Paper published in PhytoKeys: The hidden Heuchera: How science Twitter uncovered a globally imperiled species in Pennsylvania, USA
Paper in Natural Areas Journal: Genomic structure among populations of a regionally rare perennial plant indicates the need for reevaluation of management units
Other local rare plant conservation and floristics projects
Lepidopteran granivory reduces seed counts in a rare species of riparian scour prairies
Classification and Successional Changes of Mixed-Oak Forests at the Mohn Mill Area, Pennsylvania
Montandon Marsh: a vegetation description of a potentially endangered wetland
Vegetation and succession of a central Pennsylvania limestone synclinal ridge
New species descriptions
Solanum nectarifolium: New species of bush tomato with visible nectar glands discovered in the Australian outback
Solanum ossicruentum: Don’t Eat This Tomato
Solanum plastisexum: Scientists challenge notion of binary sexuality with naming of new plant species
Solanum jobsonii: Newly established, a national park in Australia unveils a new plant species
Solanum scalarium: A newly identified type of tomato has been hiding in plain sight
Solanum watneyi: New bush tomato species is the link between botany and an Oscar-nominated Hollywood movie
Solanum cowiei: Newly Discovered Flower Makes Fake Pollen to Fool Bees
Chenopodium oahuense subsp. ilioensis: Temperate Eurasian Origins of Hawaiian Chenopodium (Amaranthaceae)
Honors/Master's Theses
Diamanda Zizis, MS '25: Assessing Genetic Diversity and Population Structure in the Imperiled Aconitum reclinatum (white monkshood), an Endemic Wildflower of Central Appalachia
Abigail Motter, BS '25: The Aussie Oddballs: Identifying The Existence of Censer and Trample Burr Dispersal in Australian Bush Tomatoes
Isaac Kojo Buabeng, MS '24: Genetic Diversity of Paxistima canbyi A. Gray: Conserving A Rare Plant Species Endemic to the Eastern United States
Claire Marino, BS '23: Cleaning the Variable Mess: a Population Genomics Approach to Understanding the Evolutionary History of a Complicated Plant Group
Diamanda Zizis, BS '23: Heading for a Breakdown: Assessing Evolution Through the Hybridization of Two Sexual Systems
Jonathan Hayes, BS '21: Genetic Diversity & Connectivity of Chasmanthium latifolium (Poaceae) in Pennsylvania & the Effect on Conservation Status of a Rare Species
Cheyenne Moore, MS '20: Baptisia australis var. australis in Pennsylvania: A Survey of Granivory and Population Genomics in a Threatened Species
Jackie Ndem-Galbert, MS '18: Biochemical Analysis of Pollen Grains From Dioecious and Andromonoecious Solanum Species
Daniel Hayes, BS '18: Ex situ interspecies crossing rates infer importance of geographic barriers in speciation among closely related Solanum species of the Australian Monsoon Tropics
Tara Caton, MS '16: Ex Situ Hybridization of Two Cryptically Dioecious Solanum (Solanaceae) Species From Northern Territory Australia Clarifies Vague Species Boundaries