Biological Sciences:

-- Liu Palebotanical Lab

Research Interests:

·        Systematics and evolution of fossil vascular plants;

·        Foliar and fruit/seed anatomy of fossil/living seed plants;

·        Paleoclimatic and Paleoecologic reconstructions based on fossil plants;

·        Micromorphology of modern and fossil pollen and spores;

·        Evolution of northern vegetations;

·        Historical biogeography of seed plants.

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Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee

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Graduate/Undergraduate student projects:

1. Systematics of the fossil Vitis endocarps from the Gray Fossil Site (Fade Gong, MSc. student)

2. Hickory nuts from the Pipe Creek of Indiana (Brenda Werner)

3. Fossil seeds of Corylopsis (Hamamelidaceae) from the Gray Fossil Site (Shady Bassaly)

4. Fossil needles of Pinus from the Gray Site (Graham Cooke)

Shady Bassaly                                      Graham Cooke

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