Edible Wild Plants of the Carolinas: A Forager’s Companion now available on the UNC Press website or wherever books are sold!

Book Release Events

Oct. 15, 6pm, Malaprop's Bookstore, Asheville (Virtual)

Oct. 17, 2pm, Bookmarks, Winston-Salem (In person)

Nov. 4, 5:30pm, Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill (In person)

Nov. 6, 3pm, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh (Virtual)

January 2020

I've moved to the Boyce Thompson Institute (Ithaca, NY) to work as a postdoc in the lab of Fay-Wei Li studying hornwort genomics and hornwort-cyanobacterial symbiosis. Still working on Isoetes in my spare time!

Summer 2018

I'm looking for contacts to help collect Longleaf Pine anywhere in its range! Will be in the field 7-30 June.
Come see my talk on Isoetes at the Botanical Society of America meeting in Rochester, MN, 23-26 July. My work will also be presented to the Society of Systematic Biologists (June 2 Columbus, OH), Washington Botanical Society (June 5 Washington, DC), Joint Congress of Evolutionary Biology (August 20 Montpellier, France), and Longleaf Alliance (25 October Alexandria, LA).

Summer 2017 Road Trip

Collecting polyploid Isoetes throughout eastern North America from June to September. Estimated timeline: June - Southeast; July - Mid-Atlantic; August - Northeast. If there are dots in your area, hit me up for a field trip!
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About Me

I'm an NSF Plant Genome Postdoctoral Fellow working in the lab of Fay-Wei Li at the Boyce Thompson Institute in Ithaca, NY. Previously I was PhD candidate in the lab of Lytton Musselman at Old Dominion University and a predoctoral fellow at the National Museum of Natural History under Liz Zimmer. My work focuses on the genomics and evolution of hornworts (Anthocerotophyta), particularly the repeated evolution of sex and sex chromosomes in multiple lineages. I still do some work on systematics of the aquatic lycophyte Isoetes, particularly in the southeastern United States.

Fun Stuff

Over the past several years, Lytton Musselman and I have created cordials and apertifs from native plants of the eastern United States. To date we have over 200 preparations, and this work was featured on an episode of the radio program With Good Reason. Some of this work is now published in our book, Edible Wild Plants of the Carolinas, published by UNC Press in October 2021.