Botanical Society of America Awards 2008
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008
awards provided by the Botanical Society of America. Here we provide
recognition for outstanding efforts and contributions to the science
of botany. We thank you for your support of these programs. The
awards given so far this year include:
Botanical Society of America AWARDS
Graduate
Student Research Awards |
Young
Botanist Awards
Named AWARDS
Charles Edwin Bessey Award |
Vernon I. Cheadle STAs |
Conant "Botanical Images" STAs |
Sectional AWARDS
Student Travel Awards -
Developmental & Structural |
Ecological |
Genetics |
Mycological |
Phycological
| Phytochemical
| Pteridological
| Southeastern
Student Presentation and Research Awards
-
Genetics Section Graduate Student Research
Awards |
Charles Edwin Bessey Award
(BSA in association with the Teaching Section and Education Committee)
Dr. Beverly Brwon, Nazareth College - Dr. Beverly Brown is an Associate Professor of Biology, at Nazareth College of Rochester, New York, and Immediate Past Chair of the Teaching Section of the Botanical Society of America. Dr. Brown was instrumental in the development of the BSA’s Planting Science project, providing the model for the project’s first activity, called “Planting Seeds.” The “Planting Seeds” project was based on her NSF Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) award to Nazareth College entitled, “Interdisciplinary Teaching: using the study of sprouts to teach mathematics and science at a liberal arts college.” Dr. Brown continues to serve the educational mission of BSA as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Planting Science project. In addition, she has been a long-time, active member of the Teaching Section of the BSA and has made several presentations related to the integration of her teaching and research, which includes the study of competition for pollination between invasive and native species.
Dr. Michael Pollan - Michael is a Knight Professor
at the University of California--Berkeley and Director of the
Knight Program for Science and Environmental Journalism there.
Author of such best-selling books about plants as "The Botany
of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World," "The Omnivore's Dilemma:
A Natural History of Four Meals," and "In Defense of Food: An
Eater's Manifesto," he has awakened a basic interest in plants
as food like no other author in recent times. The New York Times
Book Review sums up his approach like this: "Pollan has a wide-ranging
intellect, an eager grasp of evolutionary biology, and a subversive
streak that helps him to root out some wonderfully counterintuitive
points. His prose both shimmers and snaps, and he has a knack
for finding perfect quotes in the oddest places… Best of all,
Pollan really loves plants." One of today's university science
students commented: "When you read each of Pollan's books, you
just can't stop until you reach the very last page, and then,
you feel you must to tell someone about all you've learned! Pollan
proposes a new (yet very old) answer to the question of what we
should eat: 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.'" With this
award, the BSA wishes to recognize Dr. Pollan's carefully researched
and far-reaching contributions to public awareness and understanding
of plants via more than a dozen popular-press works.
Vernon I. Cheadle Student Travel
Awards (BSA in association with the Developmental and Structural
Section)
This award was named in honor of the memory and work of Dr. Vernon
I. Cheadle.
James Cohen - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Advisor, Dr. Jerrold Davis - Botany 2008 presentation: "The
World of Walled Marriages: Comparative Floral Development in Lithospermum."
Nathan Jud - Ohio University, Athens, OH -
Advisor, Dr. Gar W. Rothwell - Botany 2008 presentation: "Anatomy
of an Upper Cretaceous bennettitalean stem."
Natalia Pabon Mora - New York Botanical Garden,
Bronx, NY - Advisor, Dr. Amy Litt - Botany 2008 presentation:
"Functional
evolution of the AP1/FUL gene lineage in non-core eudicot plants."
Renate Wuersig - Purdue University, West Lafayette.
IN - Advisor, Dr. Michael Zanis - Botany 2008 presentation: "The
Natural History of C-class Genes: Independent Duplication Events
in Diverse Angiosperm Lineages."
Conant "Botanical Images" Student
Travel Awards
This award provides acknowledgement and travel support to BSA meetings for
outstanding student work in the area of creating botanical digital images.
John Schenk, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
- Advisor, Dr. Larry Hufford - First
Place - $500 Botany 2008 Student Travel Award
Matthew Valente, University of Tennessee, TN - Advisor, Dr. Joseph Williams - Second
Place - $250 Botany 2007 Student Travel Award
Mauricio Diazgranados, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO - Advisor, Dr. Janet C. Barber - Third Place - $100 Botany 2007 Student Travel Award
The BSA Graduate Student Research
Award including the J. S. Karling Award
The BSA Graduate Student Research Awards support graduate student research
and are made on the basis of research proposals and letters of recommendations.
Withing the award group is the Karling Graduate Student Research Award. This
award was instituted by the Society in 1997 with funds derived through a generous
gift from the estate of the eminent mycologist, John Sidney Karling (1897-1994),
and supports and promotes graduate student research in the botanical sciences.
The 2005 ward recipients are:
J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research
Award
Samuel Brockington, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL - Advisors, Drs. Pamela & Douglas Soltis,
Evolution and Development of Petals
within Aizoaceae (Caryophyllales)
BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
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)
Developmental & Structural Section
Student Travel Awards
Julien Bachelier, Institute of Systematic Botany,
Zurich, Switzerland - Dr. Peter K. Endress - Botany 2008 presentation:
"Floral
structure of Kirkia wilmsii: implications for the systematic
relationship of Kirkiaceae and the Anacardiaceae-Burseraceae clade
(Sapindales)."
Songhita Das, University of Texas, Austin,
TX - Advisor, Dr. Mona Mehdy - Botany 2008 presentation: "Understanding
the Mechanisms and Functions of French Bean PvPRP1 Gene Down-regulation
During the Defense Response in Transgenic Arabidopsis."
Chunmiao Feng, North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC - Advisors, Drs. Jenny Xiang and Robert G. Franks
- Botany 2008 presentation: "Comparative
developmental study of inflorescence in Cornus."
Alana Oldham, Humboldt State University, Humboldt,
CA - Advisor, Dr. Stephen Sillett - Botany 2008 presentation:
"Associated
Variation in Sequoia sempervirens (Coast Redwood) Leaf
Anatomy: Potential Impacts on Whole-Tree Carbon Balance."
Nicholas Stanich, Ohio University, Athens,
OH - Advisor, Dr. Gar W. Rothwell - Botany 2008 presentation:
"Early
Cretaceous Equisetum fossils confirm that the modern
evolutionary radiation was well underway 136 million years ago."
Ecology Section Student Travel Awards
Katie Becklin, University of Missouri, Columbia,
MO - Advisor, Dr. Candace Galen - Botany 2008 presentation: "The
good, the bad, and the costly: Effects of shading and drought
on the costs and benefits of mycorrhizae."
Jocelyn Campbell, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, BC - Advisor, Dr. Cindy Prescott - Botany 2008 presentation:
"Expanding
the realized niche for cyanolichens in wet-temperate forests of
interior British Columbia."
Andrew Simpson, California State University,
Chico, CA - Advisor, Dr. Kristina A. Schierenbeck - Botany 2008
presentation: "Multiple
causal factors influence propagule size gradients in Arctostaphylos
(Ericaceae)."
Meghan Skaer, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA - Advisor, Dr. Hall Cushman - Botany 2008 presentation:
"Evaluating the Effects of Cattle Grazing on a Coastal Prairie in Central California."
Genetics Section Graduate Student
Research Awards
The 2008 recipients of the Genetics Section Graduate Student
Research Awards, each of which provides $500 for research funds
and an additional $500 for attendance at a future BSA meeting,
are:
Renate Wuersig, Purdue University (PhD student) and
Sunni J. Taylor, Texas State University (MS Student)
Genetics Section Student Travel Awards
Aaron Duffy, Utah State University, Logan,
UT - Advisor, Dr. Paul G. Wolf - Botany 2008 presentation: "Conservation
of selection on matK in ferns following an ancient loss
of the trnK intron by genome inversion."
Mycological Section Student Travel Awards
Katie Becklin, University of Missouri, Columbia,
MO - Advisor, Dr. Candace Galen - Botany 2008 presentation: "The
good, the bad, and the costly: Effects of shading and drought
on the costs and benefits of mycorrhizae."
Phycological Section Student Travel
Award
Kendra Bunner, Illinois State University, Normal,
IL - Advisor, Dr. Martha Cook - Botany 2008 presentation: "Description
of Zoospore Structure and Development in Entransia fimbriata
(Charophyceae)."
Phytochemical Section Student Travel Award
Cary Pirone, Florida International University,
FL - Advisor, Dr. David Lee - Botany 2008 presentation: “A
Mammalian Pigment in the Plant Kingdom.”
Pteridological Section Student Travel Awards
Jay Bolin, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA - Dr. Lytton J. Musselman - Botany 2008 presentation:
"Unraveling
the reticulate evolutionary history of the Isoetes hyemalis
complex."
Emily Butler, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - Advisor, Dr. Thomas J. Givnish - Botany 2008 presentation:
"In
the Light of Evolution: A Proposal to Integrate Phylogeny and
Ecophysiology in New World Dryopteris."
Amber Churchill, Stonehill College, North Easton, MA - Advisor, Dr. J. Edward Watkins -
Botany 2008 presentation:
"
A Site for Sori: Consequences of Fertile/Sterile Leaf Dimorphism in Ferns."
Michael Sundue, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY - Advisor, Dr. Robbin Moran -
Botany 2008 presentation:
"
Systematics of grammitid ferns: Lellingeria,
Melpomene,
and Terpsichore."
Southeastern Section Student Travel
Award
Nicole Hughes, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem,
NC - Advisor, Dr. William K. Smith - Botany 2008 presentation:
"
Winter color change: The adaptive role of anthocyanin pigments in leaves of broadleaf evergreen species."
The BSA Young Botanist Awards
The purpose of these awards are to offer individual recognition
to outstanding graduating seniors in the plant sciences and to
encourage their participation in the Botanical Society of America.
The 2008 "Certificate of Special Achievement"
award recipients are:
Jared Barnes, University of Tennessee, Martin, TN - Advisor,
Dr. Darrell L. Ray
Jennifer Bufford, Willamette University, Salem, OR - Advisor,
Dr. Susan R. Kephart
Bethany Butler, Miami University, Oxford, OH - Advisor,
Dr. Nancy L. Smith-Huerta
Nate Ellis, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO - Advisor,
Dr. J. Chris Pires
Britnie Foutch, Indiana University, South Bend, IN - Advisor,
Dr. Andrew Schnabel
Alyssa Hartson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI -
Advisor, Dr. Sara Hoot
Nguyet Hoang, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK - Advisor,
Dr. Scott Russell
Brittiney Hofmann, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology,
Terre Haute, IN - Advisor, Dr. Ella L. Ingram
Hayley Kilroy, Miami University, Oxford, OH - Advisor, Dr.
David L. Gorchov
Laura Lagomarsino, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- Advisor, Dr. Chelsea D. Specht
Hannah Marx, University of Washington, Seattle, WA - Advisor,
Dr. Richard Olmstead
Shauna McDonald, Humboldt State University, Humboldt, CA
- Advisor, Dr. Alexandru M.F. Tomescu
Lachezar Nikolov, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA - Advisor,
Dr. N. Michele Holbrook
BreAnne Nott, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
- Advisor, Dr. Scott Meiners
Ana Piedrahita, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL -
Advisor, Drs. Pamela & Douglas Soltis
Nikki Pisula, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
- Advisor, Dr. Scott J. Meiners
Amber Pouncey, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL -
Advisor, Drs. Pamela & Douglas Soltis
Jenna Rosenwasser, Connecticut College, New London, CT -
Advisor, Dr. T. Page Owen, Jr.
Jen Rushford, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY - Advisor,
Dr. Christopher T. Martine
Lauren Schwartz, Willamette University, Salem, OR - Advisor,
Dr. Susan R. Kephart
Logan Senack, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT - Advisor,
Dr. Kent E. Holsinger
Erin Shanle, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
- Advisor, Dr. Barbara Crandall-Stotler
Patricia Soria, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL -
Advisor, Drs. Pamela & Douglas Soltis
Nick Stanich, Ohio University, Athens, OH - Advisor, Dr. Gar W. Rothwell
Laura Weingartner, Miami University, Oxford, OH - Advisor,
Dr. Michael A. Vincent
Anthony Westby, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS -
Advisor, Dr.
Kirsten Wright, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA -
Advisor, Dr. Andreas Madlung
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