Alejandra is a co-PI on the project. She is a Research Botanist at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. She is especially interested in the taxonomy and systematics of Colombian ferns, particularly the genus Elaphoglossum, and in training the next generation of fern researchers. You can learn more about her research projects here.

Michael is a co-PI on the project. Michael Sundue is a fern taxonomist in the tropical diversity section of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. He is also the principal editor for Ferns of the World.

Wes is a co-PI on the project. He is Assistant Professor of Plant Biology and Director of the Pringle Herbarium at the University of Vermont. He also is a Research Associate at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. He is especially interested in the evolution of Andean ferns and lycophytes, phylogenomics, and using big data sets to study biodiversity. You can visit his website here.

Susana Vega is a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee. Her research focuses on the evolution of branching architecture in vascular plants, particularly how differences in branching patterns contribute to the diversity of plant forms. She is especially interested in plant morphology, evolution, and systematics, with a particular focus on the genus Selaginella. Susana joined the project as a master's student at the University of Antioquia (Colombia), where she contributed as a research assistant.

Sarah K. Morris is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vermont. She is interested in taxonomy, floristics, and macroevolution of the plants of the American Tropics, and she is currently studying the scaly polpod genus Pleopeltis (Polypodiaceae) as well as the fern flora of the Chocó Biogeographic Region. You can learn more about her research here.

Lucía Vargas is a Ph.D. candidate at Texas Christian University and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas in the United States. Their research focuses on the taxonomy and evolution of tropical ferns, particularly the scaly species of the genus Elaphoglossum.

Kimberlie is an Herbarium and Research Assistant at the Fort Worth Botanical Garden and Botanical Research Institute of Texas. She provides administrative support to the Ferns of Colombia research team, assists with DNA extractions of collected specimens, and oversees preservation and digitization of dried specimens at deposited at BRIT.

Grace joined the Ferns of Colombia team as an Undergraduate Research Intern and focusing on the study of Elaphoglossum spore morphology. Read about her experience here.

Sereen joined the Ferns of Colombia team as an Undergraduate Research Intern, gaining hands-on experience in botanical research and contributing to ongoing research activities during her appointment. She also appears in one of our 2-minute Genera videos.