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Dr. Paul Kores' background

After receiving a Bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Paul Kores went on to the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where he received a Master's, with a thesis on Hawaiian orchids. He then spent a several years in Papua New Guinea, finding wild Vireya rhododendrons to introduce into cultivation. Some of the species he introduced were subsequently used in horticultural breeding programs, and the progeny of some of his specimens can still be seen at botanical gardens in Great Britain.

While in New Guinea, he also continued his studies of orchids, especially terrestrial diurid orchids. His doctoral dissertation at Tulane University was on the evolution and systematics of a member of this group, the Acianthinae.

Before completing his doctorate, Dr. Kores also finished a large project on the orchids of Fiji for A. C. Smith's Flora of Fiji. There are over 62 different genera of orchids in Fiji, and over 160 species. That project took more than six years, resulting in two books, and caused his major professor at Tulane, Dr. Steven Darwin, to often wonder whether Paul would ever actually finish his degree.

Dr. Kores' research projects have included:

• evolution in terrestrial orchids, especially convergent evolution in Diurideae, using both molecular and morphological data
• AFLP fingerprinting methods to study population structure in endangered species, including orchids, fish, and prairie chickens
• pollination ecology in several Hawaiian and New Guinean plants.

Paul Kores has over thirty published scientific articles, as well as several papers he has published or is still working on with his former graduate students.

Over the course of his career, Dr. Kores has taught in a wide variety of environments, which have included, for instance. teaching non-literate New Guineans to operate a misting sytem he built for his rhododendron cuttings, helping an international group of scientists work out DNA sequencing methodologies in London, and teaching regular college classes.

Addresses

Office: LMC-207

phone: 805-378-1400, x 1727       fax: 805-378-1499

email: pkores@vcccd.net

website: http://sunny.moorparkcollege.edu/~pkores/pkmoorpark.html

mail address:
Biological Sciences, Moorpark College
7075 Campus Road
Moorpark, CA 93021
USA

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