in Mimulus ringens”

Helen Cortes-Burns
University of Texas – “Phylogenetic and biogeographic study of Bell-flowers (Walhlenbergia) in the sourth ern hemisphere of Oceanic Islands”

Aurea Cortes-Palomec
Ohio University – “Reproductive systems and population genetics of a Mexican Viola species”

James Cronin
University of Pittsburgh – “Herbivory and the top-down regulation of terrestrial plant communities: A test of two prominent theoretical lineages”

Michael Dunn
Ohio University – “The Mid-Carboniferous Floral Break: a crucial and enigmatic episode in the evolution of the terrestrial ecosystem”

Felix Forest
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – “A molecular systematic study of the South African endemic genus Muraltia (Polygalaceae)”

Genaro Hernandez-Castillo
University of Alberta – “Taxonomic reevaluation and systematics of primative conifers from Euramerica”

Lisa Karst
Portland State University – “Phylogeny of Sysrinchium (Iridaceae), genetic and morphological”

Michael Moody
University of Connecticut – “Phylogenetics, hybridity and aquatic origins in the angiosperm family Haloragaceae”

Michael Moore
University of Texas – “The roles of edaphic shifts and long distance dispersal in the evolution of the American desert genus Tiquilia (Boraginaceae)”

Ashley Morris
University of Florida – “Exploring the biogeographic history of eastern North American trees: a comparative phylogeographic approach”

Julissa Roncal
Florida International University – “Evolution of the Geonoma macrostachys (Palmae) complex”

Carla Rydholm
Duke University – “Lichenicolours fungi systematics and the transition from mutualism to parasitism in Asomycetes”

Chelsea Specht
New York Botanical Garden – “Systematics and evolution of the tropical plant family Costaceae”

Janette Steets
University of Pittsburgh – “Ecological correlates of Pollen Limitation”

James Thompson
University of Florida – “Phylogeny and the evolution of breeding systems in the moss Pohlia Cruda”

Stacey Thompson
University of British Columbia – “Transmission of apomixis in a Townsendia hybrid zone”

Carrie Wu
University of California – “Ecophysiological variation among natural hybrids in an Ipomopsis (Polemoniacae) hybrid zone”

2001 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients

Fan Chuanzhu
North Carolina State University (Supervisor: Jenny Xiang) – “Molecular evolution of hybridization and polyploidization in the dwarf dogwoods complex”

Maryam Farzad
Georgetown University (Supervisor: Martha Weiss) – “Regulation of anthocyanin expression in Viola”

David Hearn
University of Arizona (Supervisor: Lucinda McDade) – “Evolution of growth form and phytochemical consequences in Adenia (Passifloraceae)”

Michelle McMahon
Washington State University (Supervisor: Larry Hufford) – “Morphological diversification in Amorpheae (Papilionoideae, Fabaceae)”

Allison Miller
Washington University (Supervisor: Barbara Schaal) – “Domestication in a tropical fruit tree, jocote (Spondias purpurea L., Anacardiaceae)”

Elizabeth Powell
Wake Forest University (Supervisor: Kathleen A. Kron) – “Peruvian species of Satyria _ Critical to understanding species limits in Satyria and biogeography in Neotropical Vaccinieae”

David Tank
University of Washington (Supervisor: Richard Olmstead) – “Phylogenetic analysis of subtribe Castillejinae (Orobanchaceae _ Tribe Rhinantheae)”

Alexandru Tomescu
Ohio University (Supervisor: Gar Rothwell) – “Alexandru; In situ land plant fossils in the Early Silurian (Llandoverian) Massanutten sandstone of Virginia”

Benjamin Torke
Washington University (Supervisor: Barbara Schaal) – “Phylogenetic relationships and diversification in Swartzia (Fabaceae), based on DNA sequence data”

Justen Whittall
University of California at Santa Barbara (Supervisor: Scott Hodges) – “Phylogenetic tests of ecological speciation in the North American columbines”

2000 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients

Nicole Andrus
Florida International University, Department of Biological Sciences

James S. Boyer
State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Biological Sciences

Jutta Buschbom
Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department

Matthew H. Collier
University of Cincinnati, Department of Biological Sciences

Jennifer Ott Geiger
University of Colorado, Department of Environmental, Population, & Organismic Biology

Andrew Hipp
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Botany

Stefanie M. Ickert-Bond
Arizona State University, Department of Plant Biology

Frank Landis
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Botany

Lucia Garcez Lohmann
University of Missouri - St. Louis, Department of Biology

Kendra Millam
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Botany

David A. Moeller
Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Sasa Stefanovic
University of Washington, Department of Botany

Dorset W. Trapnell
University of Georgia, Department of Botany

Brian Vanden Heuvel
University of Texas at Austin, Section of Integrative Biology

Mark Vellend
Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

1998 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients

Sandra K. Floyd
University of Colorado at Boulder (Supervisor: William Friedman) – “Reproductive character evolution in basal angiosperms: endosperm development and embryogeny”

Janet C. Barber
University of Texas at Austin (Supervisor: Robert K. Jansen) – “Origin and evolution of endemic Sideritis L. in Macaronesia”

Julie Beckstead
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Supervisor: Carol K. Augspurger) – “Microhabitat factors affecting variation in success of invading cheatgrass”

Jeff P. Castelli
University of Pennsylvania (Supervisor: Brenda B. Casper) – “Examining the functional significance of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal diversity along a successional sequence on serpentine soils”

Theresa M. Culley
Ohio State University (Supervisor: Allison Snow) – “Genetic variability using isozyme and ISSR markers in Viola pubescens, a herbaceous species with both chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowers”

Sandra K. Floyd
University of Colorado at Boulder (Supervisor: William Friedman) – “Reproductive character evolution in basal angiosperms: endosperm development and embryogeny”

Leslie Goertzen
University of Texas at Austin (Supervisor: Robert K. Jansen) – “The role of hybridization in the evolution of Argyranthemum in Macaronesia”

Douglas Goldman
University of Texas at Austin (Supervisor: Robert K. Jansen) – “Systematics of the orchid genus Calopogon”

Susana Majallon-Puebla
The Field Museum (Supervisor: Peter R. Crane) – “Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of floral pat- tern among basal eudicots”

Randall Small
Iowa State University (Supervisor: Jonathan F. Wendel) – “Nuclear-encoded genes for phylogeny reconstruction in plants: alcohol dehydrogenase genes in Gossypium L. (Malvaceae)”

Anna Woodfill
Michigan State University (Supervisor: Alan Prather) – “Adaptation and the correlates of intra-specific varia- tion in floral morphology among populations of Pedicularis densiflora”

1997 J. S. KARLING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD Recipients

This is the newest Botanical Society Award, and it was given for the first time this year. The award was made possible by a gift from the late John Sidney Karling. Dr. Karling started his career at Columbia and moved to Purdue as a full professor; he was head of Biological Science there for more than a decade. His research interests were in cytology, marine fungi, and tropical biology. He was an active member of both the Torrey Botanical Club and the BSA.

Justin Michael Ramsey
University of Washington – "Processes of polyploid evolution in the Achillea millefolium (Asteraceae) complex"

James P. Therrien
University of Kansas – "Phylogeny of the Selaginellaceae and related 'lycopsids'"