Susanne S. Renner

Lab members and projects or http://www.botanik.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/botsyst/home.html

We are working on the evolution, biogeography, and systematics of flowering plants. A particular interest is the evolution of sexual systems, including dioecy, androdioecy, heterodichogamy, and sex change. We are also studying chromosome rearrangements in Cucumis and Araceae, and plant sex chromosomes, focusing on the Cucurbitaceae Bryonia and Coccinia. Biogeographic work has focused on tropical as well as temperate families and continues to lead to the discovery of new species as well as floristic and monographic treatments. In much of this work, molecular clocks and their calibration with fossils play a large role. Last not least, we are interested in the evolution and mode of inheritance of plant introns.

Main email address (alternative mailing addresses see end of page): renner@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

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Selected publications, sorted by topics and clades

MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY, more about pollination and mating system evolution:

BIOGEOGRAPHY // LARGE SCALE ANALYSES

PHYLOGENY AND EVOLUTION: GYMNOSPERMS

ANGIOSPERMS GENERAL

CHLORANTHACEAE

MONOCOTS

LAURALES: PHYLOGENETICS, BIOGEOGRAPHY, and TAXONOMY

CUCURBITALES: EVOLUTION, POLLINATION, TAXONOMY

ASCLEPIADACEAE

MELASTOMATACEAE AND RELATED MYRTALES

SEXUAL SYSTEMS AND POLLINATION

Lab members and projects

Graduate students since 1999

Past and present postdoctoral associates

Education & Positions

1980 M. Sc. in Biology, University of Hamburg
1984 Dr. rer. nat., University of Hamburg
1992 Habilitation (Dr. habil.) in Botanical systematics

1987-92 Associate Professor, Botanical Institute, University of Aarhus
1993-96 Full Professor, Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Mainz
1996-06 Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Associate Faculty, The Missouri Botanical Garden
2003-     Chair, Systematic Botany, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich;
              Director of the Nymphenburg Botanical Garden;
              Director of the Botanische Staatssammlung (M) and the University Herbarium (MSB)


MAILING ADDRESSES

Susanne S. Renner
Systematische Botanik
Menzinger Str. 67
D-80638 Muenchen

My addresses in the US are
Department of Biology
University of Missouri-St. Louis
8001 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO 63121-4499
OR
The Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 266
St. Louis, MO 63166

Last up-dated: 28 June 2009