Plant Science Bulletin 60(2) 2014 Dylan D. Sedmak, Ohio State University Advisor, Dr. John Freudenstein, Fungal variability and habitat correspondence in the North American orchid Cypripedium acaule ait.
Genetics Section Student Research Awards Genetics Section Student Research Awards provide $500 for research funding and an additional $500 for attendance at a future BSA meeting.
Kayla Ventura, University of Florida - Advisor, Dr. Pamela Soltis, Identifying the cellular component of flower size differences in Gilia (Polemoniaceae) associated with changes in pollinators
Kevin Weitemier, Oregon State UniversityGraduate Student Award - Advisors: Dr. Aaron Liston, for the proposal titled “Genome-enabled phylogeography of a Great Basin milkweed, Asclepias cryptoceras”
Developmental & Structural Section Student Travel Awards
Kimberly Hansen, Northern Arizona University- Masters Student Award - Advisor: Dr. Tina Ayers, for the proposal titled “Reconstructing the evolutionary history of Campanulaceae with NextGen sequencing”
Italo Antonio Cotta Coutinho, Universidade Federal de Vicosa - Advisor, Renata Maria Strozi Alves Meira - for the Botany 2014 presentation: “Diversity of secretory structures in Urena lobata L.: ontogenesis, anatomy and biology of the secretion” Co-authors: Sara Akemi Ponce Otuki, Valéria Ferreira Fernandes, Renata Maria Strozi Alves Meira
Pteridological Section & American Fern Society Student Travel Awards
Roux Florian, INRA - Advisor, Jana Dlouhá - for the Botany 2014 presentation: “Flexible juveniles or why trees produce ‘low quality’ wood?” Co-authors: Jana Dlouhá, Tancrède Almeras, Meriem Fournier
Alyssa Cochran, University of North Carolina, Wilmington - Advisor, Dr. Eric Schuettpelz - for the Botany 2014 presentation: “Tryonia, a new taenitidoid fern genus segregated from Jamesonia and Eriosorus (Pteridaceae)” Co-authors: Jefferson Prado and Eric Schuettpelz
Rebecca Povilus, Harvard University Advisor, William Friedman - for the Botany 2014 presentation: “Pre-fertilization reproductive development and floral biology in the remarkable water lily, nymphaea thermarum” Co-authors: Juan M. Losada, William E. Friedman
Jordan Metzgar , University of Alaska, Fairbanks - Advisor, Dr. Stefanie Ickert-Bond - for the Botany 2014 presentation: “From eastern Asia to North America: historical biogeography of the parsley ferns (Cryptogramma)” Co-author: Stefanie Ickert-Bond
Beck Powers, University of Vermont - Advisor, Jill Preston - for the Botany 2014 presentation: “Evolution of asterid HANABA TARANU-like genes and their role in petal fusion” Co-author: Jill Preston
Jerald Pinson, University of North Carolina, Wilmington - Advisor, Dr. Eric Schuettpelz - for the Botany 2014 presentation: “Origin of Vittaria appalachiana, the “Appalachian gametophyte”” Coauthor: Eric Schuettpelz
Ecology Section Student Travel Awards
Sally Stevens, Purdue University - Advisor, Dr. Nancy C. Emery - for the Botany 2014 presentation: “Home is Where the Heat Is? Temperature and Humidity Responses in a Fern Gametophytex” Coauthor: Nancy C. Emery
Rachel Germain, University Of Toronto Advisor, Dr. Benjamin Gilbert - for the Botany 2014 presentation: “Hidden responses to environmental variation: maternal effects reveal species niche dimensions” Co-author: Benjamin Gilbert Jessica Peebles Spencer, Miami University Advisor, Dr. David L. Gorchov - for the Botany 2014 presentation: “Effects of the Invasive Shrub, Lonicera maackii, and a Generalist Herbivore, White-tailed Deer, on Forest Floor Plant Community Composition” Co-author: David L. Gorchov
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