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Fields of study
Plant systematics, phytogeography, floristics, bioinformatics
Academic background
B.S. Biology from Haverford College; M.A. and Ph.D. in Biology from Washington University - St. Louis.
Graduate students
Ya Yang, Brian Dorsey, Wenchi Jin, Elizabeth Haber
Berry Lab
Euphorbia Planetary Biodiversity Inventory Project
U-M Herbarium Web site
News
Berry reappointed Herbarium director
Professor Paul E. Berry has been reappointed as director of the University Herbarium for a three-year term from July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2012.
Berry joined EEB’s faculty as professor in January 2006, when he also was appointed director of the Herbarium. His research interests are in plant systematics, and he currently directs a large collaborative project on Euphorbia and Croton, two large genera of the spurge family Euphorbiaceae. He teaches Systematic Botany (EEB 459) in the fall term. In the coming year, the Herbarium will be developing a more functional and useful Web site on Michigan plants, and it will be sponsoring a totally revised printed update of the three-volume “Michigan Flora.”
Leaf by Leaf
Paul Berry seeks
to understand the
tree of life — one
leaf at a time. Read the article in the Spring 2008 LSAmagazine.
$2.6 million NSF grant awarded for Planetary Biodiversity Inventories
Professor Paul E. Berry and his collaborators have been awarded a $2.6 million grant award over the next five years from the National Science Foundation’s Planetary Biodiversity Inventories program.
Berry will be studying the large genus Euphorbia, whose members are commonly known as spurges but which also contains a large contingent of cactus-like succulents in the Old World. Working with a worldwide consortium of researchers and partnering closely with the Peabody Museum of Yale University, the team will be looking for new species and evaluating the phylogenetic relationships and conservation status of the known species. So far, participants come from Russia, China, France, England, Germany, South Africa, Madagascar, Mexico and the United States. Closer to home, the Euphorbia project will attract more students and postdoctoral fellows to U-M.
“We can fund small field work projects or work in a particular geographic region in any number of countries, and we welcome students to our labs for training opportunities.”
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