'Discovering Guyana's Biological Tree'
Guyana Chronicle
February 3, 2007
THE U.S. Embassy here is sponsoring a seminar entitled `Discovering Guyana’s Biological Tree’ on Tuesday at the Woodbine Room, Cara Lodge Hotel, on Quamina Street, Georgetown.
The embassy yesterday said the seminar which begins at 17:00h will be conducted by scientist Dr. Karen M. Redden of the George Washington University in the U.S.
Redden, it said, is a visiting scientist from George Washington University where she is doing a post doctoral fellowship with Dr. Patrick Herendeen.
It added that she has been working in Guyana for the past six years on legume systematics and forest biodiversity and is focusing on a small group of legumes that are concentrated in the Guiana Shield, some of which are endemic to Guyana.
She completed her doctorate degree in August 2006 on the Systematics of Paloue and Related Genera in the Brownea Clade (Detarieae, Caesalpinioideae) of Northeastern South America. Her work has included nine separate collecting expeditions to different areas of Guyana and one expedition to Venezuela.
She will be presenting an overview of her research findings and sharing her experiences in Guyana, the embassy said.
All are welcome to attend, it added.