About newmasterLAB

Steven Newmaster is an Associate Professor within the department of Integrative Biology. The research interests of Steve Newmaster and the Floristic Diversity Research Group encompass a wide array of topics, allowing us to explore the linkages between them. We have expertise and ongoing projects in forest ecology, crytogamic taxonomy, ethnobotany and plant DNA barcoding. Graduate students are involved in lichen ecology and systematics, bryophyte genome size, silviculture in boreal systems, and taxonomy of neotropical Compsoneura.

News

• Speaking at FACE 2009 Taiwan
• October 18, 2009
• Dr. Ragupathy will be speaking at the The 2009 First Asian Conference of Ethnobiology in Taiwan. Accompanying him will be our Aboriginal resources person as well as Vadaman Chakkan Palanisamy, who is closely associated with the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics.
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• We're off to the International Barcode of Life Conference!
• August 31, 2009
• Dr. Aron Fazekas will be presenting at the Third Annual International Barcode of Life Conference, to be held from November 9 -13 in Mexico City
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• University of Guelph Scientists Help Find Plant DNA Barcode
• July 28, 2009
• It will now be possible to genetically differentiate the more than 400,000 species of land plants in the world thanks to DNA barcoding, a revolutionary technique invented at the University of Guelph.
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