Director of the Herbarium (BRIT-SMU-VDB)
B.S., Texas A&M University, December 1997
M.S., Texas A&M University, August 2000
Ph.D. Candidate, City University of New York, November 2002
Amanda Neill, from College Station, Texas, joined the BRIT staff in 2003 as Collections Manager and became Director of the Herbarium in 2006. She is also the co-director of the Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program.
Amanda earned a B.S. in horticulture and an M.S. in botany from Texas A&M University, based on a study of the flora of Madison County, Texas (see Sida 19(4):1083-1121. 2001). She has an active interest in floristics of Texas as well as of neotropical areas. In addition to having field experience in Texas, Costa Rica, Belize, Ecuador, and Peru, Amanda is experienced with anatomical and molecular laboratory equipment and is a published scientific illustrator. She is in the last stages of work toward a Ph.D. in botany from City University of New York/New York Botanical Garden, studying systematics of the genus Gurania (Cucurbitaceae). You can read more about her work at the Gurania Pages website, and at www.andesamazon.org.
Phone: (817) 332-4441, ext. 17
Fax: (817) 332-4112
E-mail: aneill@brit.org
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Publications
Janovec, J.P., A.K. Neill, and M.G. Mistry. 2006. Comparative androecium morphology of the Compsoneura capitellata complex (Myristicaceae) with descriptions of two new species. Sida (In press).
Janovec, J. P. and A. K. Neill. 2003. Exploring the palms and cycads of the Maya Mountains of Belize: Reflections on MBC-sponsored Expeditions to Belize, 1999-2001. The Montgomery News 11(1): 5-6.
R. J. O'Kennon, McLemore, C., and A. K. Neill. 2003. Fagopyrum esculentum (Polygonaceae), new for Texas. SIDA 20(4): 1717-1720.
Janovec, J. P. & A. K. Neill. 2002. Studies of the Myristicaceae: An overview of the Compsoneura atopa complex, with descriptions of new species from Colombia. Brittonia 54(3): 251-261.
Neill, A.K. and H.D. Wilson. 2001. The vascular flora of Madison County, Texas. Sida 19(4): 1083-1121.
Neill, A.K. & J.P. Janovec. 2001. Occidente y Oriente: collecting palms and cycads in Ecuador. The Montgomery News 9(2):5.
Janovec, J.P. & A.K. Neill. 2000. Exploring the palms and cycads of Belize. The Montgomery News 8(1): 8.
Neill, A.K. 2000. The Vascular Flora of Madison County, Texas. M.S. thesis, Texas A&M University. (and associated website at < http://biocourse.bio.tamu.edu/graduate-students/neilla/madhome.htm>.
Neill, A.K. 1999. Vicia lutea (Fabaceae), new to Texas. Sida 18(4): 1265-1266.
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