Institution
Solny Adalsteinsson
Principal Investigator and Staff Scientist, Tyson Research Center, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Urban ecology, disease ecology, ticks, birds, small mammals
Primary geographic interest: Midwest and mid-Atlantic US
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
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
Garland Allen
Professor of Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis
- Email: gallen@wustl.edu
Primary subject of interest: History of biology: evolutionary theory, development and genetics, naturalist-experimentalist debates 1880-1950
Whitney Anthonysamy
Assistant Professor of Biology, Saint Louis College of 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 Assistant, Institute for Conservation Medicine, Saint Louis Zoo
- Email: apakupakul@stlzoo.org
Primary subject of interest: Conservation medicine, one health
Primary geographic interest: Global
Wendy Applequist
Associate Curator, William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Plant taxonomy, medicinal plants, natural product discovery
Primary geographic interest: United States, Madagascar
Kaylee Arnold
Kaylee Arnold is a disease ecologist who studies how anthropogenic disturbances impact host-associated microbial communities and infectious disease transmission. Her research has previously explored the relationships between the gut microbiomes of insect disease vectors, deforestation, and vector-borne disease transmission risk. As a Living Earth Collaborative Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Kaylee will be working with Drs. Rachel Penczykowski (WUSTL), Danielle Lee (SIUE), and Solny Adalsteinsson (Tyson Research Center) to explore plant microbiomes and fungal pathogen transmission across an urbanization gradient and to develop STEM projects with K-12 public schools in St. Louis. Please visit Kaylee’s website: https://www.arnoldkaylee.com and Twitter: @Black_Ecologist to learn more about her research and outreach.
- Email: akaylee@wustl.edu
James Aronson
Senior Scientist, Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Science, practice, and policy of ecological restoration and rehabilitation
Primary geographic interest: Local, regional, national, global
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; continuing work in Mexico
John J. Atwood
Curatorial Assistant, Bryophyte Herbarium, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Bryology
Matthew Austin
Curator of Biodiversity Data, Herbarium, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Email: maustin@mobot.org
Primary subject of interest: I am a biodiversity scientist who studies how plants and pollinators are impacted by global change. In my position at the Missouri Botanical Garden, I oversee digitization of the Garden's herbarium and perform research utilizing digital data.
Patricia Barberá-Sanchez
Assistant Scientist, Africa and Madagascar Department, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Email: pbarbera@mobot.org
Primary subject(s) of interest: Taxonomy and systematics of African plants
Primary geographic area of interest: Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe, Madagascar
Eli Baskir
Behavior Research Associate, 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
Laboratory Manager, Research Department, 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
Assistant Professor of Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Evolutionary, molecular and population genetics of insect behavior; The genetics of phenotypic tradeoffs.
Primary geographic interest: Global
John R. Bermingham Jr.
Associate Professor of Genetics, Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine
Primary subject of interest: Conservation genetics, herpetology
Primary geographic interest: Global
Peter Bernhardt
Professor of Biology, Saint Louis University
Primary subject 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, redbuds and dogwoods of Missouri
Primary geographic area of interest: American Midwest, Eastern Australia, Yunnan China
Steve Bircher
Curator of Mammals/Carnivores, Saint Louis Zoo
- Email: Bircher@stlzoo.org
Primary subject of interest: Carnivore conservation (cheetah, lion, African painted dogs)
Primary geographic interest: Africa
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 of Biology, Saint Louis University
Primary subject of interest: Ecology and conservation of mega vertebrates
Primary geographic interest: Congo Basin, Galapagos Islands, Missouri
Adrianus Boon
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
- Email: jboon@wustl.edu
Primary subject of interest: Virology and virus ecology
Primary geographic interest: USA
Arpita Bose
Associate Professor of Biology / Earth & Planetary Sciences
- 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 Educator, Saint Louis Zoo
- Email: bowling@stlzoo.org
Primary subject of interest: Palm oil sustainability, public education
Primary geographic interest: Tropical rainforests, local conservation
Louise Bradshaw
Director of Education, Saint Louis Zoo
- Email: Bradshaw@stlzoo.org
Primary subject of interest: Climate change education, enhancing biodiversity, community-based conservation engagement, nature-based education
Primary geographic interest: Saint Louis region
Stanton Braude
Teaching Professor of Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Inbreeding, Naked mole-rats, social evolution
Primary geographic interest: East Africa
John Brinda
Assistant Scientist, Research, 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
Andrew Brown
Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
- Email: abrown@wustl.edu
Gerardo Camilo
Associate Professor of Biology, Saint Louis University
- Email: gerardo.camilo@slu.edu
Primary subject of interest: Bee/pollinator diversity, urban ecology, Polylepis conservation
Primary geographic area of interest: Global, Andes
Mónica Carlsen
Assistant Scientist - Education Coordinator, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Plant diversity and evolution
Primary geographic interest: Neotropics (Mexico and Brazil)
Bruce Carlson
Associate Professor of Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Sensory and evolutionary neuroscience in electric fish
Primary geographic interest: Sub-Saharan Africa
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
Thomas Croat
PA Schulze Curator of Botany and Researcher, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Taxonomy and ecology of Neotropical Araceae
Primary geographic interest: Neotropics
Gautam Dantas
Professor in Departments of Pathology and Immunology, Biomedical Engineering, and Molecular Microbiology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject 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 region of interest: United States, El Salvador, Peru, Pakistan, Niger, South Africa, Republic of Congo, Laos, Netherlands, China, India
Michael Dawson
Conservation Education Liaison, Education Department, Saint Louis Zoo
- Email: dawson@stlzoo.org
Sharon Deem
Director, Saint Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine
- Email: deem@stlzoo.org
Primary subject of interest: One health, conservation medicine
Primary geographic interest: Global with current emphasis areas in Africa, South America, and North America
Anthony Dell
Research Scientist, NGRREC; Affiliated Faculty, Biology, Saint Louis University; Visiting Scholar, Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis
- Email: tonyidell@gmail.com
Primary subject of interest: Community ecology, temperature, metabolic scaling, behavior
Primary geographic range of interest: Global, with current work in Saint Louis, Nebraska, Tahiti, Iceland, and Australia
Karen DeMatteo
Lecturer of Environmental Studies, Washington University in Saint Louis; Researcher, Saint Louis Zoo
Primary subject of interest: Ecology, conservation, and management of predator-prey species using noninvasive techniques
Primary geographic interest: Global (special interest in tropics and temperate)
Ashley Edes
Animal Welfare Scientist, Department of Reproductive and Behavioral Sciences, Saint Louis Zoo
- Email: aedes@stlzoo.org
Primary subject of interest: Animal welfare, primatology, stress, behavior, endocrinology
Christine Edwards
Stephen and Camilla Brauer Conservation Geneticist, Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Conservation genetics, molecular systematics, phylogeography, DNA metabarcoding, quantitative genetics, understanding response of plants to environmental stress (focusing mainly on plants of conservation concern)
Primary geographic interest: Americas and islands of the western Indian Ocean (Madagascar and the Mascarenes)
Justin Elden
Curator/Herpetology & Aquatics
- Email: elden@stlzoo.org
Primary subject of interest: Herpetology, Cave Biology
Primary geographic interest: Via the Saint Louis Zoo(Missouri, Armenia, Ecuador) and externally (Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ukraine, Puerto Rico)
Kate Farley
Assistant Scientist, William L. Brown Center
- Email: kfarley@mobot.org
Primary subject of interest: Ethnobotany, traditional ecological knowledge, community-based conservation, North American biodiversity, invasive species
Primary geographic interest: United States
David Fike
Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Director of Department of Environmental Studies, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Biogeochemical cycling in modern/ancient marine sediments and soils
Primary geographic interest: Global--currently: Australia, Canada, France, French Guiana, Estonia, Lithuania, Italy, New Zealand, Namibia, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Scotland, Sweden, US
Martha Fischer
Curator of Mammals- Ungulates and Elephants, Saint Louis Zoo
- Email: Fischer@stlzoo.org
Primary subject of interest: All Horn of Africa wildlife including Grevy's zebra, African elephant, Hirola, Black rhino, Mountain nyala, Giraffe, African wild ass, Speke's gazelle, Ethiopian wolf, and Okapi
Primary geographic interest: Horn of Africa including Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somaliland; DRC (Okapi)