| Aug 04, 2026 | Cooley award win! At the 2026 Botany Meeting in Tucson, AZ, I received the prestigious Cooley Award awarded by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists for my talk entitled “Introgression and trait evolution in the Neotropical bellflowers (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae)”. This talk is based on my 3rd dissertation chapter, which applies network-based ancestral state estimation methods to model how the reticulate evolutionary history of Andean Campanulaceae has shaped pollination syndrome and fruit type evolution. The Cooley Award is one of the highest honors for early career researchers in plant systematics and recognizes a talk that synthesizes an original, creative body of work. |