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NSF Collection Improvement Grant, " Integrating the Cryptogamic Collections of LAM into UC at the
University of California, Berkeley." 2006-2007, $277,755.
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, for Andrew Murdock, "Systematics and molecular evolution
of marattioid ferns (Marattiaceae)," University of California, Berkeley, 2006-2008, $8.385.
NSF Training Grant, "Track 2, GK-12: Exploring California Biodiversity." 2006-2012. $2,100,883, Co-
Principal Investigator (Rosemary Gillespie, Principle Investigator).
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, "Latin American Type Specimens," 2007-2011, $182,629
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, "All Taxa Biotic Inventory of Moorea," 2008-2011, $129,870 (my
lab's portion of a $5.2M grant), Co-Principal Investigator (Neil Davies, Principle Investigator).
Academy of Finland, "Deep moss: phylogeny of the oldest moss lineages." 2009-2012, $431,475, Co-
Principal Investigator (Jaakko Hyvönen, Principle Investigator).
Council on Library and Information Resources, "Cataloging Hidden Archives of Western American
Botany and Beyond," 2009-2011, $253,794.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, "CollectionSpace 2.0," 2010-2011, $360,000.
NSF Collection Improvement Grant, "Collaborative Proposal: Harnessing the power of herbaria to
understand the changing flora of California: A biodiversity hotspot in peril," 2010-2015, $658,135.
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, for Benjamin Carter, "Niche differentiation among cryptic
moss species," 2011-2013, $12,560.
NSF Collection Improvement Grant, "Digitizing Pacific Coast Seaweeds: Documenting the Past to
Interpret the Future," 2011-2013, $467,952.
NSF Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections Grant, "Digitization TCN Collaborative Research:
North American Lichens and Bryophytes: Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and
Change," 2011-2015, $264,476.
CSIRO, Australia, Distinguished Visiting Scientist Award, "Biogeography and evolution of Australia's
bryophytes: Development of phylogenetic measures of diversity and endangerment," 2011, $15,000.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Sawyer Seminar Grant, "Speciesism in Biology, Culture, and
Sociopolitics," 2012-2013, $165,000.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
My research interests can be grouped into two main areas: empirical studies of ecology,
phylogeny, systematics, and development of mosses, and the theoretical basis of systematic and
evolutionary biology. Empirical studies include: (1) the phylogenetic relationships of the major groups of
bryophytes and other green plants, using morphological, developmental, and ultrastructural characters as
well as chloroplast DNA sequence data; (2) the development of moss peristomes in relation to evolution
of the group; and (3) biosystematic studies of the haplolepideous mosses, including the tropical family
Calymperaceae and the diverse temperate genus Tortula (Syntrichia), which involve remote-sensing,
transplant, and ecological studies in the field, DNA sequencing, comparative physiological
measurements, and culture experiments in the lab, and morphological studies in the herbarium; (4) the
reproductive biology of bryophytes, especially dryland mosses; and (5) the bryophyte flora of California
and of Moorea (in the Society Islands of the South Pacific), and Australia. Theoretical studies include
investigations of the nature of species, rank-free classification, methods for phylogenetic reconstruction
(with an emphasis on cladistic analysis of molecular and genomic data), the relationship between
development and evolution, phyloinformatics (comparative genomics, databasing, and visualization of
phylogenetic trees), and biodiversity informatics (digitization and databasing of biological collections,
and integration with taxonomic and ecological data).
Mishler CV, page 3