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CCSD takes great pride in its extremely successful training/practice fellowships at the Missouri Botanical Garden, a program that has grown significantly in scope over the years.

The fellowships, which are well established and prestigious, provide opportunities for individuals who have completed their undergraduate degree and have achieved a certain level of professional development to carry out meaningful work in a first-class plant science and conservation institution. The fellows also have opportunities to interact with the scientific staff at the Garden/CCSD, as well as with graduate students and other visitors, and to establish contact with faculty at local universities to explore possibilities for pursuing graduate studies.

Learn more about Fellowships offered in 2024 - Application deadline: July 31, 2024.

 

             

 

2025 International Fellowships

The Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development and the Latin America Department are thrilled to announce the winners of the Missouri Botanical Garden’s 2025 International Fellowships. The selected fellows will receive funding for a research visit and training at MBG in St. Louis, Missouri. We are excited to support these early career researchers to further their research and contribute significantly to the fields of plant systematics, biogeography, ecology and conservation.

Shirley A. Graham Fellowship winners:

  • Alejandro Llanos-Prieto (Herbario Nacional Colombiano, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Bogotá, Colombia) – Project: A taxonomic revision of Greigia Regel (Bromelioideae, Bromeliaceae) for Colombia. MBG staff mentor: Julián Aguirre-Santoro (Herbarium).
  • Vanina Salgado (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina) – Project: Integrative disciplines to solve the taxonomy of South American Praxelis (Asteraceae): a species complex case. MBG staff mentors: Matt Austin (Herbarium) and Emily Warschefsky (William L. Brown Center).
  • Yeison Londoño-Echeverri (Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia) – Project: Taxonomic synopsis of the family Rutaceae (Sapindales) in Colombia: diversity, endemism, new species, and conservation status. MBG staff mentor: Roy Gereau (Africa and Madagascar Department).
  • Ana María Trujillo-Lopez (Universidad de Antioquia Herbarium (HUA), Medellín, Colombia) – Project: Taxonomic synopsis of the genus Macrolobium Schreber (Detarioideae, Fabaceae) in Colombia. MBG staff mentor: Carolina Romero (William L. Brown Center).

Alwyn H. Gentry Fellowship winners:

  • Ricardo Zañartu (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú) – Project: Taxonomy of the genus Abuta Aublet (Menispermaceae) in Peru and the use of DNA barcoding as an identification tool. MBG staff mentor: Rosa Ortiz (Latin America Department).
  • Juliene Maciel (Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Belém, Brazil) – Project: Systematics and evolution of Bulbostylis Kunth (Cyperaceae) in the Neotropics.

Aroid Fellowship winner:

  • Melisa Alegría Valencia (Universidad del Valle, Herbario CUVC, Cali, Colombia) – Project: Pollination syndromes in Anthurium: a mix of scents and colors. MBG staff mentor: Mónica Carlsen (Latin America Department).

Bovard Fellowship winner:

  • Derek Bagonoc (University of the Philippines Visayas) – Project: A taxonomic conspectus of the genus Glochidion (Phyllanthaceae) in the Philippines. MBG staff mentor: Carmen Puglisi (Herbarium).

 

 

Remote Fellowships for 2021

  • Fellowship "Christopher Davidson and Sharon Christoph:
    Gabriela Fernanda Moya (Ecuador), Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica Quito, “Respuestas fenológicas de especies nativas y amenazadas para la restauración proyecto Minero, Cord. Del Cóndor”
  • Fellowship “Shirley A. Graham”:
    Enmily Dayanna Sanchez (Ecuador), Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica Quito “Hibridación natural entre dos géneros de la familia Amaryllidaceae en el volcán Pululahua”

Fellows, Undergraduates and Interns, and Post-Graduates mentored by CCSD staff in 2017

Argentina: Alicia Lopez

Brazil: Paola de Lima Ferreira, Raimundo Luciano Soares Neto, Frederico Domene (fellows), Colombia: Camilo Sanín (post-graduate fellow), David Andrés Quinche, Álvaro Mariño, Erika Daniela Camacho (Undergraduates & Interns)

Costa Rica: Gregorio Dauphin, Marco Cedeño (fellows)

Mexico: Jaime Alejandro Torres Montufar (fellow)

USA: Joseph Smith, Victoria Beishir, Elena Meyer, Isaac Wilson, Claire Waldman, Maria Balderas, Madalyn Stoecker, Renata Diaz (REU students)

Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development (CCSD)