Kristel Schoonderwoerd, PhD Candidate

Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

PhD Candidate, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

As a resident of the temperate world, I am constantly fascinated by how processes of development and differentiation in woody plants have harmonized with seasonal fluctuations in a variety of different ways. In the Friedman Lab, I study the diverse strategies temperate tree species use to overwinter embryonic leaves in resting buds and expand these leaves in the spring. My project focuses on the particularly pronounced interspecific variation in bud structure in the walnut family (Juglandaceae).

Publications

• Sauquet H, Balthazar M von, …, Schoonderwoerd KM, …, Schönenberger J. 2017. The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification. Nature Communications 8:16047
• Schoonderwoerd KM, Friedman WE. 2016. Zygotic dormancy underlies prolonged seed development in Franklinia alatamaha (Theaceae): a most unusual case of reproductive phenology in angiosperms. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181:70–83