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| Group leader Prof. Christian Lexer Postdoctoral researchers Dr. Thelma Barbará Dr. Eligio Bossolini Dr. Kai N. Stölting Ph.D. students Maria Joao Amaral Celine Caseys Camille Christe Dorothea Lindtke David Macaya Sanz* (Madrid, Spain) Master students Sarah Humbert Sofia Mangili Fabienne Marthaler Cecile Meier Stephan Waeber Bachelor students - Lab alumni Nicholas Fasel (research assistant) Ludwika Sygnarski (research assistant) Amandine Ruffieux (Research assistant) Leonardo Versieux* (PhD Student) Clarisse Palma-Silva (Post-Doc) Fabio Pinheiro* (PhD student) Nicholas Fasel (Bachelor student) Marcela van Loo (Post-Doc) Leonie Suter (Master student) Claudio Sedivy (Internship student) Gecele Paggi (KLARF student) *co-supervised in collaboration with other institutions |
2012 Bachelor and
upcoming Master projects
 1. Does assortative mating contribute to reproductive barriers in hybridizing forest trees (Populus spp.)? 2. Testing for potential trade-offs between defence and growth in Populus alba (white poplar), a riverine forest tree. 3. Molecular systematics of Arenaria bernensis, an alpine plant endemic to the Western Prealps. |
Collaborators
Alex Buerkle, University of Wyoming, USA
Mike Fay, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK
Don Kirkup, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK
Gail Taylor, University of Southampton, UK
Alex Widmer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Salvatore Cozzolino, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Berthold Heinze, Federal Research Centre for Forests, Austria
Santiago Gonzalez-Martinez, INIA Madrid, Spain
Pelle Ingvarsson, UPSC Umea, Sweden
Stefano Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy
Denes Bartha, West Hungarian University of Sopron, Hungary
Simon Hiscock, University of Bristol, UK
Loren Rieseberg, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Zhao Lai, Indiana University, USA
Gustavo Martinelli, Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tania Wendt, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fernanda Bered, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Marcela van Loo, University of Vienna, Austria, and RBG Kew, UK
Dulcineia de Carvalho, University of Lavras, Brazil