1995 B.Sc. (honors), Biology, University of British Columbia
1998 A.M., Biology, Harvard University
2001 Ph.D., Biology, Harvard University

Awards and Fellowships:

1990 Charles and Jane Banks Scholarship, University of British Columbia
1991 Hewlett-Packard Prize, University of British Columbia
1991 University of British Columbia Scholarship
1994 NSERC Undergraduate Research Scholarship
1995 Mary and Joseph Bryant Scholarship
1995 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship PGS-A
1997 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship PGS-B
2000 Taylor & Francis Publisher’s Award for Excellence in Systematic Research

Research Interests:

Plant systematics, evolution, and biogeography. Phylogenetic theory.

Current Research:

Plants of the Hengduan Mountains region, China. Application of Bayesian
methods to inferring trait evolution on phylogenies.

Publications:

REE, R. H. 1997. Pollen flow, fecundity, and the adaptive significance of heterostyly in Palicourea padifolia (Rubiaceae). Biotropica 29(3):298–308.

DONOGHUE, M. J., R. H. REE and D. A. BAUM. 1998. Phylogeny and the evolution of flower symmetry in the Asteridae. Trends in Plant Sciences 3(8):311–317.

REE, R. H. and M. J. DONOGHUE. 1998. Step matrices and the interpretation of homoplasy. Systematic Biology 47(4):582–588.

REE, R. H. and M. J. DONOGHUE. 1999. Inferring rates of change in flower symmetry in asterid angiosperms. Systematic Biology 48(3):633–641.

DONOGHUE, M. J. and R. H. REE. 2000. Homoplasy and developmental constraint: a model and an example from plants. American Zoologist 40(5):759–769.

SANDERSON, M., A. C. DRISKELL, R. H. REE, O. EULENSTEIN and S. LANGLEY. 2003. Obtaining maximal concatenated phylogenetic data sets from large sequence databases. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20:1036–1042.

REE, R. H., H. L. CITERNE, M. LAVIN and Q. C. B. CRONK. 2004. Heterogeneous selection on LEGCYC paralogs in relation to flower morphology and the phylogeny of Lupinus (Leguminosae). Molecular Biology and Evolution In press.

Other Publications:

BOUFFORD, D. E. and R. H. REE. 2001. Plant diversity in the Hengduan Mountain region, China. In: International Symposium on Man and Nature, pp. 68–77.

REE, R. H. 2003. Evolutionary Biology on the World Wide Web. Evolution 57(2):438–440.

Contributed Papers/Abstracts:

1997 “Step matrices and the interpretation of homoplasy”, Society of Systematic Biologists, Boulder, CO.

1999 “Diversity of Pedicularis in the Hengduan Mountains Region, China”, Species 2000 Workshop, Tsukuba, Japan.

1999 “Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains region of China”, Botany 2000, Portland, OR (with M. Donoghue and D. Boufford).

2001 “Phylogeny and evolution of floral diversity in Pedicularis”, Botany 2001, Albuquerque, NM.

2002 “A phylogenetic supertree analysis of the green plant protein subset of GenBank”, SMBE 2002, Sorrento, Italy (with M. Sanderson and A. Driskell).