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Nico Cellinese, Ph.D.

Affiliate Assistant Professor of Botany

• 1 352 273-1979 (Voice)
• 1 352 846-1861 (Fax)
• ncellinese@flmnh.ufl.edu

Biography

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Education

• Ph.D. University of Reading, UK/Natural History Museum, London, UK
• B.Sc. (Hons) University of Reading, UK

Academic Positions

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Research Interests / Major Research Achievements:

Research Interests

• Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of Melastomataceae (SE Asian Sonerileae) and Campanulaceae
• Phyloinformatics
• Database development for the Tree of Life data (www.tolkin.org)
• Biodiversity Informatics
• Remote digital specimens data capture (www.herbis.org)

Present Research

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Present Students

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Courses Taught:

• PCB 6605 Principles of Systematics (25%)
• BOT 5625 Plant Geography

Membership in Professional Organizations:

• International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature (www.phylonames.org)
• International Association for Plant Taxonomy (www.botanik.univie.ac.at/iapt/)
• Botanical Society of America (www.botany.org)
• Society of Systematic Biologists (www.systbiol.org)
• American Society of Plant Taxonomists (www.aspt.net)

Grants received

• NSF-PBI 2006-2011. Collaborative Research: EuphORBia - a global inventory of the spurges. Co-PI (Paul Berry Leading PI). $622,000.

• NSF-BDI 2006-2008. Herbarium Cyberinfrastucture Workshop. PI. $30,818.

• NSF-AToL 2006-2010. Collaborative Research: Gymnosperms on the Tree of Life: Resolving the Phylogeny of Seed Plants. Co-PI (Sarah Mathews Leading PI). $335,017.

• NSF-AToL 2005-2010. Collaborative Research: Assembling the Liverwort Tree of Life: A Window into the Evolution and Diversification of Early Land Plant. Co-PI (John Shaw Leading PI). $378,176.

• NSF-BDI 2004-2008. Collaborative Research: Rapid Digital Specimen Image and Data Capture: A Web Services Solution. Co-PI (Reed Beaman Leading PI). $525,804.

• NSF-AToL 2004-2009. Collaborative Research: Resolving the Trunk of the Angiosperm Tree and 12 of its Thorniest Branches. Co-PI (Doug Soltis Leading PI). $1,015,268.

• NSF-BDI 2003-2004. A Workshop on Establishing a Comprehensive Database for Plant Systematics. Co-PI (Doug Soltis Leading PI). $50,000.

Selected Publications

Cellinese, N., Smith, S.A., Edwards, E.J., Kim, S., Haberle, R.C., Avramakis, M., Donoghue, M.J.  Historical Biogeography of the endemic Campanulaceae of Crete.  In Review, Journal of Biogeography (invited paper, special issue on Mediterranean Biogeography).

Haberle, R.C., Dang, A., Lee, T., Peñaflor, C., Cortes-Burn, H., Oestreich, A., Raubenson, L., Cellinese, N., Edwards, E., Kim, S.-T., Eddie, W.M.M., Jansen, R.K. Submitted to Taxon. Molecular systematics of Campanulaceae sensu stricto using chloroplast DNA sequences of atpB, matK, and rbcL.

Cellinese, N. 2007. Two new species in the genus Poikilogyne (Melastomataceae) from Papua New Guinea. Novon 17(1): 20-23

Cellinese, N. (Contributor) 2007. Order Out of Chaos: Linnean Plan Names and their Types, by Charlie Jarvis. Linnean Society & Natural History Museum. ISBN: 0950620777

Laurin, M., de Queiroz, K., Cantino, P., Cellinese, N., Olmstead, R. 2005. The Phylocode, types, ranks and monophyly: a response to Pickett. Cladistics 21(6): 605-607.

Cellinese, N.,  Beaman, R.S., Heidorn, P.B., Green, A., Guo, Y. 2005. Rapid digital specimen image and data capture: a web service solution. In XVII International Botanical Congress Abstracts, pp. 24. Vienna: Robidruck

Kalmbacher, R., Cellinese, N. & Martin, F. 2005. Seed obtained by vacuuming the soil surface after fire. Native Plants Journal 6: 233-240.

Cellinese, N. 2004. Melastomataceae. In: The Plants of Mount Kinabalu, 5. Dicotyledon Families Magnoliaceae to Winteraceae (Beaman, J.H. & C. Anderson, eds). Natural History Publications (Borneo) & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Beaman, R.S. & Cellinese, N. 2004. Eight new species and a new name in the genus Elatostema (Urticaceae) on Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Blumea 49(1): 135-144.

Terrell, J.H., Hart, J.P., Barut, S., Cellinese, N., Curet, A., Denham, T., Kusimba, C., Latinis, K.D., Oka, R., Palka, J., Pohl, M.E.D, & Pope, K., Williams, P.R., Haines, H. and Staller, J.E.  2003. Domesticated Landscapes: The Subsistence Ecology of Plants and Animal Domestication. J. Archaeological Method and Theory 10(4): 323-368.

Cellinese, N. 2003. Revision of the genus Phyllagathis Blume (Melastomataceae: Sonerileae). II. The species of Borneo and Natuna Island. Blumea 48(1): 69-97.

Cellinese, N. 2002.  Revision of the genus Phyllagathis Blume (Melastomataceae: Sonerileae). I. The species of Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra. Blumea 47(3): 463-492.

Renner, S.S., Clausing, G., Cellinese, N. & Meyer, K.  2001.  Melastomataceae, inK. Larsen and I. Nielsen (eds.), Flora of Thailand, 7: 412-496. Royal Forest Department, Bangkok, Thailand.

Cellinese, N. 1997. A new Sonerila (Melastomataceae) from Central Kalimantan, Borneo. Novon  7(2): 103-105.

Cellinese, N. & Renner, S.S. 1997. New species and combinations of Sonerila and Phyllagathis (Melastomataceae) from Thailand. Novon 7(2): 106-112.

Cellinese, N. 1997. Notes on the systematics and biogeography of the Sonerila generic alliance (Melastomataceae) with special focus on fruit characters. Tropical  Biodiversity  4(1): 83-93.

Salick, J., Cellinese, N. & Knapp, S. 1997. Indigenous Diversity of Cassava: Generation, maintanance, use and loss among the Amuesha, Peruvian Upper Amazon. Economic Botany  51(1): 6-19.

Cellinese, N., Jarvis, C.E., Pichi-Sermolli, R.E.G., Press, J.R., Short, M.J. & Viciani, D. 1996. The Threatened Plants of Italy: Pteridophyta. Mem. Accad. Lunigianese Sci. 66: 117-145.

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