Gregory Plunkett

Teaches at New York Botanical Garden

Gregory M. Plunkett, Ph.D., Director and Curator, Cullman Program for Molecular Systematics at NYBG, conducts research on tropical and southern-hemisphere plants, which integrates field and herbarium studies with molecular phylogenetics and biogeographic studies. His field work concentrates in the Southwest Pacific islands, and in tropical and temperate South America. Before joining NYBG in 2009, he was a Professor of Biology at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he taught general botany, plant taxonomy, economic botany, and molecular systematics for 12 years.