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Sabina Donadío (Ph.D.): Sabina is a Ph.D. student who is
just finishing her thesis work at the University of Buenos Aires and the Darwinion Institute in Argentina. She came to our lab
for six months in 2012 under the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program
of Foreign Affairs to gather molecular data for her thesis on Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae). Naturally, I roped her into a few sedge
projects too. She is missed at the Museum, but since we are still writing
up her research for publication, it almost seems like she never left
(regular emails!).
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Wayne Sawtell (M.Sc.): Wayne
finished his thesis work on the systematics and phylogeography
of Carex nardina in 2012 just before
Tamara. I hope that all is well…
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Tamara Villaverde Hidalgo (M.Sc.): Tamara finished her thesis on
Systematics and phylogeography of the bipolar Carex capitata
complex in 2012 and is now conducting a doctorate at Pablo de Olavide University in Spain.
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Anna
Ginter (B.Sc.):
After many years working at the Museum Anna finished her B.Sc. at the
University of Ottawa in 2012 and she is now conducting an
M.Sc. on full scholarship in Genetic and Molecular Plant Science at
Stockholm University. Way to go Anna!
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Brianna Chouinard (M.Sc.): Brianna successfully
defended her M.Sc. thesis in 2010 to barcode all the Carex and Kobresia in the flora of North America, north of Mexico.
She is now working at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (Seed Section).
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Alex
MacPhail (B.Sc.): Alex
has finished his B.Sc. and has gone on to bigger and better things. When he
was in the lab he worked on developing microsatellites for Cariceae with Leo Bruederle and me. He loves the
outdoors and has now worked on many ecological projects from Grasslands
National Park to the Yukon. At last report he was a Wildlife Technician at
the University of Alberta. We wish him the best of luck roaming, working,
and enjoying our glorious nature.
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Jessica
Le Clerc-Blain (B.Sc.): Jessica
was a 4th year honours student that performed research with Jeff
Saarela and me on barcoding sedges from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. She
finished her M.Sc. degree at the Université
Laval and at last report she was a Research Genetic Counsellor at Ste-Justine Hospital in Montréal. She still
occasionally comes to visit us at the Museum (did we do something right?).
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Jonas
King (M.Sc.): Jonas
introduced me to the weird and wonderful world of the mud-loving beetles (Heteroceridae) during his M.Sc. research at the University of Mississippi. He is now Dr. Jonas
King and a postdoctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health studying the vector involved in malaria. I had a hard enough
time with the mud-loving beetles, but now I am truly lost.
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View-Hune Teoh (a.k.a., Alex,
M.Sc.): Affectionately
known as “Alex” by all in the linguistically challenged West,
Alex did his M.Sc. research on Pityopsis when I was at the University of Mississippi.
He is now a Senior Field Application Specialist for ABI Life Technologies
back home in Malaysia (he switched to the dark side). I hope to see him
again someday.
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Former Summer Research Students:
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Carmen
Fletcher & Jeff Graham: Two
special students that pushed me farther than I was prepared to go on this
day (how they did it is best left untold). Carmen is in Medical School and
Jeff is conducting graduate work on something animal (you can’t
always win)
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A
meeting of the Molecular Systematics Laboratory at the Canadian Museum
of Nature (February 2009)
Back Row (left to right): Leo Bruederle, Paul
Sokoloff, Alexandre MacPhail, Michel
Paradis, Jeff Saarela, Roger
Bull
Front Row: Laurie
Consaul,
Brianna Chouinard, and Anna
Ginter
Missing: Lynn
Gillespie, Wayne Sawtell,
and me!
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