Professor Beverley Jane Glover
Beverley studied plant and environmental biology at the University of St Andrews graduating with a BSc degree in 1993. She did her postgraduate research in plant molecular genetics at the John Innes Centre, and gained a PhD degree in 1997 from the University of East Anglia. Her doctoral thesis was titled “Cellular Differentiation in Plants”. Beverley was a junior research fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 1996 and 1999, when she was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. She was promoted to senior lecturer in 2005 and reader in 2010. In July 2013, she was appointed Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden and made Professor of Plant Systematics and Evolution. She holds a number of appointments outside of her university career. She has been a member of the council of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, the Systematics Association, the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the Chair of the Council of Scientists of the Human Frontier Science Program. She is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and a member of the Science Advisory Committee of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. She is also a member of the Editorial Board for Current Biology.
Find out more about Beverley’s research here, and find an up-to-date list of her publications here
Professor Samuel Brockington
Sam Brockington is Professor of Evolution, Curator (Deputy Director) of Cambridge University Botanic Garden, and Co-Director of the Collections-Connections-Communities Strategic Research Initiative.
Sam received 1st Class honours in Plant Science from the University of Edinburgh in 2002. He did his postgraduate research in evolutionary developmental biology at the Florida Museum of Natural History and gained his PhD in 2009 from the University of Florida. Returning to Cambridge, Sam was a Marie Curie Fellow, a Newton Trust Post-Doctoral Fellow, and Bye-Fellow of Girton College between 2009 and 2013. He was awarded a NERC Independent Research Fellowship in 2014. In 2015 he was appointed as a University Teaching Officer in the Department of Plant Sciences, and Curator of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. He holds a number of appointments outside of the university career. He is a fellow of the Linnean Society, Trustee for the Bedfordshire-Cambridgeshire-Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust, and Trustee for the Thrive (Society of Social and Therapeutic Horticulture).
Find out more about Sam’s research here, and find an up-to-date list of his publications here.
Doctor Ángela Cano
Ángela Cano is the Deputy Curator of Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
Ángela works at CUBG conducting field expeditions, developing bioinformatics tools, analyzing data, and more. She trained as a botanist in one of the most biodiverse countries—Colombia—where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Biology. She then developed her expertise in plant systematics and biogeography during her Master’s studies at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), where she revised the genus Trithrinax Mart. and worked at the Geneva Herbarium on the detection and digitization of type specimens. Also in Geneva, she completed her Ph.D., which focused on phylogenomics, bioinformatics, and biogeography. Ángela uses palms as models to understand how the tropical Americas became the hyperdiverse region they are today. She has conducted intensive fieldwork in ten countries, exploring biodiversity hotspots such as the Amazon, the Andes, the Caribbean, and the Richtersveld. She shares her broad expertise on plants in her courses at CUBG, where she also researches the dynamics of living plant collections.
Find an up-to-date list of her publications here.
