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. Li has been developing an integrated experimental/biocomputational approach to identify the factors that regulate plant metabolism and adaptation to environmental changes, focusing on expanding the fundamental understanding of biological networks, in particular those that shift metabolism and thus alter composition. She is available for commentary and analysis on these and related…