Welcome! Bienvenidxs!

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I'm Lina Aragón, a plant ecophysiologist and NatGeo explorer from Colombia. I am pursuing a Ph.D. in the Feeley Lab at the University of Miami.

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​I want to understand how plants thrive under extreme environmental conditions without walking, talking, or seeing. How do they use available resources to live and co-exist, and how have their surrounding biotic and abiotic conditions shaped their functional traits? I look forward to deepening my knowledge of how plants might respond to climate change and the effects of this phenomenon on our planet. I am most keen about answering all these questions for tropical ecosystems.

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I did my undergrad and first masters thesis projects in the Lasso Lab at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia). After that, I went to the Messier Lab at the University of Waterloo, Ontario (Canada), where I did my second master's during the COVID19 pandemic.

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You can learn more about my current and past research projects here. If you want to understand my nonlinear path check my CV (current as of October 2022).