Scientists
Staff Directory
The Science Division of The New York Botanical Garden encompasses several departments and programs and includes more than one hundred Ph.D.-level faculty members, post-doctoral researchers, graduate students, and highly trained technical staff. All are working toward the Garden’s scientific mission to explore, understand, and conserve the Earth’s vast botanical diversity.
Science Staff
E-mail Addresses
Name | E-Mail Address | Specialty | Research Locations | Other Expertise | |||
Staff Scientists |
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| Ambrose, Barbara | bambrose@nybg.org | plant genomics, morphology and development | |||||
| Balick, Michael | mbalick@nybg.org | Ethnobotany, Poison Plants, Pacific Island Floristics | Belize, Micronesia, neotropics, New York City | ||||
| Boom, Brian | bboom@nybg.org | Neotropical systematic and economic botany; Rubiaceae; forest inventories | neotropics | ||||
| 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 | Systematics and ecology of Lecythidaceae and neotropical floristics. | Neotropics, especially Amazonia, French Guiana, Saba, and the Osa Peninsula | Plant/animal interactions, bat seed dispersal, and presentation of data about plant systematics on the Internet. | |||
| Naczi, Robert | rnaczi@nybg.org | Floristics of eastern North America, Systematics and ecology of Cyperaceae, Systematics and ecology of Sarraceniaceae | Western Hemisphere | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Pedraza, Paola | ppedraza at nybg.org; paola.pedraza at gmail.com | Systematics of Ericaceae | Central and South America | Andean flora, especially floristics and diversity in paramos and cloud forests. | |||
| Peters, Charles | cpeters@nybg.org | Tropical forestry and ecology | Amazonia, Mexico, Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, SW China | ||||
| Plunkett, Gregory | gplunkett@nybg.org | Araliaceae, Apiaceae, Pittosporaceae | SW Pacific Islands, Temperate and Tropical South America | Molecular Systematics, Biogeography | |||
| Stevenson, Dennis | dws@nybg.org | Cycadaceae (Cycad family) | neotropics, worldwide | ||||
| Thiers, Barbara | bthiers@nybg.org | Hepaticae (Liverworts) | neotropics, worldwide | ||||
| Thomas, William | wthomas@nybg.org | Cyperaceae (Sedge family), Simaroubaceae (Tree of Heaven family, and Picramniaceae (Bitter-bush Family) | Brazil (especially the Atlantic coastal forest), neotropics, worldwide | Executive Director, Organization for Flora Neotropica | |||
| Torke, Benjamin | btorke@nybg.org | Leguminosae (bean family); floristics and species diversity in Amazonia | neotropics, especially Brazil | ||||
| Vandebroek, Ina | ivandebroek@nybg.org | Ethnobotany of medicinal plants and community health | New York City, Dominican Republic, Bolivia | Medical Cultural Competency Training, Community Outreach, Development Cooperation | |||
| Zanoni, Thomas | tzanoni@nybg.org | Gymnosperms | West Indies | ||||
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Research Associates |
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| Atha, Daniel | datha@nybg.org | flora of Belize; flora of the Caucasus; flora of North America; Acalypha subgenus Linostachys; Polygonaceae, esp. Persicaria. | |||||
| Burke, Janelle | jburke@nybg.org | Systematics of Polygonaceae and Melastomataceae | Neotropics | Invasive species | |||
| Harris, Richard | rharris@nybg.org | Lichens | North America, West Indies | lichens worldwide | |||
| Law, Wayne | wlaw@nybg.org | Ethnobotany; Ecology | Micronesia | ||||
| Lendemer, James | jlendemer@nybg.org | Lichen Systematics | North America | Dichanthelium dichotomum group (Poaceae) | |||
| McCarthy, Elizabeth | emccarthy@nybg.org | Floral development and evolution | |||||
| Mitchell, John | jmitchell@nybg.org | Anacardiaceae | neotropics, worldwide | ||||
| Nicolas, Antoine | anicolas@nybg.org | Systematics of Apiales; molecular systematic | Worldwide | ||||
| Sewell, Matthew | msewell@nybg.org | ||||||
| Stevens, Hannah | hstevens@nybg.org | Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Conservation Biology | Amazonia; worldwide | ||||
| Vasco, Alejandra | avasco@nybg.org | Systematics of the fern genus Elaphoglossum (Dryopteridaceae) | New York City, Neotropics | Systematics of Neotropical Ferns and Lycophytes | |||
| Walls, Ramona | rwalls@nybg.org | Plant ontology, ecology and systematics of Mexican Dioscorea | New York, Mexico | plant ecophysiology, leaf trait evolution | |||
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Graduate Students |
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| Aguirre, Julian | jaguirre@nybg.org | Plant systematics | Colombia | ||||
| Allen, Jessica | jallen@nybg.org | Lichen systematics | North America | ||||
| Craven, Dylan | dylan.craven@nybg.org | The physiological ecology of reforestation and its impact on secondary forest succession in the tropics. | Panama | ||||
| Davoodian, Naveed | ndavoodian@nybg.org | Mycology | |||||
| De Gezelle, Jillian | jdegezelle@nybg.org | Ethnobotany | Belize, Panama | Ethnomedicine, Tropical Ecology | |||
| Duguid, Marlyse | marlyse.duguid@gmail.com | Disturbance ecology | North America | ||||
| Ganzhorn, Seth | ganzhorn@fordham.edu | Habitat fragmentation and genetic diversity of forest trees in Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil | Brazil | ||||
| Hawken, Iona | iona.hawken@yale.edu | Urbanization, Land-Use, and Landscape Transformation in Amazonia | Amazonia | ||||
| Hooper, Elaine | elaine.hooper@yale.edu | Effects of seed dispersal in tropical forest regeneration, and the use of multivariate analysis to characterize species interrelationships in highly diverse tropical ecosystems | Brazil | ||||
| James, Thomas | thomas.james@yale.edu | Forest ecology | Mongolia | ||||
| Keleman, Alder | Alder.keleman@yale.edu | Forestry and environmental studies | |||||
| Kitalong, Christopher | ckitalong@nybg.org | Ethnobotany | Palau | ||||
| Kriebel, Ricardo | rkriebel@nybg.org | Systematics of Melastomataceae | Neotropics | ||||
| Kulakowski, Dan | mc9fish@msn.com | Plant chemistry | |||||
| Lim, Gwynne | gsl47@cornell.edu | Plant Systematics | Southeast Asia | ||||
| Matos, Fernando | fmatos@nybg.org | Fern systematics | Brazil | ||||
| Offringa, Lisa | loffringa@nybg.org | Medicinal Plants of Northern Thailand to Improve Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly | Thailand | Ethnobotany, medicinal plants, phytochemistry | |||
| Osterhoudt, Sarah | sarah.osterhoudt@yale.edu | Globalism, environmental anthropology and the vanilla bean trade in Madagascar | Madagascar | ||||
| Perez, William | wperez@nybg.org | Systematics of green algae | North America | ||||
| Reginato, Marcelo | mreginato@nybg.org | Systematics of Melastomataceae | Neotropics, Brazil | ||||
| Rodrigues, Carlos | crodrigues@nybg.org | Systematics of Araliaceae | |||||
| Salinas, Nelson | nsalinas@nybg.org | Systematics of Ericaceae | New world | ||||
| Stoike, Jeffrey | jeffrey.stoike@yale.edu | Agroforestry | Brazil | ||||
| Virnig, Annie | avirnig@nybg.org | Genomics, ethnobotany | |||||
| Wang, Xian | xwang@nybg.org | Systematics of green algae | North America | ||||
| Wolkow, Robert | rw105@columbia.edu | Studies of Guyanese ethnomedicine | Guyana | ||||
| Xu, Chengyuan | Ecophysiology of respiration in northern hardwood forests | North America | |||||
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