Current graduate students at the Garden

The graduate students would like to thank the Mellon Foundation for their support of our research.

Students with Web sites are hyperlinked below.

Deby Arifiani (UMSL): darifiani@lehmann.mobot.org
Luzmila Arroyo (UMSL): luzmilaarroyo@hotmail.com
Jason Bradford (WU):bradford@mobot.mobot.org
Christina Casado (UMSL): ccasado@lehmann.mobot.org
Andre Chanderbali (UMSL): chanderb@mobot.org
Emile Doumbia (UMSL):doumbia@mobot.org
John Gaskin (WU): gaskin@mobot.org
Alison Graff (WU): alison@mompha.ucsc.edu
Jennifer Hedin (WU):jhedin@ccit.arizona.edu
Shing-Fan Huang (UMSL): huang@mobot.org
Antony Jardin (UMSL): ajardim@rschctr.mobot.org
Lucia Lohmann (UMSL):lohmann@mobot.org
Zacharia Mogombo (UMSL): mogombo@admin.mobot.org
Simon Malcomber (WU): malcombe@mobot.mobot.org
Allison Miller (WU): amiller@mobot.mobot.org
Giancarlo Oliveira (WU): oliveira@wustlb.wustl.edu
Mark Olson (WU): meolson@artsci.wustl.edu
Rosa Ortiz de Gentry (UMSL): ortiz@mobot.org
Michelle Price (UMSL): price@mobot.org
Thomas Prinzie (WU): tpprinzi@artsci.wustl.edu
Jason Rauscher (WU):rauscher@biodec.wustl.edu
Sylvain Razafimandimbison (UMSL): razafima@mobot.org
Andoni Westerhaus (UMSL): westerha@mobot.mobot.org
Jane Whitehill (UMSL): whitehil@mobot.org

Recent graduates

Ph.D.'s:

Armand Randrianasolo (UMSL, Miller):"Systematics and evolution of three Malagasy genera of Anacardiaceae." Currently a postdoc at the Missouri Botanical Garden. randrian@mobot.org.

Dorothy Bay (SLU, Croat): "A Flora of the Araceae of Bajo Calima, Colombia". Currently at Missouri Southern State College, Joplin. bay-d@mail.mssc.edu

Brad Boyle (WU, Richardson): "Changes on Altitudinal and Latitudinal Gradients in Neotropical Rain Forests".
abboyle@portal.ca

German Carnevali (UMSL, Berry): "Systematics, Phylogeny, and Twig Epiphytism in Cryptocentrum (Orchidaceae)". Currently at Centro Investigaciones Cientificas Yucatan, Merida, Mexico. carneval@cicy.cicy.mx

Francisco (Paco) Lorea (UMSL, van der Werff): "A systematic revision of Cinnamomum Schaeffer (Lauraceae)". Currently at Instituto de Ecologia, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. loreaf@ecologia.edu.mx

Ivon Ramirez (UMSL, Richardson): "Systematics of Cryptanthus (Bromeliaceae)". Currently at Centro Investigaciones Cientificas Yucatan, Merida, Mexico. ramirez@cicy.cicy.mx

Neil Snow (WU, Raven): "Phylogeny and systematics of Leptochloa P. Beauv. sensu lato (Poaceae, Chloridoideae)." Currently at University of Northern Colorado. nsnow@bentley.unco.edu

Master's:

Aida Alvarez (UMSL, D'Arcy): "Systematics of Saracha (Solanaceae)." Currently a Ph.D. student at New York Botanical Garden.

Gerado Amard (UMSL, Berry): "Forest Diversity in the Interfluvial Zone of the Rio Negro and Rio Orinoco in Southwestern Venezuela" Currently a Professor at Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos "Ezequiel Zamora" in Guanare, Edo. Portuguesa, Venzuela

Nidia Cuello (UMSL, Berry): "Floristic diversity and structure of montane forests of Cruz Carrillo National Park in the Venezuelan Andes". Currently a Professor at Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos "Ezequiel Zamora" in Guanare, Edo. Portuguesa, Venzuela

Alina Freire (UMSL, Renner): "Systematics of Aciotis (Melastomataceae)" Currently at National Herbarium of Ecuador (QCNE). freire@mobot.org

Carlos Vargas (UMSL, Richardson): "Phylogenetic analysis of Cranichiedeae and Prescottiinae (Orchidaceae)." Currently at Cayetano Heredia University, Lima, Peru. cvargas@upch.edu.pe