German flora and vegetation; morphology and anatomy of vascular plants; development and modification of investigation methods, preparation techniques and special approaches for studies with light- and electron microscopy
DFG-fundet project: Ph.D. research on "Extremes in chromosome numbers in closely
related taxa: A combined approach to studying the underlying karyotype evolution"
Phylogeny, biogeography and floral development in the tribe Delphinieae (Aconitum and Delphinium (including Consolida and Aconitella); Ranunculaceae)
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Dr. Luo is a researcher at the South China Botanical Garden in Guanghjou. Shixiao worked on the reproductive biology of Phyllanthaceae, of Illicium, and Clerodendrum, all in a comparative phylogenetic framework.
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Dr. Ryan Oyama now a manager at Pioneer Hi-Bred in Hawaii. In the Renner
lab, Ryan worked on sex-linked loci in Bryonia (Cucurbitaceae).
Fungal diversity and evolution; Factors determining fungal community structure; Fungus-Arthropod interaction
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Dr. Hanno Schäfer now a postdoc with Charles Davis in Organismic and
Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. In the Renner lab, Hanno worked
on Cucurbitaceae and Ctenoplectra bees.
Ph.D. research on "Using next-generation-sequencing to study the organellar genomes of holoparasitic Pilostyles (Apodanthaceae) and to investigate horizontal gene exchange with its legume hosts"
Ph.D. research on "History of a pair of clades that parted ways in East Gondwana and then followed non-overlapping trajectories: Climbing and hummingbirds in South America vs. corms and fire-adaptations in South Africa, the Mediterranean, and Australia."
