Professor Samuel Brockington - Academic Lead
In addition to providing Academic Leadership to the University Herbarium, I am Head of the Evolution and Diversity Group in the Department of Plant Sciences and Curator of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. My research is both comparative and integrative, combining systematics, morphology, development, molecular genetics, and physiology.
I teach on the first year course Evolution and Behaviour; give practical classes on plant diversity and morphology as part of the second year course Plant and Microbial Sciences; and lecture on phylogenetics and homology as part of the third year Part II Plant Sciences module Evolution and Ecosystem Dynamics. I regularly give public lectures on the history of botanic gardens, the global network of botanic gardens, and the current and ongoing activities in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
Department profile: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/samuel-brockington
Juliet Anderson - Collections & Digitisation Assistant
Mar Millan - Collections Coordinator