BSA Sectional Officers

Bryological And Lichenological Section

Chair and ABLS President (2026):

Jessica Budke
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Email: jbudke@utk.edu

Program Director - ABLS President-elect (2026):

Jessi Allen
Eastern Washington University
Email: jessilynnallen@gmail.com

Treasurer - ABLS Treasurer (2029):

Klara Scharnagl
University of California Berkeley
Email: klara.scharnagl@gmail.com

Secretary - ABLS Secretary (2027):

Manuela dal Forno
Fort Worth Botanic Garden
Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Email: mdalforno@fwbg.org

Developmental And Structural Section

Chair (2026):

Yaowu Yuan
University of Connecticut
Email: yuan.colreeze@gmail.com

Program & Student Awards Director (2027):

Jacob Suissa
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Email: Jsuissa@utk.edu

Secretary/Treasurer (2028):

Jesús Martínez-Gómez
University of California, Santa Barbara
Email: jesusgm@ucsb.edu

Ecology Section

Chair (2028):

Hilary S. Callahan
Barnard College, Columbia University
Email: hcallaha@barnard.edu

Vice-Chair (2026):

David Gorchov
Miami University
Email: gorchodl@miamioh.edu

Secretary & Program Director (2028):

Jessamine Finch
Atlanta Botanical Garden
Email: jfinch@atlantabg.org

Economic Botany Section

(more about Economic Botany)

Chair (2026):

Emily Warschefsky
Missouri Botanical Garden

Secretary-Treasurer (2026):

Tabitha Faber
University of Wisconsin

Genetics & Genomics Section

Chair (2026):

Michael Moody
The University of Texas at El Paso
Email: mlmoody@utep.edu

Vice Chair (2026)

Jeff Mower
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Email: jpmower@unl.edu

Secretary-Treasurer (2026)

Anthony Taylor
Penn State University
Email: aat5490@psu.edu

Historical Section

Chair (2027)

Ryan Schmidt-Knapik
Harvard University
Email: rschmidtknapik@gmail.com

Vice-Chair (2027)

Mason Heberling
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Email: heberlingm@carnegiemnh.org

Secretary-Treasurer (2028)

Mac H. Alford
University of Southern Mississippi
Email: mac.alford@usm.edu

Paleobotanical Section

Paleobotanical Section Pages

Chair (2026):

Kathleen Pigg
Arizona State University
Email: kpigg@asu.edu

Secretary-Treasurer & Program Director (2027):

Patricia Ryberg
Park University
Email: patricia.ryberg@park.edu

Editor, Bibliography of American Paleobotany (2028):

Andres Elgorriaga
Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio; University of Kansas
Email: aelgorriaga@ku.edu

Phycological Section

In Recess

Physiological and Ecophysiological Section

Chair (2026):

Jessica Savage
University of Minnesota
Email: jsavage@d.umn.edu

Program Director (2027):

Christopher Krieg
Wake Forest University
Email: kriegc@wfu.edu

Membership Chair (2028):

Brian Maricle
Saginaw Valley State University
Email: bmaricle@svsu.edu

Treasurer (2027):

Anitra Thorhaug
Yale University
Email: athorhaug@msn.com

Phytochemistry Section

Chair (2026):

Josh Widhalm
Purdue University
Email: jwidhalm@purdue.edu

International Representative (2026):

Federico Roda
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Email: frodaf@unal.edu.co

Secretary (2026):

Ishveen Kaur
Virginia Tech
Email: ishveen@vt.edu

Student Representative (2026):

Abrianna Soule
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Email: abrsoule@umich.edu

Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI) Section

Chair (2024):

Dr. Nathan Jud
William Jewell College
Email: judn@william.jewell.edu

Vice-Chair (2023):

Dr. Carrie Wu
University of Richmond
Email: cwu@richmond.edu

Secretary/Treasurer (2025):

Dr. Greg Pec
University of Nebraska Kearney
Email: pecg@unk.edu

Postdoc Ambassador (2023):

Dr. Rajeev Ranjan
Perdue University
Email: ranjan9@purdue.edu

Pteridological Section

Chair (2027):

Helen I. Holmlund
Pepperdine University
Email: helen.holmlund@pepperdine.edu

Secretary-Treasurer (2026):

Tom Ranker
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Email: tom.ranker@gmail.com

Systematics Section

Chair (2026):

Jennifer Mandel
University of Memphis
Email: jmandel@memphis.edu

Secretary-Treasurer-Program Director (2028):

Chris Tyrrell
Milwaukee Public Museum
Email: tyrrell@mpm.edu

Teaching Section

Chair (2026):

Robert Noyd
U.S. Airforce Academy
Email: bob.noyd@usafa.edu

Vice Chair & Chair-Elect (2026):

J. Phil Gibson
University of Oklahoma
Email: jpgibson@ou.edu

Secretary/Treasurer (2026):

Janelle Burke
Howard University
Email: Janelle.Burke@howard.edu

Immediate Past Chair (2026):

Ben Montgomery
University of South Carolina Upstate
Email: montgo55@uscupstate.edu

Tropical Biology Section

Chair (2024):

Vinita Gowda
IISER Bhopal
Email: gowdav@iiserb.ac.in

Secretary-Treasurer: 

Vacant

Northeastern Section

Chair (2026):

Amy Faivre
Cedar Crest College 
Email: aefaivre@cedarcrest.edu

Vice Chair & Program Director (2026):

Bonnie Isaac
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Email: isaacb@carnegiemnh.org

Southeastern Section

Chairman (2028):

Ben Gahagen
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Email: bgahagen@abac.edu

Secretary/Treasurer (2025):

Carolina Siniscalchi
Mississippi State University
E-mail: csiniscalchi@biology.msstate.edu