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Assistant Professor, Michigan Society Fellow
1529 Ruthven
Office Location(s): 3002 CC Little Phone: 734.615.5055 Fax: 734.763.4690 sysmith@umich.edu Homepage Publications
I am interested in using modern and fossil plants to understand evolution of plants and the environment. My main group of interest is the monocots, a group of flowering plants comprising important taxa such as grasses, sedges, palms, orchids, lilies, gingers, and seagrasses. I use multiple techniques in my studies including phylogenetic analysis, palynology, phytoliths, anatomy, morphology, and more recently, 3D techniques such as synchrotron radiation X-ray tomographic microscopy to investigate modern and fossil specimens to place them in a broader systematic and environmental context.
