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People

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Lucas C. Majure, Curator of the Herbarium (FLAS), Principal Investigator
Ph.D. (Botany), University of Florida, 2012
​M.Sc. (Biology), Mississippi State University, 2007
B.S. (Biology), Mississippi State University, 2003
Research Gate profile: 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucas_Majure​

Lab Members

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Post Doctoral Associates 

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Andre A. Naranjo, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Associate
Ph.D. (Botany), University of Florida, 2020
B.S. (Biology), University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 2015
Andre worked on the phylogenetics, biogeography, endemism, and ecological niches of the Scrub Mint Clade for his Ph.D. studies. He is working on 
spatial ​phylogenetics, functional trait diversity, and patterns of endemism in the Chaine de la Selle/Sierra de Baohruco on Hispaniola for his post doctoral work in the Majure Lab. 
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Serena I. Achá Macias, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Associate
Ph.D. (Biology), University of Missouri, St. Louis, 2019
M.Sc. (Biology), Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, 2013
Serena worked on the population genetics and species delimitation of Passiflora for her Ph.D. studies. She is working on
​phylogenomics of Cactaceae and capture-seq locus design for her post doctoral work in the Majure Lab. 

Current Graduate Students

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Yuley Encarnación Piñeyro, Ph.D. Student (Fall 2019)
Yuley worked on the population demographics of a Hispaniolan endemic species
of Melocactus, M. praerupticola (Cactaceae) for her bachelor's degree at
the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. Yuley started at UF in the Fall 2019
​and is working out biogeographic patterns of Cactaceae in the Greater Antilles, as well as a treatment
​for the Cactaceae of her home island of Hispaniola. 
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Bethany Zumwalde, Ph.D. Student (Fall 2019)
Bethany worked on population genetics and systematics of Viola (Violaceae) for her M.Sc.
​and will be tackling phylogenomic, cytogenetic and population-level questions in Cactaceae for her Ph.D.
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Thomas Murphy, Ph.D. Student (Fall 2020)
Thomas worked on revisionary systematics of the 
Clematis subgenus Viorna (Ranunculaceae) for his M.Sc. He started in Fall 2020 and will be investigating species limits, polyploidy, biogeography, and phylogenetics of the tribe Amorpheae (Fabaceae) with special focus on the genus Amorpha.

Undergraduate Researchers

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Allison Blankenship, Undergraduate Researcher.
​Allison is an undergraduate student in the department of biology. She started in the lab in spring 2019 and has been working on a number of projects in the lab, including plastid genome annotation in Simaroubaceae and DNA extractions for genome sequencing projects. She will be working further on the evolutionary and biogeographic history of a phenomenal group of Neotropical Simaroubaceae. 

Research Scholars

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Matias Kohler, Ph.D. student, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
​Matias was a short term scholar working in the lab on the phylogenetics and systematics of the southern South American Opuntia clade. His work is greatly clarifying relationships among the South American prickly pears, and he'll be addressing biogeographic patterns in the clade, as it relates to the entire Opuntia clade.  He recently published the first Opuntia plastome. 
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00729 

Lab Alumni
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Ayress Grinage, M.Sc. Student (Fall 2019-May 2020)
Ayress worked on the systematics of the genus Sabal in the southern United States with a specific focus on the Sabal minor complex for her masters project.  She also worked on our campus flora project to enumerate the biodiversity found in our campus natural areas, including vascular and non-vascular plants and macrofungi. Ayress was a Bioscience Scholar in the Dept. of Biology at UF. She finished her M.Sc. in spring semester 2020 and is off to Cornell University this fall to continue her work in Arecaceae!! We wish her well and know she is bound for great things!!  

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      Sean Noudali (ASU) was an undergrad intern in the lab at DBG from fall 2017-spring 2018. He worked on a variety of projects in the lab, ​and is now working on his degree in neuroscience at WSU. 

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Dr. Peter Breslin worked in the lab at DBG, where he focused 
on the biogeography, phylogenetics and population demographics of
​hummingbird-pollinated species of Mammillaria (Cactaceae) in Baja, California, and a
large phylogenomic analysis of the Mammiloid clade. He just successfully defended his dissertation spring 2020!

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  Dawn O'Brien was a volunteer in the lab at DBG from 2014-1015 and helped 
  advance a number of important projects, including much of the whole plastome
​  sequencing in Opuntia. She is now working on her medical degree at University of    
​  Arizona.  

Students in Training

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Gabriel Majure specializes in carnivorous plants with a keen interest in Sarraceniaceae and Nepenthaceae.
​Tristan  Majure loves to press plants and has a knack for finding Xyridaceae. 

REMEMBERING

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​ W. Mark Whitten
Ph.D. (Botany), University of Florida, 1985
M.S. (Botany), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1979
B.S. (Biology), Thomas More College, 1976
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Mark was a man of many talents and the backbone of the herbarium
molecular laboratory. Although he was a specialist in the systematics
of Orchidaceae, he also worked on floristics projects, community
phylogenetics and much, much more.
We lost Dr. Whitten 
suddenly in mid-April. He will never be
​far from our hearts, and we will forever miss him.

Prospective students and Post-docs should contact lmajure@floridamuseum.ufl.edu for more information. 

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