What a semester! Presentations at Sigma Xi, Celebration of Student Achievement, and three more ClemLab graduates! See below and to the right for more details.

In the coldness of January, TJ and Alanna joined me on a trip up north where we visited the herbaria at Harvard and Yale Universities. We collected quite a few samples to support the endocarp project and had great meetings with our Yale colleagues.

This past semester we also held our first R workshop led by TJ (see below) where we all got an introduction to importing data and graphing using a few common R packages. We are all R users now!

Spring 2015

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Kudos!

Congrats to Pat Gallagher who was awarded a PLANTS grant from the Botanical Society of America to attend Botany 2015!

Congratulations to Izzy Distefano and Pat Gallagher for receiving MUSE awards for the Summer of 2015.

Congrats to Syndi Barish who was inducted to Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded a Phi Kappa Phi Research Award from TCNJ.

Congrats to Brad Newton who received an honorable mention for the Biology Department Becton-Dickinson Award. Brad was one of 12 graduating biology seniors to receive a departmental award.


...and finally, CONGRATULATIONS to our most recent Clem Lab graduates Amanda, Brad and Alanna!

Top row from left to right: Amanda Goble (’15), Syndi Barish (’16), Pat Gallagher (’16). Bottom row left to right: TJ Stammer (’17), Brad Newton (’15), Alanna Cohen (’15) and Izzy Distefano (’17).

New publication!

Highlights from: Sigma Xi 2015, Western Connecticut State University

Highlights from: Celebration of Student Achievement 2015

On to the summer!

As three ClemLab members graduate and move on to the next stage of their careers, three more students join me in the lab this summer. TJ, funded by our NSF grant to complete a global monograph of Viburnum, and Izzy and Patrick funded by the TCNJ MUSE program, will all continue their research throughout the summer. All four of us look forward to attending and presenting our work at the Botany 2015 meeting in Edmonton, Alberta Canada.

Check out the latest Viburnum publication:

Elizabeth L. Spriggs, Wendy L. Clement, Patrick W. Sweeney, Santiago Madriñán, Erika Edwards, and Michael Donoghue. 2015. Temperate radiations and dying embers of a tropical past: the diversification of Viburnum. New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13305.

Izzy Distefano explaining her work ‘‘Pollen morphology of the breadfruits (Artocarpus, Moraceae): Pollen preparation, measurement, and analysis.”

Brad Newton with his poster titled: Plastid assembly and annotation of Viburnum cassinoides and its implications for Viburnum phylogeny.

Left: Alanna with her senior thesis: Complex evolutionary histories and their effects on phylogenetic analysis in Viburnum.


Right: Syndi Barish with her most recent findings on “Optimization of microsatellite loci for study of Viburnum population dynamics.”

Left: TJ describing his work: Evolution of seed and fruit shape and implications for seed dispersal in Viburnum.


Right: Amanda and Pat are standing by to discuss their work: Unearthing the Viburnum phylogeny for study of taxonomy and historical biogeography.



Left: TJ, Pat, Syndi, Alanna and Amanda ready to bring Viburnum to Sigma Xi!


Right: Pat Gallagher starts discussing his work moments after hanging his poster.

ClemLab Graduates!

We could not be prouder of Alanna, Amanda, and Brad for their incredible work and excellent senior capstone theses. Each presented their work at the Celebration of Student Achievement (see below) and have set the bar high for future graduates to come! Here are the titles of their work:

Alanna Cohen: Complex evolutionary histories and their affect on phylogenetic analysis

Amanda Goble: An expanded species level phylogeny of Viburnum

Brad Newton: Plastid assembly and annotation of Viburnum cassinoides and its implications for Viburnum