Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
800 Algoma Blvd.
Oshkosh WI 54901-8640
USA
Phone: 920-424-1002
E-mail: lammers@uwosh.edu
Member of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy,
American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Botanical Society of America
Background:
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Hello, everyone, and thank you for visiting my webpage. I am a botanist, a plant biologist, with an emphasis at the organismal level, rather than the cellular or molecular level. I received my B.S. in Botany from Iowa State University in Jul 1977. I was an active member of Botany Club (elected President my senior year), and was employed by the department in the greenhouses and herbarium.
After two years in the workforce, I returned to graduate school. I earned an M.A. in Biology in July 1981 from the University of Northern Iowa . My thesis was entitled The Vascular Flora of Des Moines County, Iowa [ Proc. Iowa Acad. Science 90: 55-71 (1983) ] and was directed by the late Dr. Lawrence J. Eilers. While there, I was employed as the herbarium assistant, and held a teaching assistantship in the general biology labs.
In January 1982, I began doctoral studies under Dr. Tod F. Stuessy in his lab at The Ohio State University . During my time there, I held a variety of teaching and research assistantships. I received my Ph.D. in Botany in September 1988; my dissertation was Systematics and Evolution of the Endemic Hawaiian Genus Clermontia Gaudichaud (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae) [ Syst. Bot. Monogr. 32:1-94 (1991) ]
My first professional position after graduation was a two-year term appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at Miami University in Ohio . Here, I taught a variety of plant courses. From there, I accepted a position as Assistant Curator of Flowering Plants in the Department of Botany at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago . Though this was a research position, I also taught plant courses on six occasions at the University of Chicago , the University of Illinois-Chicago , and College of DuPage . In August 1999, I came to Oshkosh to accept the position I now have here.
Teaching:
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As a botanist, I primarily teach courses about plants. Each Spring, I am responsible for all instruction in Biol 231, Biology of Plants and Microbes , our introductory botany course. Each Fall, I offer Biol 304/504 Plant Taxonomy , my area of expertise. Also in the Fall, I am one of several lectures for our introductory biology course, Biol 105 Biological Concepts–Unity . In the past, I have been involved in other courses, including Biol 111 Biology Orientation, Biol 337/537 Plant Anatomy, Biol 728 Graduate Seminar–Botany, and Biol 766 Advanced Topics.
In addition to my courses, I serve as Graduate Coordinator for the department, overseeing our graduate program, and as Curator of the Herbarium, responsible for our collection of over 115,000 prepared plant specimens from around the world.
Research:
My area of expertise within biology is plant systematics , which deals with the classification, naming, evolution, and biogeography. For the past two decades, my specific subject of interest has been the flowering plant family Campanulaceae (the bellflowers). This family includes 84 genera ( e.g., Campanula, Lobelia ) and over 2300 species, with representatives on six continents and many of the world's islands. Since 1986, I have published over 60 peer-reviewed articles on this family in a wide variety of scholarly journals and books.
 Lobelia gloria-mantis Campanulaceae F.R. Warshauer |
