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A post-doctoral fellow in the Mahadevan Lab, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaud Bastien is interested in the dynamics and regulation of plant growth and development. His work currently focuses on the formation and development of thorns, specifically in holly. |
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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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Jorge Lora is a Jewett Prize Recipient and a post-doctoral fellow with Professors Iñaki Hormaza and Maria Herrero at Experimental Research Stations – CSIC, Spain. Using members of the Arboretum’s Rosaceae collection, he will compare ovule morphology from the earliest stages to maturity as well as the expression pattern of a gene thought to be important in ovule development. |
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The research interests of Cary Pirone, Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow, lay primarily in understanding how chemical signals mediate biological phenomena. Currently, she is exploring the complexities of pollination drops (ovular secretions) of several conifer species and ginkgo using biochemical and anatomical approaches. |
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The research of visiting fellow Francesca Secchi, a postdoctoral researcher in the Zwieniecki Lab, aims at understanding the principles of the biological function of vascular systems in plants. Her current research is focused on embolism formation and refilling using molecular, physiological, and biophysical approaches. |
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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. |
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Visiting scholar and former Arnold Arboretum Sargent Fellow Maciej Zwieniecki addresses the structure, surface chemistry, and mechanical properties of the network of fluid conduits in plants. The Zwieniecki Lab studies the specialized cells that distribute water, solutes, and energy over long distances, as well as how the terminal exchange surfaces (roots and leaves) interface with the environment. |
