Record Type: Person

Institution: Columbia University

Biography: Angelica earned her B.S. in natural resources from Cornell University in 2003 where she studied plant-virus interactions with Dr. Alison “Sunny” Power in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Upon graduation, she interned with Dr. Nathaniel Holland from Rice University studying the ecological and evolutionary relationship of desert cacti and moths. In her early career, Angelica began work as a research assistant and program manager at Barnard College from 2004-2011. Her involvement in Hilary Callahan’s Lab at Barnard allowed her to partake in research pertaining to plant trait plasticity and evolution. During her years as a research assistant, Angelica studied flowering time shifts in Arabidopsis thaliana under varying climate regimes and examined the influence of mycorrhizal fungi colonization on root morphological traits in a greenhouse and field study. Prior to beginning her PhD degree, Angelica and Columbia alumna Nancy Falxa-Raymond completed a project and published a paper on the effects of oak removal on nitrogen reductase activity in Black Birch, a plant- level physiological process that reduces soil nitrogen to amino acids and then proteins and nucleic acids. Angelica is currently pursuing a Ph.D. under the advisement of Dr. Kevin Griffin at Columbia University’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, with a focus on plants’ physiological response to climate change.

Roles: Educator, Graduate student, Researcher

Keyword: Black Rock Forest

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