Vernon I. Cheadle Student Travel Awards

Madelaine Bartlett - University of California, Berkeley, CA - Advisor, Dr. Chelsea Specht
Botany 2009 presentation: "CYCLOIDEA-like genes and the evolution of floral symmetry in the Zingiberales."

Brett A. Bergman - California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA - Advisor, Dr. Frank W. Ewers
Botany 2009 presentation: "Effect of Leaf Nodes on the Mechanical Properties of Stems."

Nathan Derieg - University of California, Santa Barbara, CA - Advisor, Dr. Scott Hodges
Botany 2009 presentation: "Molecular basis of an adaptive trait: floral anthocyanin production in Aquilegia."

Julia Nowak - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC - Advisor, Dr. Quentin Cronk
Botany 2009 presentation: "Morphological oddity of the Krishna Fig."

James Cohen - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - Advisor, Dr. Jerrold Davis
Papers submitted for Botany 2008: "The World of Walled Marriages: Comparative Floral Development in Lithospermum."

Nathan Jud - Ohio University, Athens, OH - Advisor, Dr. Gar W. Rothwell
Papers submitted for Botany 2008: " Anatomy of an Upper Cretaceous bennettitalean stem."

Natalia Pabon Mora - New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY - Advisor, Dr. Amy Litt
Papers submitted for Botany 2007: "Functional evolution of the AP1/FUL gene lineage in non-core eudicot plants."

Renate Wuersig - Purdue University, West Lafayette. IN - Advisor, Dr. Michael Zanis
Papers submitted for Botany 2008: "The Natural History of C-class Genes: Independent Duplication Events in Diverse Angiosperm Lineages."

Madelaine Bartlett - University of California, Berkeley Advisor: Dr. Chelsea Specht
Papers submitted for Botany 2007: "The labellum of Costus (Zingiberales) and the ABC model of floral development."

Julia Nowak - University of Guelph, Advisor: Dr. Usher Posluszny
Papers submitted for Botany 2007: "The role of abscission during leaflet separation in Chamaedorea elegans."

Patricia Ryberg - University of Kansas, Advisor: Dr. Edith L. Taylor
Papers submitted for Botany 2007: "Buds and Branching in the Triassic sphenophyte Spaciinodum collinsonii."

John Snider - University of Central Arkansas, Advisor: Dr. John Choinski
Papers submitted for Botany 2007: "Differences in chlorophyll fluorescence temperature optima of young and mature leaflets of Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra L.) and
Gas exchange and leaf temperature changes in Smooth (Rhus glabra L.) and Winged (Rhus copallina L.) Sumac."

Tania Hernandez-Hernandez - Instituto de Biologia, UNAM, Advisor: Dr. Susana Magallon Puebla
Papers submitted for Botany 2006: "Functional diversification of B MADS-Box homeotic regulators of flower development: adaptive evolution in protein-protein interaction domains after major gene duplication events."

Purbasha Sarkar - Maiami University (Ohio), Advisor: Dr. Daniel Gladish
Papers submitted for Botany 2006: "Does Vascular Cavity Formation In Pea Primary Roots Involve Programmed Cell Death?"

Richard Tate - Humboldt State University, Advisor: Dr. Alexandru MF Tomescu
Papers submitted for Botany 2006: "Plant Fossil Diversity in the Late Eocene Clarno Chert of Oregon."

Ramona Walls - Stony Brook University, Advisor: Dr. R. Geeta
Papers submitted for Botany 2006: "Leaf venation and the relationship between form and function in Dioscorea."

Erin Bissell - University of Colorado, Advisor: Dr. Pamela Diggle
Papers submitted for Botany 2005: "Floral morphology in Nicotiana: Are character correlations lost in space and time?"

Erika Edwards - Yale University
Papers submitted for Botany 2005: "Pereskia water relations reflect deep ecophysiological conservatism in Cactaceae."

Anna Jacobsen - Michigan State University, Advisor: Dr. Frank Ewers
Papers submitted for Botany 2005: "Convergence of xylem structure and function: California chaparral and South African fynbos."

Cassandra Rogers - Southern Illinois University, Advisor: Dr. Karen Renzaglia
Papers submitted for Botany 2005: "Sperm cell architecture in two liverworts."