Solny Adalsteinsson
Principal Investigator and Staff Scientist, Tyson Research Center, WashU
Primary subject of interest: Urban ecology, disease ecology, ticks, birds, small mammals
Primary geographic interest: Midwest and mid-Atlantic US
LEC Seed Grant Projects
Julián Aguirre-Santoro
Assistant Curator of Vascular Plants, Latin America Herbarium, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Email: jaguirre-santoro@mobot.org
Primary subject of interest: Plant systematics and floristics
Primary geographic interest: Colombia, Brazil, United States, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Suriname, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica
Matthew A. Albrecht
Associate Scientist in Conservation Biology, Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Plant conservation, threatened plants and communities
Primary geographic interest: Ozarks and Southeastern US
LEC Seed Grant Projects
Robert Aldridge
Professor Emeritus of Biology, Saint Louis University; Researcher, Saint Louis Zoo
Primary subject of interest: Herpetology, conservation
Primary geographic area of interest: Guam, Mexico
Whitney Anthonysamy
Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy
- Email: whitney.anthonysamy@uhsp.edu
Primary subject of interest: Population ecology and conservation, herpetology
Primary geographic area of interest: Saint Louis
Kathleen Apakupakul
Research Associate, Institute for Conservation Medicine, Saint Louis Zoo
- Email: apakupakul@stlzoo.org
Primary subject of interest: Conservation medicine, one health
Primary geographic interest: Global
LEC Seed Grant Projects
Wendy Applequist
Associate Scientist, William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Plant taxonomy, medicinal plants, natural product discovery
Primary geographic interest: United States, Madagascar
Cheryl Asa
Affiliate Scientist, Saint Louis Zoo
- Email: asa@stlzoo.org
Primary subject of interest: Reproductive and behavioral sciences
Primary geographic area of interest: Latin America, Mexico
John J. Atwood
Assistant Curator of Bryophytes, Herbarium, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Bryology
Primary geographic area of interest: North America
Matthew Austin
Curator of Biodiversity Data, Herbarium, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Email: maustin@mobot.org
Primary subject of interest: Plants and pollinators; Impacts of global change on plant-pollinator relationships.
Eli Baskir
Manager of Behavioral Sciences, Saint Louis Zoo
- Email: baskir@stlzoo.org
Primary subject of interest: Animal behavior
Primary geographic interest: Global
Burgund Bassuner
Science Specialist, Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Population genetics and plant conservation
Primary geographic area of interest: United States
Karen Bauman
Manager of Reproductive Sciences, Saint Louis Zoo
- Email: kbauman@stlzoo.org
Primary subject of interest: All species, especially canids and ungulates; reproduction, wildlife technologies
Primary geographic interest: Ex situ, North America, global
Yehuda Ben-Shahar
Professor, Biology Department, WashU
Primary subject(s) of interest: Evolutionary, molecular, and genetic analyses of animal behavior and sociality; The genetics of organismal resilience to environmental stress; Drosophila models of neuronal and psychiatric disorders
Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Global
John R. Bermingham Jr.
Associate Professor of Genetics, Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, WashU School of Medicine
Primary subject of interest: Conservation genetics, herpetology
Primary geographic interest: Global
Peter Bernhardt
Research Associate of Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject(s) of interest: Pollination; Anthophilous insects (bees, beetles, syrphid flies, butterflies and moths); flowering plant groups (orchids and other petaloid monocots), montane wildflowers of the Himalayas; Proteaceae of Australia; plant systematics and phytogeography of the floras of southern Australia; redbuds and dogwoods of Missouri; pollination in urban versus rural flora native to North America; popular illustrations and depictions of flora and their pollinators from the 19th-21st century; the history of the writings of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries on floral adaptation/evolution; bee diversity on rural versus urban trees of redbud (Cercis canadensis) and dogwood (Cornus florida) in St. Louis and its counties
Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States (Saint Louis, Missouri, Kansas), Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia), China (Kunming, Lijiang and Yulong (Yunnan))
Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savana, Shrubland, Grassland, Montane>3000m
Chris Birkinshaw
Assistant Curator, Africa and Madagascar, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Management of protected areas (including sustainable use of natural resources, forest restoration, monitoring, control of invasive plant species) and ex-situ plant conservation (including field gene-banks)
Primary geographic interest: Madagascar
Stephen Blake
Assistant Professor, Biology Department, Saint Louis University
- Email: stephen.blake@slu.edu
Primary subject(s) of interest: Ecology and conservation of mega vertebrates
Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Congo Basin, Galapagos Islands, Central Africa, Saint Louis, MO
Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Agricultural land, Urban areas
LEC Seed Grant Projects
David Bogler
Research Associate, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Liliaceae, flora of Missouri, photography
Primary geographic interest: Missouri
Adrianus (Jacco) Boon
Professor, WashU School of Medicine
- Email: jboon@wustl.edu
Primary subject(s) of interest: Virology and virus ecology
Primary geographic area(s) of interest: USA
Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest
LEC Seed Grant Projects
Arpita Bose
Associate Professor of Biology, WashU
- Email: abose@wustl.edu
Primary subject of interest: Microbial Ecology, Climate Change, Climate Action
Primary geographic interest: United States, Puerto Rico, Argentina, India
Emily Bowling
Conservation Education Liaison, Saint Louis Zoo
- Email: bowling@stlzoo.org
Primary subject(s) of interest: Palm oil sustainability, public education, local conservation
Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Tropical rainforests, Forests, Agricultural land, Urban areas
Louise Bradshaw
Retired Director of Education, Saint Louis Zoo
- Email: bradshawrl@yahoo.com
Primary subject(s) of interest: Climate change education, enhancing biodiversity, community-based conservation engagement, nature-based education, urban biodiversity
Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Saint Louis region (Missouri)
Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Urban biodiversity
John Brinda
Assistant Scientist, Herbarium, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Email: john.brinda@mobot.org
Primary subject of interest: Ecology, taxonomy, and conservation of bryophytes
Primary geographic area of interest: USA, Madagascar, Philippines
Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Deserts
Mónica Carlsen
Scientist 2 – Education Program Manager, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Email: monica.carlsen@mobot.org
Primary subject(s) of interest: Plant diversity and evolution, systematics, phylogenomics, pollination biology
Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Neotropics (emphasis on Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia and Brazil)
Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest
LEC Seed Grant Projects
Bruce Carlson
Professor of Biology, WashU
- Email: carlson.bruce@wustl.edu
Primary subject(s) of interest: Sensory and evolutionary neuroscience in electric fish
Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Sub-Saharan Africa
Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Freshwater
Bob Coulter
Director, Litzsinger Road Ecology Center, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Email: bob.coulter@mobot.org
Primary subject of interest: Youth civic engagement and place-based education
Primary geographic interest: Global
LEC Seed Grant Projects
Thomas Croat
P.A. Schulze Curator of Botany, Latin America, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Taxonomy and ecology of Neotropical Araceae
Primary geographic interest: Neotropics
Gautam Dantas
Conan Professor in Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, WashU School of Medicine
- Email: dantas@wustl.edu
Primary subject(s) of interest: (1) Understanding how diverse microbiomes respond to chemical and biological perturbations, (2) harnessing these insights to rationally design therapeutic strategies to curtail antibiotic-resistant pathogens and remedy pathological microbiome states, and (3) engineering microbial catalysts to convert renewable biomass into value chemicals such as biofuels and pharmaceuticals.
Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States, El Salvador, Peru, Pakistan, Niger, South Africa, Republic of Congo, Netherlands, China, India
Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Freshwater, Agricultural lands, Urban areas, Built environment