Curriculum vitae
17 July 2012
Taylor Sultan
Quedensley
Assistant Professor of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Georgia College
Campus Box 81
Milledgeville, GA 31061
Education
Bachelor of Science in horticulture with
minors in entomology and biology at the University of
Nebraska at Lincoln, 1998.
Advisor: Ellen Paparozzi
Master of Science in biology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2006. Thesis title: “The Asteraceae
of Pico Zunil, Guatemala.” Advisor: Tom Bragg.
Ph.D. in plant biology at the University of Texas at Austin, 2012. Dissertation research: Origin, Evolution, and
Conservation Status of Roldana and Telanthophora (Senecioneae:
Asteraceae). Advisors: Beryl Simpson and Robert
Jansen.
Research experience
Graduate Research Assistantship (May 2011-August 2011) University of Texas at Austin Plant Biology Graduate Program, Supervisor: Dr. Christine Hawkes.
Graduate Research Assistantship
(January 2010-present) University of Texas at Austin Plant Biology Graduate
Program, Supervisor: Dr. Thomas Juenger
Graduate Research Assistantship (June 2009-August 2009)
University of Texas at Austin Plant Biology Graduate Program, Supervisor: Dr.
Larry Gilbert
Graduate Research Assistantship (May 2008-August 2008)
University of Texas at Austin Plant Biology Graduate Program, Supervisor: Dr.
Thomas Juenger
Master of Science Research (August
2003-August 2006) Thesis title: The Asteraceae on
Pico Zunil.
Investigator, (December 2003-present)
Lichens of Pico Zunil, Guatemala.
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistantship
(August 2006-present), University of Texas at Austin Plant Biology Graduate
Program
Aquatic Entomology (two semesters), Structure, Physiology,
and Reproduction of Seed Plants (two semesters), Plant Anatomy (two semesters),
Survey of the Plant Kingdom, Native Plants, Introductory
Biology II (five semesters).
Graduate Teaching Assistantship
(August 2003-December 2005), University of Nebraska at Omaha Biology Department
Botany, lichenology, and general biology laboratories;
preparation of laboratories for plant anatomy and morphology of non-vascular
plants.
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
(1996-1998)
Two semesters of insect identification and one semester of
woody plant identification for the Entomology and Horticulture Departments,
respectively.
Other Work Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistantship
(August 2006-present)
University of
Texas at Austin Plant Biology Graduate Program
Graduate Teaching Assistantship (Spring 2009 and Fall 2009)
University of
Texas at Austin Uteach Outreach Program
Graduate Teaching Assistantship
(August 2003-May 2005)
University of
Nebraska-Omaha Biology Department
Laboratory preparation for undergraduate
courses.
Greenhouse Operations Manager
(August 2002-May 2005)
Creighton
University, Department of Biology
Volunteer Assistant to
Horticultural Manager (August 1998-April 2002)
San Francisco
Botanical Garden, San Francisco, CA
Propagation
via seed, cuttings, and division, greenhouse care and maintenance, volunteer
coordination, selection of plant materials for botanical garden, collaboration
with other institutions, seed collecting expeditions to Cloud Forests of
Guatemala, plant sales, identification and taxonomy of New World Cloud Forest
and California native plant species, assisting gardeners and landscape
designers in selection of plants.
Service
Graduate
Student Representative for the Section of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin (August 2010-December 2010).
Member of search committee for plant
systematics position at University of Nebraska at Omaha (August 2004-July
2005).
Volunteer work with National Honor
Society students from Central High School, Omaha, NE (Spring 2004).
Member of Plant Identification Team 1997-98; placed fourth
as a team internationally in a competition in Guadalajara, Mexico 1998.
Awards, Grants, Fellowships,
and Scholarships
Received:
Graduate Excellence Fund, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin $3000, Summer 2012.
David Bloch Memorial Scholarship for Research in Organismal Botany, Plant Biology Graduate Program, University of Texas at Austin $400, Spring 2011.
Research
Award for Comparative Genomics, Plant Biology Graduate Program, University of
Texas at Austin $906, Spring 2011.
Graduate Student Research Grant, American
Society of Plant Taxonomists, $600, Spring 2010.
Mike Hogg Endowed Graduate Fellowship,
Graduate College, University of Texas at Austin $27,251, Spring
2010.
Travel Award for Field Work, Plant Biology
Graduate Program, University of Texas at Austin $900, Spring
2010.
Travel Award for Conference, Plant Biology
Graduate Program, University of Texas at Austin $900, Spring
2010.
Travel Award, American Society of Plant
Taxonomists, $300, Spring 2010.
Linda Escobar Fellowship in Systematic
Botany, Plant Biology Graduate Program, University of Texas at Austin $500, Fall 2009.
Lewis and Clark Field Scholar, American
Philosophical Society $2300, Spring 2009.
Travel Award for Field Work, Plant Biology
Graduate Program, University of Texas at Austin $1075, Spring
2009.
Travel Award for Field Work, Plant Biology
Graduate Program, University of Texas at Austin $850, Fall
2008.
Research Funds for Field Work, Botany
Department, University of Hawaii-Manoa, $750, Fall
2008.
Blattstein Endowed Presidential Scholarship, School
of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin $2500, Summer
2008.
Mexico Summer Research Grant, The Mexican Center, Lozano Long Institute for Latin American
Studies, University of Texas at Austin $750, Spring 2008.
Travel Award for
Field Work, Plant Biology Graduate Program, University of Texas at Austin $800,
Spring 2008.
Jean Andrews
Faculty Fellow Internship, Plant Biology Graduate Program, University of Texas
at Austin $1500, Spring 2008.
Travel Award, Pre-Graduate
School Internship, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
$150, Fall 2007.
Travel Award,
Graduate College, University of Texas at Austin $625, Spring
2007.
Travel Award,
Pre-Graduate School Internship, College of Natural Sciences, University of
Texas at Austin $400, Spring 2007.
Visiting
Scholarship to the Smithsonian Institution at the National Museum of Natural
History, Washington, D.C. $1715, Fall 2006.
Linda Escobar Fellowship in Systematic
Botany, Plant Biology Graduate Program, University of Texas at Austin $1000, Fall 2006.
NASA Nebraska Space Grant Statewide
Scholarship, NASA Nebraska Space Grant & EPSCoR Program $1000, Fall 2005.
Presidential Fellowship, Graduate College,
University of Nebraska at Omaha $12,000 plus tuition remission, Fall 2005.
Fund for Excellence, College of Arts and
Sciences, University of Nebraska at Omaha $2500, Fall
2005.
Travel Award, College of Arts and
Sciences, University of Nebraska at Omaha $500, Fall
2005.
Travel Grant for
Lichen Research in Guatemala, New York Botanical Garden $4200, Fall 2005.
Student Travel Award, American Bryological and Lichenological $250, Summer 2005.
Research Funds for Field
Work, Botany Department, University of Vermont, $400, Spring 2005.
Graduate Thesis
Scholarship, Graduate College, University of Nebraska at Omaha $1000, Spring 2005.
Outstanding Graduate Student Award,
Graduate College, University of Nebraska at Omaha $500, Spring
2005.
University Committee on Research, Research
Grant, University of Nebraska at Omaha $500, Spring
2005.
Graduate Research Grant,
Biology Department, University of Nebraska at Omaha $250, Fall
2004.
Visiting Scholarship to
the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL. $425, Fall 2004.
Summer Graduate
Scholarship, Graduate College, University of Nebraska at Omaha $1000, Summer 2004.
Visiting Scholarship to
the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL. $315, Spring
2004.
Graduate Research Grant, Biology
Department, University of Nebraska at Omaha $250, Fall
2003.
Presentations and Invited Talks
Quedensley, T. S., T. B. Bragg, and M. E. Véliz P. “Asteraceae of Pico Zunil,” Botany
2006 Conference, Chico, CA, Summer 2006.
Quedensley, T. S. “Lichens of Pico Zunil:
Preliminary Glimpse Into Guatemalan Cloud Forest
Lichen Diversity,” Botany 2005 Conference, Austin, TX, Summer 2005.
"Botanical Explorations in the Cloud Forests of
Guatemala," University of Nebraska at Omaha, Biology Department Graduate
Seminar Series, Spring 2003.
"Botanical Explorations in the Cloud Forests of
Guatemala," Creighton University, Omaha, NE, Environmental Science Seminar
Series, Fall 2003.
"Botanical Explorations in the Cloud Forests of
Guatemala," University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Horticulture Department, Fall 2002.
"Horticultural Potential of Guatemalan Cloud Forest
Plants," Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Garden,
San Francisco, CA, Spring 2002.
Posters
Quedensley, T. S., and R. French. "Contributions to the Flora of Pico Zunil," Botany 2007 Conference, Chicago, IL, Summer 2007.
Research interests
Origin, Evolution, and
Conservation Status of Pittocaulon, Roldana, and Telanthophora
(Senecioneae: Asteraceae).
Taxonomy of
Guatemalan cloud forest Asteraceae.
Latin American
cloud forest conservation.
Lichen taxonomy and biogeography.
Teaching High
School Biology.
Professional Societies
American Society
of Plant Taxonomists
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Publications
Quedensley, T. S. and M.
E. Véliz P. 2010. Salvia coriana
sp. nov.
(Lamiaceae), a New Species from a Cloud Forest in
Western Guatemala. J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 4: 27-31.
Quedensley, T. S. and J. L. Villaseñor 2009.
A New Species of Roldana (Asteraceae) from Southern Oaxaca. Lundellia 12: 28-30. 2009.
Quedensley, T. S. and T. B. Bragg 2007. The Asteraceae of Northwestern Pico Zunil, a Cloud Forest in Western Guatemala. Lundellia 10: 49-70.
Nicholas Wilhelm, Laboratory experience in phylogenetics, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2010, Spring 2011.
Taylor Nyberg, Biology Honor’s Thesis, Laboratory experience in phylogenetics, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009. Received an Undergraduate Research Fellowship, College of Natural Science.
Kyle Whigham, Laboratory
experience in insect identification and the curation
of insect specimens, University of Texas at Austin, Fall
2008.
Galen Yacalis, Field
experience collecting lichens in Guatemala and Texas, Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE) Mentoring Program, University of
Texas at Austin, Fall, 2008. Received
an Undergraduate Research Fellowship, College of Natural Sciences, and a travel
grant from the Communication Studies Department.
Rosemary French, Herbarium work and poster
presentation, Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE)
Mentoring Program, University of Texas at Austin, Spring,
2007. Received an Undergraduate Research Fellowship, College
of Natural Sciences, and a travel grant from the Communication Studies
Department.
Stacey O’Brien, Field work in Guatemala, Creighton
University, Fall, 2004.