Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of plants
Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of plants
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How are species related, how have they evolved, why do they occur where they do? We study these and related questions mostly in plants, especially in the Hengduan Mountains of China and environs. We also tackle conceptual and methodological problems in systematics and biogeography.Â
How are species related, how have they evolved, why do they occur where they do? We study these and related questions mostly in plants, especially in the Hengduan Mountains of China and environs. We also tackle conceptual and methodological problems in systematics and biogeography.Â
Recent publications
Recent publications
Stasinski, L, D M White, P R Nelson, R H Ree, and J E Meireles. 2021. New Phytologist https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17731
Li, Q., H. Sun, D. E. Boufford, B. Bartholomew, P. W. Fritsch, J. Chen, T. Deng, and R. H. Ree. 2021. New Phytologist https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17443
The origins of coca: museum genomics reveals multiple independent domestications from progenitor Erythroxylum gracilipes
The origins of coca: museum genomics reveals multiple independent domestications from progenitor Erythroxylum gracilipes
Join the lab
Join the lab
I accept PhD students through the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, and can co-advise graduate students at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Undergraduates, postdocs, sabbatical visitors: please inquire, funding may be possible through Field Museum internships and scholarships.
I accept PhD students through the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, and can co-advise graduate students at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Undergraduates, postdocs, sabbatical visitors: please inquire, funding may be possible through Field Museum internships and scholarships.
People
People
Richard Ree
Richard Ree
Curator of Flowering Plants, Field Museum
Co-Director, Grainger Bioinformatics Center
Faculty Associate, U. Chicago Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Lecturer, U. Chicago Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Matthew Nelsen
Matthew Nelsen
Research Scientist at Field Museum; Ree Lab alumnus and current associate
Macroevolutionary dynamics of symbiosis; lichen systematics
Ryan Fuller
Ryan Fuller
Ph.D. candidate, U. Chicago Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Systematics of alpine Rhododendron in the Hengduan Mountains
Qin Li
Qin Li
Postdoctoral Researcher, Grainger Bioinformatics Center
Floristic regionalization of the Hengduan Mountains; community assembly and niche evolution in Rhododendron and Mimulus
Jing-Yi Lu
Jing-Yi Lu
Ph.D. candidate, U. Chicago Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Pollinator shifts, floral divergence, and speciation in Aeschynanthus (Gesneriaceae)
Dawson White
Dawson White
Postdoctoral researcher, Grainger Bioinformatics Center
Systematics of coca and its wild relatives (Erythroxylum spp.)
Population genetics and spectral reflectance in Alaskan Dryas
Sammy Kish-Levine
Sammy Kish-Levine
Ph.D. candidate, U. Chicago Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Host-driven speciation of parasitic plants; mountain biogeography; systematics of Pedicularis
Senna Bryce Robeson
Senna Bryce Robeson
Ph.D. candidate, U. Chicago Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Range size evolution, biogeography, and taxonomy of Bejaria (Ericaceae)
Miriam Ahmad-Gawel
Miriam Ahmad-Gawel
Ph.D. student, U. Chicago Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Ecological and population-level drivers of floral evolution and diversification in Pedicularis
Alumni
Alumni
Graduate students
Graduate students
- Wenna Ding (visiting)
- Qiuyue Zhang (visiting)
- Traci Kantarski
- Jacqueline Van De Viere
Postdocs
Postdocs
- Olena Peregrym
- Yingwei Wang
Interns
Interns
- Winston Wilson
- Christina Ziegler
- Shrabya Timsina
- Megan Vats (Loyola)
- Joshua Stevens-Stein (U. Chicago)
- David Park (IMSA)
- Jim Li (IMSA)
- Brian Wray (NEIU)
- Ciera Martinez (NEIU)
- Diana Jolles
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