Tank Lab graduate students Sarah Jacobs and Diego Morales-Briones were both awarded Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants from the NSF Systematics and Biodiversity Sciences, Phylogenetic Systematics program.

Sarah Jacobs: Investigating the main contributors to plant speciation in a rapidly diverging lineage in western North America

Diego Morales-Briones: Adaptive radiation and hybridization: testing the hybrid swarm origin hypothesis for adaptive radiations in a phylogenetic framework