Dr. Khidir Hilu
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Riccardo Baldini
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Dr. Baldini is a Lecturer at the University of Florence, His research interests include:
- Revision of the genus Rhamnus
- Survey of historical nomenclature of Melastomataceae Brazil
- Study of the taxonomic nomenclature of Cyperaceae & Poaceae Brazi
- Diversity of flora of the Tuscan Maremma and southern Europe
- Investigations of flora on the island of Soqotra Flora (Yemen)
- Investigations of the genetics of Tragopogon porrifolius "complex" (Asteraceae)
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Dietmar Quandt
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Dr. Quandt is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Plant Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics Group in the Department of Botany at the Technical University of Dresden. His research interests include:
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Thomas Borsch
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Dr. Borsch is the Director of the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum at the Free University of Berlin; he is also a Professor of Systematic Botany and Plant Geography. His research interests include the evolution of flowering plants; the genesis of biological diversity, including the the basis of model groups (Amaranthaceae, Amaranthaceae; Nymphaeaceae, Nymphaeaceae); pollen morphology and ultra-structure and protection and sustainable use of biological diversity and genetic resources.
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The Angiosperm Tree of Life
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The National Science Foundation's Assembling the Tree of Life is a grand initiative to describe the roughly 1.7 million known species on this planet in a comprehensive phylogeny of organisms to better aid in the retrieval, analysis and prediction of the earth's biota.
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Gordon Burleigh
Dr. Burleigh is a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Florida. His research interests include constructing a phylogenetic database for comparative biology in land plants using large scale data analyses.
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Susana Magallon
Dr. Magallon is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Botany at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her research interests are concentrated in plant evolution, and is carried out within a frame of phylogenetics.
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Gerard Second
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Dr. Second works with the IRC (Institute of Development Research), at the University of Montpellier II in France. His current research interests include:
- Evidence of recent origin (four centuries) CCDD genome of Oryza genre, which is endemic in tropical America: historical evidence, recovery allotétraploïdes from diploid African, Asian and Australian paleontology from genomic insertions recent retrotransposons.
- Documentation of a mosaic genome of rice.
- Documentation of anthropogenic origin of the species Arracacia acuminata in Latin America.
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Martin Röser
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Dr. Röser is a Professor of Systematics and Biodiversity at Martin Luther University of Halle in Wittenberg, Germany. His research interests include the molecular evolution of grasses and systematic botany.
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Last Update September 9, 2008 |
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