Ickert-Bond Lab: systematics meets ecology, paleontology, and genomics
So excited to announce the Ph.D. dissertation defense by my student Else Demeulenaere. Please join us at her PhD defense October 13, 2021, 3:30 PM Alaska time! Please email Else Demeulenaere for Zoom Access: else@uog.edu Her work at the intersection of biogeography, ethnoecology, social justice and activism is centered around the Indo-Pacific mimosoid plant genus…
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Congrats to my PhD student Else Demeulenaere. Her recent paper in Pacific Asia Inquiry entitled Recollections of fadang and Fanihi: The Taste and Smell of CHamoru Bygone Foods and the Challenge of Endangered Island Species is gainging some traction and has been featured in a number of media outlets. The paper discusses two endemic species…
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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
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