2024

• Katherine Brafford: Drivers of seed germination and seedling success in medusahead (Elymus caput-medusae) dominated grasslands.
• Sabine Dritz: The functional response of bumblebee pollination in diverse floral landscapes.
• Jeffrey Groh: Mating ecology and genetics of heterodichogamy in the walnut genus (Juglans).
• Daisy Huang: The phylogeny and biochemistry of the genus Gardenia and investigating the role of volatile phenolic compounds in Gardenia.
• Deva Hollima: Integrating patterns of microbial variation to understand local adaptation in the marine foundation species Zostera marina.
• Rebecca Wynd: Assessing the impact of grazing and fire disturbances on native forb composition.

2023

• Anjum Gujral: Investigating the role of plant functional traits in explaining demographic shifts driving community assembly in mixed-conifer forests.
• Daisy Huang: Relatedness of phylogeny and specialized metabolites in Gardenia.
• Reed Kenny: Delineating species boundaries between Juncus saximontanus s.l. and J. ensifolius
• Will McMahan: Whole genome duplication, diploidization, and the domestication of Corchorus.
• David Mitchell: Improving success of riparian tree and shrub restoration by ameliorating stressful soil conditions and enhancing mycorrhizal symbioses.
• Rebecca Nelson: The effects of plant invasion on serpentine plant-pollinator mutualisms.
• Zoe Wood: Phenological shifts in insect herbivory on common herbaceous plants along elevational gradients in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade mountains of California.

2022

• Katherine Brafford: Rapid evolution of native and non-native grassland species to changes in water availability.
• Kandiss Dowdell: Coevolution of Salix and Euura determined through a phylogenetic analysis of North American Salix.
• Ann Holmes: Bees, flowers and burned trees: Characterizing pollination networks in a burned forest using environmental DNA metabarcoding.
• Will McMahan: Whole genome duplication, diploidization and the domestication of Corchorus.
• Mickie Tang: Response of urban trees to elevated heat in Sacramento, CA.
• Brooke Wainwright: Can drought strategies inform grassland management? 

2021

• Danielle De La Pascua: Testing intraspecific growth-defense and constitutive-induced plant defense trade-offs within a native California wildflower.
• Chenjiao Deng: Investigating the Identities of Populations of Castilleja (Orobanchaceae) in the Vicinity of Mt. Lassen.
• Ashley Gruppenhoff: Plant community response to increased fire frequency in northern California chaparral.
• Reed Kenny: A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Placement of Juncus Sections Caespitosi and Graminifolii. 
• Jason Liu: Integrating biosynthesis and pollination to understand evolution of floral volatiles in a phylogenetic framework.

2020

• Emily Brodie: Patterns of postfire diversity in subalpine forests of the Sierra Nevada.
• Megan Christensen: Exploring the impact of flower-associated microbes on pollen germination across plant species.
• Alexandria Igwe: Comparative analysis of polar metabolite production and rhizosphere microbial community structures in serpentine and nonserpentine soils.
• Maxwell Odland: Effects of Repeated Prescribed Fire and Thinning on Understory Diversity in Mixed Conifer Forests.
• Maureen Page: Investigating the impacts of honeybee introductions on the pollination of native plants in the Tahoe National Forest.
• Elena Suglia: The Impact of Snowmelt on Phenology and Population Genetics of Streptanthus tortuosus.