Plant Technician
Biography
Currently not actively researching but likes to read about plants, wilder and crazier the better.
When Nile entered first grade, she wanted to be a florist; everything changed when she got her first greenhouse job during her first year at Barnard College. Since then, she has been unable to stay away from greenhouses: while getting her masters at the University of Toronto; getting her first "real job" at Volunteer Park Conservatory; finally joining the team at University of Washington Biology Greenhouse in 2013.
Nile cares for the teaching collection most weeks on Wed., Thurs., and Sat. She often contributes photos to the greenhouse instagram account @uwbiogreenhouse (https://www.instagram.com/uwbiogreenhouse/)
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Selected Research
- Evolution of active and passive forms of plasticity: Insights from artificially selected Arabidopsis, Kurashige Nile and Callahan Hilary, Evolutionary ecology research, 10/2007 (2007)
- Phenotypic plasticity to light competition and herbivory in Chenopodium album (Chenopodiaceae), Kurashige Nile and Agarwal Anurag, American Journal of Botany, 01/2005 (2005)
- A Role for Isothiocyanates in Plant Resistance Against the Specialist Herbivore Pieris rapae, Kurashige Nile and Agarwal Anurag, Journal of Chemical Ecology, 07/2003, Volume 29(6):1403-15 (2003)
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