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Welcome to my lab!
Dr. Maria A. Gandolfo-Nixon
Plant Histology Unit
410 Mann Library Building
Department of Plant Biology
L. H. Bailey Hortorium
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607-255-3273
Fax: 607-255-5407
Email: mag4@cornell.edu
Lab News
4/30/12
Welcome Griselda! Dr. Griselda Puebla, an Argentinean Postdoctoral Associate from the Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales, Centro Científico Tecnológico Mendoza, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Argentina, has joined our lab. She will be spending the next two months working on the aquatic ferns and angiosperms of the Aptian La Cantera Fm, San Luis Province, Argentina. This trip was made possible through a fellowship from the CONICET.
3/13/12
Lab members visited a “corpse flower,” or Amorphophallus titanum, that is producing a rare bloom at Cornell University.
"CREDIT: Jason Koski / Cornell University Photography Copyright Cornell University"
3/6/12
Two new papers related to the Patagonian Paleofloras project were published this month and each received the cover of a journal.
The first is “Testing the impact of calibration on molecular divergence times using a fossil-rich group: the case of Nothofagus (Fagales),” by first author Dr. Hervé Sauquet of the Université Paris-Sud and colleagues from the United States and Australia. This paper received the cover of Systematic Biology, with an image by our colleague Dr. Peter Wilf of Penn State.
The second, “Rainforest conifers of Eocene Patagonia: attached cones and foliage of the extant southeast Asian and Australasian genus Dacrycarpus (Podocarpaceae),” was sole-authored by Dr. Peter Wilf in this month’s issue of American Journal of Botany. This paper also received the cover, with an image of Dacrycarpus puertae from Laguna del Hunco. It was named after MEF (Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Argentina) staff member Pablo Puerta.
2/28/12
During February, Drs. Gandolfo and Zamaloa, visited the CADIC (Centro Austral de Investigaciones Cientificas) in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. Major goals of this visit were to study the paleobotanical collections and work with Dr. Olivero on the geology of the island.
Drs. Gandolfo and Zamaloa have been working on Tertiary sediments of Tierra del Fuego since 1990 and they are planning a collection trip to the north of the island to again sample the Cullen and Carmen Silva Formations.
