Dr. Ryan Folk is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and is the university's herbarium curator. His research interests include interspecific hybridization, reconstruction of ancestral niche and species distributions, evolution of symbioses with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and automated extraction of plant traits from biodiversity literature. In addition, he leads the…

Dr. Jordan is a Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Biology at Mississippi State. Her research interests include microbiology, molecular biology, bacteria, the microbiome, etc. She is available for commentary and analysis on these and related topics.