Botanic Gardens Trust Sydney Australia

Science staff

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Chris Allen - mapping, GIS, Liverpool Plains, grasslands, Wollemi Pine, landsnails, plant ecology, community ecology, vegetation classification

Julie Bates - plant pathology

Doug Benson - Sydney plant species, western Sydney plant communities, Cumberland Plain woodland, woodland remnants

John Benson - vegetation of western NSW, Wollemi Pine, Riparian rainforest, grasslands of Liverpool Plains

Judy Blood - manages the research library

Elizabeth Brown - Lepidoziaceae, Fossombronia, Asterella, hepatics in Australia, wet tropics cryptogams, Styphelioideae

Gary Chapple - database management

Wayne Cherry - herbarium curation, collections management, Amaranthaceae

Robert Coveny - plant collection, exchange management, plant identification

Barry Conn - Westringieae (Lamiaceae), Chloantheae (Lamiaceae), Lecantheae (Urticaceae), trees of Papua New Guinea, plants of Lord Howe Island, Logania (Loganiaceae)

Katherine Downs - herbarium curation, collections management

Lesley Elkan - botanical Illustration, plant images, illustration archive, botanical art

Tim Entwisle - freshwater macroalgae and bryophytes, microalgal communities, filamentous algae

Zonda Erskine - loans management

Joy Everett - Gnaphalieae and Astereae (Asteraceae); Stipeae (Poaceae); Australian alpine flora

Miguel Garcia - day to day running of the research library

Kim Hamilton - coordinator and researcher for the Rainforest Seed Project

Clare Herscovitch - Araceae, Malesian flora

Margaret Heslewood - systematics and evolution in plants and animals

Surrey Jacobs - stipoid grasses, Australian Nymphaea,Vallisneria, Aponogeton

Matthew Laurence - disease diagnosis and research support

Edward Liew - plant pathogens, diseases, fungi, population genetics, phylogenetics, soil-borne pathogens, tropical crop diseases, Fusarium, Phytophthora

Kristina McColl - assists Director Plant Sciences with administrative and technical duties

Seanna McCune - Botanical Information Service

Hannah McPherson - cryptogams, systematics, biogeography

Amelia Martyn - horticulture, plant stress, plant physiology, seed biology

Bob Makinson - Grevillea, Astrotricha, plant conservation

Adam Marchant - Restionaceae, Solanum, Camellia, Lavandula, bryophytes, Gymnopilus, Abildgaardieae, Juglans, Sporochnaceae

Alan Millar - marine algae and invertebrates, Gelidiales

Louisa Murray - Flora of New South Wales, PlantNET

Alex Newman - laboratory support, vehicle maintenance scheduling, ordering, incoming quarantine cataloguing

Liz Norris - plant communities

Cathy Offord - waratahs, grevilleas, Wollemi Pine, flannel flowers, seed biology

Carolyn Porter - microsatellite libraries, molecular systematics

Amanda Rollason - cultivation of Wollemi Pine, Waratah and Flannel Flower, tissue culture

Maurizio Rossetto - molecular and evolutionary ecology, conservation genetics, biogeography, population dynamics, adaptive differentiation, community and functional ecology

John Siemon - horticulture, tissue culture, terrestrial orchids, mycorrhizal associations

Karen Sommerville - terrestrial orchids, storage of orchid seed and associated mycorrhizae

Leonie Stanberg - Cycads & Cycas , Eucalypts (Eucalyptus, Angophora, Corymbia), botanical scanning electron microscopy, herbarium curation, collections management

Brett Summerell - Fusarium, macromolecular techniques for plant disease diagnosis, fungi of Australian native plants, SE Asia plant pathology 

Ifeanna Tooth - grants coordination, herbarium curation, collections management

Gillian Towler - herbarium curation, collections management

Lotte von Richter - Cumberland Plain Woodland ecology, seed ecology, flannel flowers

Catherine Wardrop - botanical illustration, plant images, illustration archive, botanical art

Peter Weston - Proteaceae, Diurideae (Orchidaceae), basal-relictual angiosperms

Barbara Wiecek - Botanical Information Service, Caesalpiniodeae, Mistletoes, Rosaceae

Karen Wilson - Cyperaceae, Casuarinaceae, Juncaceae, Polygonaceae

Peter Wilson - Chamelaucium alliance (Myrtaceae), Myrtaceae clade of the order Myrtales, Babingtonia (Myrtaceae), Indigofera pratensis, Indigofereae (Fabaceae)

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