About me
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I am currently a postdoc in the Biology Department at the University of Florida, working on the Genealogy of Flagellate Plants with Emily Sessa. I am broadly interested in understanding the ecology and evolution of land plants, particularly the spore-dispersed vascular plants: ferns and lycophytes. I am especially interested the role of hybridization and polyploidy as forces shaping fern and lycophyte diversity in the American tropics and the systematics and taxonomy of the clubmoss family (Lycopodiaceae). To address these questions, I work extensively with natural history collections and integrate systematics, taxonomy, biogeography, phylogenomics, and functional ecology in my research. See my research page for more!
My CV is available here! Reach me at: Weston Testo 527 Bartram Hall Department of Biology Box 118525 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 wtesto[at]ufl.edu 802-338-7174 |
On the hunt for ferns in Colombia with fern guru Wilson Rodriguez. Photo by Eduardo Posada.
A good haul: Asplenium trichomanes, A. ceterach, A. septentrionale, and Cheilanthes persica. At the Armenia-Iran border, summer 2016.
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