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Dave Boufford, senior research scientist at the HUH, has been leading exhibitions to Asia since 1977. Along with several colleagues, he is undertaking a survey of the plant and fungal diversity of the Hengduan Mountain region in southwestern China, one of the world’s hotspots of biodiversity. His expeditions in unexplored and underexplored regions complement collections made in the first half of the twentieth century by Joseph Rock, TT Yü, C. W. Wang, R. C. Ching, and others. |
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Anthony R. Brach, editor at the Missouri Botanical Garden and research associate for the Harvard University Herbaria, has a strong interest in the plants of Asia including their taxonomy, identification, and ecology. An editor of the Flora of China Project, he is interested in exploring the digitization and creation of web-based floras and interactive identification keys. |
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A PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne in Australia, Stephanie Conway is interested in the role of the shoot apical meristem in the evolution of shoot architecture. As a visiting fellow in the Friedman Lab, she will focus on shoot apical meristems utilizing the extensive collection of gymnosperms at the Arboretum. |
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Stuart Davies is the director of the Center for Tropical Forest Science at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is interested in the ecology and evolution of tropical rainforests. Using a global network of large-scale long-term forest monitoring plots, he is investigating how environmental variation and change affect the diversity and dynamics of forests. |
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Conservation of threatened plant species is of great interest to Abby Hird. As a scientist for Botanic Gardens Conservation International–United States (BGCI-US), she collaborates with the Arnold Arboretum to implement the recommendations of the North American Collections Assessment. The goal is to preserve threatened taxa and increase genetic diversity by growing threatened plants in the living collection of the Arboretum and other botanical gardens. |
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A visiting scholar in the Friedman Lab, Biao Jin, Associate Professor at Yangzhou University, is interested in exploring the evolution of reproductive biology from gymosperms to angiosperms. |
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From the University of Melbourne, Australia, the research of Denise Johnstone focuses on the physiological mechanisms involved in drought response in urban trees. As a visiting scholar in the Zwieniecki Lab, she is examining xylem physiology during drought stress. |
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David Kenfack is the coordinator for the Center for Tropical Forest Science-Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatory (CTFS–SIGEO) Africa Program. His primary interests are the use of plant systematics to explore species limits and exploring the ecological processes that explain tropical forest dynamics in Africa. |
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Kang Min Ngo is a research assistant for the CTFS-AA. Based in Singapore, she is interested in understanding the role of forests in a changing climate, particularly through carbon sequestration. |
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Jessica Savage is a post-doctoral fellow in the Holbrook Lab at Harvard University and is collaborating with Maciej Zwieniecki to study phloem loading in trees and vines. Her background is in plant hydraulics and ecophysiology. |
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Harvard Forest E. C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology, Emeritus Barry Tomlinson has done extensive research on developmental morphology of pollen and cones in conifers. He is currently collaborating with Cary Pirone, Sarah Mathews, and Ned Friedman to investigate the composition and role of pollination drops in conifers. |
