People
Savolainen, Vincent
| Job Title | Plant Molecular Systematist |
|---|---|
| Department | Jodrell |
| Section | Molecular Systematics |
| Science Teams |
Lamiaceae Large-Scale Syntheses Monocots III: Orchids Drylands: Africa Wet Tropics: Africa |
| Joined Kew | 1999 |
| Foreign Language(s) | French (mother tongue). |
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc, Univ. Geneva, 1989
MSc, Univ. Geneva, 1991
PhD, Univ. Geneva, 1995.
Council, Systematics Association
Associate Editor, Systematic Biology
Associate Editor, Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution.
Role
Biodiversity hotspots, evolution, ecology, conservation, molecular phylogenetics.
Deputy-Head of Molecular Systematics Section. Coordinator of the European Research Training network on ‘understanding and conserving the Earth’s biodiversity hotspots’ (HOTSPOTS). Coordinator of several individual-driven EU Marie Curie postdoctoral projects on co-evolution, speciation, evolutionary radiations, biodiversity patterns and climate change. Leader of two projects funded by the Darwin Initiative for the Survival of Species in Southern Africa and Central America. Additional research interests include: angiosperm phylogeny; Tree of Life; evolutionary processes and phylogenetic patterns; evolutionary rates; speciation; pollination biology and biological interactions; evolutionary developmental biology; DNA barcoding; conservation.
Projects
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III
Co-Evolution at the Plant-Animal Interface
Complete Generic Phylogenetic Tree for all Seed Plants
Conservation and Monitoring of Meso-American Orchids
DNA Banking, Phylogeny and Conservation of the South African Flora
Establishing a Standard DNA Barcode for Land Plants
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)
Evolutionary Origin of Biodiversity Hotspots with a Mediterranean Climate (HOTMED)
Grass Evolution, Anti-Herbivory and Past Climate
Haemodoraceae - phylogenetics, biology and conservation
Molecular Phylogenetics of Palms
Phylogenetics and Conservation of Madagascan Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae)
Sympatric Speciation in Palms: Howea on Lord Howe Island
Systematics and Conservation Genetics of Asparagales
Systematics of Lamiaceae Subfamily Viticoideae
Systematics, Sustainable Use and Conservation of Tribe Ocimeae (Basil and Allies, Lamiaceae)
Understanding and Conserving the Earth’s Biodiversity Hotspots (HOTSPOTS)
Selected Publications 2001-2005
Savolainen V., Cowan, R.S., Vogler, A.P., Roderick, G.K. & Lane, R. (2005). Towards writing the encyclopaedia of life: an introduction to DNA barcoding. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 360: 1805-1811.
Savolainen, V. & Reeves, G. (2004). A plea for DNA banking. Science 304: 1445.
Savolainen, V. & Chase, M.W. (2003). Europe's fight for the Tree of Life. Science 302: 1894
Davies, T.J., Barraclough, T.G., Chase, M.W., Soltis, P.S., Soltis, D.E. & Savolainen, V. (2004). Darwin's abominable mystery: insights from a supertree of the angiosperms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 101: 1904-1909.
Selected Publications pre-2001
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG): Bremer, K., Chase, M.W., Stevens, P.F., Anderberg, A.A., Backlund, A., Bremer, B., Briggs, B.G., Endress, P., Fay, M.F., Goldblatt, P., Gustafsson, M.H.G., Hoot, S.B., Judd, W.S., Källersjö, M., Kellogg, E.A., Kron, K.A., Les, D.H., Morton, C.M., Nickrent, D.L., Olmstead, R.G., Price, R.A., Quinn, C.J., Rodman, J.E., Rudall, P.J., Savolainen, V., Soltis, D.E., Soltis, P.S., Sytsma, K.J. & Thulin, M. (1998). An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: 531-553.
Ruedi, M., Auberson, M. & Savolainen, V. (1998). Biogeography of Sulawesian shrews: testing for their origin with a parametric bootstrap on molecular data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 9: 567-571.
Savolainen, V. & Goudet, J. (1998). Rate of gene sequence evolution and species diversification in flowering plants: a re-evaluation. Proceedings of the Royal Society 265: 603-607.
Qiu, Y.-L., Lee, J., Bernasconi-Quadroni, F., Soltis, D.E., Soltis, P.S., Zanis, M., Chen, Z., Savolainen, V. & Chase, M.W. (1999). The earliest angiosperms: evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes. Nature 402: 404-406.
Savolainen, V., Chase, M.W., Hoot, S.B., Morton, C.M., Soltis, D.E., Bayer, C., Fay, M.F., De Bruijn, A., Sullivan, S. & Qiu, Y.-L. (2000). Phylogenetics of flowering plants based upon a combined analysis of plastid atpB and rbcL gene sequences. Systematic Biology 49: 306-362.