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Name E-Mail Address Specialty Research Locations Other Expertise
         
Staff Scientists        
Balick, Michael  mbalick@nybg.org  Arecaeae (Palm family)  Belize, Micronesia, neotropics  Ethnobotany, poisonous plants 
Boom, Brian  bboom@nybg.org  Neotropical systematic and economic botany; Rubiaceae; forest inventories  neotropics   
Brenner, Eric  ebrenner@nybg.org  Gymnosperm genomics     
Buck, William  bbuck@nybg.org  Pleurocarpus mosses  worldwide   
Campbell, Lisa  lcampbell@nybg,org  Systematics; Anatomy of Xyridaceae  North America; Venezuela, particularly the Guayana region  Poales 
Daly, Douglas  ddaly@nybg.org  Burseraceae (frankincense family)  Neotropics (especially Amazonian Brazil), Mexico, Madagascar, New Guinea, Vietnam  leaf architecture, tree identification, floristics of Amazonia, economic botany, certification of managed tropical forests 
Halling, Roy  rhalling@nybg.org  Agaricales and Boletales (mushrooms, puffballs and related groups)  Worldwide  poisonous fungi 
Henderson, Andrew  ahenderson@nybg.org  Arecaeae (Palm family)  South Asia, Central America, Caribbean, South America   
Holmgren, Noel  nholmgren@nybg.org  Intermountain Flora  North America, Venezuela  Scrophulariaceae (Beard Tongue family) 
Holmgren, Patricia  pholmgren@nybg.org  Intermountain Flora  North America   
Kallunki, Jacquelyn  jkallunki@nybg.org  Rutaceae (Orange family)  neotropics   
Karol, Kenneth  kkarol@nybg.org  Green Algal Systematics and Evolution (Charales)   Worldwide  Organellar Genome Evolution 
Kelly, Lawrence  lkelly@nybg.org  Aristolochiaceae (Birthwort family), Symplocaceae (Sweetleaf family), Saurauia (Actinidiaceae; Kiwi family)  neotropics, worldwide   
Litt, Amy  alitt@nybg.org  plant genomics; floral morphology and development    Vochysiaceae 
Little, Damon  dlittle@nybg.org  Gymnosperms and Bioinformatics  North America, worldwide   
Michelangeli, Fabian  fabian@nybg.org  Melastomataceae  neotropics  ant-plant interactions 
Mickel, John  jmickel@nybg.org  Pteridophytes (Ferns and related groups)  Mexico, North America   
Miller, James  jmiller@nybg.org  Systematics of Boraginaceae, Flora of Madagascar  Latin America, Africa, Madagascar  Natural products research 
Moran, Robbin  rmoran@nybg.org  Pteridophytes (Ferns and related groups)  Costa Rica, neotropics, North America   
Mori, Scott  smori@nybg.org  Lecythidaceae (Brazil nut family); floristics of the Neotropics but, especially in Amazonia, Guayana, French Guiana, Saba in the Netherlands Antilles, and the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica.  Neotropics, especially Amazonia and Guayana and in the following countries: Costa Rica, French Guiana, and Saba in the Netherlands Antilles. 

Ecology of lowland rain forest trees.

 
Nee, Michael  mnee@nybg.org  Solanaceae (Tomato family)  Bolivia, Brazil, neotropics  Cucurbitaceae (Squash family) 
Padoch, Christine  cpadoch@nybg.org  Smallholder resource management in tropics  Amazonia, Southeast Asia   
Peters, Charles  cpeters@nybg.org  Tropical forestry and ecology  Amazon, Indonesia   
Stevenson, Dennis  dws@nybg.org  Cycadaceae (Cycad family)  neotropics, worldwide  test 
Thiers, Barbara  bthiers@nybg.org  Hepaticae (Liverworts)  neotropics, worldwide   
Thomas, Wayt  wthomas@nybg.org  Cyperaceae (Sedge family), Simaroubaceae (Tree of Heaven family)  Brazil, neotropics, worldwide   
Zanoni, Thomas  tzanoni@nybg.org  Gymnosperms  West Indies   

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Research Associates        
Atha, Daniel  datha@nybg.org       
Cibrian, Angelica  acibrian@nybg.org  Population Genetics  Mexico, Central America, Micronesia  Palms & Cycads, Conservation Genetics, Genomics, and Systematics 
Harris, Richard  rharris@nybg.org  Lichens  North America, West Indies  lichens worldwide 
Law, Wayne  wlaw@nybg.org  Ethnobotony; Ecology  Micronesia   
Mitchell, John  jmitchell@nybg.org  Anacardiaceae  neotropics, worldwide   
Mohamed, Abeer  amohamed@nybg.org  Molecular mechanisms underlying flower and fruit development     
Schulz, Christian  cschulz@nybg.org  Systematic and evolution of gymnosperms     
Sewell, Matthew  msewell@nybg.org       
Stevens, Hannah  hstevens@nybg.org  GIS/Conservation Biology  Amazonia; worldwide   
Vandebroek, Ina  ivandebroek@nybg.org  Ethnobotany of Neotropical medicinal plants   Bolivia, Dominican Republic   Community outreach and extension activities  

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Graduate Students        
Ahmad, Amna  aahmad@nybg.org  Molecular and morphological systematics of Hymenocallis (Amaryllidaceae)     
Ahmed, Selena  selenaahmed@aol.com  Cultural landscapes  Yunnan, China; worldwide   
Amtoft, Anja  aamtoft@nybg.org  Lichen flora of the Ozarks     
Arce, Javier  chayotte@hotmail.com  Ecological history of varzea in Peru     
Bletter, Nat  nbletter@yahoo.com  Quantitative Cross-Cultural Medical Ethnobotany of Peru and Mali  Peru, Mali, Guatemala, Northeastern US  Chocolate/Cacao, Invasive plants 
Campos, Marina  marina.campos@yale.edu  Amazonian ethnobotany     
Coffey, Kevin  kcoffey@nybg.org  Plant genetic resource patterns in human-dominated landscapes in Thailand     
Crawley, Karen  kcrawley@nybg.org  Reproductive health and medicinal plants used by Neotropical women     
De Gezelle, Jillian  jdegezelle@nybg.org  Medical Ethnobotany  Belize, neotropics  Maya ethnomedicine, reproductive health 
De la Torre, José Eduardo  jetb@nybg.org  Evolution and Development in Cycads; Seed Plant Phylogenomics     
Doyle, Vinson  vdoyle@nybg.org  endophytic fungi     
Ehringhaus, Christiane  christiane.ehringhaus@yale.edu  Tropical forest ecology and management     
Geiselman, Cullen  cgeiselman@nybg.org  Biology of bat-pollinated plants     
Gordon, Jeffrey  jsg54@cornell.edu  Genomics of viral resistance in tomatoes  West Africa   
Huang, YaYi  yhuang@nybg.org  Phylogenetic relationships in the Lecythidaceae     
Huish, Ryan  rhuish@nybg.org  Ethnobotany     
Imbruce, Valerie  vimbruce@nybg.org  Impact of changing consumer demand on biological diversity     
Karty, Richard  richard.karty@yale.edu  Ecological impacts of urbanization      
Martin, Claire  cmartin@nybg.org  Systematics of Leandra (Melastomataceae)     
McClelland, Donald  dmcclelland@nybg.org  Systematics of Solanum     
Neill, Amanda  aneill@nybg.org  Systematics and biogeography of the Neotropical genus Gurania (Cucurbitaceae)     
Nguyen, Hieu  hnguyen@nybg.org  Systematics of Begonia