Daniel Lee Nickrent
- January 10, 2024
- American Botanist
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Daniel Lee Nickrent |
| Occupation | American Botanist |
| Date Of Birth | Feb 20, 1956(1956-02-20) |
| Age | 68 |
| Birthplace | Bloomington |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | Illinois |
| Horoscope | Aquarius |
Daniel Lee Nickrent Biography
| Name | Daniel Lee Nickrent |
| Birthday | Feb 20 |
| Birth Year | 1956 |
| Place Of Birth | Bloomington |
| Home Town | Illinois |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
Daniel Lee Nickrent is one of the most popular and richest American botanist who was born on February 20, 1956 in Bloomington, Illinois, United States. After completing a year towards an undergraduate education from Illinois State University, Nickrent’s fascination with plants started during his involvement in an NSF-sponsored research project in which he worked on the vegetation that grew in the Great Dismal Swamp under the supervision of Lytton Musselman from Old Dominion University. The work led to Nickrent’s first published work. In 1977, he graduated with an undergraduate qualification from the department of Botany at Southern Illinois University. He was awarded a master’s diploma in botany from Old Dominion University with work on the parasite witchweed Striga and was awarded an PhD at Miami University in 1984 (“A systematic and evolutionary study of a selection of taxa of the Genus Arceuthobium (Viscaceae )”).
From 1994 to 2003 in his position as associate professor at the Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Nickrent’s research programs grew to study a wide variety of parasitic plants, which included those with no the ability to photosynthesis (holoparasites). He worked with Musselman to write an article on parasitic plant parasites that was hosted at the American Phytopathological Society.
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Website (Santalales) notes that in 2008, Der & Nickrent found Santalaceae to be polyphyletic with some genera being outside the family, but eight well supported clades within. While in 2019, Nickrent and others further improved resolution within the family, using nuclear and chloroplast genes, while trying to understand its complex morphology.
Nickrent has over 9400 citations (as of 15 October 2019) according to Google Scholar. He is Research Faculty and Professor Emeritus of Plant Molecular Systematics and Evolution at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) (As of July 2019).
From 1990 until in 1994 Nickrent served as assistant professor in the department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. In this time his method of research was changed from working with rRNA to by using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) which made the sequencing of genes much easier. This led to the identification that there was an increase in the rate of evolution of genes in parasitic plants, as well as publishing one of the first molecular phylogenies at the species level that utilized the nuclear ITS for the mistletoes that are dwarf Arceuthobium.
Daniel Lee Nickrent Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | American botanist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Daniel Lee Nickrent is one of the richest American Botanist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Daniel Lee Nickrent 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
From 1984 until 1990 Nickrent was an assistant professor and director for the University of Illinois Herbarium (ILL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In 1986 Nickrent was a professional scientist associate for the Illinois Natural History Survey.
From 2003 to 2014, Nickrent was a full professor at the university, becoming an emeritus professor (SIUC) from 2014 onwards. His work on Rafflesia in the Philippines was supported by a grant from the National Geographic Society in 2008, the start of a continuing collaboration with Julie Barcelona and Pieter Pelser. His work in the Philippines, funded by NSF-DEB in 2018, is a collaborative project with Botanical Research Institute of Texas and other national and international institutions. Other grants have also been awarded to Nickrent as principal investigator to allow continuing work on other aspects of Santalales and parasitic plants.
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Daniel Ranked on the list of most popular American botanist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Daniel Lee Nickrent celebrates birthday on February 20 of every year.