Principal Investigator

Rachel M. Penczykowski, Assistant Professor
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Pronouns: she/her/hers
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Top 3 favorite plants besides Plantago:
1. Coffea arabica (coffee)
2. Brassica oleracea (cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, etc…)
3. Helianthus annuus (sunflower)
Twitter: @RachelPenczy
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Lab Manager

Carrie Goodson
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Top 3 favorite plants besides Plantago:
1. Adiantum raddianum (maidenhair fern)
2. Brugmansia (angel trumpet)
3. Welwitschia mirabilis
Email: cgoodson@wustl.edu

Post-Doctoral Fellow:

Kaylee Arnold
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Ph.D. 2023, Ecology (Interdisciplinary Disease Ecology Across Scales), University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia)
M.S. 2016, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
B.S. 2013, Biology, University of Redlands (Redlands, CA)
Top 3 favorite plants besides Plantago:
1. Taxodium distichum (bald cypress trees)
2. Attalea butyracea (palm trees)
3. Sequoia sempervirens (California redwoods)
Twitter: @Black_Ecologist
Email: akaylee@wustl.edu
Kaylee is an LEC Post-doc co-mentored by Rachel Penczykowski, Danielle Lee, and Solny Adalsteinsson.

PhD Students:

Cheyenne Morris (Anderson)
Pronouns: she/her/hers
B.S. 2018, Biology, Missouri Baptist University (St. Louis, MO)
Top 3 favorite plants besides Plantago:
1. Orchidaceae (orchids)
2. Citrus limon (lemon tree)
3. Ficus lyrata (fiddle-leaf fig)
Twitter: @Cheyanderthal
Email: a.cheyenne@wustl.edu
PhD program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences (PMB)

Mahal Bugay
Pronouns: she/her/hers
B.S. 2019, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Agnes Scott College (Decatur, GA)
Top 3 favorite plants besides Plantago:
1. Ginkgo biloba
2. Mangifera indica (mango)
3. Lavandula spp. (lavender)
Twitter: @majbugay
Email: mbugay@wustl.edu
PhD program: Evolution, Ecology, and Population Biology (EEPB)

Quinn Fox
Pronouns: she/her/hers
B.A. 2019, Biology, Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, PA)
Top 3 favorite plants besides Plantago:
1. Chasmanthium latifolium (inland sea oat)
2. Paeonia suffruticosa (peony)
3. Tsunga canadensis (Eastern Hemlock, Pennsylvania’s state tree)
Twitter: @_QuinnFox_
Email: qfox@wustl.edu
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PhD program: Evolution, Ecology, and Population Biology (EEPB)

Philippa Tanford
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B.S. 2016, Biology, Duke University (Durham, NC)
Top 3 favorite plants besides Plantago:
1. Quercus alba (white oak)
2. Bryophyta (mosses)
3. Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia)
Twitter: @ptanford
Email: ptanford@wustl.edu
PhD program: Evolution, Ecology, and Population Biology (EEPB)

Undergraduates: 2022-2023 academic year

Keiko Farah (Wash. U. in St. Louis)
Lily Goldberg (Wash. U. in St. Louis)
Alana Herr (Wash. U. in St. Louis)
Sam Ko (Wash. U. in St. Louis)
Jaimie Lin (Wash. U. in St. Louis)
Allison Rea (Wash. U. in St. Louis)
Emma Snyder (Wash. U. in St. Louis)

Undergraduates: 2021-2022 academic year

Keiko Farah (Wash. U. in St. Louis)
Lily Goldberg (Wash. U. in St. Louis)
Jaimie Lin (Wash. U. in St. Louis)
Emma Snyder (Wash. U. in St. Louis)

Tyson Undergraduate Fellows: Summer 2022

Left-to-right in photo:
Annika Fischer (Harris-Stowe State University)
Alana Herr (Wash. U. in St. Louis)
Allison Rea (Wash. U. in St. Louis)
Kylee Kest (Wash. U. in St. Louis)