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Dr. Lauren Sullivan
Plant Code Name:  The Scarlet (and Mustard) Pimpernel
Favorite Seed: Tradescantia ohioensis (Ohio Spiderwort)

Research Interests:  Plant movement ecology, restoration ecology, quantitative anything, community ecology, distributed experiments.
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Lab Manager

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Larissa Kahan
Plant Code Name: Squirreltail

Favorite Seed: Daucus pusillus (Small wild carrot)
Research Interests: Community ecology, restoration ecology, the importance of root system diversity in grassland and soil health, as well as developing new research interests with the Sullivan lab!
​Contact: [email protected] ​


Postdocs

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Alejandra Martínez Blancas (CV)
Plant Code Name: Pincushion cactus
Favorite Seed: Tripogandra purpurascens 

Research Interests: Diversity maintenance, species interactions, grassland conservation.
Contact: 
[email protected]

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Laís Petri (CV, website)
Plant Code Name: May-apple
Favorite Seed: 
Paepalanthus chiquitensis (sempre-viva) 
Research Interests: Plant community ecology, invasion ecology, restoration ecology, Bayesian statistics.
Contact: 
[email protected]

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Ashish Nerlekar (CV, website)
Plant Code Name: dwarf Jatropha 

Favorite Seed: Chrysopogon fulvus (sempre-viva) 
Research Interests: Plant community ecology, ecology, conservation, restoration of tropical grasslands and savannas.
Contact: 
[email protected] 


Graduate Students

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Ethan Rose
Plant Code Name: Prairie Rose
Favorite Seed: Pulsatilla nuttalliana (prairie pasqueflower)

Research Interests: Restoration ecology, community ecology, biodiversity maintenance, grassland conservation.
​Contact: 
[email protected] 

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Marissa Zaricor (CV)
Plant Code Name: Sensitive briar
Favorite Seed: Bouteloua gracilis (Blue grama grass)

Research Interests:  Plant ecology, physiology, restoration ecology, grasslands, disturbance (fire and grazing), drought, stable isotopes and long-term ecological research. 
​Contact: zaricorm
@msu.edu ​

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Josefa Corpuz 
Plant Code Name: Bindweed
Favorite Seed: Silphium perfoliatum (Cup plant)

Research Interests:  Community ecology, plant morphology, biostatistics. 
​Contact: [email protected]


UnderGraduate Students


Lab Friends

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Dr. Gaurav Kandlikar - PFF Postdoctoral Fellow
Plant Code Name: Quaking aspen
Favorite Seed: Mango propagules

Research Interests: Community ecology and species coexistence, plant-microbe interactions, tropical forests, how students learn math and ecology.

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Josh Klostermann - former PhD student
Plant Code Name: Tick Trefoil
Favorite Seed: Dalea purpurea (purple prairie clover)​

Research Interests: pollination ecology, insect behavior, bison wallows, habitat heterogeneity​

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Shawn Thomas
Plant Code Name: Sillyberry (Grubbiaceae) 
 
Favorite Seed: coffee beans

Research Interests: plant evolution, polyploidy, abiotic stress, comparative genomics, phylogenetics ​


Lab Alum

All of our awesome undergrads
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Ellie Lopez
Plant Code Name: Canada Wild Rye (ELYCAN)
Favorite Seed: Elymus canadensis
Where is she now? PA school.

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Meredith Medley
Plant Code Name: Sassafras

Favorite Seed: Campis radicans (Trumpet Creeper)
Where is she now? Mizzou student.

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Dani Gafford
Plant Code Name: Curly Kale
Favorite Seed: Erodium cicutarium

Where is she now? Grad student at UMN.

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Blake Schreck
Plant Code Name: 
Hidden Dropseed
Favorite Seed: Chenopodium album (White Goosefoot)
Where is he now? Dental school.

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Brandy Williams
Plant Code Name: Blackeyed Susan 

Favorite Seed: Eryngium yuccifolium (Rattlesnake Master)
Where is she now? Grad school for Animal Behavior at UNL.

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Erica Eyerly
Plant Code Name: Fuzzy-wuzzy Sedge
Favorite Seed: 
Coreopsis lanceolata 
Where is she now?  DC.


Our more permanent research folks
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Carrie Stephen
Plant Code Name: Prairie Carrieopsis
Favorite Seed: Bouteloua curtipendula (Sideoats grama)

Where is she now? Carrie is now a Natural Resource Ecologist with the Missouri DNR!

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Maya Parker-Smith
Plant Code Name: Juncus in the truncus
Favorite Seed: Penstemon digitalis (Foxglove beardtounge)

Where is she now? Maya is a lab manager for the Komatsu, Koerner and Wilcox groups!  

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Kate Wynne (CV)
Plant Code Name: Prairie dropseed

Favorite Seed: Sphenopholis obtusata (Prairie wedge grass)
Where is she now? Kate is a botanist with Midwest Natural Resources.​

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Sheila Vazquez-Morales
Plant Code Name: Tamarindus
Favorite Seed: Melivoccus bijugatus (Spanish Lime)

Where is she now? Organizing and conducting awesome science in the King Lab!

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