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Paul E. Berry
Professor
Ph.D., Biology, Washington University, 1980
U-M affiliation(s)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Michigan Herbarium, Director
Contact information
University of Michigan
2037/2035 Kraus Natural Science Bldg.
830 N. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
Phone: (734) 647-3689
Lab: (734) 936-3335
Fax: (734) 763-0544
Email: peberry@umich.edu
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Fields of study
Plant systematics, phytogeography, floristics, bioinformatics
Academic background
B.S. Biology from Haverford College; M.A. and Ph.D. in Biology from Washington University - St. Louis.
Graduate students
Ya Yang, Christopher Lane, Brian Dorsey
U-M Herbarium Web site
News
Leaf by Leaf
Paul Berry seeks
to understand the
tree of life — one
leaf at a time. Read the article in the Spring 2008 LSAmagazine.
Berry is interim director of Gardens
Professor Paul E. Berry, director of the Herbarium, dons yet another cap as interim director of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Berry will use his dual directorship to help strengthen connections between campus units, take advantage of similar interests and make programs more effective. Read more in MBGNA friends.
Professor Paul E. Berry received $10,500 to support two students as part of his Planetary Biodiversity Inventories program.
$2.6 million NSF grant awarded for Planetary Biodiversity Inventories
Professor Paul E. Berry and his collaborators have been awarded a $2.6 million grant award over the next five years from the National Science Foundation’s Planetary Biodiversity Inventories program.
Berry will be studying the large genus Euphorbia, whose members are commonly known as spurges but which also contains a large contingent of cactus-like succulents in the Old World. Working with a worldwide consortium of researchers and partnering closely with the Peabody Museum of Yale University, the team will be looking for new species and evaluating the phylogenetic relationships and conservation status of the known species. So far, participants come from Russia, China, France, England, Germany, South Africa, Madagascar, Mexico and the United States. Closer to home, the Euphorbia project will attract more students and postdoctoral fellows to U-M.
“We can fund small field work projects or work in a particular geographic region in any number of countries, and we welcome students to our labs for training opportunities.”
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