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• May 2006 - Andrew Doust was invited to present a talk on his research to the Bioinformatics Group at Monsanto Corporation.
  
  
• March 2006 - Toby Kellogg prsented two talks on her work as part of the Partners in Biology Series at Utah State University.
  
  
• October 2005 - Mark Beilstein and Jill Preston presented posters at the Plant Genetics meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists, at Snowbird, Utah.
  
  
• September 2005 - Felipe Zapata presented a talk on his research at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia.
  
  
• Summer 2005 - Rosa Ortiz-Gentry was a teaching assistant for a course in Plant Systematics, taught by Peter STevens of the Missouri Botanical Garden, at the Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana.
  
  
• Summer 2005 - Sara Fuentes conducted field work in the Southwestern U.S.
  
  
• June 2005 - Alberto Vicentini presented a poster at the World Summit on Evolution in the Galapagos.
  
  
• June 2005 - Monica Carlsen and Felipe Zapata presented posters at the International Botanical Congressin Vienna.
  
  
• Summer 2005 - Monica Carlsen was awarded a Latin American Research Fellowship by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, England.
  
  
• 2005 - Jill Preston was awarded a Grant-in-Aid of Graduate Student Research from Sigma Xi.