Dave Barrington [current cv]

Michael Sundue, Co-Leader of the Barrington-Sundue Lab and Research Assistant Professor specializing in just about everything to do with the systematics and biogeography of ferns. Michael also serves as assistant curator and librarian at the Pringle Herbarium and as an instructor  in UVM's Green World course, the Costa Rica Plant Systematics Field Trip, and the Oaxaca Botany Field Trip.

Michael is mentor to  two Ph.D. candidates, in our lab, Bertrand Black and Sarah Morris.

Morgan Southgate, PhD candidate,  working on genetic and environmental determinants of ecological niches of the three Vermont Adiantum species.   Morgan completed her Undergraduate Honors Thesis  on an earlier version of the same project in our Lab in 2017.

                                                               The Barrington lab group puzzles over Hawaiian Polystchum, September 2015

Julie Dragon, PhD--- Carex systematics and biogeography (now Assistant Professor and Director of the Bioinformatics Shared Resource,
         UVM College of Medicine )

Heather Driscoll --- Origins of Hawaiian Polystichum (now at the Vermont Genetics Network)

Susan Fawcett --- A Generic Classification of the Thelypteridaceae, based on a world-level phylogeny of the family using next-gen data.  Also a side project on the climate preferences of Asplenium species in Northeastern North America, using ibuttons (small dataloggers) placed with the plants.

Stacy Jorgensen --- The Origin of Polystichum braunii (now in the Research and Innovation Department at the University of Arizona)

Monique McHenry, PhD --- Systematics and Evolution of exindusiate Andean Polystichum (now an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, UVM)

Nikisha Patel, PhD — Apomixis and evolutionary history in Polystichum and Phegopteris (now a Post-doctoral fellow in Bernard Goffinet's  lab at the University of Connecticut).

Sonja Schmitz, PhD --- Lathyrus japonicus historical biogeography (now at the Community College of Baltimore County, Westside Campus)

Kel Cook, who inherited the Polypodium project from Morgan, worked successfully to develop a combination of stomata length and spore regularity data to delimit the species and hybrids. Finished a master's  with Jim Hickey at Miam University of Ohio and is now a Ph.D. candidate in Lee Taylor's lab at the University of New Mexico.

Sylvia Kinosian, recent graduate working on relationships of the Hawaiian Polystichum polyploids.   Sylvia is now a Ph.D. student in Will Pearse's lab at Utah State University working on the systematics of Ceratopteris using genomic approaches.

Dan Koenemann and Jacqueline Maisonpierre, who were central to our work on the fiddlehead fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris). Dan took his master's at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden, and he is now a Ph.D. student in Janelle Burke's lab at Howard University.  Jacqueline is now Farm Manager at New Haven Farms in New Haven, Connecticut. 

Brendan Lyons, who developed our understanding if variation in pgiC with novel coverage of two-thirds of the gene for Andean Polystichum. 

Morgan Moeglein, who worked on the hybrid between the two Vermont polypodiums using measurement of fluorescently stained nuclei. Having completed a Ph.D.  in Erika Edwards' lab at Yale University working on  the genetic basis of ecologically relevant traits, concentrating on leaf shape evolution in Viburnum, Morgan is now Putnam Post-doctoral Fellow at the Arnold Arboretum.  .

Melita Schmeckpeper, Plant Biology 2016 graduate who worked on the genomic contributions of the western North American once-pinnate polystichums to polyploids in the region, based on profiling each of the western North American once-pinnate lineages with cp and nDNA. Melita currently has an internship at the Scott Herbarium at Swarthmore College: we are working up this work for publication.  Melita begins a Master's Program in  Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Fall of 2018.  Final Copy of Melita's Honors Thesis Here

Jacob Suissa, who worked on an array of projects with people in our lab, is now a Ph.D. Candidate working on the developmental anatomy of ferns at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum.