Curriculum Vitae - Systematic Botany and Mycology

Juliana Chacón – Curriculum Vitae, 27 August 2012 1
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: Juliana Chacón Pinilla
Address: Dom-Pedro Str. 15a, 80637 Munich
Phone: +49 0157 87004505
E-mail: juliana.chacon@bio.lmu.de
Date of birth: 6 th February 1980
Nationality: Colombian
EDUCATION
Curriculum vitae
Ph.D. Student Current
M.Sc. Biology 2005
B.Sc. Biology 2003
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, Prof. Dr.
Susanne S. Renner (employed within DFG-funded project (2010-
2013) RE 603/10-1 and 10-2)
Project: Phylogeny and biogeography of the families
Alstroemeriaceae and the Colchicaceae
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant. Summer semesters, 2010, 2011, Bestimmungskurs; Winter semester, 2010,
WP 10 Botanik und Mykologie, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Research Assistant. 2007 – 2009, International Center for Tropical Agriculture – CIAT, Cali,
Colombia
Research Assistant. 2006 – 2007, Laboratorio de Botánica y Sistemática, Universidad de los
Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Visiting Researcher. 2003 – 2005, International Center for Tropical Agriculture – CIAT, Cali,
Colombia
Head Teaching Assistant. 2003, Phylogenetic Systematics course, Universidad de los Andes,
Bogotá, Colombia
PUBLICATIONS
Chacón, J., A. Sousa, C. M. Baeza, and S. S. Renner. 2012. Ribosomal DNA distribution and a
genus-wide phylogeny reveal patterns of chromosomal evolution in Alstroemeria
(Alstroemeriaceae). American Journal of Botany 99: 1501–1512.
Chacón, J., M. C. Assis, A. W. Meerow, and S. S. Renner. 2012. From East Gondwana to
Central America: Historical biogeography of the Alstroemeriaceae. Journal of Biogeography.
Published online: 12 July, 2012. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02749.x
CBOL Plant Working Group (P. M. Hollingsworth, L. L. Forrest, J. L. Spouge, M. Hajibabaei, S.
Ratnasingham, M. van der Bank, M. W. Chase, R. S. Cowan, D. L. Erickson, A. J. Fazekas, S. W.
Graham, K. E. James, KJ. Kim, W. J. Kress, H. Schneider, J. van AlphenStahl, S. C. H. Barrett,
C. van den Berg, D. Bogarin, K. S. Burgess, K. M. Cameron, M. Carine, J. Chacón, A. Clark, J.

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J. Clarkson, F. Conrad, D. S. Devey, C. S. Ford, T. A. J. Hedderson, M. L. Hollingsworth, B. C.
Husband, L. J. Kelly, P. R. Kesanakurti, JS. Kim, YD. Kim, R. Lahaye, HL. Lee, D. G. Long, S.
Madriñán, O. Maurin, I. Meusnier, S. G. Newmaster, CW. Park, D. M. Percy, G. Petersen, J. E.
Richardson, G. A. Salazar, V. Savolainen, O. Seberg, M. J. Wilkinson, DK. Yi, and D. P. Little).
2009. A DNA barcode for land plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the
United States of America, 106 (31): 12794 – 12797.
Chacón, J., S. Madriñán, D. Debouck, F. Rodríguez, and J. Tohme. 2008. Phylogenetic patterns
in the genus Manihot (Euphorbiaceae) inferred from analyses of nuclear and chloroplast DNA
regions. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 49 (1): 260 – 267.
Chacón, J., S. Madriñán, M. W. Chase, and J. J. Bruhl. 2006. Molecular Phylogenetics and
Historical Biogeography of Oreobolus (Cyperaceae). Taxon, 55 (2): 359 – 366.
GRANTS AND PRICES
Best oral presentation, 14th Nordic Meeting on Tropical Botany, Gothenburg, Sweden, 6–8
August 2012
Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics program travel fund, Ludwig-Maximilians University, to
present a talk at the BioSystematics Berlin 2011, Germany, February 21–27, 2011
Research Assistant Scholarship Award, October 2009 – January 2010 for International Ph.D.
Students, Ludwig-Maximilians University under the auspices of the STIBET scholarship and
supported by the DAAD
Young Scientist Support from the XVII International Botanical Congress organization to attend
the XVII International Botanical Congress IBC 2005, Vienna, Austria, July 17 – 23, 2005
Ginés - Mera Fellowship for Postgraduate Studies in Agrobiodiversity, October 2003 –
March 2005, from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture – CIAT, Cali, Colombia
ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Chacón, J. and S. S. Renner. Alstroemeriaceaeae, a plant family with an Austral-Antarctic
distribution that expanded into tropical latitudes – inferring the when and how.
14th Nordic Meeting on Tropical Botany, Gothenburg, Sweden, 6–8 August 2012
Chacón, J., A. Vinnersten, and S. S. Renner. Nuclear and mitochondrial data tell a new story
about genus boundaries and biogeography of the Colchicaceae.
Southern African Society for Systematic Biology 10th Meeting, SASSB X, Arniston, South
Africa, July 16 – 20, 2012
Chacón, J., M. Camargo de Assis, A. W. Meerow, and S. S. Renner. New insights into the
biogeography of the Austral floristic realm from a complete phylogeny for the Alstroemeriaceae.
XVIII International Botanical Congress IBC 2011, Melbourne, Australia, July 23 – 30 2011
Chacón, J. and S. S. Renner. Phylogeny and biogeography of the Alstroemeriaceae, an important
clade of the Austral floristic realm.
BioSystematics Berlin 2011, Berlin, Germany, February 21 – 27, 2011
Chacón, J. and S. S. Renner. Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of Alstroemeriaceae, an
important clade of the Austral floristic realm (Poster).
VW Status Symposium in Evolutionary Biology, Frauenchiemsee, Germany, May 9 – 12, 2010

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Chacón, J. and S. Madriñán (Poster). Plant Biology 2007 and Botany 2007 Joint Congress.
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Chacón, J., S. Madriñán, M. W. Chase and J. J. Bruhl. Molecular Phylogenetics and Historical
Biogeography of Oreobolus (Cyperaceae).
XVII International Botanical Congress IBC 2005, Vienna. Abstracts Book, XVII International
Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria: Austria Center Vienna, 2005. Pp: 214.
Chacón, J., S. Madriñán and J. Tohme. Phylogenetic patterns in the genus Manihot Mill.
(Euphorbiaceae): biogeography and comparative ecology of Central American and South
American species.
III Congreso Colombiano de Botánica, 2004, Popayán. Abstracts Book, III Congreso Colombiano
de Botánica, Popayán: Universidad del Cauca, 2004. Pp: 359 – 360.
Chacón, J., and S. Madriñán (Poster). VIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Botánica y II Congreso
Colombiano de Botánica 2002, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
ATTENDED WORKSHOPS/MEETINGS
TreeBOL Meeting, November 2008, New York Botanical Garden, New York, USA
III Congreso Colombiano de Biotecnología, II Seminario Internacional de Bionegocios, August
2008, Bogotá, Colombia
MolConnect Workshop "Bridging Genomics and Biodiversity" September 2006, Bogotá,
Colombia
Workshop on Molecular Evolution 2004, July – August, 2004, Marine Biological Laboratory,
Woods Hole, MA, USA
INTERNSHIPS
Visiting Researcher, May – August 2002, Supervisor: Dr. Mark W. Chase, Jodrell Laboratory,
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
LANGUAGES
Spanish, English and German (basic knowledge)
BIOINFORMATICS
BEAST, DnaSP, FigTree, Geneious, Lagrange, MacClade, MAFFT, Mesquite, Modeltest,
MrBayes, PAUP*, r8s, RASP, RAxML, S-DIVA, Sequencher, Sequin
BioGeomancer, Dendroscope, Google Earth, GPS Visualizer, Quantum GIS, TreeEdit