New Faces

From Plant Press, Vol. 3, No. 2, April 2000.

Andrew Medina-Marino has joined the plant research group at the Laboratory of Molecular Systematics (LMS) as a contract worker. He worked last year for Elizabeth Zimmer and this spring for Scott Wing as an intern through the Smithsonian’s Office of Fellowships and Grants.

David Erickson, recent Ph.D. graduate from the laboratory of James Hamrick at the University of Georgia, has joined the LMS and the University of Maryland to work on a National Science Foundation grant to Charles Fenster and Elizabeth Zimmer, on quantitative genetics of epistasis in a species of Chamaecrista (Fabaceae).