Graduate Students

Department of Integrative Biology​
University of Colorado Denver

Franki is looking at the efficacy of seeding as a post-wildfire management practice. She is working with the Bureau of Land Management and using their Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring data to determine if seeding the Beaver Creek burn scar in Jackson County, Colorado has resulted in native vegetation regeneration or surface stabilization

Department of Integrative Biology​
University of Colorado Denver

Brielle’s research interests include urban ecology and native plant species. She is especially interested in the resiliency of native plants in the face of climate change and urbanization, and how this resiliency may benefit plant communities in a predicted hotter and drier future.

Department of Integrative Biology
University of Colorado Denver

Tiffany is interested in the species-level phylogenetics with applications to conservation. Her thesis focuses on the origins of polyploidy in the genus Eutrema (Brassicaceae), and, the evolutionary history of the E. penlandii-E.edwardsii species complex.

Department of Integrative Biology​
University of Colorado Denver

Jess is an incoming graduate student with an interest in plant-fungal relationships and learning about the diversity of these interactions. She is specifically interested in researching questions that pertain to mycoheterotrophy.

Department of Integrative Biology​
University of Colorado Denver

Justin is interested in fungal diversity and ecology and enjoys traveling and documenting rare and unique fungi. His research employs DNA barcoding and phylogenetics to systematically examine the diversity and distributions of taxa in the fungal family Bankeraceae within western North America.

Department of Integrative Biology
University of Colorado Denver

Audrey is a plant taxonomist and biogeographer interested in the origins of the flora of the Southern Rockies. Her research combines phylogenetic, biogeographic, and morphologic lines of evidence to clarify the taxonomic relationships within Physocarpus, a genus of deciduous shrubs in family Rosaceae.