Degrees:
Ph.D., Univ. of Vermont
B.S., Univ. of Connecticut
Dr. Patel’s research and teaching focuses on field and experimental biology involving both ferns and moss evolution as well as a broad interest in plant global biodiversity. With unprecedented biodiversity loss and global change ongoing, evolutionary and organismal biology are at the forefront of these challenges. As an organismal biologist, Dr. Patel’s main objectives in the classroom are not only to foster content mastery in evolution, genetics, and cell biology, but also to ensure that students leave her classes grounded in the application of scientific thinking toward meeting challenges in the world, in their professions, and in their everyday lives. This emphasis on functional knowledge is the best way to produce graduates prepared for careers in science.
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Hands-on learning
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Field Biology
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Natural History Collections
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Global Biodiversity
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Biodiversity loss and conservation
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Plant hybridization
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Plant speciation
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Fern reproductive biology
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Pteridology
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Bryology
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Taxonomy
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Phylogenetics and Systematics
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Patel N, Medina R, Johnson M, Goffinet B. 2021. Does autopolyploidy underlie cryptic speciation in mosses? Bryophyte Diversity and Evolution. 43(1), 150-163.
- Cai L, Arnold J, Xi Z, Khost D, Patel N, Hartmann B, Manickam S, Sasirat S, Nikolov L, Mathews S, Sackton T, Davis C. 2021. Deeply Altered Genome Architecture in the Endoparasitic Flowering Plant Sapria himalayana Griff.(Rafflesiaceae). Current Biology. 31(5), 1002-1011.
- Yu J, Li L, Wang S, Dong S, Chen Z, Patel N, Goffinet B, Chen H, Liu H, Liu Y. 2020. Draft genome of the aquatic moss Fontinalis antipyretica (Fontinalaceae, Bryophyta), Gigabyte(1).
- Breinholt J, [and 23 others, including Patel N]. 2020. A target enrichment probe set for resolving the flagellate plant tree of life. Applications in Plant Sciences. 9(1), e11406.
- Barrington DS, Patel N, Southgate M. 2020. Inferring the impacts of evolutionary history and ecological constraints on spore size and shape in the ferns. Applications in Plant Sciences. 8(4), e11339.
- Southgate M, Patel N, Barrington, D. 2019. Ecological outcome of allopolyploidy in Adiantum (Pteridaceae): Niche intermediacy and expansion into novel habitats. Rhodora. 121(986), 108-135.
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Patel N, Fawcett S, Sundue M, Budke J. 2019. Evolution of Perine Morphology in the Thelypteridaceae. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 180(9), 1016-1035.
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Patel N, Fawcett S, Gilman A. 2019. Phegopteris excelsior (Thelypteridaceae): A New Species of North American Tetraploid Beech Fern. Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature. 27(4), 211-218.
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Patel N, Li C, Zhang L, Barrington D. 2018. Biodiversity and apomixis: insights from the East Asian holly ferns in Polystichum sect. Xiphopolystichum. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 127, 345– 355.
- Li C, Patel N, Zhang L. 2016. Polystichum clarinervium (subg. Haplopolystichum; Dryopteridaceae), a new fern from Emei shan, China. Phytotaxa. 280(3), 271-277.
- Anderson G, Anderson M, Patel N. 2015. The ecology, evolution, and biogeography of dioecy in the genus Solanum: With paradigms from the strong dioecy in Solanum polyganum, to the unsuspected and cryptic dioecy in Solanum concocarpum. American Journal of Botany. 102(3), 471-486.
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- Hesler Visiting Scholar Fund, University of Tennessee, 2017
- National Science Foundation, East Asia South Pacific Institute, 2015
- American Society of Naturalists, Graduate Research Award, 2015
- American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Graduate Research Award, 2014
- Summer Undergraduate Research Award, University of Connecticut, 2011
- Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Connecticut, 2011
- Young Botanist Award, Botanical Society of America: Special Achievement, 2010
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