Missouri Botanical Garden
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mónica Carlsen
Assistant Scientist - Education Coordinator, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Plant diversity and evolution
Primary geographic interest: Neotropics (Mexico and Brazil)
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
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)
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
Roy Gereau
Assistant Curator and Director of Tanzania Botanical Research and Conservation Programme, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Floristics, plant taxonomy, and plant conservation
Primary geographic interest: Tanzania
Ashley Glenn
Research Specialist, William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Ethnobotany, food anthropology, refugee and immigrant cuisine
Primary geographic interest: Bosnia, United States
Alan Graham
Curator of Paleobotany & Palynology, Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Vegetation history, land bridges, migrations, natural history
Primary geographic interest: New World
Shirley Graham
Curator, Lythraceae and Researcher, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Flowering plant systematics, Lythraceae
Primary geographic interest: Global
Jessica Griffard
Research Specialist, William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Email: jessica.griffard@mobot.org
Primary subject of interest: Ethnobotany, artifacts made from plants, education
Primary geographic interest: Global
Robbie Hart
Assistant Curator, High Elevation Ethnobotany and GLORIA, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Mountains, ethnobotany, climate change
Primary geographic interest: Himalaya
Douglas Holland
Library Director, Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Biodiversity literature
Primary geographic area of interest: United States
Iván Jiménez
Associate Scientist, Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Andes, Neotropics
Primary geographic interest: Global
Nisa Karimi
Assistant Scientist, Science and Conservation Division, Africa and Madagascar Program, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Email: nkarimi@mobot.org
Quinn Long
Director, Shaw Nature Reserve, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary geographic interest: Global
Pete Lowry
Senior Curator and Director, Africa and Madagascar Program, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Email: pete.lowry@mobot.org
Primary subject of interest: Plant Systematics, Conservation Biology, and Ethnobotany
Calvin Maginel
Ecological Resource Scientist, Shaw Nature Reserve, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Email: cmaginel@mobot.org
Jennifer Mullix
Assistant Director, Butterfly House, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Email: Jennifer.Mullix@mobot.org
Primary subject of interest: Nature-based and informal education
Primary geographic interest: Saint Louis region
Rosa del C. Ortiz-Gentry
Colombia Program Coordinator, Science & Conservation Division, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Floristics, plant systematics, taxonomy and conservation
Primary geographic interest: Neotropics/Global
Nezka Pfeifer
Museum Curator, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Email: npfeifer@mobot.org
Primary subject of interest: Museum studies, anthropology, conservation
Primary geographic interest: Global
Amy Pool
Curatorial Assistant, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Floristics; Sharing science, the importance of biodiversity and conservation, and the significance of global climate change with the local public.
Primary geographic interest: Central America
Carmen Puglisi
Curator (Asia), Herbarium
- Email: cpuglisi@mobot.org
Primary subject of interest: Taxonomy of Southeast Asian flowering plants, esp. Ebenaceae and Gesneriaceae
Primary geographic area of interest: Indonesia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Armand Randrianasolo
Curator, William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Plant and ecosystem conservation, community-based conservation
Primary geographic interest: Madagascar
Adam Smith
Ecologist, Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Global change and conservation
Primary geographic interest: Global
Peter F Stevens
Professor of Biology, University of Missouri- Saint Louis; Curator and Researcher, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Seed plant diversification and evolution
Primary geographic interest: Global
Charlotte M. Taylor
Curator and Researcher, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Floristics
Primary geographic interest: Neotropics
Jordan Teisher
Curator and Director of the Herbarium, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Email: jteisher@mobot.org
J. Sebastián Tello
Assistant Scientist, Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Forest ecology and biogeography
Primary geographic interest Neotropics, Amazon, Andes, Global
Carmen Ulloa
Curator and Researcher, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Plants
Primary geographic interest: Andes
Emily Warschefsky
Missouri Botanical Garden, Alice Brown Curator, Associate Scientist, William L. Brown Center
- Email: ewarschefsky@mobot.org
Peter Wyse Jackson
President and Researcher, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Biodiversity and plant conservation policies and practices, botanic garden development, conservation biology, Irish ethnobotany
Primary geographic interest: Global