Adriana joined the PhD program in Plant Biology at Cornell in 2017. She came across country from California, having worked as a Conservation Technician and de facto lab manager at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (SBBG) where she studied population biology, phylogeography, and ecology of several California rare, endangered, and endemic natives. Her research now focuses on exploring the diversity of plant life through systematics, population genetics, and genomics of Calochortus.
Adriana received her Bachelor’s from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where her ethnographic research on the Mescalero Apache developed into an interest in ethnobotany, and later on plant biodiversity, evolutionary history, California biogeography, and systematics. Adriana appreciates that she is the product of many mentors so she is dedicated to supporting and mentoring students from under-represented communities. Although Adriana was born in Mexico City, she considers herself a native of Oxnard, California, and she enjoys cooking traditional Mexican meals in her spare time.
Recorded California Botanical Society invited Botany Speaker Series: https://youtu.be/eMNDQUTxxkQ
Adriana’s CV: AIH_CV_08_2023
You can find Adriana on Twitter @calobot
Find out more from her personal website at https://aherbotany.github.io/research.html