The whole Bryolab attended Botany 2019 in Tucson, Arizona, in part to attend a concurrent research meeting of participants in the Syntrichia Dimensions of Biodiversity grant, with colleagues attending from a number of collaborating institutions to share results, ideas for analysis, and plans for finishing out the project.  You can read more about the research meeting, and the project as a whole, at: https://3dmoss.berkeley.edu/2019/08/

Talks were given by grad students Jenna Ekwealor (“UV tolerance in Mojave Desert biocrust mosses” — a talk which received Honorable Mention for the A.J. Sharp Award!), Javier Jauregui (“Phylogenetic systematics of Syntrichia Brid. in South America”), Caleb Caswell-Levy (“Epiphyte functional traits and phylogenetic diversity in an increasingly invaded Polynesian forest”), professor Brent Mishler (“Spatial phylogenetics of the North American flora”), and visiting scholar Shuo Shi (“DNA material processing and preservation: new methods”).  Posters were presented by grad student Ixchel González (“What do we know about Mexican liverworts?”) and undergrad Dean Berkowitz (“Spatial phylogenetic diversity of native vascular plants in the Mojave National Preserve”), while the whole Mishler Lab presented a poster on: “A global phylogeny for the dryland moss clade Syntrichia.”