Lab News
Devani Jolman selected as the next Burpee Postdoctoral Fellow
Devani Jolman, PhD candidate at Old Dominion University, has accepted the offer to become the next David Burpee Postdoctoral Fellow in the Martine Lab! Dev will start at Bucknell in late June 2026.
Beneroff wins best student presentation
Rebecca Beneroff MS ‘27 has been announced as winner of the Best Student Poster in botany at the 2026 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) conference in Portland, OR. Her poster, “Conservation and taxonomic assessment of a rare Appalachian endemic,” was selected by a panel of judges from the SICB Division of Botany.
New paper in Applications in Plant Sciences
Abigail Motter ANBE ‘25 has published her first paper (part of her Senior Honors Thesis), coauthored with Doc Martine and former Burpee Postdoc Melody Sain. “A simple protocol for assessing censer seed dispersal: First confirmation of the mechanism in the genus Solanum” is part of the Applications in Plant Sciences special issue “Quantifying plant and fungal dispersal: New methods from multiple disciplines” – and an image from the study has been selected as the cover photo!
New Solanum species
“A new dioecious bush tomato, Solanum nectarifolium (Solanaceae), from the northern Tanami Desert, Northern Territory, Australia, with reassessment of S. ossicruentum and a change in the circumscription of S. dioicum” has been published in PhytoKeys. The paper is coauthored by Jason Cantley (former Burpee Postdoc now at San Francisco State) and three botanists associated with the Northern Territory Herbarium at Darwin: Kym Brennan, Aiden Webb, and Geoff Newton.