Background

What’s this blog all about? See here.

Currently I’m an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Colorado State University, in Fort Collins. My focus is the evolution of invasiveness in some of the worst weeds in North America. I have helped teach an undergraduate class on ethnobotany, called BIOL 343: Plants and People for four semesters. I have a PhD in Biology from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, a Bachelor of Science in Plant Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

My previous research experience has been cosmopolitan, including the study of intron splicing in yeast mitochondria, high-throughput genotyping looking for selective sweeps in a hybrid sunflower species, population studies of birds in central Texas, management of invasive salt cedar, adaptive radiation of seed oils in common sunflower, and the phylogenetics and evolution of a member of the mint family on the Canary Islands.

If you’re curious, you can find more on my work here: kathryngturner.com

1 thought on “Background

  1. Kathryn, happy to see your website……..small suggestion. White on black is very difficult for folks with vision issues………maybe you could choose a more readable font (the one you are using is kinda “skinny” and therefore even harder to see), or a more user-friendly background.

    Other than that>>>>>>>>>>You Go, Girl!

    =======> BJ

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