Shelley McMahon
Director, Curator of Plants
Courses currently offered:
- PLS 170C1 – Plants and Our World
- GenEd iCourse in which we cover many aspects of why 'plants are interesting and not optional'
- Sample syllabus
- PLS 307 – Origins of Food Plants
- GenEd in-person and iCourse in which we cover evolutionary history, domestication, and basic biology of many major crops.
- PLS 477/577 – Applied Plant Diversity
- In-person course in which we cover important plant families and why it matters to learn them
- PLS 491, 499 – Individual Studies
- Contact me if you are interested in serving as a Preceptor or would like to pursue an Independent Study project
Research interests:
- Phylogenomics, phylogenetics, plant systematics
- Fabaceae and floral evolution
- Google Scholar page
Degree(s)
- PhD Washington State University - Botany
- MS University of Arizona - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology