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I am an Assistant professor of Biology and Curator of the MUR herbarium in Murray State University.
In our lab, we build evolutionary trees of living organisms (mainly plants), known as phylogenies, using DNA and morphological trait data. Using those phylogenies, we study how, where, and when different groups of plants (and animals) evolved through macroevolutionary time scale, and help organize the vast diversity of living organisms into discrete groups based on their evolutionary relationships (known as systematics).
Areas of research in our lab: Plant Systematics, Phylogenetics Theory & Comparative Methods, Bioinformatics, and Macroevolutionary Processes.
I am an Assistant professor of Biology and Curator of the MUR herbarium in Murray State University.
In our lab, we build evolutionary trees of living organisms (mainly plants), known as phylogenies, using DNA and morphological trait data. Using those phylogenies, we study how, where, and when different groups of plants (and animals) evolved through macroevolutionary time scale, and help organize the vast diversity of living organisms into discrete groups based on their evolutionary relationships (known as systematics).
Areas of research in our lab: Plant Systematics, Phylogenetics Theory & Comparative Methods, Bioinformatics, and Macroevolutionary Processes.
