CURRENT STUDENTS
Ana Gabriela Martínez Becerríl
Ongoing post-doc student (DGAPA- UNAM)
Angélica Quintanar Castillo
Ongoing PhD Student (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in collaboration with Jun Wen (Smithsonian Institution NMNH)
Brenda Hernández Hernández
Ongoing Ph.D Student (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), working in collaboration with Jacob Suissa (University of Tennessee), Weston Testo (University of Vermont), and Alejandra Vasco (BRIT)
Camila Alcantara
Ongoing Ph.D. Student (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico) in collaboration with N. Ivalu Cacho (Bot. Dept. IBUNAM)
Rosa Nejapa Mendoza
Ongoing Master Student (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), in collaboration with Renê Carneiro (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil) and Alejandro Zaldívar (Dept Zoology, Instituto de Biología UNAM)
ALUMNI
Aline Camargo Rosas
Former M.Sc.Student.  Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul. Concluded 2018. Advisor: Rosani Arruda. Co-advisor: Marcelo R. Pace.
Angélica Quintanar Castillo
Former Master Student (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico). Concluded 2023
Felippe Augusto Teixeira
Former B.Sc. - Biology (Instituto Federal do Sul de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil). Co-advised by Caian Gerolamo (Universidade de São Paulo). Concluded: 2023.
Israel Lopes da Cunha Neto
Former PhD Student - Universidade de São Paulo. Concluded: September 2021.  Advisor: Veronica Angyalossy; Co-advisor: Marcelo R. Pace. Currently a post-doc at NYU
Lorena Luna Márquez
Former B.Sc. - Biology (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico). Concluded 2022
Luis Henrique Bueno
Former M.Sc. Student (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil). Concluded 2023
Miller Sanches
Former PhD Student (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil). Advisor: Renata Meira; Co-advisor: Marcelo R. Pace. Concluded 2023
Rosa Nejapa Mendoza
Former B.Sc. - Biology (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico). Concluded 2021

COLLABORATORS
Our lab has national and international collaborations. Our goal is to collaborate to gather and generate the best possible data to address our research questions and produce robust works.
Alejandro Zaldívar Riverón
Entomologist expert in Hymenoptera, including gall inducing species - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
André Amorim
Expert in Malpighiales systematics and taxonomy - Universidade Federal de Santa Cruz, Brazil
André Carvalho Lima
Expert in cambial activity and molecular genetics of wood development - Weizmann Institute, Israel
Anselmo Nogueira
Expert in ecology and evolution - Universidade ABC, Santo André, Brazil
Antonio C.F. Barbosa
Expert in plant anatomical techniques. Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas de São Paulo, Brazil
Caian Gerolamo
Expert in plant anatomy, hydraulic and biomechanics - Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Carmen R. Marcati
Expert in seasonality of cambial activity, ecological wood anatomy and general wood and bark anatomy. Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil)
Joyce G. Onyenedum
Expert in systematic plant anatomy and evolution - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Jun Wen
Expert in Vitaceae and Araliaceae systematics and taxonomy - Smithsonian Institution NMNH, Washington DC, USA
Lúcia G. Lohmann
Expert in Bignoniaceae systematics and taxonomy - Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Maria Ana Farinaccio
Expert in Apocynaceae systematics and taxonomy, emphasis in Asclepiadoideae - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, campus de Corumbá
N. Ivalú Cacho
Plant evolutionary biologist, interested in biogeography, niche modelling, species ring, and ecological specialization
Pablo A. Cabanillas
Expert in plant anatomy, paleobotánica - Universidad de La Plata, Argentina
Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez
Expert in neotropical lianas and Sapindaceae systematics and taxonomy - Smithsonian Institution NMNH, Washington DC, USA
Renê Carneiro
Expert in gall biology, especially gall anatomical development and gall histochemistry - Federal University of Goiás, Brazil
Rosani C. Arruda
Expert in leaf and stem anatomy - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
Teresa Terrazas
Expert in general plant antomy, espacially Anacardiaceae, Asteraceae and Cactaceae - Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CDMX, México
Veronica Angyalossy
Expert in stem anatomy, with emphasis in wood and bark anatomy - Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil