Ickert-Bond Lab: systematics meets ecology, paleontology, and genomics
Exciting news, the GoFlag group submitted an exciting paper on their probe set to resolve the flagellate plant tree of life. Only one representative sample of each of the three genera of Gnetales included, but the approach resolves relationships well across the flagellate tree of life, but also within genera, stay tuned for more from…
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To achieve information precision with true interoperability by connecting diverse specimen data resources through taxon concepts we can advance beyond what can be achieved with plant names alone. In the current issue (Fall 2019) of Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, we reflect on differing traditions and opinions, taxonomic approaches, and access to material from…
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This award organized by the Environmental and Public Policy Committees of the Botanical Society of America (BSA) and the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) aims to support local efforts that contribute to shaping public policy on issues relevant to plant sciences. Her proposal Bringing Biocultural Diversity to the Forefront of the Political Agenda in…
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Finding another outlet for my passion of plants and photography has been easy to come by, when I came across an ad for a summer course in making handmade photographs (ART/COJO 492), taught by Jason Lazarus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The ad showed a picture of a fiddle head that peaked my interest,…
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I am so excited and honored to be one of the featured speakers at the 65th Annual Missouri Botanical Garden Symposium. This year the symposium’s theme is Biota of North America: what we know, what we don’t know and what we are loosing. It is a great line-up of invited speakers. The symposium will be…
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by Jun Wen, Ze-Long Nie and Stefanie M. Ickert-Bond DOI: 10.1111/jse.12222
Ph.D. student Else Demeulenaere is getting a great start at assembling samples for her Serianthes dissertation work. Tuesday she went to Leiden, the Netherlands, to work at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center. It contains one of largest herbaria in the world with some 5.5 million specimens merging the major university herbaria of Leiden, Utrecht and Wageningen. Else…
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