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Assistant Professor, Biology
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My research currently centers on the evolution through geologic time of fungal plant pathogens that primarily infect leaf surfaces. Diseases such as powdery mildews, rusts, and others have a large impact in the environment and agriculture, yet little is known about how these relationships developed and how infection rates were affected through the major climate changes in the past. I am currently studying the change in numbers and types of fungi across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, one of the best-known large climate change events.
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2006 Entopeltacites from the Miocene of Idaho, USA. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology , in press, preprint available online from ScienceDirect. Phipps, C. J.
2004 Epiphyllous fungi from the Miocene of Idaho: Reproductive structures. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 129 (1-2): 67 – 79. Phipps, C. J. and W. C. Rember.
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Mentor for Planting Science, an online collaboration between professional botanists and high school biology classes
Instructor in middle school girls’ math and science day camps
Instructor in elementary school teachers’ biology workshops
Reviewer for Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, International Journal of Plant Sciences, and American Journal of Botany
Member of Botanical Society of America, International Organisation of Palaeobotany, Association for Women in Science, Sigma Xi
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History of plant life on earth
Evolution and natural selection
Genetically modified crops
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