Faculty Fellows

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About Our Faculty Fellows

Faculty Fellows of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University contribute significantly to one or more of five areas central to the mission of the Arnold Arboretum:

Leading or collaborating on research based at the Arboretum
Mentoring students and postdoctoral fellows based at the Arboretum
Teaching Harvard courses based at the Arboretum
Providing input on living or archival collections and landscape management
Creating outreach programs to share science and other scholarship with the public at the Arboretum.

Benton Taylor

Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Faculty Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

Benton Taylor focuses on how plants respond-to and influence their environments, particularly in view of global change. Although the primary focus of the Taylor lab is at the ecosystem scale, the research questions require viewing plants at individual as well as community scales toward a better understanding of the role of plants in global processes.

Elena Kramer

Bussey Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard College Professor
Faculty Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

A professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. The Kramer Lab is interested in the evolution of plant developmental genetics with a particular focus on floral evolution.

N. Michele Holbrook

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry
Faculty Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

The Holbrook lab focuses on how the transport of water and solutes through the vascular system influences ecological, evolutionary and physiological processes.

Robin Hopkins

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Faculty Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

Robin Hopkins is interested in natural selection and the process of speciation. The Hopkins lab studies color variation in Phlox with a growing focus on reproductive incompatibility between emerging species and understanding the key evolutionary forces at work.

William (Ned) Friedman

Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Faculty Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

Ned Friedman is interested in the organismic interfaces between developmental, phylogenetic, and evolutionary biology. The Friedman lab explores how patterns of morphology, anatomy, and reproductive biology have evolved through the modification of developmental processes.