Department of Botany

Brent E. Ewers

Professor and Department Head

Area of Focus—Plant biophysics, physiological ecology, ecohydrology, process, empirical, phenomenological modeling of plant controls over energy and mass from cells to landscapes.

Berry Center

Liana Boggs Lynch

Instructional Professor

Area of Focus—Soil micobiology, biogeochemistry, and soil health afer ecosystem disturbance and in agricultural systems.

Enzi STEM 261B

Jamie Crait

Associate Instructional Professor | Director, Wyoming Research Scholars Program

Area of Focus—Wildlife ecology.

Science Initiative Building 4017D

Ellen Currano

Professor

Area of Focus—Paleobotany, paleoecology, plant-insect interactions, ancient forest response to environmental perturbations.

Science Initiative Building 4228

Sara Germain

Assistant Professor

Area of Focus—Forest dynamics and disturbance, dendroecology, tree responses to climate change, plant-insect interactions.

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Daniel Laughlin

Professor of Plant Ecology

Area of Focus—Plant Ecology, Restoration Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

Science Initiative Building 3264

Ben Legler

Curator, Rocky Mountain Herbarium

Area of Focus—Floristics, biodiversity informatics, and herbarium management. 

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Mark Lyford

Senior Lecturer

Area of Focus—Science Education.

Science Initiative Building 2030D

Steven L. Miller

Professor

Area of Focus—Fungal Ecology and Symbiosis.

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Christopher North

Associate Instructional Professor

Area of Focus—Aquatic ecology (freshwater and marine), and food web ecology.

Enzi STEM 261B

Camellia Okpodu

Professor

Area of Focus—Plant oxidative stress responses, epigenomics and machine learning in plant research, climate resilience, and extremophilic algae antioxidant metabolism.

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Lauren Shoemaker

Assistant Professor

Area of Focus—Population and community ecology, mathematical modeling, complex systems analyses, grassland and alpine ecosystems.

Science Initiative Building 3232

David Tank

Professor | Director, Rocky Mountain Herbarium

Area of Focus—Plant systematics, macroevolution, floristics, biodiversity informatics, and community phylogenetics.

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Katie Wagner

Associate Professor

Area of Focus—Evolutionary biology, evolutionary genetics, freshwater fishes, evolutionary ecology, and macroevolution.

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Ami Wangeline

Associate Instructional Professor | Coordinator, Course-Based Undergraduate Research

Area of Focus—Mycology, plant and fungal physiology, selenium metabolism.

Science Initiative Building 4017-B

Cynthia Weinig

Professor

Area of Focus—Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics.

Science Initiative Building 4264

Christopher Weiss-Lehman

Assistant Professor

Area of Focus—Eco-evolutionary dynamics of populations and communities in experiments and models.

Science Initiative Building 4238

David G. Williams

Professor

Area of Focus—Plant physiological ecology, ecohydrology, terrestrial ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, and stable isotope ecology.

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