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Achievements

Find out what our students, faculty, and staff are being recognized for.

Faculty

Mihai Tomescu (with A.T. Groover)

Biological Sciences

Paper presented at 10th European Paleobotany-Palynology Conference in Dublin, Ireland: "Deconstructing secondary growth as developmental potential: a perspective on the evo-devo of wood"

Faculty

Brian Tissot

Biological Sciences

Brian was elected as the President of the Western Society of Naturalists for 2019.

http://www.wsn-online.org/about-wsn/governance/

Student

Kelly Pfeiler, Alexander Bippus, Ashley Kammet, Ashley Ortiz, Mihai Tomescu (with I.H. Escapa)

Biological Sciences

Paper presented at 10th European Paleobotany-Palynology Conference in Dublin, Ireland: "Fossils and seed cone morphology in the resolution of phylogenetic relationships among basal Cupressaceae s.l."

Faculty

Mihai Tomescu (with A. Elgorriaga, I.H. Escapa, G.W. Rothwell, N.R. Cuneo)

Biological Sciences

Paper presented at 17th Simposio Argentino de Paleobotánica y Palinología, Paraná, Argentina: "Que es Equisetum? Estudio filogenético para el orden Equisetales"

p. 94 in http://www.palino.com.ar/alpp/BoletinesALPP/Programa_Resumenes_ONLINE_2018.pdf

Faculty

Mihai Tomescu

Biological Sciences

Invited blog post on Botany One blog: "Exquisitely preserved tiny fossils are key for understanding moss evolution"

https://www.botany.one/2018/07/exquisitely-preserved-tiny-fossils-are-k…

Student

Shayda Abidi, Alexander Bippus, Mihai Tomescu

Biological Sciences

Paper presented at 10th European Paleobotany-Palynology Conference in Dublin, Ireland: "Early Cretaceous anatomically-preserved Marsileaceae from California (USA) and the evolution of sporocarp morphology"

Student

Kelly Matsunaga, Mihai Tomescu

Biological Sciences

Invited chapter in edited volume ("Current Advances in Fern Research"/Springer): "Reciprocal illumination and fossils provide important perspectives in plant evo-devo: examples from auxin in seed-free plants"

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-75103-0_10

Student

Kelly Pfeiler, Mihai Tomescu

Biological Sciences

Paper presented at 10th European Paleobotany-Palynology Conference in Dublin, Ireland: "Closing in on the origins of secondary growth in euphyllophytes: are the shared developmental pathways and Devonian record pointing to a single common origin?"

Student

Adolfina Savoretti (visiting student from Argentina), Alexander Bippus, Mihai Tomescu (with B. Bomfleur)

Biological Sciences

Invited chapter in edited volume ("Transformative Paleobotany"/Elsevier): "Why Are Bryophytes So Rare in the Fossil Record? A Spotlight on Taphonomy and Fossil Preservation"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128130124000164

Faculty

Mihai Tomescu (with G.W. Rothwell and I.H. Escapa)

Biological Sciences

Peer-reviewed article in American Journal of Botany: "Tree of death: The role of fossils in resolving the overall pattern of plant phylogeny"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajb2.1138