a generic looking seedling of an unknown plantWelcome to the Davis Lab!  a generic looking seedling of an unknown plant

 

What We Do   

We are broadly interested in the origin and maintenance of plant diversity across space and time. Species’ responses to Anthropogenic change, phylogenomics, systematics, biogeography, biome evolution, and symbioses are focal areas of our research.

Learn more about the lab's areas of research, view recent publications, and meet current lab members and affiliates!

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  • a group of researchers sitting at a desk with herbarium specimens and smiling at the camera
  • The front of Harvard University Herbaria
  • a figure showing endoparasitic plants from histological sections
  • an herbarium specimen of nymphaea tuberosa
  • A group of researchers walk in a line through a swamp.

Latest News!

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Davis Lab takes a trip to NYBG!

November 14, 2022
Members of the Davis Lab took a field trip to the New York Botanical Gardens last week to make use of the phenomenal herbarium collections there. Thanks, NYBG! 
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Recent Publications

Daniel S Park, Xiao Feng, Shinobu Akiyama, Marlina Ardiyani, Neida Avendaño, Zoltan Barina, Blandine Bärtschi, Manuel Belgrano, Julio Betancur, Roxali Bijmoer, Ann Bogaerts, Asunción Cano, Jiří Danihelka, Arti Garg, David E Giblin, Rajib Gogoi, Ramagwai J Sebola, Tomoyuki Katagiri, Jonathan A. Kennedy, Tojibaev Sh. Komil, Byoungyoon Lee, Serena ML Lee, Donatella Magri, Rossella Marcucci, Siro Masinde, Denis Melnikov, Patrik Mráz, Wieslaw Mulenko, Paul Musili, Geoffrey Mwachala, Burrell E Nelson, Christine Niezgoda, Carla Novoa Sepúlveda, Sylvia Orli, Alan Paton, Serge Payette, Kent D Perkins, Maria Jimena Ponce, Heimo Rainer, L. Rasingam, Himmah Rustiami, Natalia M Shiyan, Charlotte Sletten Bjorå, James Solomon, Fred Stauffer, Alex Sumadijaya, Mélanie Thiébaut, Barbara M Thiers, Hiromi Tsubota, Alison Vaughan, Risto Virtanen, Timothy JS Whitfeld, Dianxiang Zhang, Fernando O Zuloaga, and Charles C. Davis. 6/12/2023. “The colonial legacy of herbaria.” Nature Human Behavior.
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