Mark Beilstein - Principle Investigator
B.A. Biology, Grinnell College
M.S. Biology, University of Utah
Ph.D. Biology, University of Missouri – St. Louis & Missouri Botanical Garden
Contact: mbeilstein (at) arizona.edu
My background is in evolution and systematics. As an undergraduate I began my scientific career working on Trillium grandiflorum at Kellogg Biological Station (Hickory Corners, MI) with Dr. Frances Hanzawa and Dr. Sue Kalisz. As a Masters student, I described a new species in Draba, the largest genus in the family Brassicaceae, and detailed how aneuploid Draba in the intermountain western United States evolved. Once I started working on Draba, I was hooked on Brassicaceae. As a graduate student at University of Missouri - St. Louis with Dr. Elizabeth Kellogg, I completed a family-wide phylogenetic analysis of the group and collaborated with Dr. Ihsan Al-Shehbaz on the first revision of its tribal classification in over 70 years.
My interest in comparative molecular evolutionary biology developed during my time as a Mercer Fellow at Harvard University Herbaria. I continued this work as an NIH National Research Service Awardee at Texas A&M University, before accepting a position at the University of Arizona. Since establishing the lab in August 2011, I have initiated projects that use a comparative molecular evolutionary approach combined with comparative functional biology to understand how plants perceive and respond to the world around them.
I am always looking for motivated and hardworking undergraduates, graduate students, and potential post-docs. If you are interested in our work and the possibility of joining us here in sunny Tucson, please contact us.
M.S. Biology, University of Utah
Ph.D. Biology, University of Missouri – St. Louis & Missouri Botanical Garden
Contact: mbeilstein (at) arizona.edu
My background is in evolution and systematics. As an undergraduate I began my scientific career working on Trillium grandiflorum at Kellogg Biological Station (Hickory Corners, MI) with Dr. Frances Hanzawa and Dr. Sue Kalisz. As a Masters student, I described a new species in Draba, the largest genus in the family Brassicaceae, and detailed how aneuploid Draba in the intermountain western United States evolved. Once I started working on Draba, I was hooked on Brassicaceae. As a graduate student at University of Missouri - St. Louis with Dr. Elizabeth Kellogg, I completed a family-wide phylogenetic analysis of the group and collaborated with Dr. Ihsan Al-Shehbaz on the first revision of its tribal classification in over 70 years.
My interest in comparative molecular evolutionary biology developed during my time as a Mercer Fellow at Harvard University Herbaria. I continued this work as an NIH National Research Service Awardee at Texas A&M University, before accepting a position at the University of Arizona. Since establishing the lab in August 2011, I have initiated projects that use a comparative molecular evolutionary approach combined with comparative functional biology to understand how plants perceive and respond to the world around them.
I am always looking for motivated and hardworking undergraduates, graduate students, and potential post-docs. If you are interested in our work and the possibility of joining us here in sunny Tucson, please contact us.
