Profile

Michelle Mcmahon

Associate Professor of Practice | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Curator, Herbarium | Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute | Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

School of Plant Sciences-Res

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Research

Collaboration(8)

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Grants(20)

Section 6 Program
Active·2022·$14.5K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
public policy, government, social sciences, program evaluation, legislation
Section 6 Program Facilitation
2019·$13.3K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
program facilitation, education, leadership development, organizational management, community engagement
Continue Inventory and Verification of NPS Legacy Plant Voucher Specimens
2017·$3K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
botany, biodiversity, conservation, taxonomy, inventory
Section 6 Program Facilitation
2016·$7.6K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
program management, facilitation, training, leadership, organizational development
Continue Inventory and Verification of NPS Legacy Plant Voucher Specimens (UAZDS-455)
2016·$3K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
botany, biodiversity, documentation, inventory, verification

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Publications(31)

Recent

Duplication and functional divergence of a calcium sensor in the Brassicaceae

2020

calcium signaling, plant genetics, gene duplication, protein evolution, biological divergence

Extensive gene tree discordance and hemiplasy shaped the genomes of North American columnar cacti

2017

evolutionary genomics, botany, phylogenetics, genetic divergence, plant genetics

Homology-aware phylogenomics at gigabase scales

2017

phylogenomics, homology, genome evolution, bioinformatics, computational biology

STBase: One million species trees for comparative biology

2015

evolutionary biology, biodiversity, comparative genomics, taxonomy, phylogenetics

Impacts of terraces on phylogenetic inference

2015

phylogenetics, terracing, impact assessment, ecology, biodiversity

Exceptional reduction of the plastid genome of saguaro cactus Carnegiea gigantea) Loss of the ndh gene suite and inverted repeat

2015

plastid genomics, gene loss, saguaro cactus, genome evolution, plant genetics

EvoMiner: frequent subtree mining in phylogenetic databases

2014

phylogenetics, data mining, bioinformatics, evolutionary biology, database management

Legume phylogeny and classification in the 21st century: Progress, prospects and lessons for other species-rich clades

2013

plant phylogeny, biological classification, species diversity, evolutionary biology, genomic sequencing

Extracting conflict-free information from multi-labeled trees

2013

information extraction, natural language processing, data mining, machine learning, semantic analysis

Diversity and evolution of a trait mediating ant-plant interactions: Insights from extrafloral nectaries in Senna Leguminosae)

2013

evolution, diversity, ant-plant interactions, trait mediation, extrafloral nectaries

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Michelle Mcmahon

Collaboration(8)

Betsy Arnold

Judith Bronstein

Peter Reinthal

Mark Beilstein

Ramin Yadegari

Grants(20)

Section 6 Program

Section 6 Program Facilitation

Continue Inventory and Verification of NPS Legacy Plant Voucher Specimens

Section 6 Program Facilitation

Continue Inventory and Verification of NPS Legacy Plant Voucher Specimens (UAZDS-455)

Publications(31)

Duplication and functional divergence of a calcium sensor in the Brassicaceae

Extensive gene tree discordance and hemiplasy shaped the genomes of North American columnar cacti

Homology-aware phylogenomics at gigabase scales

STBase: One million species trees for comparative biology

Impacts of terraces on phylogenetic inference

Exceptional reduction of the plastid genome of saguaro cactus Carnegiea gigantea) Loss of the ndh gene suite and inverted repeat

EvoMiner: frequent subtree mining in phylogenetic databases

Legume phylogeny and classification in the 21st century: Progress, prospects and lessons for other species-rich clades

Extracting conflict-free information from multi-labeled trees

Diversity and evolution of a trait mediating ant-plant interactions: Insights from extrafloral nectaries in Senna Leguminosae)