Joseph Kleinkopf
Ph.D. Student
Year entered program: 2021
Department: Biology
Mentor: Hannah Marx, Ph.D.
Interests: Systematics/PhylogeneticsJoseph Kleinkopf is broadly interested in the biogeography and phylogeography of plants. One of his specific interests is using genomics tools to understand the assembly of alpine and island plant communities. He is also interested in using phylogenetic and phylogenomic tools to better understand relatively new and complex lineages of angiosperms.
While at the University of Colorado Boulder, Kleinkopf worked on a project in Southeastern Colorado/Northeastern New Mexico, where he used genetic data to test for signals of divergence within species of flowers of which morphologically aberrant populations exist. At Washington State University (WSU), Kleinkopf's master's thesis focused on using genomic data to disentangle relationships among species in the genus Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) on the Hawaiian Islands.
Kleinkopf hopes to continue working with phylogenomic tools at the University of New Mexico to better understand the evolution and assembly of alpine plant communities of the Southern Rocky Mountains and the Sky Islands of the Southwest.
Department: Biology
Mentor: Hannah Marx, Ph.D.
Interests: Systematics/Phylogenetics
Bio
While at the University of Colorado Boulder, Kleinkopf worked on a project in Southeastern Colorado/Northeastern New Mexico, where he used genetic data to test for signals of divergence within species of flowers of which morphologically aberrant populations exist. At Washington State University (WSU), Kleinkopf's master's thesis focused on using genomic data to disentangle relationships among species in the genus Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) on the Hawaiian Islands.
Kleinkopf hopes to continue working with phylogenomic tools at the University of New Mexico to better understand the evolution and assembly of alpine plant communities of the Southern Rocky Mountains and the Sky Islands of the Southwest.
