Virginia obtained her undergraduate degree in Biology in the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala; and her M. S. in Plant and Soil Sciences at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Her Masters thesis was "Genetic transformation of Coffea arabica L. using Agrobacterium as a vector". Special interests: bryology, ethnobotany (particularly medicinal plants), molecular biology, hand crafts, drawing, hiking and admiring nature.
Virginia can be reached at freire@siu.edu
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Virginia Freire is a doctoral student working with Dr. R. Stotler and Dr. B. Crandall-Stotler in the Department of Plant Biology. The topic of her research is a revision of the Latin American Fossombroniineae. This will ultimately be integrated to form a monograph of this liverwort suborder. This project is supported by PEET grant (DEB-9521883) from the
National Science Foundation.
URL: http://www.science.siu.edu/bryophytes/virginia.html
Last updated: 17-October-1997/ jrb