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Graduate Student
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of Systematic Botany
Fax: (718) 817-8648
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Graduate Student
Institute
of Systematic Botany
Fax: (718) 817-8648
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Advisor: Dr. Michael Nee
EDUCATION
Sep 2000–present
Ph.D. Fellow at the NYBG, joint program in Plant
Sciences, CUNY
Aug 2000
M.S. in Botany, Department of Biology,
Texas
A&M University, College Station, TX, 4.0 GPA
Dec 1997
B.S. in Horticulture, Minor in Botany, TAMU
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Jan 1998–Aug 2000
Graduate Teaching Assistant, TAMU:
Botany
301: Taxonomy of Flowering Plants (8 labs)
Botany 328:
Economic Botany (3 labs)
Botany 620: Graduate
Field Systematic Botany (1 lab)
FIELD EXPERIENCE--CENTRAL
AND SOUTH AMERICA
25 Sep–20 Oct 2001
Peru: Gurania
(Cucurbitaceae) collection and observation at the Los Amigos Concession,
Madre de Dios state.
4 Sep–30 Sep 2000
Ecuador: Gurania, palm, and cycad
collection in the Esmeraldas, Napo, and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces, funded
by the Montgomery Botanical
Center (MBC), Miami, Florida.
19 Jul–17 Aug 1999
Belize: Palm and cycad collection in the Columbia
Forest Reserve and southern and central Belize, funded by the
MBC.
17 Dec 1997–10 Jan 1998
Belize:
Botanical field assistant in the Columbia Forest Reserve.
Aug 1996
Costa Rica: Botanical field assistant at La
Selva Biological Station and in the Caribbean coastal forests.
FIELD EXPERIENCE--TEXAS
Mar–Aug 2000
Research Assistant: Botanical survey and ecological
assesment of Keechi Creek Wildlife Management Area,
funded by a contract with the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department.
Jan 1998–Aug 2000
M.S. thesis project: The
Vascular Flora of Madison County, Texas.
May 1996–Dec 1997
Independent undergraduate research project: Floristics
of Madison County, Texas.
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS
American Institute
of Biological Sciences
American
Society of Plant Taxonomists
Botanical
Society of America
The Cucurbit
Network: Editor, The
Cucurbit Network News
Sigma Xi
Scientific Research Society
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Neill, A.K. 2000. The Vascular Flora of Madison
County, Texas. M.S. thesis, Texas A&M University.
Neill, A.K. 2000. The
Vascular Flora of Madison County, Texas, Website.
<http://BIOCOURSE.BIO.TAMU.EDU/graduate-students/neilla/madhome.htm>
Neill, A.K. & J.P. Janovec. 2001. Occidente
y Oriente: collecting palms and cycads in Ecuador. The Montgomery News
9(2):5.
Janovec, J.P. & A.K. Neill. 2000. Exploring
the palms and cycads of Belize. The Montgomery News 8(1):8.
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