Gee Research Group
Welcome to the Gee Lab!
We are interested in all aspects of botany and paleobotany, from the living to the fossil realm. Our approach to fossil plants is to view them as living organisms in Deep Time, and our main areas of research are morphology, anatomy, biological affinity, ecology, and taphonomy. Most of our studies focus on the paleobotany of the Mesozoic and pre-Quaternary Cenozoic, although we also study living plants, the formation of plant assemblages in the sedimentary record of the present day, and plant fossilization in order to understand the past. Since 2018, I have been a principal investigator and steering committee member of DFG Research Unit 2685 on Fossilization. Here is a link to a blog post on the book that we have published on fossilzation after 3.5 years: https:////www.press.jhu.edu/news/blog/glorious-colorful-world-fossils.
Current members of the Gee Lab
| Name | Room | Telephone | ||||
| PD Dr. Carole Gee | 0.001 | cgee[at]uni-bonn.de | 73 3063 | |||
| Dr. Shook Ling Low |
0.002 | slow[at]uni-bonn.de | 73 9365 | |||
| Aowei Xie, M.Sc. | 0.002 | s6aoxiee[at]uni-bonn.de | 73 9365 | |||
| Mariah Howell |
0.009 | s6mahowe[at]uni-bonn.de | 73 4069 | |||
| Kelly Shunn | 0.009 | s6keshun[at]uni-bonn.de |
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| Jonas Zajonz | 0.009 | Research Assistant | 73 4069 | |||
Former members of the Gee Lab
Dr. Moritz Liesegang, DFG Postdoctoral researcher, 2018–2020
Silicification of wood
Dr. Victoria McCoy, DFG Postdoctoral researcher, 2018–2019 Chemical defenses in fossil plants
Dr. Jo Hellawell, DFG Postdoctoral researcher, 2011–2014
Silicification of wood
Luis Gustavo Pereira, M.Sc., 2021
Mineralogy and preservational quality of Late Mesozoic silicified wood and mineralized dinosaur bone
Samantha Moody, M.Sc., 2018
Longevity, growth rate, and wood anatomy of the hemiparasitic shrub Krameria lappacea (Krameriaceae)
Jessica Landgraf, B.Sc. Geosciences, 2015
Fossil conifers and charophytes from the Late Jurassic of northern Germany
Tatjana Laupenmühlen, M.Sc. Geosciences, 2015
Systematics of fossil angiosperm wood from the Miocene of Greece
Katrin Weiser, M.Sc. OEP Biology, 2015
Phyllotaxy in Araucaria fossil and recent conifer cones
Nicole Garten, M.Sc. OEP Biology, 2014
Systematics of fossil wood from the Eocene of Texas
Sashima Läbe, M.Sc. Geosciences, 2012
Experimental silicification in tree ferns
