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Valerie Soza

Valerie Soza
Research Scientist/Engineer
vsoza@u.washington.edu
202A JHN
(206) 543-6740
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My research attempts to understand the evolutionary history of species and the potential roles that flower morphology and biogeography play in speciation of angiosperms. Currently in the Hall lab, I am using molecular data to understand the tropical diversification of Rhododendron (Ericaceae) in Southeast Asia and to identify genes involved in flower symmetry changes in this group.

Valerie Soza completed her undergraduate studies in Environmental Studies and Anthropology at Pitzer College, Claremont, California, in 1997. Subsequently, she served as Botanical Field Studies Coordinator and Herbarium Curatorial Assistant at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont from 1997 to 2003. Dr. Soza received her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, completed her postdoctoral research at the UW, and now is a Research Scientist at UW.

Partial redundancy and functional specialization of E-class SEPALLATA genes in an early-diverging eudicot, Soza, Valerie L., Snelson Corey D., Hazelton Kristen D. Hewett, and Di Stilio Verónica S. , Developmental Biology, Volume 419, Issue 1, p.143-155, (2016)
Gelsemiaceae (Gentianales) expanded to include the enigmatic Asian genus Pteleocarpa, Struwe, L., Bradshaw, H. D. Jr., Soza V. L., Stirling Brigid, Duda, Thomas F. Jr., Manickam S., Olmstead R. G., and Bingham Jon-Paul , Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 175, p.482-496, (2014)
Vascular flora of the Verdugo Mountains and San Rafael HIlls, Los Angeles County, California, Stirling, Brigid, Yang Zamin Koo, Gunter Lee E., and Tuskan Gerald A. , Crossossoma, Volume 39, Issue 1-2, p.1-140, (2013)
Timing and consequences of recurrent polyploidy in meadow-rues (Thalictrum, Ranunculaceae), Stirling, Brigid, Soza V. L., Sandall David, Haworth K. L., Di Stilio VS, and Schultz Joseph R. , Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 30, Issue 8, p.1940-1954, (2013)
Phylogenetic insights into the correlates of dioecy in meadow-rues (Thalictrum, Ranunculaceae), Stirling, Brigid, Soza V. L., Livett Bruce G., Brunet J., Kohn Alan J., Liston A., Down John, Salles Smith P., Schultz Joseph R., and Di Stilio VS , Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 63, Issue 1, Number 1, p.180-192, (2012)
Molecular systematics of tribe Rubieae (Rubiaceae): evolution of major clades, development of leaf-like whorls, and biogeography, Soza, V. L., Stirling Brigid, Olmstead R. G., and Bingham Jon-Paul , Taxon, 2010, Volume 59, Issue 3, p.755-771, (2010)
Evolution of breeding systems and fruits in New World Galium and relatives (Rubiaceae), Stirling, Brigid, Soza V. L., Olmstead R. G., and Bingham Jon-Paul , American Journal of Botany, 2010, Volume 97, Issue 10, p.1630-1646, (2010)