Students associated with the Struwe Lab

Students Associated with the Struwe Lab

CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POST-DOCS IN COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
(To be updated)

	Jennifer Blake-Mahmud [advisor for PhD thesis]
	Victoria Ferguson-Kramer: Organic, urban agriculture. [advisor for PhD thesis]
	Brittany Graf: Bioactivity and health improvement research of quinoa. [serving on thesis committee]
	Rocky Graziose: Development of new anti-malarial drugs from plants. [serving on thesis committee]
	Amy Manning: Informal Education in Botanical Learning. [advisor for MSc thesis]
	Julia Perzley: [serving on thesis committee]
	Patricio Rojas: Bioactivity of medicinal plants [serving on thesis committee]
	Laura Schappell: Invasive species as wetland indicators of flood regimes [advisor for PhD thesis]
	Lauren Spitz: Gentians on nutrient-poor soil substrates [advisor for PhD thesis]
	Elena Tartaglia: Pollination ecology and behavior of hummingbird moths. [serving on PhD committee].

CURRENT UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

	Stacy Brody: Antimalarial ethnobotany of Gentianaceae (2009-2012)
	Patrice Crocevera: Arthropod biodiversity in urban gardening raised bed (2012)
	Lauren Palatini: Weed diversity in urban gardening raised beds; weed biodiversity of parking lots (2012)

PREVIOUS GRADUATE STUDENTS

	Joseph (Joe) Bischoff: Systematics of Clavicipitaceae (Ascomycota); secondary structure-based alignment of DNA sequences. [co-advisor for PhD thesis] Career: Currently working for USDA as a fungal taxonomist.
	Maria Fernanda Calió: Systematics and biogeography of Calolisianthus, Helia, Prepusa, and Senaea (Gentianaceae: Helieae). University of Sao Paulo, Brazil [informal advising]. Career: Postdoc at USP, Brazil.
	Juanita Choo: Parsimony analysis of ethnobotanical data and phylogeny of palms.[advisor for MSc thesis. Career: PhD at UT-Austin with Beryl Simpson.
	Sasha Eisenman: Taxonomic and ethnobotanical evaluation of medicinal plant species in Central Asia; Taxonomy, phytochemistry, and population biology of Artemisia dracunculoides (Asteraceae); flora of New Jersey and adjacent states. [advisor of PhD thesis] Career: Currently working as Assistant Professor at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. ]
	Bonnie Farrell: Systematics and population biology of northern monkshood (Aconitum novoboracense, Ranunculaceae). [served on MSc committee]
	Cynthia (Cindy) Frasier: Molecular phylogenetics and wood anatomy of Strychnos (Loganiaceae. [served as PhD thesis advisor] Career: postdoc at The Missouri Botanical Garden, working in Madagascar and Paris on Flora of Madagascar. Currently postdoc at Omaha Zoo, Nebraska, working on lemurs in Madagascar.
	Kate B. Lepis: Phylogenetics and systematics of Chelonanthus (Gentianaceae: Helieae) in Latin America. [served as PhD thesis advisor]. Career: Currently teaches at Monmouth University, NJ, independent consultant for NJ floristic inventories.
	Jeanmaire Molina: Systematics of Neuburgia (Loganiaceae), Systematics of Symbolanthus. Thesis project: Systematics of Leea (Leeaceae) in Malesia. [served as PhD thesis advisor]. Career: postdoc in M. Purugganan's lab at NYU working on rice genomics.Currently Assistant Professor at Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY.
	Kristin Mylecraine: Population biology of Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis, Cupressaceae). [served on PhD thesis committee]. Career: postdoc in Lisle Gibbs’ lab at Ohio State University, population dynamics of Canada geese; currently working for New Jersey Audubon Society.
	Ari Novy: Systematics of Microstegium, and population biology of Microstegium vimineum; population genetics of Spartina and Metasequoia. [served on PhD committee] Career: Position at US Botanical Garden, Washington, DC.
	Dana Price: Systematics of dung beetles [served on PhD committee]. Career: Currently Assistant Professor. faculty member at Salisbury University, MD, USA.
	Donald (Donny) Walker. [served on PhD thesis committee] Career: Assistant Professor at Findley University, Findley, OH.

SOME OF THE PREVIOUS UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS of the Struwe Lab

	Angela Gorzyca: Systematics of Chelonanthus (Gentianaceae) (2004-2005)
	Jillian Jaworski: Systematics of Chelonanthus (Gentianaceae) (2003-2004)
	Sarah Kelsey: Introduction of plants via ship ballast. Career: Botanical garden educator, currently in environmental management/law in Portland, OR.
	Matt Kinkade: Systematics of Tachia (Gentianaceae) (2003-2005). Career: PhD at Penn State in tomato breeding. Now works for Campbell Soup company with tomatoes.
	Dan Kulakowski: Systematics of Chelonanthus (Gentianaceae) (2005-2006). Career: PhD student at Northwestern Univ., IL.
	Phillip Miarmi: GIS-analysis of ecological data in South America in a phylogenetic context (2005-2006). Career: GIS specialist in New York, NY.
	Ramya Raviram: population genetics of Metasequoia (2008-2010). Career: Graduate student in Genetics.
	Wendy Peters Rosica: Systematics of Tachia (Gentianaceae) - GIS, and trilingual field brochure production (2003-2005). Career: Graphic designer.

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