Debra does her Woody Allen impression.
Debra Hansen

B.F.A..: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA.

M.S.: Ecology and Systematic Biology, S.F.S.U.

  • Thesis:  Phylogenetic Relationships between and within Phacelia Sections Whitlavia and Gymnobythus  (Boraginaceae).
     

Ph.D.: In progress (coadvised by Bob Jansen)

  • Dissertation research: Systematics and Biogeography of Pectis (Asteraceae: Tageteae).

Contact: drhansen at mail.utexas.edu

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Debra started in the Ph.D. program in Plant Biology in the Fall of 2005.  She has already finished and annotated the chloroplast genomes of  Illicium and Buxus (poster, Botany 2006), and will be investigating phylogeny, biogeography, and evolution of C4 photosynthesis in Pectis (Asteraceae: Tageteae).

Little-known fact:  Debra has ridden in Otis Spunkmeyer's airplane.