Fabian armando michelangeli

Davis, J. I*., D. Wm. Stevenson, L. Campbell, D. Goldman, C. Hardy, F. Michelangeli, M. Simmons, and C. Specht 2001. Phylogenetic relationships among the monocots, as inferred from morphology and nucleotide sequence variation in three genes. Botany 2001, Botanical Society of America. August 2001, Albuquerque New Mexico (Abstracts).

Garcia, E.A.*, F.A. Michelangeli, F. Michelangeli and E. Rodríguez. 1996. Ant-Plant Interactions in the understory Melastomataceae of two Neo-Tropical rain forests. XXIII Annual SACNAS Conference. Los Angeles. October 1996.

Herrera, A.M., F. Michelangeli, J. Nassar, J.P. Rodriguez* and D. Torres. 1992. The Spectacled Bear of the Sierra Nevada National Park, Venezuela. in: Ninth International Bear Conference, Missoula, Montana. March 1992.

May 2016. Monographic work in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Planetary Biodiversity Inventory Miconieae Project. Torrey Botanical Society. New York, NY.

March 2016. Sistemática y taxonomía de la familia Melastomataceae en Peru. Oxapampa, Peru.

February 2015. The assemblage of Neotropical Floras: a phylogenetic perspective. Tropical Biology Symposium. Fairchild Tropical Botanial Garden, Miami, FL [keynote speaker].

February 2015. A phylogenetic perspective to an ecological question: The assemblage of Neotropical Floras. Bioforum 2015. UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil.

December 2013. The PBI-Miconieae Project: beyond alpha taxonomy and specimen data. Field Musem of Natural History. Chicago, IL.

November 2013. Colaboración e integración en la carrera del botánico. Facultad de Bioloía, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba.

November 2013. The PBI-Miconieae Project: beyond alpha taxonomy and specimen data. American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY.

June 2012. Sistemática, biogeografía y evolución de la tribu Melastomeae en el Neotrópico. Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Peru.

March 2012. El proyecto PBI Miconieae. Ejemplo de un proyecto en equipo para la realización de una monografía electronica. Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Peru.

December 2010. The role of field work in modern systematics; planes, trains and automobiles (plus other modes of transportation) in search of neotropical Melastomataceae. Torrey Botanical Society. New York, NY.

November 2010. Integrating phylogenetic analyses, morphological evolution, and alpha taxonomy in Neotropical Melastomataceae. Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.

June 2010. Sistemática y taxonomía de las Melastomataceae neotropicales. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia,

June 2010. Sistemática y taxonomía de las Melastomataceae neotropicales Universidad de Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia.

August 2009. Avances en la sistemática y taxonomía de las Melastomataceae neotropicales. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela.

January 2009. Integrating phylogenetic analyses, evolution, and alpha taxonomy in the Melastomataceae. Rancho Santa Botanical Garden. Pomona, CA.

February 2008. Evolution in Neotropical glory bushes (Melastomataceae): what have we learned from phylogenies? New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.

May 2007. Relaciones planta-hormiga en la familia Melastomataceae. Universidad Autonoma René Grabiel Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

November 2005. Combinando sistemática, anatomía y ecología en el estudio de la evolución. Departamento de Biología. Universidad de Carabobo. Valencia, Venezuela.

April 2005. Evolution of Ant-Plant Relationships: Combining Phylogenetic, Anatomical and Ecological Data in Neotropical Melastomataceae. City College. City University of New York, New York, NY

March 2005. Systematics of Miconieae, Melastomataceae, and the evolution of neotropical ant-plant relationships. Department of Plant Biology. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY

February 2005. Evolution of Ant-Plant Relationships in Neotropical Melastomataceae: Combining Phylogenetic, Anatomical and Ecological Data. Lehman College. City University of New York, Bronx, NY

November 2004. Evolution of biological defenses against herbivores. Florida International University. Miami, FL.

October 2004. Ant-plant relationships in Neotropical Melastomataceae: combining phylogenetic, anatomical and ecological data. Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series. Cambridge, MA.

February 2004. Ecology and Evolution of ant-plant associations in Tococa (Melastomataceae). Fairchild Tropical Gardens Research Center. Coral Gables, FL.

April 2003 Evolution of myrmecophytism: the history of plant animal interactions among melastomes and their ant inhabitants. Seminars in Systematic Biology series. American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

April 2002. Phylogenetics and character evolution in the myrmecophytic genus Tococa. Department of Botany, Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, IL.

January 2002. Biology, endemism and conservation of the Guayana Highlands. Columbus Science Center (COSI). Columbus, OH

August 2001. Endemic biota of the Lost Worlds. New Mexico Museum of Natural History. Albuquerque, NM.

February 2001. Systematics Ecology and Evolution of Tococa (Melastomataceae). Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ.

June 2000. Relaciones planta-hormiga en las Melastomataceae. Instituto de Biología experimental. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela.

April 1999. Evolución de Mirmercofitismo en Tococa Aublet (Melastomataceae): Un estudio Ecológico y Filogenético. Departamento de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas. Caracas, Venezuela.

Co-advisor for Claire Martin, Ph. D. 2006. “Systematics and Taxonomy of Leandra (Melastomataceae), and revision of Leandra section Tschudya”, Musee Nationale Histoire Naturale, Paris & Kade Fellow at The New York Botanical Garden.

Co-advisor for Miriam Kaehler, Ph. D. 2011. “Revision, phylogeny, evolution and biogeography of Lundia DC. (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae)”, Universidade de São Paulo & The New York Botanical Garden.

Co-advisor for Támara Sandino, Ms Sc. 2011. Anatomía y morfología comparada del desarrollo del ovario y fruto en la tribu Cyphostyleae (Melastomataceae), y su interpretación en un contexto filogenético. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.

Advisor for Ricardo Kriebel. Ph. D. 2014. Phylogeny, taxonomy and morphological evolution in Conostegia (Melastomataceae: Miconieae).The Graduate Center, City University of New York & The New York Botanical Garden.

Advisor for Marcelo Reginato. Ph. D. 2014. Systematics and evolution of Leandra s.str. (Melastomataceae: Miconieae).The Graduate Center, City University of New York & The New York Botanical Garden.

Advisor for Julián Aguirre, Ph.D. 2015. Systematics and evolution of the Ronnbergia Alliance (Bromeliaceae): history of disjunct diversification in three biodiversity hotspots of the Neotropics. The Graduate Center, City University of New York & The New York Botanical Garden.

Co-advisor for Julia Meirelles. Ph. D. 2015. Filogenia de Miconia seção Miconia subseção Seriatiflorae e revisão taxonômica do clado albicans (Melastomataceae, Miconieae). Universidade Estadual de Campinas & The New York Botanical Garden.

Co-advisort for Fabricio S. Meyer. Ph. D. 2016. Estudos Sistemáticos no clado de Brachyotum e gêneros aliados (Melastomataceae: Melastomeae). Universidade Estadual de Campinas & The New York Botanical Garden.

Co-advisor for Lucas de Freitas Bacci. Filogenia molecular, biogeografia e evolução de Bertolonia (Melastomataceae: Bertolonieae).Universidade Estadual de Campinas & The New York Botanical Garden.

Co-advisor for Thuane Bochorny de Souza Braga. Filogenia, biogeografia e evolução do clado Merianthera e afins (Melastomataceae). Universidade Estadual de Campinas & The New York Botanical Garden.

Doctoral Committee member for:

Fernando Matos (2015,CUNY; Systematic Studies of Elaphoglossum section Polytrichia); Donald McCleland (2012, CUNY; Systematics and taxonomy of Solanum sections Dunaliana and Irenosolanum (Solanaceae)); Adriana Sanchez (2010, Wake Forest University; Evolutionary relationships in Polygonaceae with emphasis on Triplaris), Alejandra Vasco (2009, CUNY; Systematics and phylogeny of Elaphoglossum section Lepidoglossa (Dryopteridaceae); Ratnakar Vallabhaneni (2009, CUNY; Carotenogenesis in Maize Endosperm: Natural genetic variation as a tool for predictive metabolic engineering), Michael Sundue (2008, CUNY; Systematics of grammitid ferns (Polypodiaceae): Using a combined approach to resolve the circumscription of Melopmene, and portions of the polyphyletic genera Lellingeria and Terpsichore), Todd Osmudsson (2008, Columbia University; Systematic, biogeographical, and ecological perspectives on the diversity and conservation of microbial obligate symbionts, using mycorrhizal boletes (fungi) as exemplar taxa), Paola Pedraza (2007, CUNY; Systematics and phylogeny of the Andean blueberry Disterigma (Ericaceae: Vaccinieae)).

External reviewer for the following doctoral dissertations:

Vinicius Lourenço Garcia de Brito, “Estratégia reprodutivas em Melastomataceae: estudos de caso com diferentes abordagens”, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil February 2015; Maria Eugenia Morales, “Análisis filogenético de Huilaea Wurdack (Melastomataceae) basado en datos morfológicos y moleculares”, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. August 2010; Eldis Becquer-Granados, “Taxonomía y filogenia del genero Pachyanthus (Melastomataceae; Miconieae)”, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba, May 2008; Leif Schulman, “Taxonomy, Chorology, Speciation and Conservation in a Heterogeneous Amazonia: Case-studies in the Flowering-Plant Family Melastomataceae”, Turku University, Turku, Finland. August 2003.

Postdoctoral advisor for Mariana D. Vasconcelos (June 2016-present), Miriam Kaehler (August 2015-present), Marcelo Reginato (November 2014-present), Janelle M. Burke (September 2011-August 2013), Antoine Nicolas (July 2009-August 2011), Paulo J. F. Guimaraes (December 2009-December 2010), Renato Goldenberg (August 2006-February 2007), Isabela G. Varasin (August 2006-February 2007).

Undergraduate Thesis Advisor for Karla Sosa, Columbia University, 2013. Androecium Evolution in a group of Neotropical plants: The Melastomeae (Melastomataceae).

Foreing Supervisor for Brazilian Science without borders doctoral fellows: Mayara K. Caddah (Jun 2010-Aug 2011; Ph. D. 2013; Estudos taxonómicos e filogenéticos em Miconia sect. Discolor (Melastomataceae, Miconieae)), Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Fernanda Santos Silva (2013, 2014; Delimitção do complexo de táxons reófitos de Dyckia (Bromeliaceae-Pitcarnioideae)), Jardim Botanico de Rio de Janeiro; Maria Jose Reis da Rocha (Jul 2013-Feb 2014; Filogenia e taxonomia de Melastomeae: clado Marcetieae (Melastomataceae Juss.)), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte; Ana Paula Caetano (Sep-Nov 2013; Endotécio cristalífero em Melastomataceae), Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Rafaella Cardoso Ribeiro (Aug 2014-Mar 2015; Anatomy, evolution and dispersal fruit and seeds of Melastomataceae Juss.)), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte.

Peru: 1998, 2011, 2012 (two expeditions), 2016.

Costa Rica: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015.

Brazil: 2005, 2009, 2011, 2014 (two expeditions), 2015.

Bolivia: 2007.

Argentina: 2008.

Cuba: 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013

Colombia: 2010.

Puerto Rico: 2012.

Surinam: 2013.

Guyana: 2014.
Professional Societies (Current)

American Society for Plant Taxonomy (member of the nominations committee, 2010-2012, member of the financial committee 2012-2015; member of the awards committee 2013-2014)

Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation

Botanical Society of America (Chair of the Tropical Biology Section, 2007-2010)

International Association for Plant Taxonomy
Review services (last 5 years):

Acta Botanica Venezuelica, American Journal of Botany, Anales del Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Blumea, Brittonia, Candollea, Castanea, Cladistics, Ernstia, Flora Neotropica Monographs, Harvard Papers in Botany, International Journal of Plant Sciences, Memoirs of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Nordic Journal of Botany, Novon, Phytotaxa, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Selbyana, Systematic Botany, Systematic Botany Monographs, Flowers in the Tree of Life (edited book), CUNY internal grants, National Science Foundation (panelist and ad hoc reviewer).

Member of the Plant Sciences sub-committee of the Graduate Center, City University of New York (2008-present).