by Agnes | Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
I am moving back to Austria to start my own lab on Plant-Animal-Interactions at the University of Vienna on March 1st! 😀 It was a dream to get a job close to my hometown, family and friends, and Vienna offers a wonderful reserach environment for me. New projects are...
by Agnes | Dec 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
After all the fieldwork in summer, fall was about crunching deeply into data analyses, paper and proposal writing… we have some exciting results to share about Merianieae diversification in the Neotropics from the modelling project with Stacey Smith and Laura...
by Agnes | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Local students from Boulder High School are supposed to do applied science projects – how fun! Finally, fellow Smith-lab postdoc Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong and I could team up to combine our interests in two incredibly important aspects of plant reproductive...
by Agnes | Jul 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
At the beginning of July, I travelled from Colorado to Florida (what a move to make for a climber in the middle of summer ;-)) to work on the Melastomataceae genus Rhexia (meadow beauties)! This is a small genus of only about 11 species, and, importantly, the only...
by Agnes | Jul 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
I am lucky to get to the field twice this summer! 😀 The first fieldtrip featured joint work with Fabián Michelangeli and Juan Angulo from The New York Botanical Garden and RobÃn Hilario from Lima in the frame of the Melastomataceae Peru 2022 expedition! We hit the...
by Agnes | Apr 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Closely related plant species frequently occur in sympatry and overlap in ecological characters. This overlap may lead to resource competition (i.e. for pollinators) and result in character displacement (i.e. divergence in floral phenotype or phenology) or...
