Amanda K. Neill's Homepage
Department of Biology Herbarium
Texas A&M University
3258 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-3258
Fax: 409-862-1977
Office: 409-845-3397
Email: neilla@mail.bio.tamu.edu
(1999 Belize pictures L-R: Sabal
mauritiformis inflorescence; Pressing plants
with Valentino Tzub, San Jose Village; Ceratozamia robusta
with John Janovec, Columbia Forest Reserve)
Education
August 2000
M.S. Botany, Department of Biology,
Texas
A&M University
December 1997 B.S.
Horticulture, minor in Botany, T.A.M.U.
Interests
I am interested in everything about the natural
world and especially PLANTS. I am a field botanist, gardener, amateur mycologist,
and botanical illustrator. I plan to continue my education by pursuing
a doctorate in Systematic Botany. I would like to do monographic
or revisionary work with a group of Neotropical angiosperms. My long-term
goal is to accede to a position where I can conduct herbarium research
and spend plenty of time in the field.
Personal
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii in August 1972
Married John
P. Janovec, fellow graduate student of Botany, in December 1998
Advisor: Dr.
Hugh D. Wilson
The Madison County Flora
Project was begun as an undergraduate research project in May, 1996. This
research is part of the Texas
A&M Bioinformatics Working Group's Flora of Texas Consortium project.
Publications: Papers
Neill, A.K. 1999. Vicia
lutea (Fabaceae) new to Texas. Sida 18(4)
1265-1266.
Publications: Illustrations
McKnight, T.D., Fitzgerald,
M.S., and D.E.Shippen. 1997. Plant telomeres and telomerases. A review.
Biochemistry (Moscow) 62:1224-1231.
Oswald, J.D. 1998. Osmylops
Banks (Neuroptera:Nymphalidae): generic review and revision of the armatus
species group. Journal of Neuropterology 1:79-108.
(see Osmylops plate below)
Oswald, J.D. 1998. Rediscovery
of Polystoechotes gazullai Navas (Neuroptera:
Polystoechotidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington,
D.C. 100(3):398-394. (see
Polystoechotes
plate below)
Tropical Field Experience: Central America
19 July- 17 Aug. 1999
Belize; palm and cycad collecting for the Montgomery
Botanical Research Center, FL
17 Dec. 1997- 10 Jan. 1998
Belize; botanical field assistant in the Columbia River Forest Reserve,
Toledo District
August 1996
Costa Rica; botanical field assistant in the rainforests of the Caribbean
slope
Herbarium Experience
May 1996- present
Student researcher, Dept.
of Biology and S.
M. Tracy herbaria, T.A.M.U.
Teaching Experience
January 1998- present
Graduate teaching assistant, T.A.M.U.
Botany 301
Taxonomy of Flowering Plants
Botany 328
Economic Botany: Plants and People
Botany 620
Field Systematic Botany (graduate course)
Botanical Illustrations
Other Illustrations
What's Next?
I have been fortunate to receive a doctoral
fellowship at the New York Botanical Garden,
to begin in September 2000.
The forwarding email address will likely be:
aneill@nybg.org .
The forwarding address is:
Amanda Neill
The New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, NY 10458
Comments? Send mail to:
neilla@mail.bio.tamu.edu
Text and Illustration
Copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 by Amanda K. Neill, other publication
copyrights may apply.
Last Updated June 2000.
Early
spring in Cobbs Creek Canyon, Madison Co.