About Michael

Previous Members

previous lab members

Postdocs: Yale | Harvard | Arizona
Students: Yale | Harvard | Arizona | San Diego State
Lab Associates: all

Postdoctoral Associates

• Dianella Howarth (2002-07; Dipsacales flower evolution) -- St. John's University
• Cam Webb (2000-05; Gaylord Donnelley Environmental Fellow; phylogenetic community ecology) -- Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University [email]
• Richard Winkworth (2000-05; Viburnum phylogeny, biogeography) -- University of the South Pacific [email]

• Lisa Schultheis (1999-01; Arnold Arboretum Mercer Fellow; Ribes phylogeny) -- Foothill College [email]
• Sarah Mathews (1998-01; phytochromes, angiosperms) -- Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University [email]
• Bill Piel (1998; TreeBASE) -- Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History [email]
• Bil Alverson (1997-99; Malvales, wonder) -- Field Museum of Natural History [email]*
• Belinda Chang (1997-99; opsin gene evolution) -- University of Toronto [email]
• Jianhua Li (1997-99; Hamamelidaceae, Lonicera) -- Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University [email]
• Kathy Gould Mathews (1997-98; Triosteum) -- Western Carolina University [email]
• Mimi Harrington (1995-98; Pezizales, ascomycetes)
• Daming Zhang (1995-96; Ophiopogon) -- Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing [email]
• Tao Sang (1995-96; Paeonia, adh genes) -- Michigan State University [email]
• Ken Rice (1994-96; large phylogenies, rbcL)
• Paul Wilson (1994-95; Viburnum pollination) -- California State University, Northridge [email]
• Torsten Eriksson (1994-95; Sambucus, Potentilla) -- Bergius Foundation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences [email]
• David Hibbett (1993-99; basidiomycetes, shiitake) -- Clark University [email]
• David Ackerly (1993-94; Acer, comparative methods) -- University of California, Berkeley [email]

• Zack Murrell (1992-93; Cornus) -- Appalachian State University [email]
• Bruce Baldwin (1991-92; Hawaiian silverswords, ITS) -- University of California, Berkeley [email]
• Larry Hufford (1988-90; Besseya) -- Washington State University [email]
• Henry Loconte (1988-90; Berberidaceae, seed plant phylogeny)
• William (Ned) Friedman (1986-87; Viburnum fruits, Ephedra) -- University of Colorado, Boulder [email]

Graduate Students

• Sang-tae Kim, Ph.D. (2008; Polygonum phylogeny and speciation) -- Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology [email]
• Brian Moore, Ph.D. (2008; diversification rates, comparative methods) -- University of California, Berkeley [email]
• Rachel Novick, Ph.D. (2008; Cospeciation and life history evolution in the cedar apple rust fungi)
• Erika Edwards, Ph.D. (2005; Pereskia phylogeny and evolution of water relations) [email]
• Chuck Bell, Ph.D. (2003; Valerianaceae) -- University of New Orleans [email]

• Chuck Davis, Ph.D. (w. D. Baum) (2002; Malphigiaceae) -- Harvard University [email]
• Kobinah Abdul-Salim, Ph.D. (w. D. Baum) (2002; Symphonia, Madagascar) -- Ohio State University Herbarium [email]
• Richard (Rick) Ree, Ph.D. (w. D. Baum) (2001; Pedicularis, character evolution) -- Field Museum of Chicago [email]
• Russ Spangler, Ph.D. (w. E. Kellogg) (2000; Sorghum)
• George Weiblen, Ph.D. (1999; figs and fig wasps) -- University of Minnesota [email]
• Carlo Maley, Ph.D. (MIT, 1998; artificial life) -- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine [email]
• Diane Ferguson, Ph.D. (1998; Hydrophyllaceae) -- Herbarium of Louisiana State University [email]

• Mark Porter, Ph.D. (1993; Polemoniaceae) -- Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden [email
• R. Geeta (Geeta Bharathan), Ph.D. (1993; monocot evolution, development) -- SUNY Stony Brook [email]
• Laurie Abbott, M.S. (1992) -- New Mexico State University [email]
• Mike Sanderson, Ph.D. (1989; Astragalus, homoplasy) -- University of Arizona [email]
• Jim Malusa, Ph.D. (1989; pinyon pines) -- Tucson, Arizona [email]

Lab Associates

• Nico Cellinese -- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida [email]
  
  
• Mary Moore (2000; TreeBASE, web design)