About
Aleca is a Ph.D. candidate at the Yale School of the Environment in the Brodersen Lab. She studies how plant microstructures optimize leaf light interaction, gas exchange, and carbon assimilation.
News & Media
- Read our paper on the Structural organization of the spongy mesophyll
- Learn about my experience as the 2021 Plant Science Research Fellow supported by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation
- Our work received the Maynard Moseley Award at Botany 2020 for best student paper that “advances understanding of plant structure in an evolutionary context”
- Plants & Pipettes featured our work on chlorophyll microscale spatial analysis
- Check out my first author profile from Plant Physiology
Education
MPhil, 2022, Yale School of the Environment
MESc, 2019, Yale School of the Environment
BS, 2017, University of Hawaii at Manoa