People

Staff and Affiliated Personnel

Director:
Alexander Krings, PhD, FLS
Vascular Plant Herbarium (NCSC)
Campus Box 7612
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7612

Correspondent for all herbarium related business, including loan inqueries and plant identification requests. Contact: akrings@ncsu.edu or 919.515.2700.

Specialists:

Jillian De Gezelle, PhD: Ethnobotany
Associate Teaching Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology

William A. Hoffmann, PhD: Tropical ecology; fire ecology; ecophysiology; global change
Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology

Alexander Krings, PhD, FLS: Taxonomy; floristics; rare plants; conservation biology
Professor and Director of the Vascular Plant Herbarium, Plant & Microbial Biology

Joseph Neal, PhD: Weed Science
Professor, Horticultural Science

William Petry, PhD: Evolutionary ecology
Assistant Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology

Seema Sheth, PhD: Evolutionary ecology
Associate Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology

George Tiley, PhD: Evolutionary biology
Assistant Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology

Deyu Xie, PhD: Phytochemistry, metabolic engineering, medicinal botany
Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology

Emeritus:

Paul R. Fantz, PhD: Taxonomy of cultivated plants and legumes
Professor Emeritus, Horticultural Science

James E. Mickle, PhD: Paleobotany
Professor Emeritus, Plant & Microbial Biology

Jon M. Stucky, PhD: Experimental species biology of endangered plants; wetland plant biology
Professor Emeritus, Plant & Microbial Biology

Thomas R. Wentworth, PhD: Plant community ecology
Professor Emeritus, Plant & Microbial Biology

Donna Wright: Floristics and ecology
Teaching Technician Emerita, Plant & Microbial Biology

Jenny Xiang, PhD: Plant systematics and evolution with emphasis on the dogwood and buckeye families and intercontinental disjuncts
Professor Emerita, Plant & Microbial Biology