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Vicki Funk

February 16, 2024

Vicki Ann Funk (November 26, 1947 – October 22, 2019) was an American botanist and curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, known for her work on members of the composite family (Asteraceae) including collecting plants in many parts of the world, as well as her synthetic work on phylogenetics and biogeography.[1][2][3]

Vicki Funk
Funk in 2010
Born
Vicki Ann Funk

(1947-11-26)November 26, 1947
Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S.
DiedOctober 22, 2019(2019-10-22) (aged 71)
Alma materB.S., Murray State University, Biology and History, 1969, M.S., Murray State University, Biology, 1975; PhD, Ohio State University, 1980
Known forBotanist and curator
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsNew York Botanical Garden,
Smithsonian Institution,
George Mason University,
Duke University
Theses
  • A Floristic and Geologic Survey of Selected Seeps of Calloway County, KY.
  • The Systematics of Montanoa Cerv. (Asteraceae)
Author abbrev. (botany)V.A.Funk

Biography edit

Funk was born on November 26, 1947, in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Edwin Joseph and Betty Ann (née Massenburg) Funk. She had two brothers, Edwin Jr. and Jared Kirk. She grew up in Owensboro and at a few United States Air Force bases before she was in elementary school. Funk studied biology and history at Murray State University in Kentucky and received a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in 1969. She had wanted to attend medical school, but decided against it after volunteering at a hospital one summer. After graduating, she lived and worked part-time in Germany for two years, then returned to the United States to teach high school for one year. She then spent a summer at the Hancock Biological Station on Kentucky Lake. There she discovered her passion for field work and research.[4]

In 1975, she received an M.S. in biology at Murray State where her thesis was A Floristic and Geologic Survey of Selected Seeps of Calloway County, KY. Her advisor was Dr. Marian Fuller. She spent the summer of 1975 studying aquatic plants at Stone Lab at Lake Erie. In the fall she began doctoral studies at Ohio State University with Ron Stuckey as her advisor. She later changed her focus to Compositae with Tod Stuessy. She was an assistant curator at the Ohio State University from 1976 until 1977.[4] In 1980, she graduated from the Ohio State University with a Ph.D., writing her thesis on The Systematics of Montanoa Cerv. (Asteraceae), which was published in 1982 in the Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. In 1981, she spent a postdoctoral year at the New York Botanical Garden[5] where she studied Compositae with Arthur Cronquist[4] and the newly developing field of phylogenetics at the American Museum of Natural History.

Funk was appointed as a research scientist and curator at the U.S. National Herbarium of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in 1981. In 1986, she published A Phylogenetic analysis of the Orchidaceae (Smithsonian Institution Press) with Dr. Pamela Burns-Balogh. In 2004, she became a senior research scientist and curator of compositae at the U.S. National Herbarium Department of Botany.

Funk's research included detailing evolutionary relationships and biogeography using plant DNA.[6] She co-discovered the critically endangered Bidens meyeri in Rapa Iti, French Polynesia.[7] Her work shows that this Bidens species may represent the end of a migration from North America through the Society Islands to the Austral Islands.[8]

Beginning in 1988, she served as head of the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program (BDG), and in 2015 began the Global Genome Initiative for Gardens, both headquartered at the Smithsonian Institution. Both of these programs were passed on to others in 2018. She was also an adjunct professor at George Mason University and Duke University.[3]

Funk was a member of a number of societies and served in a position for many. She was the president of the Society of Systematic Biologists (1998–1999), American Society of Plant Taxonomists (2006–2007), International Biogeography Society (2007–2009), Botanical Society of Washington (2014), and International Association of Plant Taxonomists (2011–2017). She was in many other positions in these societies and others.

Awards and honors edit

In 2001, the government of Queensland awarded Funk a Queensland Research Fellowship.[9][citation needed] In 2009, she received two awards: the Secretary's Award for Excellence in Collaboration and the National Museum of Natural History Science Achievement Award. In 2010, she was awarded the Stebbins' Medal for the best publication in Plant Systematics or Plant Evolution in the period 2007 to 2009 from the International Association for Plant Taxonomy.[10] In 2012, she won the Smithsonian's Secretary's Award for Outstanding Publication and became a board member for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center for two years. In 2014 she won the Rolf Dahlgren Prize for her major contributions to the understanding of the systematics and evolution of the angiosperms.[11]

Funk has also been recognized for lifetime achievements in her field. In 2018, she won the Asa Gray Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.[12] In 2019, the Linnean Society of London recognized Funk with its Linnean Medal for lifetime service to the natural sciences. In 2019, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists announced the new Vicki Funk Fund for Graduate Student Research in her honor.[13]

In 2005, scientists named a new species of ant after Vicki Funk. This species, Pheidole funki, is known only from a single specimen collected in Guyana.[14] Two genera, namely Vickia and Vickifunkia, are named in honor of Vicki Funk's contribution towards systematics of Compositae.[15][16] The species Xenophyllum funkianum J. Calvo from the Ecuadorian Andes was named after her in 2020 in a posthumous co-publication.[17] Baccharis funkiae, a narrow endemic species of Compositae from Uruguay is named after Vicki Funk.[18] Indian botanists named a new species of Gesneriaceae as Didymocarpus vickifunkiae to honor her contributions.[19]

In November 2020, the Journal of Systematics and Evolution dedicated a special issue on collection-based systematics and biogeography as a tribute to Vicki Funk.[20]

Bibliography edit

The standard author abbreviation V.A. Funk is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[21]

  • Funk, Vicki (2004). "100 Uses for an Herbarium (Well at Least 72)" (PDF). Division of Botany, The Yale University Herbarium. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  • "An opinion: Down with Alphabetically Arranged Herbaria (and alphabetically arranged floras too for that matter)" (PDF). Plant Science Bulletin Volume 49 Issue 4. Retrieved October 13, 2021.

Select publications edit

 
Scholia has a profile for Vicki Ann Funk (Q19060876).

She was the author or co-author of over 280 publications.

Top five cited papers[when?]:

Top five cited papers in the last five years (2013 – August 2018):

References edit

  1. ^ "Botany Staff - Vicki Funk". Smithsonian National Museum of Natural HIstory. 2015. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
  2. ^ "Thistles and Sunflowers". The Science Show. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. May 27, 2000. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Funk, Victoria Ann (Vicki) (1947-) on". Global Plants on JSTOR. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
  4. ^ a b c The Washington Biologists' Field Club : its members and its history (1900-2006) (PDF). Perry, Matthew Calbraith., Washington Biologists' Field Club. Washington, D.C.: Washington Biologists' Field Club. 2007. ISBN 9780615162591. OCLC 182749326.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ "Department of Botany Staff, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution". botany.si.edu. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  6. ^ Weaver, Janelle (2010). "Daisy family shows its roots". Nature. Macmillan Publishers Limited. doi:10.1038/news.2010.488. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
  7. ^ Funk, Vicki; Wood, Kenneth (October 13, 2014). "Bidens meyeri (Asteraceae, Coreopsideae): a new critically endangered species from Rapa, Austral Islands". PhytoKeys (42): 39–47. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.42.8408. ISSN 1314-2003. PMC 4225073. PMID 25383010.
  8. ^ Cohn, Tony (January 21, 2015). "New South Pacific cliff flower is critically endangered". SmithsonianScience.org. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
  9. ^ Queensland Research Fellowship
  10. ^ Schmid, Rudolf (2012). "RECIPIENTS OF IAPT'S MEDALS AWARDED 1987-DATE" (PDF). Retrieved November 24, 2018.
  11. ^ Friis, Ib (May 5, 2015). "The Rolf Dahlgren-Prize for 2014 Awarded to Vicki Funk". Taxon. 64 (2): 405. doi:10.12705/642.32. ISSN 0040-0262.
  12. ^ "2018 Asa Gray Award". American Society of Plant Taxonomists. Retrieved November 24, 2018.
  13. ^ "Honors and Awards" (PDF). The Plant Press. 22 (4): 17. 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2022.
  14. ^ "Pheidole funki - AntWiki". www.antwiki.org. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
  15. ^ Roque, Nádia; Sancho, Gisela (2020). "Vickia, a new genus of tribe Gochnatieae (Compositae)". Taxon. 69 (4): 668–678. doi:10.1002/tax.12283. ISSN 1996-8175. S2CID 225357269.
  16. ^ Ren, Chen; Wang, Long; Illarionova, Irina D.; Yang, Qin-Er (2020). "Circumscription and phylogenetic position of Ligularia sect. Stenostegia (Asteraceae: Senecioneae) based on morphological, cytological, and molecular phylogenetic evidence". Taxon. 69 (4): 739–755. doi:10.1002/tax.12280. S2CID 225271180.
  17. ^ Calvo, Joel; Funk, Vicki (2020). "Two new species of the Andean genus Xenophyllum (Senecioneae, Compositae)". PhytoKeys (139): 29–38. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.139.47872. PMC 6997244. PMID 32042248.
  18. ^ Bonifacino, José Mauricio; Heiden, Gustavo; Valtierra, María Victoria; Marchesi, Eduardo (December 8, 2020). "Baccharis funkiae (Compositae: Astereae), a New Narrow Endemic Species from Uruguay". Systematic Botany. 45 (4): 937–942. doi:10.1600/036364420X16033962925204. S2CID 231713602.
  19. ^ Prasanna, Naibi Shrungeshwara; Gowda, Vinita (December 2020). "Didymocarpus vickifunkiae (Gesneriaceae), a New Species from the Indo-Burma Hotspot and Lectotypification of D. aureoglandulosus". www.ingentaconnect.com. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
  20. ^ "Collections-Based Systematics and Biogeography in the 21st Century: A Tribute to Dr. Vicki Funk: Journal of Systematics and Evolution: Vol 58, No 6". Wiley Online Library. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  21. ^ International Plant Names Index.  V.A. Funk.

External links edit

  • Public profile at Bionomia, showing samples collected and identified by Funk, and science enabled
  • "Ask-a-Biologist Transcript – Vol 051 – (Guests: Vicki Funk and Richard Pyle)" (PDF). asu.edu. 2004. Retrieved March 27, 2015.

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Vicki Ann Funk November 26 1947 October 22 2019 was an American botanist and curator at the Smithsonian s National Museum of Natural History known for her work on members of the composite family Asteraceae including collecting plants in many parts of the world as well as her synthetic work on phylogenetics and biogeography 1 2 3 Vicki FunkFunk in 2010BornVicki Ann Funk 1947 11 26 November 26 1947Owensboro Kentucky U S DiedOctober 22 2019 2019 10 22 aged 71 Alma materB S Murray State University Biology and History 1969 M S Murray State University Biology 1975 PhD Ohio State University 1980Known forBotanist and curatorAwardsQueensland Fellowship 2001 Society of Systematic Biologists President s Award for Service 2002 National Museum of Natural History Science Achievement Award 2006 National Museum of Natural History Science Achievement Award 2009 Secretary s Award for Excellence in Collaboration 2009 International Association for Plant Taxonomy Stebbins Medal 2010 Smithsonian s Secretary s Award for Outstanding Publication 2012 Rolf Dahlgren Prize 2014 American Society of Plant Taxonomists Asa Gray Lifetime Achievement Award 2018 Linnean Medal 2019 Scientific careerInstitutionsNew York Botanical Garden Smithsonian Institution George Mason University Duke UniversityThesesA Floristic and Geologic Survey of Selected Seeps of Calloway County KY The Systematics of Montanoa Cerv Asteraceae Author abbrev botany V A Funk Contents 1 Biography 2 Awards and honors 3 Bibliography 4 Select publications 5 References 6 External linksBiography editFunk was born on November 26 1947 in Owensboro Kentucky to Edwin Joseph and Betty Ann nee Massenburg Funk She had two brothers Edwin Jr and Jared Kirk She grew up in Owensboro and at a few United States Air Force bases before she was in elementary school Funk studied biology and history at Murray State University in Kentucky and received a Bachelor of Science BS degree in 1969 She had wanted to attend medical school but decided against it after volunteering at a hospital one summer After graduating she lived and worked part time in Germany for two years then returned to the United States to teach high school for one year She then spent a summer at the Hancock Biological Station on Kentucky Lake There she discovered her passion for field work and research 4 In 1975 she received an M S in biology at Murray State where her thesis was A Floristic and Geologic Survey of Selected Seeps of Calloway County KY Her advisor was Dr Marian Fuller She spent the summer of 1975 studying aquatic plants at Stone Lab at Lake Erie In the fall she began doctoral studies at Ohio State University with Ron Stuckey as her advisor She later changed her focus to Compositae with Tod Stuessy She was an assistant curator at the Ohio State University from 1976 until 1977 4 In 1980 she graduated from the Ohio State University with a Ph D writing her thesis on The Systematics of Montanoa Cerv Asteraceae which was published in 1982 in the Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden In 1981 she spent a postdoctoral year at the New York Botanical Garden 5 where she studied Compositae with Arthur Cronquist 4 and the newly developing field of phylogenetics at the American Museum of Natural History Funk was appointed as a research scientist and curator at the U S National Herbarium of the Smithsonian Institution s National Museum of Natural History in 1981 In 1986 she published A Phylogenetic analysis of the Orchidaceae Smithsonian Institution Press with Dr Pamela Burns Balogh In 2004 she became a senior research scientist and curator of compositae at the U S National Herbarium Department of Botany Funk s research included detailing evolutionary relationships and biogeography using plant DNA 6 She co discovered the critically endangered Bidens meyeri in Rapa Iti French Polynesia 7 Her work shows that this Bidens species may represent the end of a migration from North America through the Society Islands to the Austral Islands 8 Beginning in 1988 she served as head of the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program BDG and in 2015 began the Global Genome Initiative for Gardens both headquartered at the Smithsonian Institution Both of these programs were passed on to others in 2018 She was also an adjunct professor at George Mason University and Duke University 3 Funk was a member of a number of societies and served in a position for many She was the president of the Society of Systematic Biologists 1998 1999 American Society of Plant Taxonomists 2006 2007 International Biogeography Society 2007 2009 Botanical Society of Washington 2014 and International Association of Plant Taxonomists 2011 2017 She was in many other positions in these societies and others Awards and honors editIn 2001 the government of Queensland awarded Funk a Queensland Research Fellowship 9 citation needed In 2009 she received two awards the Secretary s Award for Excellence in Collaboration and the National Museum of Natural History Science Achievement Award In 2010 she was awarded the Stebbins Medal for the best publication in Plant Systematics or Plant Evolution in the period 2007 to 2009 from the International Association for Plant Taxonomy 10 In 2012 she won the Smithsonian s Secretary s Award for Outstanding Publication and became a board member for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center for two years In 2014 she won the Rolf Dahlgren Prize for her major contributions to the understanding of the systematics and evolution of the angiosperms 11 Funk has also been recognized for lifetime achievements in her field In 2018 she won the Asa Gray Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Plant Taxonomists 12 In 2019 the Linnean Society of London recognized Funk with its Linnean Medal for lifetime service to the natural sciences In 2019 the American Society of Plant Taxonomists announced the new Vicki Funk Fund for Graduate Student Research in her honor 13 In 2005 scientists named a new species of ant after Vicki Funk This species Pheidole funki is known only from a single specimen collected in Guyana 14 Two genera namely Vickia and Vickifunkia are named in honor of Vicki Funk s contribution towards systematics of Compositae 15 16 The species Xenophyllum funkianum J Calvo from the Ecuadorian Andes was named after her in 2020 in a posthumous co publication 17 Baccharis funkiae a narrow endemic species of Compositae from Uruguay is named after Vicki Funk 18 Indian botanists named a new species of Gesneriaceae as Didymocarpus vickifunkiae to honor her contributions 19 In November 2020 the Journal of Systematics and Evolution dedicated a special issue on collection based systematics and biogeography as a tribute to Vicki Funk 20 Bibliography editThe standard author abbreviation V A Funk is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name 21 Funk Vicki 2004 100 Uses for an Herbarium Well at Least 72 PDF Division of Botany The Yale University Herbarium Retrieved October 13 2021 An opinion Down with Alphabetically Arranged Herbaria and alphabetically arranged floras too for that matter PDF Plant Science Bulletin Volume 49 Issue 4 Retrieved October 13 2021 Select publications edit nbsp Scholia has a profile for Vicki Ann Funk Q19060876 She was the author or co author of over 280 publications Top five cited papers when EO Wiley D Siegel Causey DR Brooks VA Funk 1991 The compleat cladist A primer of phylogeny procedures https repository si edu bitstream handle 10088 11369 bot 1991 pr Wiley etal CompleatCladist pdf WL Wagner VA Funk 1995 Hawaiian biogeography Smithsonian Institution Press https www biodiversitylibrary org item 224621 page 7 mode 1up VA Funk R Bayer S Keeley R Chan L Watson B Gemeinholzer E Schilling J Panero B Baldwin NT Garcia Jacas A Susanna RK Jansen 2005 Everywhere but Antarctica Using a supertree to understand the diversity and distribution of the Compositae In Proceedings of a Symposium on Plant Diversity and Complexity Patterns Local Regional and Global Dimensions I Friis and H Balslev eds The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Copenhagen Biologiske Skrifter 55 343 374 https repository si edu bitstream handle 10088 11397 bot 2005 pr Funk etal Supertree pdf JL Panero VA Funk 2008 The value of sampling anomalous taxa in phylogenetic studies major clades of the Asteraceae revealed Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47 2 757 782 https repository si edu bitstream handle 10088 11405 bot 2008 pr Panero Funk Base tree pdf VA Funk A Susanna T Stuessy R Bayer 2009 Systematics evolution and biogeography of Compositae International Association for Plant Taxonomy Top five cited papers in the last five years 2013 August 2018 JR Mandel RB Dikow VA Funk RR Masalia SE Staton A Kozik RW Michelmore LH Rieseberg JM Burke 2014 A target enrichment method for gathering phylogenetic information from hundreds of loci an example from the Compositae Applications in Plant Sciences 2 2 1300085 https onlinelibrary wiley com doi pdf 10 3732 apps 1300085 J Wen SM Ickert Bond MS Appelhans LJ Dorr VA Funk 2015 Collections based systematics Opportunities and outlook for 2050 Journal of Systematics and Evolution 53 6 477 488 https onlinelibrary wiley com doi full 10 1111 jse 12181 J Wen RH Ree SM Ickert Bond Z Nie V Funk 2013 Biogeography where do we go from here Taxon 62 5 912 927 https www ingentaconnect com contentone iapt tax 2013 00000062 00000005 art00007 crawler true JR Mandel RB Dikow VA Funk 2015 Using phylogenomics to resolve mega families An example from Compositae Journal of Systematics and Evolution 53 5 391 402 https onlinelibrary wiley com doi pdf 10 1111 jse 12167 ZL Nie V Funk H Sun T Deng Y Meng J Wen 2013 Molecular phylogeny of Anaphalis Asteraceae Gnaphalieae with biogeographic implications in the Northern Hemisphere Journal of Plant Research 126 1 17 32 https link springer com article 10 1007 s10265 012 0506 6References edit Botany Staff Vicki Funk Smithsonian National Museum of Natural HIstory 2015 Retrieved March 27 2015 Thistles and Sunflowers The Science Show Australian Broadcasting Corporation May 27 2000 Retrieved March 27 2015 a b Funk Victoria Ann Vicki 1947 on Global Plants on JSTOR Retrieved March 27 2015 a b c The Washington Biologists Field Club its members and its history 1900 2006 PDF Perry Matthew Calbraith Washington Biologists Field Club Washington D C Washington Biologists Field Club 2007 ISBN 9780615162591 OCLC 182749326 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint others link Department of Botany Staff National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution botany si edu Retrieved November 21 2015 Weaver Janelle 2010 Daisy family shows its roots Nature Macmillan Publishers Limited doi 10 1038 news 2010 488 Retrieved March 27 2015 Funk Vicki Wood Kenneth October 13 2014 Bidens meyeri Asteraceae Coreopsideae a new critically endangered species from Rapa Austral Islands PhytoKeys 42 39 47 doi 10 3897 phytokeys 42 8408 ISSN 1314 2003 PMC 4225073 PMID 25383010 Cohn Tony January 21 2015 New South Pacific cliff flower is critically endangered SmithsonianScience org Retrieved March 27 2015 Queensland Research Fellowship Schmid Rudolf 2012 RECIPIENTS OF IAPT S MEDALS AWARDED 1987 DATE PDF Retrieved November 24 2018 Friis Ib May 5 2015 The Rolf Dahlgren Prize for 2014 Awarded to Vicki Funk Taxon 64 2 405 doi 10 12705 642 32 ISSN 0040 0262 2018 Asa Gray Award American Society of Plant Taxonomists Retrieved November 24 2018 Honors and Awards PDF The Plant Press 22 4 17 2019 Retrieved May 17 2022 Pheidole funki AntWiki www antwiki org Retrieved March 29 2021 Roque Nadia Sancho Gisela 2020 Vickia a new genus of tribe Gochnatieae Compositae Taxon 69 4 668 678 doi 10 1002 tax 12283 ISSN 1996 8175 S2CID 225357269 Ren Chen Wang Long Illarionova Irina D Yang Qin Er 2020 Circumscription and phylogenetic position of Ligularia sect Stenostegia Asteraceae Senecioneae based on morphological cytological and molecular phylogenetic evidence Taxon 69 4 739 755 doi 10 1002 tax 12280 S2CID 225271180 Calvo Joel Funk Vicki 2020 Two new species of the Andean genus Xenophyllum Senecioneae Compositae PhytoKeys 139 29 38 doi 10 3897 phytokeys 139 47872 PMC 6997244 PMID 32042248 Bonifacino Jose Mauricio Heiden Gustavo Valtierra Maria Victoria Marchesi Eduardo December 8 2020 Baccharis funkiae Compositae Astereae a New Narrow Endemic Species from Uruguay Systematic Botany 45 4 937 942 doi 10 1600 036364420X16033962925204 S2CID 231713602 Prasanna Naibi Shrungeshwara Gowda Vinita December 2020 Didymocarpus vickifunkiae Gesneriaceae a New Species from the Indo Burma Hotspot and Lectotypification of D aureoglandulosus www ingentaconnect com Retrieved March 29 2021 Collections Based Systematics and Biogeography in the 21st Century A Tribute to Dr Vicki Funk Journal of Systematics and Evolution Vol 58 No 6 Wiley Online Library Retrieved January 14 2021 International Plant Names Index V A Funk External links editPublic profile at Bionomia showing samples collected and identified by Funk and science enabled Ask a Biologist Transcript Vol 051 Guests Vicki Funk and Richard Pyle PDF asu edu 2004 Retrieved March 27 2015 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Vicki Funk amp oldid 1193558261, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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