bruna-alumni

[caption id=“attachment_468” align=“aligncenter” width=“405”] Heliconia acuminata is pollinated by Phaethornis hummingbirds.[/caption] Marina Côrtes did a supeb PhD in which she investigated the processes influencing spatial genetic structure in populations of Heliconia acuminata at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in Manaus (her advisor was my friend and collaborator Dr.

We are pleased to announce that Christine Lucas has been selected as the 2012 recipient of the Marianne Schmink Award for the Outstanding Dissertation from UF’s Tropical Conservation and Development Program.

Stella Copeland was a Master’s student in the lab who I somehow managed to con into going to Brazil and studying Cerrado grasses. The end result? A sweet paper in Ecosphere and a one-way ticket to Susan Harrison’s lab at UC Davis.

UPDATE: After a great year here in Gainesville, Rosinha has headed back to Brazil. We miss her, but look forward to many more years of working together, Dr. Maria Rosa Darrigo earned her PhD at UNICAMP, where she used integral projection models to study alternative harvesting strategies for tropical trees.