Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney, Australia

Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW

Science staff

Chris Allen — mapping, GIS, Liverpool Plains, grasslands, Wollemi Pine, landsnails

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

Suzanne Bullock — Fusarium morphology and  taxonomy; Mycorrhizae of the Wollemi Pine

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 Entwislefreshwater 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

Clare Herscovitch — Araceae, Malesian flora

Margaret Heslewood — systematics and evolution in plants and animals

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

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 MakinsonGrevillea, Astrotricha, plant conservation

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

Alan Millar — marine algae and invertebrates, Gelidiales

Louisa Murray — collections management

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, Scanning Electron Microscope

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

Maurizio RossettoElaeocarpus, Nightcap Oak (Eidothea hardeniana), Achronychia littoralis, Cissus, Vitaceae, Trachymene (Apiaceae), Davidsonia (Cunoniaceae), Hakea pulvinifera

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 SummerellFusarium, 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 WilsonChamelaucium alliance (Myrtaceae), Myrtaceae clade of the order Myrtales, Babingtonia (Myrtaceae), Indigofera pratensis, Indigofereae (Fabaceae)

 
new alga

Tissue culture

Wollemi Pine research