Kelly Rae Chi | May 1, 2009 | 3 min read
Dennis Wall: From moss to autism By Kelly Rae Chi © 2009 Leah Fasten In 1996 a few hundred plant scientists gathered in Baton Rouge, La., for an annual phylogenetics meeting. Biology undergraduate Dennis Wall rushed into a lecture hall to meet Brent Mishler, a University of California, Berkeley, integrative biologist, who was considering taking on Wall as a doctoral student. But when Wall, late and disheveled, tried to climb over a row of