Clemson University Department of Biological Sciences

Welcome! We explore the ecological and evolutionary processes that generate diversity in flowering plants. We address questions primarily focused on floral pigmentation and plant reproductive systems. We use a variety of approaches including ecological and quantitative genetics, phenotypic manipulation and pollination experiments, population genetics, and comparative phylogenetics.

LAB NEWS

Summer 2025: A couple new lab papers on floral thermal ecology and pollination including Jen Apland's MS thesis.

March 2025: Laura Leal's meta-analysis on nectar larceny out in Ecology

1/10/2025: The lab welcomes postdoc Mercedes Sánchez-Cabrera!

12/19/2024: Katherine successfully defended M.S. Thesis and graduated!

12/2024: Anita, published paper in New Phytologist!

09/10/2024: Matt, Jacob & Jennifer have a paper accepted at Ecology Letters

07/01/2024: Cierra won the Li-Cor prize at Botany for best student oral presentation, and then successfully defended her thesis- congrats Dr. Sullivan!