Faculty

Jill Reid
jdreid@vcu.edu

Office room: 230
Office phone: (804) 828-0474

Research interests:
Systematics of Azolla (an aquatic fern) using cladistic analysis of DNA sequence data. My research answered some long-standing questions concerning the number of extant species of Azolla and provided evidence suggesting that one of the species arose via homoploid hybrid speciation (a rare form of diploid speciation).

Funding for this research has been provided by:
A grant from the National Science Foundation (DEB-9981641) to G. M. Plunkett, Ph.D.

Recent publications:
Reid, J. D., G. M. Plunkett, & G. A. Peters. 2006. Phylogenetic Relationships in the Heterosporous Fern Genus Azolla (Azollaceae) Based on DNA Sequence Data from Three Non-coding Sequence Regions. International Journal of Plant Sciences 167(3):529-538.

Courses currently taught:
Biological Concepts (BIOL 101)
Human Biology (BIOL 201)
Human Anatomy Lab (BIOZ 205)
Introduction to Biological Sciences I (BIOL 151)
Principles of Nutrition (BIOL 217)
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (BIOL 301)

Reid received her Bachelor of Science degree in biology from VCU in May 1999 and her master’s degree in biology from VCU in December 2001.