The Van Etten Lab

Humans have impacted ecosystems worldwide, often with devastating consequences. Recent research has suggested that evolution can occur at ecologically relevant time scales to help mitigate these consequences. I research a variety of evolutionary responses to humans.

Teaching

My goal as a teacher is to provide students with opportunities to explore the process of science. I teach a variety of courses including non-majors plant biology, genetics and molecular biology using active learning techniques to engage students.

Publications

Click here to view publications, with links to pdfs of the papers.

Awesome SC120N Projects

This year was another great showing of the talent and creativity of PSU Scranton students. The Final Projects were amazing and helped teach the world about plants. Take a look at the winning projects.

Botany and Evolution presentations!

In concert with Jared Griffin, an undergrad in the lab, I authored two talks this summer. At Evolution, Jared presented a talk titled Sexual Selection in Plants: History and Bias. At Botany, I presented a talk titled Variation in pollinator

So many posters!

8 students presented their research at the local research fair and 3 were invited to the regional research symposium. Congratulations everyone!

Paper Published!

My commentary about pollen limitation now published through Annals of Botany.

The Van Etten Lab

The Van Etten Lab

The Van Etten Lab

The Van Etten Lab

What we do

Research

Teaching

Publications

Latest News from the lab

Awesome SC120N Projects

Botany and Evolution presentations!

So many posters!

Paper Published!