Lab Members and Affiliates

Lab Members

Peter Flynn

Postdoctoral Researcher
Hi! I am a postdoctoral fellow in OEB working with the Davis Lab. I am an evolutionary biologist broadly interested in plant and insect phylogenetics, innovative approaches to museum genomics, and microbial evolution. My postdoctoral research at the...
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Lova Marline

Postdoctoral Research Associate
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Farlow Herbarium within OEB, working with the Davis Lab. I am broadly interested in the ecology and evolution of lower land plants, especially on tropical islands and mountains. My main taxonomic interest and...
Lova Marline

Esteban Ramirez Chueca

Postdoctoral Fellow
I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Herbaria (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology), in collaboration with the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard (RCC). My research focuses on the taxonomy, systematics, and biogeography of...
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Kristen Saban

Graduate Student
Hi! I am a Ph.D. student in the Davis lab broadly interested in plant evolutionary ecology. I am particularly interested in how climatic and edaphic factors interact to shape plant diversification, distribution, and ecosystem function. My research...
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Ryan Schmidt-Knapik

Graduate Student
Hi! I am a PhD student in the Davis lab working in the Harvard University Herbaria. I am a botanist broadly interested in understanding how humans have shaped biodiversity through space and time, with a focus on the ecologies and evolutionary histories of...
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Dawson White

Postdoctoral Fellow
Dawson is a botanist and postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Herbaria. His work integrates phylogenomic systematics, herbarium-based leaf spectroscopy, and botanical surveys to better characterize floristic, genotypic, and phenotypic dimensions...
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Affiliates

Tiago Vieira

HUH Research Fellow
Tiago is an Evolutionary Biologist interested in plant systematics and taxonomy, molecular phylogenetics, biogeography, and Neotropical orchid flora. He recently completed his Ph.D. at the Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana in Brazil where he...