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Future Blog Post

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Blog Post number 1

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portfolio

Western Plants Project

This was a project which I began with Alec Latuszek while we were at the Great Basin Institude to help early career botanists, ecologists, and rangeland scientists to identify plant specimens

publications

Plant Metagenomic Barcoding using Angiosperms353 of Corbiculae from wild Bumble Bees

Published in in prep Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2010

Herein we developed a novel framework for plant metagenomics eDNA utilizing high throughput species distribution modelling and sequencing

Recommended citation: Benkendorf, et al. (2023). "Plant Metagenomic Barcoding using Angiosperms353 of Corbiculae from wild Bumble Bees." Methods in Ecology and Evolution 1. 1(2). http://academicpages.github.io/files/paper2.pdf

talks

About a botanist

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I gave a speed talk to undergraduates in an ecology course about applied botany.

teaching

An Introduction to the Flora of Western North America

Professional, The Great Basin Institute - Research Associate Program, 2018

I developed and co-taught the essentials of arid western plant taxonomy, systematics, and ecology with my colleague Alec Latuszek. Our course was 8 hours.

R for Data Science

Graduate/Upper Undergraduate (300+), Northwestern University, Earth & Planetary Science | Environmental Science | Plant Biology & Conservation, 2020

I was a Teaching Assistant for the R4DS class at Northwestern University for Yingying Xie.

R for Data Science

Graduate/Upper Undergraduate (300+), Northwestern University, Earth & Planetary Science | Environmental Science | Plant Biology and Conservation, 2021

I was a teaching assistant for Northwestern Universities R for Data science for Josh Scholl