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

May 2026: Sol received a research grant from the Georgia Botanical Society. Congrats Sol!

April 2026: The lab received a new grant from the Human Frontiers Science Program to expand work on floral thermoregulation with new collaborators, Edwige Moyroud and Satoshi Ishii!

December 2025: Maris Woldin successfully defended her M.S. Thesis. Congrats Maris!

November 2025:A new lab paper came out in New Phytologist on pollinator-mediated and abiotic selection on floral thermoregulation.

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