Susan Pell is the molecular plant
systematist at Brooklyn
 Botanic
Garden where she uses DNA sequence data and
morphological characteristics to study the
evolutionary relationships of the cashew family, Anacardiaceae. As part of her ongoing studies,
she travels worldwide to collect specimens for
her research. Dr. Pell is also program
coordinator for New York Botanic Garden's
Continuing Education classes covering genetics,
angiosperm morphology and systematics.
Selected Publications:
Pell, S.K., Mitchell, J.D., Lobova, T. &
Miller, A.J. (in press). Anacardiaceae. In K.
Kubitzki (Ed.), The Families and Genera of
Vascular Plants. New York: Springer.
Mitchell, J.D., Daly, D.C., Pell, S.K. &
Randrianasolo, A. (2006). Poupartiopsis gen. nov.
and its context in Anacardiaceae classification.
Systematic Botany, 31(2), 337–348.
Pennington, R.T., Lavin, M., Prado, D.E., Pendry,
C.A. & Pell, S.K. (2005). Climate change and
speciation. In Y. Malhi & O.L. Phillips (Eds.),
Tropical forests and global atmospheric
change. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pell, S.K. (2004). Molecular systematics of
the cashew family (Anacardiaceae). Doctoral
dissertation, Louisiana State University, Baton
Rouge.
Pennington, R.T., Lavin, M., Prado, D.E., Pendry,
C.A., Pell S.K. & Butterworth, C.A. (2004).
Historical climate change and speciation:
Neotropical seasonally dry forest plants show
patterns of both Tertiary and Quaternary
diversification. Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society of London, Ser. B. 359
(1443), 515–538.
Acevedo-Rosas, R., Cameron, K., Sosa, V. & Pell,
S.K. (2004). A molecular phylogenetic study of
Graptopetalum (Crassulaceae) based on ETS,
ITS, rpl16 and trnL-F nucleotide sequences.
American Journal of Botany 91, 1099–1104.
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