Dr. Leigh A. Johnson, PhD

Brigham Young University

Taxonomic Focus: Plants

Address: 683 WIDB Provo, UT 84602, USA
Phone: 1 (801) 422-5241
E-mail: Leigh_Johnson@byu.edu

Research:

I am interested broadly in patterns of plant diversification and pursue research in phylogenetic systematics, species delimitation, comparative morphology and conservation genetics. Comparisons between levels of morphological and molecular divergence and phylogeographic patterns of divergence are growing areas of activity in my lab. Outreach includes general information on taxonomic groups such as for the Tree of Life Project and floristic treatments for the Jepson Manual: Flowering Plants of California and the Flora of North America project.

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Biography:

Born in 1966, Payson, Utah; Highschool Class of 1984; Pre-doctoral research fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s Laboratory of Molecular Systematics in 1995; Assistant Professor & Herbarium Curator at North Carolina State University 1997-99.

Website:

Personal: http://lifesciences.byu.edu/home/FacStaff?ID=113
Lab: http://biology.byu.edu/Faculty/laj39/johnsonlab
Polemoniaceae: http://tolweb.org/Polemoniaceae