Faculty Fellows

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.

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.

Gary Hilderbrand is a landscape architect with a deep and abiding interest in the urban forest canopy. At the Harvard Graduate School of Design, I am the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice, and it’s my honor to be the current Chair of GSD’s Department of Landscape Architecture. I am also a founding principal of Reed Hilderbrand, a 25-year landscape architecture practice with studios in Cambridge and New Haven.

Jeannine Cavender-Bares is a plant physiological ecologist interested in understanding how the evolutionary history of plant function influences ecosystem processes, especially in forested systems. Her team uses novel spectral biology approaches that integrate spectroscopic data and imagery to detect plant variation across scales.

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

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.

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.