Back in Panamá, I started working on hornworts during my bachelor's degree and, frankly, there were just 5-6 people interested in the world. In 2003, I had the opportunity to do my master's with the hornwort expert, Karen Renzaglia at Southern Illinois University. During my doctoral degree at UCONN, with Bernard Goffinet, I explored phylogenetics and population genetics of one species with separate sexes and potentially lacking any kind of sexual reproduction. In 2012, during my postdoc with...