Joyce Chery

Joyce on the day she passed her qualifying exams and advanced to candidacy as a PhD student @ UC Berkeley
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellow
email:  chery.joyce@berkeley.edu
Dissertation Topic: Systematics of Paullinieae (Sapindaceae) and the evolution of vascular cambial variants
Education:
PhD Student, UC Berkeley Integrative Biology
BS Plant Sciences  Cornell University
Professional Botanical Experience:
Curatorial Fellow, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Undergraduate Research with Dr.  Melissa Luckow – fruit anatomy of Dichrostachys (Fabaceae) – L.H.Bailey Hortorium
Undergraduate Research with Dr. Pedro Acevedo-Rodriguez – leaf archiecture of Paullinieae (Sapindaceae) Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
Fellowships:
Berkeley Chancellors Fellow
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Awards:
ASPT Graduate Research Award
GRIP NSF travel and research Award
UC Berkeley Grad-SLAM finalist
2nd Place, UC Berkeley Graduate Fellows Video Contest
Publications:
Chery, J.G. 2015. New nomenclatural combinations in the green alder species complex (Betulaceae).Phytokeys 56: 1-6.