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Work Experience
Postdoctoral research fellow
University of Cape Town
July 2018 - Present
Science and language editor
Accdon LLC
July 2016 - Present
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular and Cell Biology
University of Cape Town
June 2014 - December 2017
Master of Science
University of Cape Town
January 2011 - December 2013
Bachelor of Science Honours
University of Cape Town
January 2010 - December 2010
Bachelor of Science
University of Cape Town
January 2006 - December 2009
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Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
(2018). Classification of the Relhania generic group (Asteraceae, gnaphalieae) revisited using molecular phylogenetic analysis . Phytotaxa. 344. (2). p. 101-132.
Bentley, J., Verboom, G.A., Bentley, J., Verboom, G.A., Bentley, J., Verboom, G.A., Bergh, N.G.(2017). Species-level phylogenetic analysis in the relhania clade of ?everlastings? and a new generic treatment of species previously assigned to Macowania and Arrowsmithia (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) . Taxon. 66. (6). p. 1421-1438.
(2016). The rediscovery of the Great Winterberg endemic Lotononis harveyi B.-E. van Wyk after 147 years, and notes on the poorly known Amathole endemic Macowania revoluta Oliv. (southern Great Escarpment, South Africa) . PhytoKeys. 62. (1). p. 113-124.
Bentley, J., Klaassen, E.S., Bergh, N.G.(2015). Philyrophyllum (Asteraceae) transferred from Gnaphalieae to Athroismeae based on phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and plastid DNA sequence data . Taxon. 64. (5). p. 975-986.
(2015). A molecular physiological review of vegetative desiccation tolerance in the resurrection plant Xerophyta viscosa (Baker) . Planta. 242. (2). p. 407-426.
Bentley, J., Verboom, G.A., Bergh, N.G.(2014). Erosive processes after tectonic uplift stimulate vicariant and adaptive speciation: Evolution in an Afrotemperate-endemic paper daisy genus . BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14. (1).
BOOK CHAPTER
Farrant, J. M., Cooper, K., Dace, H. J., Bentley, J., & Hilgart, A. (2017). 9: Plant Desiccation Tolerance. In: Plant stress physiology.
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Bentley, J. (2017). Dating the dragon: how tectonic uplift shaped speciation in Drakensberg paper daisies. Veld & Flora, 103(2), 61-64.
Clark, R., Zikishe, V., Bentley, J., Dold, T., & Barker, N.