The 16 recipients of a 2002 Deep Gene Student Travel Award are:

• Liying Cui (Penn State; Distribution of plant transcription factors in protein and EST databases)
  
  
• Dave Des Marais (Duke; Phylogeography of the moss genus Timmiella (Pottiaceae; Musci)
  
  
• Romey Haberle (U. Texas; chloroplast genome in Trachelium caeruleum, Campanulaceae)
  
  
• Sangtae Kim (U. Florida; evolution and the phylogeny of early-diverging angiosperms)
  
  
• Jeff Lewandowski (U. Maryland; Actin phylogeny in the Charophyta)
  
  
• Juan M. Lopez-Bautista (U. Louisiana; phylogenetic relationships in the Trentepohliales)
  
  
• Hilary McManus (U. Conn; phylogeny of the Chlorophcaean algae Pediastrum and Hydrodictyon)
  
  
• Joel McNeal (Penn State; Molecular systematics and chloroplast genome evolution of the parasitic plant Cuscuta)
  
  
• Jordan S. Metzgar (Cornell; the Appalachian Asplenium Complex)
  
  
• Jun Park (U. Penn; phylogenetics of the conjugating green algae (Zygnematales))
  
  
• Hardeep Rai (U. Alberta; a multigene study of conifer phylogenetics)
  
  
• Tracey Slotta (Virginia Tech; comparing nuclear and chloroplast non-coding regions in phylogenetics of Iliamn, Malvaceae)
  
  
• Bill Speer (Utah State; Equisetum phylogeny)
  
  
• Andrea Sweigart (Duke; Mating system and patterns of nucleotide diversity in Mimulus)
  
  
• Terri Weese (BYU; evo-devo, phylogeny, and taxonomy within Polemoniaceae)
  
  
• Brian Wysor (U. Louisiana, Lafayette; phylogeny of Cladophoralean algae)