Careers in Botany Profiles
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Dr. Susana Wadgymar
Assistant Professor
Davidson College
Ph.D. University of Toronto
B.S. University of Texas at Austin
@smwadgymar
https://smwadgymar.weebly.com/
Dr. Wadgymar is a plant evolutionary ecologist who studies local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity. She works at a PUI (Primarily Undergraduate Institution) where teaching, research, and service are all expected and valued.
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Dr. Aaron David
Program Director of Plant Ecology & Assistant Research Biologist
Archbold Biological Station
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
B.A. Washington University in St. Louis
https://www.archbold-station.org/programs/plant-ecology/
Dr. Aaron David is the Program Director of Plant Ecology at Archbold Biological Station, a non-profit research institution in south-central Florida. His research primarily focuses on plant population dynamics, particularly those of rare, imperiled species of the Florida scrub, in order to advance both basic population ecology and conservation science. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Miami and the USDA-ARS Invasive Plant Research Laboratory prior to starting his position at Archbold in 2021.
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Amanda Carmichael
Conservation Genetics Laboratory Manager
Southeastern Center for Conservation, Atlanta Botanical Garden
M.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas
B.S. Biology, University of Central Florida
https://atlantabg.org/article/amanda-carmichael-m-s/
Amanda Carmichael serves as the Conservation Genetics Laboratory Manager in the Conservation and Research Department at the Atlanta Botanical Garden (ABG). She is responsible for overseeing daily operations of the lab, managing the DNA Biorepository collection, and conducting relevant lab work for various research projects within the Conservation Genetics Lab. Amanda’s work contributes to the Conservation Genetics research program at ABG, which informs many areas of plant conservation including genetic structure of in situ populations, genetic representation in ex situ collections, phylogenetics, species delimitation, and much more.
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Dr. Richard Vath
Field Applications Scientist at LI-COR Environmental
PhD. Plant Science, University of Cambridge
B.Sc. Soil Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
@thevathicus
Richard Vath grew up in a rural agriculture-based community, farmed wheat and millet during his early years. Early during his undergrad he joined the Air National Guard as an avionics technician and got a job with LI-COR as a sales consultant a couple years later. He has worked for LI-COR full-time during and after undergrad for about 5 ½ years, and Air Guard part-time for 7 years, then decided to leave it all and get a PhD; for that he studied photosynthetic efficiency in C4 crops under dynamic light conditions. Recently he returned to LI-COR where he now works as a Field Applications Scientist and Sales Science Team Lead.
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Ana Caicedo
Professor, Biology Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ph.D. Ecology, Evolution, and Population Biology, Washington University in St. Louis
B.S. Biology, Universidad de los Andes, Colombiaa
@AnaCaicedoS
http://caicedolab.org/
Ana is an evolutionary geneticist broadly interested in the genetic bases of adaptation, with a particular focus on plant species evolving in agricultural environments. Her research uses population genetics and genomic approaches to address questions about the origins of agricultural weeds, the genetic processes underlying crop domestication, and the mechanisms of trait evolution in crop wild relatives. Ana is currently the director of the Plant Biology graduate program at UMass. She is also the co-founder of The Mind Hears, a blog by and for deaf and hard of hearing academics.
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Dr. Judy Che-Castaldo
Biologist
Branch of SSA Science Support, Ecological Services Program, USFWSy
Ph.D. Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. University of Maryland
B.S. Biology. The College of William and Mary
https://jchecastaldo.weebly.com/
Dr. Che-Castaldo has a background in population ecology, plant and animal demography, and conservation biology. She is particularly interested in improving the use of science in policy, and works to apply and interpret population models to species conservation and management. In her role with the Fish & Wildlife Service, she provides analytical support for Species Status Assessments, which are used to inform listing decisions and recovery planning under the Endangered Species Act. She was previously a research scientist at Lincoln Park Zoo, where helped to develop management plans for animal populations and conducted demographic research
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Dr. Jacob Landis
Research Associate
Cornell Universityn
PhD from the University of Florida
MA from the University of Kansas
BS from the University of Kansasn
@JLandisBotany
https://jacoblandis.com/
Jacob is currently a Research Associate at Cornell University working on a variety of projects focused on phylogenomics and comparative genomics. Jacob works closely with undergraduate and graduate students on bioinformatic analyses, as well as teaching courses on phylogenetics and handling big data for evolutionary questions.
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Dr. Hannah Marx
Assistant Professor & Herbarium Curator
University of New Mexico Herbarium, Museum of Southwestern Biologym
Ph.D. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Idaho
B.S. Biology, University of Washingtone
@marxhannah
https://hannahmarx.com/
Dr. Hannah Marx is a botanist interested in understanding how communities change over space and time. She bridges themes from ecology and evolution in extreme alpine and invaded oceanic islands to develop actionable scientific tools for predicting and managing future changes to plant ecosystems. Her research uses field-based plant collections, biodiversity data from herbarium collections, and recent advances in genomics to understand mechanistic processes across scales. Currently she manages a lab group at the University of New Mexico and is also Curator of the Herbarium at the Museum of Southwestern Biology.
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Dr. Robert Baker
Data Scientist/Integrative Biologist
National Park Service Inventory & Monitoring Division
Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder CO
B.A. Biology, Reed College, Portland ORy
Robert L. Baker (0000-0001-7591-5035) - ORCID
After graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Rob Baker undertook a NSF postdoctoral fellowship at the University Wyoming and became an assistant professor at Miami University in Ohio. Currently, Rob works as a data scientist with the National Park Service’s Central Support Office in Fort Collins, CO. In this capacity, he assists NPS researchers and data scientists from across the 32 NPS networks and 400+ park units to make information on the health of park resources available and usable by all. Rob contributes to curating, disseminating, and extracting meaning from long-term natural resource data and encourages open data and open science across NPS. His work is vital to understanding the ecosystems of national parks and preserving them unimpaired for current and future generations.
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