Kurt Maximillian Neubig

Department of Plant Biology

Southern Illinois University

Email: kneubig@siu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, Botany, Systematics of tribe Sobralieae (Orchidaceae): phylogenetics, pollination, anatomy, and biogeography of a group of Neotropical orchids

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

January 2006 – December 2012

MS, Botany, Molecular Systematics of the genus Dichaea (Orchidaceae)

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

August 2003 – December 2005

BS, Biological Sciences (Plant Biology)

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803

August 1999 – May 2003

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor (Southern Illinois University)

•Elements of Plant Systematics (PLB 304): Spring 2015-2016.

•General Plant Biology (PLB 200): Fall 2015-2016. 

Graduate teaching assistant (University of Florida)

•Integrated Principles of Biology Laboratory II (BSC 2011L):  Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2010.  Dr. Kent Vliet, Academic Coordinator.

•Plants in Human Affairs (Bot 2800):  Fall 2009. With Dr. Charlotte Germain-Aubrey, Instructor. 

•Plant Taxonomy (Bot 2710):  Fall 2010. With Dr. Walter Judd, Professor.

1. •  Plant Anatomy (Bot 6742):  Fall 2011. With Dr. Stuart McDaniel, Professor.
   

2. •Plant Taxonomy (Bot 2710):  Fall 2012. With Drs. Doug & Pam Soltis, Professors.  Awarded Graduate Student Teaching Award
   

Undergraduate teaching assistant (Louisiana State University)

Plant Taxonomy (Biology 4041):  Spring 2003.  With Dr. Lowell Urbatsch, Professor.

WORK & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor

Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University, 2015 – present

Courtesy Assistant Scientist

Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, 2013 – present

Postdoctoral Research Assistant (supervisors Doug Soltis dsoltis@ufl.edu and Pam Soltis psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu)

Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, 2013 – present

Research Assistant in Herbarium Curation (supervisors Norris Williams, orchid@flmnh.ufl.edu and Kent Perkins, kperkins@flmnh.ufl.edu)

University of Florida Herbarium, January – May 2012

Research Assistant in Molecular Systematics (supervisor Norris Williams, orchid@flmnh.ufl.edu)

University of Florida, June 2004 – May 2005; August 2006 – May 2009

Laboratory Technician & Herbarium Assistant (supervisor Lowell Urbatsch, leu@lsu.edu)

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 2001-2003

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Society of Plant Taxonomists

Botanical Society of America

Illinois Native Plant Society

New England Botanical Club

Southern Appalachian Botanical Society

GRANTS & AWARDS

USDA-APHIS.  (Research: $15,803) Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. For pathway analyses of Mikania micrantha using DNA sequences. Fall 2010-Summer 2011.

Lewis and Varina Vaughn Fellow in Orchid Biology.  (Tuition: ~$5,000) Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.  Summer 2009.

American Orchid Society.  (Research: $7,096) Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. For molecular systematics of the Neotropical Sobralia and relatives.  Fall 2006 - Fall 2008.

Lewis and Varina Vaughn Fellow in Orchid Biology.  (Tuition: ~$10,000) Department of Botany, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.  Fall 2005 – Spring 2006.

American Orchid Society Fellow, 11th World Orchid Conference.  (Research : $3,000) Department of Botany, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.  For molecular systematics of the genus Dichaea (Orchidaceae).  Fall 2003.

PUBLICATIONS

Link to citation profile from google scholar.

Majure, LC, Judd WS, Ionta GM, Skean JD, Jr., Becquer ER, Neubig KM. Submitted. Miconia cineana (Melastomataceae: Miconieae), a new species from the Massif de la Hotte, Haiti, based on morphological and molecular evidence. Systematic Botany.

Germain-Aubrey C, Soltis P, Neubig KM, Thurston T, Soltis D, Gitzendanner M. 2014. Using comparative biogeography to retrace the origins of an ecosystem: the case of four plants endemic to the central Florida scrub. International Journal of Plant Sciences 175: 418-431.

Whitten WM, Neubig KM, Williams NH. 2014. Generic and subtribal relationships in Neotropical Cymbidieae (Orchidaceae) based on matK/ycf1 plastid data. Lankesteriana 13: 375-392. PDF here

Urbatsch LE, Pruski JF, Neubig KM. 2013. Youngia thunbergiana (Asteraceae, Cichorieae), a species overlooked in the North American flora. Castanea 78: 330-337. PDF here

McDaniel SF, Neubig KM, Payton AC, Quatrano RS, Cove DJ. 2013. Recent gene capture on the UV sex chromosomes of the moss Ceratodon purpureus. Evolution 67: 2811-2822. PDF here

Neubig KM. 2012. Systematics of tribe Sobralieae (Orchidaceae): Phylogenetics, pollination, anatomy, and biogeography of a group of Neotropical orchids.  Gainesville: University of Florida, Dept. of Biology. Dissertation.

Chatrou LW, Pirie MD, Erkens RHJ, Couvreur TLP, Neubig KM, Abbott JR, Mols JB, Maas JW, Saunders RMK, Chase MW. 2012. A new subfamilial and tribal classification of the pantropical flowering plant family Annonaceae informed by molecular phylogenetics. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 169: 5-40.  PDF here

Neubig KM, Whitten WM, Williams NH, Blanco MA, Endara L, Burleigh JG, Silvera K, Cushman JC, Chase MW. 2012. Generic recircumscriptions of Oncidiinae (Orchidaceae: Cymbidieae) based on maximum likelihood analysis of combined DNA datasets. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 168: 117-146. PDF here

Anderson PJ, Weaver RE, Jr., Neubig KM, Frank MS, Dixon WN.  2012. Which Mikania: native vine or noxious weed? Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Botany Circular 37: 1-6.  PDF here

Neubig KM, Whitten WM, Blanco MA, Endara L, Williams NH, Koehler S. 2011. Preliminary molecular phylogenetics of Sobralia and relatives (Sobralieae; Orchidaceae). Lankesteriana 11: 307-317. PDF here

Dressler RL, Blanco MA, Pupulin F, Neubig KM. 2011. (2019) Proposal to conserve the name Sobralia (Orchidaceae) with a conserved type. Taxon 60 (3): 907-908. PDF here

Neubig KM. 2011. Dichaea In: León-Yánez S, Valencia R, Pitman N, Endara L, Ulloa Ulloa C, Navarrete H, eds. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador, segunda edicion. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.

Silvera K, Neubig KM, Whitten WM, Williams NH, Winter K, Cushman JC. 2010. Evolution along the crassulacean acid metabolism continuum. Functional Plant Biology 37: 995-1010.  PDF here

Gajdeczka MT, Neubig KM, Judd WS, Whitten WM, Williams NH, Perkins, KD. 2010. Phylogenetic analyses of the Gaylussacia frondosa complex (Ericaceae: Vaccinieae) based on molecular and morphological characters. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 4: 245-260.

Neubig KM, Abbott JR. 2010. Primer development for the plastid region ycf1 in Annonaceae and other magnoliids. American Journal of Botany [AJB Primer Notes and Protocols in the Plant Sciences]: e52-e55.  PDF here

Chase MW, Williams NH, de Faria AD, Neubig KM, Amaral MDCE, Whitten WM. 2009. Floral convergence in Oncidiinae (Cymbideae; Orchidaceae): and expanded concept of Gomesa and a new genus Nohawilliamsia. Annals of Botany 104: 387-402.  PDF here

Neubig KM, Williams NH, Whitten WM, Pupulin F. 2009. Molecular phylogenetics and the evolution of fruit and leaf morphology of Dichaea (Orchidaceae: Zygopetalinae). Annals of Botany 104: 457-467.  PDF here

Neubig KM, Whitten WM, Carlsward BS, Blanco MA, Endara L, Williams NH, Moore M. 2009. Phylogenetic utility of ycf1 in orchids: a plastid gene more variable than matK. Plant Systematics and Evolution 277: 75-84.  PDF here

Chase MW, Williams NH, Neubig KM, Whitten WM. 2008. Taxonomic transfers in Oncidiinae to accord with Genera Orchidacearum, vol. 5. Lindleyana 21: 20-31.

Koehler S, Cabral JS, Whitten WM, Williams NH, Singer RB, Neubig KM, Guerra M, Souza AP, Amaral MDCE. 2008. Molecular phylogeny of the neotropical genus Christensonella (Orchidaceae, Maxillariinae): species delimitation and insights into chromosome evolution. Annals of Botany 102: 491-507.  PDF here

Becquer-Granados ER, Neubig KM, Judd WS, Michelangeli FA, Abbott JR, Penneys DS. 2008. Preliminary molecular phylogenetic studies in Pachyanthus (Miconieae, Melastomataceae). Botanical Review 74: 37-52.  PDF here

Blanco MA, Carnevali G, Whiten WM, Singer RB, Koehler S, Williams NH, Ojeda I, Neubig KM, Endara L. 2007. Generic realignments in Maxillariinae (Orchidaceae). Lankesteriana 7(3): 515-537.  PDF here

Blanco MA, Neubig KM, Whitten WM. 2007. A new Maxillaria (Orchidaceae) from Panama and Colombia, and a Brazilian species found in Ecuador. Lindleyana In Orchids 76(6): 451-456.

Whiten WM, Blanco, MA, Williams NH, Koehler S, Carnevali G, Singer RB, Endara L, Neubig KM. 2007. Molecular phylogenetics of Maxillaria and related genera (Orchidaceae: Cymbidieae) based on combined molecular data sets. American Journal of Botany 94(11): 1860-1889.  PDF here

Blanco MA, Whitten WM, Penneys DS, Williams NH, Neubig KM, Endara CL. 2006. A simple and safe method for rapid drying of plant specimens using forced-air space heaters. Selbyana 27: 83-87.  PDF here [at this website]

Urbatsch LE, Anderson LC, Roberts RP, Neubig KM. 2006. Ericameria. In:Barkley TM, Brouillet L, Jeude H, Strother JL, Gandhi K, Kiger RW, Yatskievych K, Zarucchi JL, eds. Flora of North America, vol. 20. New York: Oxford University Press. Online resource here

Urbatsch LE, Cox PB, Neubig KM. 2006. Echinacea. In:Barkley TM, Brouillet L, Jeude H, Strother JL, Gandhi K, Kiger RW, Yatskievych K, Zarucchi JL, eds. Flora of North America, vol. 21. New York: Oxford University Press.  Online resource here

Urbatsch LE, Roberts RP, Neubig KM. 2006. Chrysothamnus, Cuniculotinus, Gundlachia, Lorandersonia, Neonesomia, Petradoria, Toiyabea. In:Barkley TM, Brouillet L, Jeude H, Strother JL, Gandhi K, Kiger RW, Yatskievych K, Zarucchi JL, eds. Flora of North America, vol. 20. New York: Oxford University Press.  Online resource here

Urbatsch LE, Roberts RP, Morse CA, Neubig KM. 2006. Nestotus. In:Barkley TM, Brouillet L, Jeude H, Strother JL, Gandhi K, Kiger RW, Yatskievych K, Zarucchi JL, eds. Flora of North America, vol. 20. New York: Oxford University Press.  Online resource here

Neubig KM. 2005. Molecular Systematics of the genus Dichaea (Zygopetalinae: Orchidaceae). Gainesville: University of Florida, Dept. of Botany. Thesis. PDF here

Roberts RP, Urbatsch LE, Neubig KM. 2005. Nestotus and Toiyabea, two new genera of Asteraceae: Astereae from the western United States and Canada. Sida 21(3): 1647-1655.

Urbatsch LE, Roberts RP, Neubig KM. 2005. Cuniculotinus and Lorandersonia, two new genera of Asteraceae: Astereae and new combinations in Chrysothamnus. Sida 21(3): 1615-1632.

ABSTRACTS, PAPERS, & POSTERS AT CONFERENCES

Abbott JR, Neubig KM, Liesner R. 2013. Mitreola petiolata (Loganiaceae): one global species or several cryptic lineages? Botanical Society of America Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana.    Abstract here

Neubig KM, Blanchard OJ, Jr., Abbott JR, Hanes M, McDaniel SF. 2013. An expanded phylogeny of tribe Hibisceae (Malvaceae) reveals polyphyly of even more genera. Botanical Society of America Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana.    Abstract here

Neubig KM, Blanchard OJ, Jr., McDaniel SF. 2013. Congruence of chromosome pairing in experimental hybrids with DNA-based phylogenetic distance in Kosteletzkya (Malvaceae). Botanical Society of America Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana.    Abstract here

Jost L, Neubig KM, Endara L, Whitten WM. 2013. Exploring the biogeography of high elevations in the Andes using phylogenetic relationships in Teagueia (Orchidaceae). Botanical Society of America Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana.    Abstract here

Abbott JR, Neubig KM, Carslward BS. 2013. Further insight into the disintegration of the polyphyletic mess that was Polygala s.l. (Polygalaceae). Botanical Society of America Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana.    Abstract here

Neubig KM, Herrera F, Manchester S, Germain-Aubrey C, Abbott JR, Whitten WM. 2013. Phylogenetics of Ulmaceae and placement of the extinct Cedrelospermum using DNA data and fossils. Botanical Society of America Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana.    Abstract here

McDaniel SF, Neubig KM, Payton A, Quatrano R, Cove D. 2013. Recent gene capture on the UV sex chromosomes of the moss Ceratodon purpureus. Botanical Society of America Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana.    Abstract here

Abbott JR, Neubig KM, Carlsward BS. 2013. Synopsis of Badiera (Polygalaceae), a Caribbean clade of shrubs. Botanical Society of America Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana.    Abstract here

Germain-Aubrey C, Allen J, Majure L, Neubig KM, Ponciano JM, Soltis D, Soltis P. 2013. Using herbaria to predict climate change response: modeling Florida plant diversity. Botanical Society of America Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana.    Abstract here

Neubig KM, Carlsward BS, Whitten WM, Williams NH. 2012. Sticky and sweet, or without a treat? Floral anatomy, nectar and pollination in Sobralia and relatives (Orchidaceae: Sobralieae). Botanical Society of America Meetings, Columbus, Ohio.     Abstract here

Neubig KM, Blanchard OJ, Whitten WM, Schwartz E, McDaniel, S. 2012. Contemplations on reticulations in Kosteletzkya (Malvaceae, Hibisceae). Botanical Society of America Meetings, Columbus, Ohio.    Abstract here

Neubig KM, Burleigh JG, Ruhfel B, Jones K, McDaniel S. 2012. The evolution of the phytochrome gene family in mosses. Botanical Society of America Meetings, Columbus, Ohio.    Abstract here

Neubig KM, Herrera F, Manchester S, Abbott JR. 2012. Fossils, biogeography and dates in an expanded phylogeny of Ulmaceae. Botanical Society of America Meetings, Columbus, Ohio.    Abstract here

Endara L, Judd W, Whitten WM, Neubig KM, Williams NH. 2012. Morphological cladistics analysis and character evolution of Scaphosepalum (Orchidaceae). Botanical Society of America Meetings, Columbus, Ohio.    Abstract here

Endara L, Neubig KM, Majure L, Stull G, Judd W. 2012. Using webpages as a tool for teaching plant taxonomy in a laboratory. Botanical Society of America Meetings, Columbus, Ohio.   Abstract here

McDaniel S, Neubig KM, Ruhfel B, Burleigh JG. 2012. The evolution of the phytochrome gene family in mosses. MOSS 2012 and The 3rd International Symposium on Molecular Systematics of Bryophytes, Bronx, New York.

Neubig KM, Whitten WM, Williams NH, Chase MW, Blanco MA, Endara L, Burleigh G, Silvera K, Cushman J. 2011. Generic recircumscriptions of Oncidiinae (Orchidaceae: Cymbidieae) based on combined molecular data sets. Botanical Society of America Meetings, St. Louis, Missouri.     Abstract here

Schwartz E, Neubig KM, Judd WS, Blanchard OJ. 2011. Molecular and morphological phylogenetic study of species delimitation in Kosteletzkya depressa and K. hispidula (Malvaceae, Hibisceae). Botanical Society of America Meetings, St. Louis, Missouri.     Abstract here

Neubig KM, Blanchard OJ, Schwartz E, McDaniel S. 2011. Molecular phylogenetics of Kosteletzkya (Malvaceae. Hibisceae) reveals multiple polyploidy speciation events. Botanical Society of America Meetings, St. Louis, Missouri.     Abstract here

Neubig KM, Talley S, Abbott JR, Germain-Aubrey C, Whitten WM. 2011. Phylogenetics and population genetics of the Mikania micrantha complex (Asteraceae). Botanical Society of America Meetings, St. Louis, Missouri.     Abstract here

Germain-Aubrey C, Soltis P, Neubig KM, Thurston T, Soltis D, Gitzendanner M. 2011. Testing hypotheses in a comparative phylogeographic study: the case of four plants endemic to the central Florida scrub. Botanical Society of America Meetings, St. Louis, Missouri.     Abstract here

Ames M, Williams NH, Leebens-Mack J, Whitten WM, Neubig KM, Clements M, Givnish T. 2011. Phylogeny and evolution of Orchidaceae: a phylogenomic perspective. XVIII International Botanical Congress, Melbourne, Australia. Abstract here

Ames M, Williams NH, Moore M, Leebens-Mack J, Whitten WM, Neubig KM, Clements M, Pires JC, Steele R, Givnish T. 2010. A plastome phylogeny for Orchidaceae and its systematic implications. Evolution 2010, Portland, Oregon.  

Abbott JR, Neubig KM. 2010. Phylogeny of the Pawpaws (Asimina & Deeringothamnus, Annonaceae). Botanical Society of America Meetings, Providence, Rhode Island.     Abstract here

Abbott JR, Carlsward BS, Neubig KM, Judd WS, Whitten WM, Williams NH. 2010. The disintegration of Polygala (Polygalaceae), with four new genera for the flora of North America. Botanical Society of America Meetings, Providence, Rhode Island.     Abstract here

Carlsward BS, Neubig KM. 2010. Vegetative anatomy of Sobralieae (Orchidaceae). Botanical Society of America Meetings, Providence, Rhode Island.     Abstract here

Neubig KM, Whitten WM, Blanco MA, Endara L, Williams NH, Koehler S. 2010. Molecular phylogenetics of Sobralia and relatives (Orchidaceae; Sobralieae). Botanical Society of America Meetings, Providence, Rhode Island.     Abstract here

Neubig KM, Abbott JR, Whitten WM, Williams NH. 2010. BarFF: Barcoding the Flora of Florida. Botanical Society of America Meetings, Providence, Rhode Island.     Abstract here

Givnish T, Ames M, Williams NH, Clements M, Cameron K, Neubig KM, Whitten WM, Moore M, Pires JC, Kinney MS, Leebens-Mack JH, McNeal JR, Ane C, Davis JI, dePamphilis CW, Gandolfo M, Graham SW, Stevenson DW, Zomlefer WB. 2009. A plastome-based phylogeny for the Orchidaceae. Botanical Society of America Meetings, Snowbird, Utah.    Abstract here

Neubig KM, Whitten WM, Williams NH, Moore M. 2009. Phylogenetic utility of ycf1 in orchids: bigger is better. Botanical Society of America Meetings, Snowbird, Utah.     Abstract here

Silvera K, Whitten WM, Williams NH, Neubig KM, Winter K, Cushman JC. 2009. Evolution of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in tropical orchids: Integrating ecophysiological, phylogenetic, and molecular genetic approaches. The Ecological Society of America Meetings, Albuquerque, New Mexico.    Abstract here

Neubig KM, Whitten WM, Blanco MA, Endara L, Williams NH, Koehler S, van den Berg C.. 2009. Systematics of Sobralia and relatives. Third Scientific Conference on Andean Orchids, Quito, Ecuador.

Jost L, Whitten WM, Neubig KM, Endara L, Shepard A. 2009. Evolution and conservation of endemic orchids of the upper Pastaza watershed of eastern Ecuador. Third Scientific Conference on Andean Orchids, Quito, Ecuador.

Whitten WM, Blanco MA, Williams NH, Koehler S, Carnevali G, Singer RB, Endara L, Neubig KM. 2009. Phylogeny and recircumscriptions in Maxillaria and related genera (Orchidaceae: Maxillariinae). Third Scientific Conference on Andean Orchids, Quito, Ecuador.

Williams NH, Whitten WM, Neubig KM. 2009 Pollination and phylogeny of subtribe Oncidiinae (Orchidaceae). Third Scientific Conference on Andean Orchids, Quito, Ecuador.

Neubig KM, Whitten WM, Williams NH, Silvera K, Cushman J, Dalström S. 2008. Systematics of Oncidiinae (Orchidaceae) and the Evolution of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism. Botanical Society of America Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia.     Abstract here

Neubig KM, Whitten WM, Carlsward BS, Blanco MA, Endara L, Williams NH, Moore M. 2008. Phylogenetic utility of ycf1 in Orchids: an underappreciated plastid DNA region. Botanical Society of America Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia.     Abstract here

Neubig KM, Abbott JR. 2008. BarFF: Barcoding the Flora of Florida. Florida Ecology and Evolution Symposium, Archbold Biological Research Station, Florida.

Abbott JR, Neubig KM. 2008. Phylogeny of the Pawpaws (Asimina & Deeringothamnus, Annonaceae). Florida Ecology and Evolution Symposium, Archbold Biological Research Station, Florida.

Neubig KM, Whitten WM, Blanco MA, Endara L, Williams NH, Koehler S, van den Berg C. 2008. Systematics of Sobralia and relatives. The 19th World Orchid Conference, Miami, Florida.

Neubig KM, Williams NH, Whitten WM, Pupulin F. 2006. Molecular systematics of the genus Dichaea (Orchidaceae: Zygopetalinae). Botanical Society of America Meetings, Chico, California.     Abstract here

Bécquer E, Penneys DS, Neubig KM, Judd WS. 2006.  Sistemática, Taxonomía y Biogeografía de Pachyanthus (Miconieae, Melastomataceae), un género endémico de las Antillas Mayores.  IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Botánica 19-25 June, 2006, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Bécquer E, Penneys DS, Neubig KM, Judd WS, Abbott JR. 2006.  Análisis filogenético preliminar de Pachyanthus (Miconieae: Melastomataceae) basado en datos moleculares.  IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Botánica 19-25 June, 2006, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Neubig KM. 2005. Molecular systematics of the genus Dichaea (Orchidaceae: Zygopetalinae). First Scientific Conference on Andean Orchids, Gualaceo, Ecuador.