Vicki Funk
Senior Research Botanist & Curator
Botany
National Museum Institute of the History of Art, Conservation and Museology
United States of America
Biography
B. S., Murray State University, Biology and History, 1969, Murray State University, Murray, KY, M. S., Murray State University, Biology, 1975. Thesis: A Floristic and Geologic Survey of Selected Seeps of Calloway County, KY. Ph. D., Ohio State University, 1980. Thesis: The Systematics of Montanoa Cerv. (Asteraceae). Postdoctoral Intern at the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, 1981.
Research Interest
Systematics of the Compositae, including monographs, checklists, phylogenies and supertrees; theory and practice of phylogenetics and biogeography, especially global Compositae distributions and Pacific Biogeography; Biodiversity, the interface between systematics and conservation biology, especially from northeastern South America
