Field-Of-Study: Plant Sciences
Kathleen Donohue
Kathleen Donohue is Professor of Biology at Duke University, and she is a member of the Executive Committee of the University Program in Ecology and a member of the University Program in Genetics and Genomics at Duke. She completed her bachelors degrees in Biology and Medieval Studies at Stanford University, and her Ph.D. in Ecology
James Bever
I am a Professor of Biology and the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Section Chair at Indiana University, where I have been on the faculty since 2000. I completed a B.S. at the University of Illinois in Honors Biology in 1984, a M.S. in Ecology at the University of Michigan in 1987, and a Ph.D. in
Marcelo Yanovsky
Dr. Yanovsky gained his PhD in Biological Sciences in 1999 from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, before completing his postdoctoral studies at The Scripps Research Institute, U.S.A., in 2003. He is currently PI at Fundación Instituto Leloir-IIBBA (CONICET), and Associate Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Yanovsky has received the Howard Hughes
Jorge Larson
Since first joining the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) almost twenty years ago, Jorge Larson Guerra has been studying the idea of food plants as a cultural and individual heritage and the legal implications of that, specifically, the concept of applying the legal standards of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in
Fernando Omar Zuloaga
Fernando Zuloaga is the Director of the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion in San Isidro, Argentina, and a member of the scientific editorial board for its journal Darwiniana; Fellow of CONICET; and Senior Researcher at the museum of and Professor of Phytogeography at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), the institution where he earned his
Norman C. Ellstrand
Norman C. Ellstrand is Professor of Genetics at the University of California Riverside (UCR) and Adjunct Professor at Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences. At age four his parents helped him match a picture of a Scarlet Tanager to a living bird outside his window, starting his lifelong passion in biology. With a B.S.
Mark P. Simmons
Mark Simmons is an associate professor and curator of the herbarium at Colorado State University. He completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 2000 with funding from a Sage Graduate Fellowship and a Mellon Foundation Fellowship. After graduating, he spent thirteen months as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at
Deborah Lawrence
Associate Professor Deborah Lawrence conducts conservation-oriented ecological research in tropical forests. She currently works in southern Mexico, a global hotspot of deforestation, and northeastern Costa Rica, where reforestation is now replacing deforestation. She also worked for a decade in the rainforest margins of Indonesian Borneo. Out of college, she received a Fulbright scholarship for research
Robert Edward Wyatt
I was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and attended high school in Statesville, North Carolina. From the seventh grade, I was committed to become a naturalist and to study native plants. I received my bachelor’s degree in Botany from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and my doctorate, also in Botany with a