RESEARCH TOPICS

Research in the lab focuses on the discovery and classification of plant biodiversity of temperate, boreal and arctic-alpine areas. Studies have tackled subjects going from new species description to biogeography, phylogenomics and co-evolution between plants and fungal parasites. Most projects focus on hawthorns (approximately 300 species) and other plant lineages diversified in temperate and northern environments.

We strive to use a diversity of methods including molecular phylogenetics, genomics, as well as more traditional approaches based on morphology, anatomy and embryology. Studies on living plants in the field, and on natural history specimens preserved in herbaria, are at the heart of all our research.

Keywords: Plant systematics • Phylogenetics • Genomics • Phylogeography • Biogeography • Floristics

STUDENTS

Ph.D. students
Maurane Bourgouin
Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
Marc-Aurèle Vallée

M.Sc. students
Olivier Girouard

TEACHING

BIO-2306: Floristique du Québec
BIO-2386: Taxonomie des végétaux
BIO-2720: Flore des milieux humides et aquatiques
BIO-6245: Analyse phylogénétique

PUBLICATIONS

See the list of publications on Google Scholar.