Karolina Heyduk, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Director of the George Safford Torrey Herbarium
Ph.D. Plant Biology, University of Georgia
B.S. Economics, B.S. Biological Aspects of Conservation, University of Wisconsin Madison
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Lizzy Doan
Lab manager
B.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
Elena Foust
Research assistant
RaMP Scholar in the lab, 2024-2025
B.S. Biology, Coastal Carolina University
Joshua tree microbiome diversity; medicinal plant products
G Young Kim
Ph.D. student
MS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
B.S. Botany, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
CAM photosynthetic physiology in New England Opuntia
Dantony Lewis
RaMP Scholar, 2025-2026
B.S. Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston
Claire Marino
Ph.D. student, co-advised with Dr. Robi Bagchi
B.S. Biology, Bucknell University
Population genetics and ecology of Symplocarpus foetidus
Edward McAssey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Residence EEB
Honorary lab member
Ph.D. Plant Biology, University of Georgia
B.A. Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
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Ellie Loew-Mendelson
Ph.D. student
B.S. Biological Sciences, Brandeis University
Evolution of photosynthetic pathways in aquatic plants
Erika Moore-Pollard, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. Biology, University of Memphis
B.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Ecophysiology and comparative genomics of CAM in bromeliads
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. Horticulture, Michigan State University
B.S. Genetics, University of New Hampshire
Hybrid plant genomics and genomics of facultative CAM photosynthesis
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Dominique Pham
Ph.D. student
B.S. Biology, University of Richmond
David Wickell, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
NSF PRFB Fellow
Ph.D. Cornell University
MS Biological Sciences, Wichita State University
B.S. Biological Sciences, Wichita State University
CAM photosynthesis and heterophylly in aquatic plants
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