FACULTY & STAFF

UCSC Plant Sciences began with the opening of the campus. Listed below are our emeritus faculty with distinction in the plant science field and faculty whose research utilizes the UCSC Greenhouse facilities.

• Kenneth Thimann
• Harry Beevers
• Jean Langenheim
• Lincoln Taiz

PRESENT FACULTY

• Laurel Fox-Terrestrial population and community ecology, plant-animal interactions
• Kathleen Kay -Evolutionary botany, plant adaptation and speciation
• Ingrid Parker-Plant ecology, pollination, plant-pathogen interactions, biological invasions
• Jarmil Pittermann-Plant physiology, plant morphology and physiological variation
• John Thompson-Coevolution, evolutionary ecology and genetics of species interactions

Environmental Studies

• Weixin Cheng - Soil ecology, agroecology, biogeochemistry, global change ecology
• Greg Gilbert - Disease ecology, conservation biology, tropical forest ecology, microbial ecology
• Steve Gliessman - Agroecology, sustainable agriculture, natural history, ecology and management of California vegetation
• Karen Holl - Restoration ecology, conservation biology
• Debra Letourneau - Insect-plant interactions, biological control as an alternative to chemical pesticides, tropical biology, agroecology
• Michael Loik - Plant responses to environmental stress, implications of global environmental change, biogeography
• Carol Shennan - Agroecology, agriculture-wetland interactions, ecosystem studies,
• Erica Zavaleta - Plant ecology, pollination, plant-pathogen interactions, biological invasions

Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology (MCD)

• Bob Ludwig - Biochemistry and molecular biology, biological nitrogen fixation, Arabidopsis (plant) growth and development

STAFF

UCSC Greenhouse staff have strong backgrounds in the Biological Sciences and are professional growers with many years of experience growing plants. See Contact Information.

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