The Plant Press

From The Plant Press, Vol. 23, No. 2, April 2020.

New Faces

Richie Hodel started as a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow in the Botany Department in January 2020. Hodel is working with Jun Wen and Liz Zimmer to use phylogenomic approaches and collections-based deep learning technologies to resolve phylogeny, assess ancient polyploidy, and infer the biogeographic history of Prunus (Rosaceae). Hodel studied the comparative phylogeography of Neotropical mangroves (genera Avicennia, Laguncularia, Rhizophora) for his doctoral work at the University of Florida with Doug and Pam Soltis, completed in 2017. He recently finished his first postdoctoral appointment at the University of Michigan with Lacey Knowles and Stephen Smith studying the comparative phylogeography of montane sedges (genus Carex), and working on phylogenomic methods development. His research interests include the comparative phylogeography of island taxa, biogeography and niche evolution, and tropical-to-temperate transitions.