The Botany meetings are virtual again this summer, but the Sessa lab will still be there! Lab members will be giving several talks, and postdoc Cody Howard is speaking twice! […]

After a long, strange pandemic year in which very little travel or fieldwork could happen, I was finally able to get out to Colorado with the NASA ferns team to […]

Jerald was the first graduate student to join the lab, and today he defended his PhD! It was not the defense we originally had in mind, as it was held […]

Our first completed PhD from the lab graduated today! Congratulations Chris! He will be moving to Madison, WI to join Kate McCulloh’s lab at UW, where he will be working […]

We just received the great news that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded us $1.2 million for a collaborative, multi-institution study of the “fern spore spike”, a phenomenon in […]

As of today, I am officially an Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Florida. It feels pretty good!

We just returned from a fantastic Botany conference in Tucson, Arizona! The Sessa lab and GoFlag teams had a great time, and it was a particularly wonderful year for ferns, […]

We had a fantastic time this week designing activities for K-12 students alongside three teachers from Chicago and Gainesville! Ayesha Qazi and Jennifer Campagna (Chicago Public Schools) joined Tredina Sheppard […]

We have been extremely lucky this summer to have two extraordinary students join the GoFlag Education team through the Research Opportunities for Undergraduates (REU) program funded by NSF. Lucy Elkin, […]

The Sessa lab will be the primary host for the next standalone meeting of the Society of Systematic Biologists! The meeting will take place from January 3–6, 2020 at the […]