Dena Grossenbacher

Assistant Professor Dena GrossenbacherDena Grossenbacher, Ph.D.

AssOCIATE Professor

805-756-2135
dgrossen@calpoly.edu
33-376 office
33-318 lab

 

Grossenbacher Lab website

Research Gate

Education

BS Botany, Cum Laude, University of Washington
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Postdoc, University of California, Davis
Postdoc, University of Minnesota
Postdoc, Washington State University
 

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in how plant-environment interactions generate and maintain plant diversity, and the processes underlying the origin and extinction of species. I use the California flora to address these questions because of its astonishing variation both among and within species. In particular, I focus on the members of Phrymaceae which display a wide variety of flower types, mating systems, range sizes and habitat specializations making them ideal for investigating evolutionary and ecological processes that generate diversity.

Advising Interests

  • Evolution
  • Plant evolutionary ecology
  • Speciation 
  • Phylogenetics
  • Biodiversity

Publications

Offsite link to selected publications

 

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