The Whitton Lab focuses on studies in population genetics, phylogenetics and speciation. 

For us, questions surrounding the nature of plant species are boundlessly interesting – How do populations of a species, scattered across hundreds or thousands of kilometers, maintain their genetic and evolutionary integrity? How do factors such as changes in chromosome numbers and breeding system influence the ecological and genetic interactions of populations that differ in these traits? How does natural selection influence the divergence of populations and groups of populations when gene flow still occurs between diverging units? These are just a few of the questions that fuel my research interests.

Jeannette is also the director of the UBC Herbarium that is home to over half a million plant specimens from around the world.  The UBC Herbarium is the world's largest collection of BC plants, and is recognized internationally for its bryophyte collection that is the largest in Canada.  Along with the herbariums five major collections: vascular plants (flowering plants, conifers, ferns, and their relatives);bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts); macroscopic algae (mostly seaweeds); lichens; and fungi. they also have other interesting imported collections of Pacific algae, fungi, Hawaiian plants and tropical prayer plants.  

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We just returned from the field, where we were transplanting our 8 common gardens across the range (Boulder, CO, Laramie, WY, and Big Timber, MT). Info! 

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Evan and Alex pressing cider after a hard day of planting hookeri gardens.

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How we do demography videos: Site selection and line installation,  plant measurement and the X and Y axis on your line.

T. hookeri flower bagging and seed collection