Master's Students
Nancy Conejo
Carly Miranda
Ernani Balingasa
Ernani joined the lab in Fall 2022 as a graduate student working on piecing together the evolutionary history of Hawaiian endemic mirror plants, also called Pilo (Coprosma spp., Rubiaceae). After attaining his M.S. in Integrative Biology this Fall 2024, Ernani hopes to pursue a career in habitat restoration and urban greening.
Josie Collier
Josie joined the Cantley lab in Fall 2022 as a graduate student focusing on ecotypic diversification of 'ilima (Sida fallax, Malvaceae) across the Hawaiian archipelago. After attaining her M.S. in Integrative Biology in Fall 2024, she hopes to find a career in coastal conservation. She currently holds a position as a lab assistant in Dr. Kathryn Boyer's lab at SFSU's Estuary and Ocean Science Center.
Richard Baker
Richard joined the lab in Fall 2023. He is primarily interested in the genetics of evolutionary radiation, and his project focuses on Hawaiian Chenopodium. When he isn't in the greenhouse or the lab, you can usually find him underwater.
Undergraduate Students
Piper Collins
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Benjamin Gnatt
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Timothy Yu
Tim is studying Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology and is interested in botany and ecology as a career after he graduates this Fall. He started in the Cantley lab in Fall 2023 and has worked on the Herbarium Digitization and with the salt-water experiments on Chenopodium in the greenhouse.
Kat Yakusevich
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Katrina McCollough
Katrina McCollough is working on a BS in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation. She joined the lab in Spring 2023 and works with the herbarium collections doing digitization and transcription. Her interests are centered around mycology, working either doing molecular barcoding or studying their remediation capacities, but is also interested in botany, lichenology, and bryology.
Sofia Rothschild
B.S. Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, graduating Spring 2025. Started in Cantley Lab Fall 2024. Working on arboretum accreditation, herbarium digitization, greenhouse databasing. Career Interests: Field survey, consulting botanist, conservation and data collection.
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