Current People
in the Lab -- Spring 2021 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 |
Graduate Alumni from our lab and their
Projects Julie
Dragon, PhD--- Carex systematics
and biogeography (now Assistant Professor and Director of
the Bioinformatics Shared Resource, 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) Wes Testo, PhD Systematics, Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Evolutionary Dynamics of Huperzia and Phlegmariurus, Lycopodiaceae (now a Post-doctoral Fellow in Alexandre Antonelli's lab, working in Sweden) |
Undergraduate Alumni from our lab
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. 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. |