Plant Evolutionary Ecology Lab

People & contacts

Current group members

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Dr Maria Clara Castellanos

Associate Professor
Dept of Ecology & Evolution

m.c.castellanos@sussex.ac.uk

 

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I am also the Editor-in-Chief of the diamond open access Journal of Pollination Ecology

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 Andrés Romero-Bravo

PhD researcher

Plant plasticity and local adaptation to new pollinators

A.Romero-Bravo@sussex.ac.uk

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Julia Gegunde

PhD researcher based in CIDE, Valencia (Spain);
co-supervised with Juli Pausas

Ecology and evolution of post-fire flowering

julia.gegunde@ext.uv.es

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Rachael Davies

PhD researcher
based at the Millennium Seed Bank | Kew

Phylogenetic, ecological, and physiochemical correlates of seed lifespan

rmd20@sussex.ac.uk

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Lucy Unwin

SoCoBio PhD researcher

Understanding the genomics and ecology of floral nectar to enhance crop-pollinator interactions

L.Unwin@sussex.ac.uk

Current Masters Students

 

Alba Edwards

Sophia Scheltinga Koopman

Ben Goslett

 Past members
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Dr Yedra García

PhD (2019) based at CIDE in Valencia (Spain);
co-supervised with Juli Pausas

Plant-animal interactions in fire-prone ecosystems

Currently postdoctoral researcher at Lund University

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Dr Christopher Mackin

PhD (2022)

Floral evolution after range expansions

Currently Lecturer at the University of Essex

 Rotation students

Adrian Kaluka: 2024 rotation student for UK Food Systems PhD (Factors that affect successful pollination in small scale food production)

Emily Millerchip: 2024 SoCoBio PhD rotation student (Nectar plasticity)

Past Masters Students

 

  • Tara Jeffery
  • Ben Reason
  • Kaja Piekarska
  • Cheyenne Derwin
  • Oliver Dhakal
  • Tom Murphy
Masters students co-supervised with Kew´s Millenium Seed Bank:
  • Mohammed Alajez
  • Zoe Benefer
  • Jemma Galton
  • Lucy Unwin
  • Xiangyu Yu
  • Alexandra Arthur-Worsop