Education

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Euglenoid Systematics (Triemer Lab), Michigan State University 2003-2005
• Ph.D., Plant Systematics/Ecological, Evolutionary, and Behavioral Biology, Michigan State University, 2003
• B.S., Biology, University of Notre Dame, 1992

Research Expertise

• Plant systematics and evolution
• Plants of the Great Lakes region
• Wetland plants

Selected Publications

• Sheils, D.R. and A. K. Monfils. New Combinations in North American Schoenoplectiella (Cyperaceae). Submitted to Novon.
• Monfils, A. K., R. E. Triemer and E. Bellairs. 2011. Characterization of paramylon morphological diversity in photosynthetic euglenoids (Euglenales, Euglenophyta). Phycologia 50 (2): 156-169.
• Monfils, A. K. and L. A. Prather. 2010.  Phylogeny of Cantua (Polemoniaceae subfamily Cobaeoideae): Evidence from chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequence data. Systematic Botany 35 (4):877-884.
• Monfils, A. K. and L. A. Prather. 2007. Pedicularis aurantiaca and Pedicularis densiflora (Orobanchaceae): Taxonomy, Phenology and Floral Morphological Variation. Madroño 54 (4): 306-321.
• Triemer, R. E., E. W. Linton, W. Shin, M. A. Nudelman, A. K. Monfils, M. S. Bennett and S. Brosnan. 2006. Phylogeny of the Euglenales based upon SSU and LSU rDNA sequence comparisons and description of Discoplastis gen. nov. (Euglenophyta). Journal of Phycology 42 (3):731-740.
• Monfils, A. K. and L. A. Prather. 2004. The conserved nature and taxonomic utility of pollen morphology in Cantua (Polemoniaceae). Grana 43:1-8.
• Prather, L. A., A.  K. Monfils, A. L. Posto, and R. A. Williams. 2002. Monophyly and phylogeny of Monarda (Lamiaceae): Evidence from the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Systematic Botany 27:127-137.