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Faculty

Timothy F. H. Allen
Hierarchy theory and problems of scale; epistemology for biological systems; ordination and classification of communities

Cecile Ane
Molecular evolution, statistical inference with phylogenetic sequence data, computational biology

David A. Baum
Floral evolution; molecular systematics; plant developmental evolution; conceptual issues in systematics and evolutionary biology

Johanne Brunet
Evaluates plant mechanisms that influence gene flow among populations of horticultural crop plants, and between crops and free-living plants outside of agricultural systems; investigates mechanisms that could be deployed to retard or eliminate gene flow; evaluates the biological fitness of plant populations with foreign genes in model and agricultural environments; assess the potential risks of gene flow in agricultural systems.

Kenneth M. Cameron
Wisconsin Herbarium Director; Systematics of Orchidaceae, Smilacaceae, Cactaceae, & carnivorous plants, evolution of epiphytes, molecular systematics, comparative plant morphology and anatomy, DNA barcoding, regional floristics, conservation

Eve Emshwiller
Ethnobotany and systematics: domestication, evolution, and conservation of crop plants; evolution of polyploidy and of clonally-propagated crops; Oxalidaceae.

Donna Fernandez
Plant cell and developmental biology; embryogenesis and the transition to germination; cytodifferentiation

Simon Gilroy
Plant cell biology; signal transduction, lipid signall ing, tip growth, tropisms

Thomas J. Givnish
Plant ecology and evolution; adaptive radiation and molecular systematics; phylogeography; physiological ecology; landscape dynamics

Linda E. Graham
Evolutionary origin of land plants; biology of charophycean algae and basal bryophytes; freshwater periphyton ecology; aquatic symbioses

Simon Gilroy
Plant cell biology; signal transduction; lipid signaling; tip growth; tropisms

Sara C. Hotchkiss
Studies of climate history, vegetation history (species invasion, biogeochemistry, ecosystem development), treeline responses to climate change, fire and long-term community and ecosystem dynamics, paleoecology.

Bret Larget
Bayesian modeling of molecular evolution; develops statistical methods to analyze genetic data in order to estimate phylogenetic trees with expressions of uncertainty

Marisa S. Otegui
Cell biology; intracellular membrane traffic; cytokinesis; endosperm development

Edgar P. Spalding
Physiological functions of ion channels in plant cells; signal transduction; photobiology

Kenneth J. Sytsma
Molecular systematics of vascular plants (especially Myrtales, Onagraceae, Gentianaceae, Rapateaceae, Bromeliaceae, and Lobeliaceae); plant population variation and gene flow; pollination biology; systematics in the tropics

Donald M. Waller
The evolution of plant life histories and mating systems; rare plant demography and genetics; impacts of deer browsing on forest communities

Joy Zedler
Restoration ecology; wetland ecology; reestablishment of rare plants; interactions of native and rare species; adaptive management

Paul Zedler
Ecology of shrublands, forests and temporary wetlands; fire ecology; restoration and creation of habitat for endangered plant species

Emeritus Faculty

Michael S. Adams
Physiological ecology of aquatic and terrestrial plants; conservation biology; land resources and land-water interactions

Wayne M. Becker
Molecular and cellular biology of glyoxysomal and peroxisomal enzymes; light-regulated expression of genes encoding photorespiratory enzymes

Ray F. Evert
Developmental and physiological plant anatomy; phloem structure and function; leaf structure in relation to solute transport and phloem loading; phloem transport mechanisms

Sections

• Systematics and Evolution
• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Algae, Bryophytes and Fungi
• Structural Plant Biology
• Physiological, Cellular, and Molecular Biology