Dr. Nikisha Patel joins the lab as a postdoctoral research associate. She completed her undergraduate at UCONN in 2012, and then a Ph.D. at the University of Vermont, with Dr. David Barrington. Her dissertation was entitled “Apomixis, hybridization, and biodiversity in ferns: insights from genera Phegopteris and Polystichum”. She went on to a postdoctoral position at the University of Tennessee with Dr. Jessica Budke, a former lab member. Niki comes with much experience and great enthusiasm to join the Physcomitrium project funded by NSF. Welcome (back) to UCONN and its bryology lab!

 

 

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