About

Current studies

Ph.D. candidate in Bruce Baldwin’s lab (Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley) studying systematics of Hydrophylloideae (Boraginaceae), glandular trichomes, and digital curation. Additional studies include floristic and systematic investigations in collaboration with the Patterson lab [SFSU]. My hobbies include travel, living by the ocean, and making the world a better place.

2012-2013 Graduate Student Representative, California Botanical Society.

Graduate Student Symposium April 14, 2013, part of the the California Botanical Society Centennial Celebration April 12-14, 2013. For more information see http://www.calbotsoc.org/home.html

Education

M.S. Ecology & Systematic Biology, 2010, San Francisco State University. Advisor, Robert Patterson. Thesis: Phylogeny of infrageneric relationships within Phacelia (Boraginaceae) inferred from chloroplast sequence data.

B.S. Plant Biology, 2005, University of California, Davis.

1999-2001, Fresno City College, transfer student.

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