David Baum

Professor

Department of Botany

430 Lincoln Drive

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI 53706-1381

Office: 340 Birge Hall
Phone: (608) 265-5385/7929

Fax: (608) 262-7509
Email: dbaum@wisc.edu

Educational Background:

BA Botany, Oxford University, 1985

PhD Evolutionary & Population Biology, Washington University, 1991

Research Interests:

Plant evolution and developmental genetics; Conceptual issues in systematics and evolutionary biology; Origin of life

Administrative Roles

Director, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution.

Interim Associate Director for Students, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Advising:

I can accept graduate students through the Plant Breeding/Plant Genetics, Botany and Genetics graduate programs.  Prospective students interested in the relative merits of these three programs should contact me.

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