• Ané Lab
    Cécile Ané
    Associate Professor of Botany and Statistics
    341 Birge Hall
    608-262-6820
    ane@stat.wisc.edu
    Molecular evolution, Statistical inference with phylogenetic sequence data, Computational biology

  • Baum Lab
    David A. Baum
    Professor of Botany
    340 Birge Hall
    608-265-5385
    dbaum@wisc.edu
    Molecular systematics; plant developmental evolution; conceptual issues in evolution and systematics

  • Cameron Lab
    Kenneth M. Cameron
    Professor of Botany & Director, WIS State Herbarium
    154 Birge Hall
    608-265-9237
    kmcameron@wisc.edu
    Systematics of Orchidaceae, Smilacaceae, Cactaceae, & carnivorous plants; evolution of epiphytes; comparative morphology and anatomy, DNA barcoding, floristics, conservation

  • Emshwiller Lab
    Eve Emshwiller
    Associate Professor of Botany
    321 Birge Hall
    608-890-1170
    emshwiller [AT] wisc [DOT] edu
    Ethnobotany and systematics: domestication and evolution of crop plants; conservation of genetic diversity of crops and their wild relatives; evolution of polyploidy and of clonally-propagated crops

  • Fernandez Lab
    Donna E. Fernandez
    Professor of Botany
    B215 Birge Hall
    608-262-9033
    dfernand@wisc.edu
    Plant cell and developmental biology, molecular aspects of plant reproduction

  • Gilroy Lab
    Simon Gilroy
    Professor of Botany
    B117 Birge Hall
    608-262-4009
    sgilroy@wisc.edu
    Plant cell biology; signal transduction; lipid signaling; tip growth; tropisms

  • Givnish Lab
    Thomas J. Givnish
    Henry Allan Gleason Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies
    315 Birge Hall
    608-262-5718
    givnish@wisc.edu
    Plant ecology and evolution; adaptive radiation and molecular systematics; phylogeography; physiological ecology; landscape dynamics.

  • Graham Lab
    Linda E. Graham
    Professor of Botany
    211 Birge Hall
    608-262-2640
    lkgraham@wisc.edu
    Evolutionary origin of land plants; biology of charophycean algae and basal bryophytes; freshwater periphyton ecology; aquatic symbioses

  • Hotchkiss Lab
    Sara C. Hotchkiss
    Associate Professor of Botany & Bryson Professor of Climate, People, and Environment, Center for Climatic Research
    353 Birge Hall
    608-265-6751
    shotchkiss@wisc.edu
    Studies of vegetation history, climate history, ecosystem response to climate change, disturbance and landscape dynamics, and paleoecology.

  • Larget Lab
    Bret Larget
    Associate Professor of Botany and Statistics
    241 Birge Hall
    608-265-6799
    brlarget@wisc.edu
    Bayesian modeling of molecular evolution; develops statistical methods to analyze genetic data in order to estimate phylogenetic trees with expressions of uncertainty
  • Hiroshi Maeda
    Maeda Lab
    Hiroshi A. Maeda
    Assistant Professor of Botany
    Birge B217
    608-262-5833
    maeda2@wisc.edu
    Plant biochemistry and physiology; Aromatic amino acid biosynthesis and its regulation; Plant metabolic engineering for human health and sustainable bioenergy production

  • Otegui Lab
    Marisa S. Otegui
    Associate Professor of Botany
    B119 Birge Hall
    608-265-5703
    otegui@wisc.edu
    Cell biology; intracellular membrane traffic; cytokinesis; endosperm development
  • Edgar Spalding
    Spalding Lab
    Edgar P. Spalding
    Professor of Botany
    B135 Birge Hall
    608-265-5294
    spalding@wisc.edu
    Transport of ions including auxin; photomorphogenesis; phenotype frameworks

  • Sytsma Lab
    Kenneth J. Sytsma
    Professor of Botany
    250 Birge Hall
    608-262-4490
    kjsytsma@wisc.edu
    Molecular systematics of vascular plants (Ericales, Myrtales, Onagraceae, Bromeliaceae, and Lamiaceae); Angiosperm Tree of Life; Biogeography; Adaptive radiations on islands

  • Waller Lab
    Donald M. Waller
    Chair of Botany, Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies
    232 Birge Hall
    608-263-2042
    dmwaller@wisc.edu
    The evolution of plant life histories and mating systems; rare plant demography and genetics; impacts of deer browsing on forest communities

  • Zedler Lab
    Joy B. Zedler
    Professor of Botany and Aldo Leopold Chair in Restoration Ecology
    302 Birge Hall
    608-262-8629
    jbzedler@wisc.edu
    Restoration ecology; wetland ecology; reestablishment of rare plants; interactions of native and rare species; adaptive management

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