CURRICULUM VITAE ALEJANDRA VASCO Genomics Programm Institute of Systematic Botany The New York Botanical Garden 200th St. & Kazimiroff Boulevard
Bronx, New York 10458 Telephone: (1) 718.817.8130 E-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.nybg.org/science/scientist_profile.php?id_scientist=76 I PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born in Medellín, Colombia, 8 September 1977. Languages. Spanish, English, Portuguese, German. II PROFESIONAL PREPARATION
Posdoctoral Research Associate (2010-2013). The New York Botanical Garden, current position. Leaf development and phylogeny of the fern group Elaphoglossum section Squamipedia (Dryopteridaceae). Supervisor: Dr. Barbara Ambrose, Dr. Robbin C. Moran Posdoctoral Research Associate (Feb-Jun 2010). The New York Botanical Garden. Phylogeny,
diversification, and Evolutionary Trajectories in the "Terebinthaceae" (Anacardiaceae and Burseraceae). Supervisor: Dr. Douglas Daly
Ph.D. in Plant Sciences (2010). City University of New York (CUNY)/ The New York
Botanical Garden. Dissertation Title: Systematics and Phylogeny of Elaphoglossum section Lepidoglossa (Dryopteridaceae). Advisor: Dr. Robbin C. Moran
M.S. in Biology (2007). City University of New York (CUNY)/ The New York Botanical Garden. Advisor: Dr. Robbin C. Moran
B. S. in Biology (2002). University of Antioquia, Biology Department. Medellín, Colombia. Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Callejas
III REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
2012 Vasco, A., Mickel, J.T. & Moran, R.C. Submmited, June 2012. Monograph of the Neotropical species of Elaphoglossum section Squamipedia (Dryopteridaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Q. D. Wheeler, S. Knapp, D. W. Stevenson, J. Stevenson, S. D. Blum, B. M. Boom, G. G. Borisy, J. L. Buizer, M. R. De Carvalho, A. Cibrian, M. J.
Donoghue, V. Doyle, E. M. Gerson, C. H. Graham, P. Graves, S. J. Graves, R. P. Guralnick, A. L. Hamilton, J. Hanken, W. Law, D. L. Lipscomb, T. E. Lovejoy, H. Miller, J. S. Miller, S. Naeem, M. J. Novacek, L. M. Page, N. I. Platnick, H. Porter-Morgan, P. H. Raven, M. A. Solis, A. G. Valdecasas, S. Van Der Leeuw, A. Vasco, N. Vermeulen, J. Vogel, R. L. Walls, E. O. Wilson & J. B. Woolley. 2012. Mapping the biosphere: exploring species to understand the origin, organization and sustainability of biodiversity. Systematics and Biodiversity, 10:1, 1-20
2011 Sundue, M., Vasco, A., Moran, R.C. 2011. Cryptochlorophyllous spores in ferns: Nongreen spores that contain chlorophyll. International Journal of Plant
Sciences 172 (9): 1110-1119
Vasco, A. 2011. Taxonomic revision of Elaphoglossum subsection Muscosa (Dryopteridaceae). Blumea 56: 165-202
2010 Benavides, AM., Vasco, A., Duque, AJ., Duivenvoorden, JF. 2010. Association of vascular epiphytes with landscape units and phorophytes in humid lowland forests of Colombian Amazonia. Journal of Tropical Ecology 27: 1-15 (Science 2011Editor’s Choice, 332: 641-642)
2009 Vasco, A., Moran, RC., Rouhan, G. 2009. Monograph of the Elaphoglossum ciliatum group (Dryopteridaceae). Brittonia 61 (3):241-272.
Vasco, A., Moran, RC., Rouhan, G. 2009. Circumscription and phylogeny of the Elaphoglossum ciliatum group (E. sect. Lepidoglossa, Dryopteridaceae) based on cpDNA sequences. Taxon 58 (3): 825-834.
2006 Vasco, A. 2006. Elaphoglossum gemmatum (Elaphoglossaceae), a new proliferous species from Colombia. Brittonia 58: 1-3.
2005 Benavides, AM., Duque, AJ., Duivenvoorden, JF., Vasco, A., Callejas, R. 2005. A first quantitative census of vascular epiphytes in rain forests of Colombian Amazonia. Biodiversity and Conservation 14: 739-758
Book Chapters
2011 Vasco, A. 2011. Elaphoglossum. In: Flora De Antioquia, Catalogo de las Plantas Vasculares. Vol. 2. Listado de las Plantas Vasculares del Departamento de Antioquia. Programa Expedición Antioquia 2013. Pages 157 – 163. Abstracts
2012 Vasco, A., Smalls, T., Moran, R.C. & Ambrose, B. Fern leaf evolution and development. In: Abstracts of the National Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology, Montreal, Canada
Ambrose, B., Smalls, T. & Vasco, A. Evolution and Development in Lycophytes. In: Abstracts of the National Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology, Montreal, Canada
Vasco, A., Smalls, T., Moran, R.C. & Ambrose, B. Fern leaf evolution and development. In: Abstracts of the Northeast Regional Meeting of the Society of Developmental Biology, Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hoole, MA, USA (Award for the Best Poster of the event)
Ambrose, B., Smalls, T. & Vasco, A. Evolution and Development in Lycophytes. In: Abstracts of the Northeast Regional Meeting of the Society of Developmental Biology, Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hoole, MA, USA
2011 Prado, J., Moran, R., Labiak, P., Sundue, M., Vasco, A., Hanks, J., Schuettpelz, E. & Rouhan, G. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the fern genus Megalastrum.
(Dryopteridaceae). In: Abstracts of the XVIII International Botanical Conference, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Vasco, A., Moran, R.C. & Tulig, M. Electronic Monographs. In: Abstracts of Botany 2010 (Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting), Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Ambrose, B., Vasco, A., Smalls, T. & Moran, R.C. Fern leaf evolution and development. . In: Abstracts of Botany 2010 (Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting), Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
2009 Vasco, A. & Moran, R.C. Systematics and Phylogeny of Elaphoglossum section Lepidoglossa H. Christ (Dryopteridaceae): search for natural groups. In:
Abstracts of Botany 2009 (Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting), Sowbird, Utah, USA.
Vasco, A. 2009. Sistemática y filogenia de Elaphoglossum sección Lepidoglossa H. Christ (Dryopteridaceae): buscando grupos naturales. In: Libro de resúmenes del Quinto Congreso Colombiano de Botánica. San Juan de Pasto 19-24 de Abril de 2009. Pag 43.
2008 Vasco, A., Rouhan, G. & Moran, R.C. 2008. Monographic and Phylogenetic Study of the Elaphoglossum ciliatum Clade (Dryopteridaceae). In: Abstracts of Botany 2008 (Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting), Vancouver, Canada.
2007 Vasco, A., Moran, R.C., & Rouhan, G. 2007. Taxonomic Revision of the Elaphoglossum ciliatum group (Dryopteridaceae). In: Abstracts of Botany 2007 (Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting), Chicago, USA.
Vasco, A. 2007. Taxonomía y Filogenia del género Elaphoglossum: evidencias moleculares y morfológicas. In: Resúmenes del Cuarto Congreso Colombiano de Botánica. Actualidades Biológicas, Supplement 1. Page 65.
Elaphoglossum ciliatum (Dryopteridaceae). In: Resúmenes del Cuarto Congreso Colombiano de Botánica. Actualidades Biológicas, Supplement 1. Page. 288. 2005 Benavides, A.M., Duque, A., Duivenvoorden, J.F. & Vasco, A. 2005. Epiphyte
distribution in the Amazonian landscapes. In: Abstracts 4th International Canopy Conference, “Tropical versus Temperate forest”, Leipzig, Germany. Page. 118. 2002 Vasco, A., Duque, A. & Callejas, R. 2002. Composición florística y distribución
de epífitas vasculares en el Parque Nacional Natural Chiribiquete, Amazonia Colombiana. In: Libro de resúmenes del VIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Botánica. Cartagena de Indias 13-18 October de 2002. Page. 448.
Book Reviews
2008 Vasco, A. 2008. Helechos arborescentes de Guatemala: distribución, diversidad, usos y manejo, by MarioVéliz and Jorge Vargas. American Fern Journal 98 (3): 178.
Others
2012 Miller J. S. & A. Vasco. 2012. Robbin C. Moran—recipient of the 2011 Peter Raven Award. Systematic Botany 37: 5–6.
V HONOURS
2010 -2013 NSF Grant in Systematics
Leaf development and phylogeny of the fern group Elaphoglossum section Squamipedia (Dryopteridaceae).
Postdoctoral Position for three years at the New York Botanical Garden’s Genomics program.
2004 -2009 Oliver Hazard Perry Fellowship
The New York Botanical Garden Graduate Studies Program.
Research assistantship awarded to one student per year. The research assistantship covers tuition and stipend during five years to carry out PhD. studies.
2003 Huygens Scholarships Program
Nuffic: Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education
Scholarship covering tuition and stipend to spend three months at the Amsterdam University.
2002 Best student in the Biology program.
Awarded fellowship to do Masters Research at the University of Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia. Declined
1999 Best advanced student in the Biology program. Tuition fellowship to finish the bachelor in science. University of Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia.
VII RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2010-2013 Postdoctoral Research Associate
Leaf development and phylogeny of the fern group Elaphoglossum section Squamipedia (Dryopteridaceae).
NSF grant (DEB 1020443). The New York Botanical Garden. Supervisor: Dr. Barbara Ambrose, Dr. Robbin Moran
2009-2010 Postdoctoral Research Associate.
Phylogeny, diversification, and Evolutionary Trajectories in the "Terebinthaceae" (Anacardiaceae and Burseraceae)
NSF grant (DEB 0918600).The New York Botanical Garden. Supervisor: Dr. Douglas Daly
2007-2009 Research Assistant.
Systematics of the fern genus Megalastrum
NSF grant (DEB 0717056). The New York Botanical Garden. Supervisor: Dr. Robbin Moran.
2004-2007 Herbarium Curatorial Assistant.
Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, USA Supervisor: Dr. Lawrence Kelly
2004 Research assistant.
Molecular phylogeny of Elaphoglossum
NSF grant (DEB 0211969). The New York Botanical Garden. Supervisor: Dr. Robbin Moran.
2004 Contributor.
Antioquia’s vascular plants check list (Elaphoglossum)
Herbarium of the University of Antioquia (HUA), Colombia, and Herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden (MO), USA.
VIII TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2011 Teacher: Biology and Systematics of Ferns and Lycophytes Course co-teach with Dr. Robbin Moran
Universidad Católica de Quito, Ecuador. May 12-31
2006 & 2007 Guest Lecturer, Biological Systematics Department of Biology, Lehman College, CUNY
Developed and facilitated workshop on “assembling and analyzing morphological data”
Professor: J. Rachlin
2007 Teaching Assistant: Taxonomy of Ferns and Lycophytes Tutor: Dr. Jefferson Prado (Sao Paulo Botanical Garden) IV Colombian Botanical Conference, Medellín-Colombia. April 19-21
2005 Teaching Assistant: Biology of Ferns and Lycophytes Tutor: Dr. Robbin C. Moran (The New York Botanical Garden) Humboldt Field Research Institute, Steuben, Maine, USA August 21 - 27
2003 Teacher of General Biology and Laboratory. School of Natural and Exact Sciences
University of Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia. 2001 Teaching Assistant.
Vascular Plant Morphology Biology Department
University of Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia. 2000 Teaching Assistant.
Vascular Plant Taxonomy Biology Department
University of Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia. 1998, 1999 Teaching Assistant.
General Botany Biology Department
University of Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia. VIII INVITED SEMINARS
2012 What are Electronic monographs and how can people use them? Texas Gulf Coast Fern Society, Houston, October 25
Fern leaf development and evolution.
Instituto de Biociências, Universidad de São Paulo, Brazil, September 3 (Seminar given in Portuguese)
2010 Elaphoglossum: taxonomy and systematics of one of the most diverse fern genera.
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, October 20
(Seminar given in Spanish)
Leveraging the use of herbarium collections in modern systematics—examples from Pteridology
Botany 2010, Providence, USA, August 4
The genus Elaphoglossum: Understanding the systematics of one of the most diverse group of ferns
Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, July 26 (Seminar given in Spanish)
MORPH Workshop
The leaf: Integrating Evolution, Development and Function University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, January 29-31
2009 Understanding the systematics of Elaphoglossum seccion Lepidoglossa – Dryopteridaceae
Jardím Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 16 (Seminar given in Portuguese)
2008 Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the fern genus Elaphoglossum (Dryopteridaceae)
Instituto Botánico de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, June 11 (Seminar given in Spanish)
Ferns from Colombia: Speaker
American Fern Society, New York Chapter
The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, USA, March 1 Elaphoglossum pages: the new era?
American Fern Society, New York Chapter
The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, USA, November 1
2007 Symposium “Comparative Biology of Ferns and Lycophytes”: Coordinator and speaker
Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the genus Elaphoglossum: molecular and morphological evidences.
IV Colombian Botanical Conference, Medellín-Colombia, April 25 IX OTHER ACTIVITIES
Ad hoc reviewer for Actualidades Biologicas, American Fern Journal, Blumea, Brittonia, Bonplandia, Darwiniana, Phytotaxa, Systematic Botany, Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society Web Sites maintained: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/elaphoglossum/index.php
http://sweetgum.nybg.org/megalastrum/index.php
Member of the American Fern Society, Asociación Latinoamericana de Pteridología, Botanical Society of America, British Pteridological Society, Grupo de Estudios Botánicos UdeA, New York Academy of Sciences, Society for developmental Biology, Society of Systematic Biology, Torrey Botanical Club
X REFERENCES Barbara Ambrose
Assistant Curator of Plant Genomics, The New York Botanical Garden 200th Street & Southern Blvd.
Bronx, NY 10458-5126 Tel. 718-817-8185 Fax. 718-817-8101
E-mail: [email protected] Robbin C. Moran
Mary Flager Cary Curator, The New York Botanical Garden 200th Street & Southern Blvd.
Bronx, NY 10458-5126 Tel: 718-817-8663 Fax: 718-817-8648 E-mail: [email protected] Fabián Michelangeli
Assistant Curator, The New York Botanical Garden 200th Street & Southern Blvd.
Bronx, NY 10458-5126 Tel. 718-817-8199 Fax. 718-817-8101 E-mail: [email protected]
