Bolaños Villegas Pablo Alberto

Pablo Bolaños-Villegas is an associate faculty the University of Costa Rica, in Costa Rica, Central America. He obtained his BSc in plant science at the University of Costa Rica, and his MSc at the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology in Pingtung, Taiwan. His doctoral work was guided by Guang-Yuh Jauh at the Taiwan International Graduate Program of the Academia Sinica, in Taipei. Currently he is trying to determine how meiotic chromosomes are organized in Sobralia orchids, how ploidy impacts flower development in orchids and how habitat loss impacts population viability in orchids. He has published in the Plant Physiology and Frontiers in Plant Science . He currently serves as an editor at The Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and is a member of the American Society of Plant Biologists. He is interested in orchid reproduction and in the teaching of science to undergraduates.