Science Collections
Our collections help us to document plant and fungal diversity through time and space, and provide evidence used to address global challenges.
Head of collections: Dr Alan Paton
The strength and breadth of our collections provide an unparalleled opportunity to understand plant and fungal diversity and to carry out research to support our scientific vision.
Our collections and expertise are at the heart of the science carried out both here and in institutions across the globe.
Thus, we are developing the collections to support the science foci of this strategy, while also maintaining the global representation of plant and fungal diversity necessary to document large-scale patterns of diversity and change, and to respond to future challenges.
Team
Preserved Collections
Preserved collections manager
Elizabeth Woodgyer
Collection managers
Lauren Phelan
Fungarium collections curators
Shaheenara Chowdhury
Lee Davies
Herbarium collections assistants
Kathryn Teo
Sheila Main
Specimen preparers
Paul Cockburn
David Grogan
Jenny Heath
Maggie Jones
Seed and Lab-Based Collections
Senior Research Leader
Dr John Dickie
Research Fellow
Dr Si-Chong Chen
Seed collections managers
Nicola Mills
Sarah Gattiker
Seed collections assistants
Lucy Taylor
Vicky Philpott
David Hickmott
Sarah Adams
Sian McCabe
Anna Pajdo
Frances Stanley
Seed banking botanists
Daniel Cahen
Beverley Holt
Germination specialist
Rachael Davies
Germination assistant
Kirstine Manger
Lab-based collections manager
Dr Tim Fulcher
Lab-based collections assistants
Silvia Cera
Imalka Kahandawala
Herbarium
Herbarium curation manager
Nina Davies
Senior curator botanists
Aurélie Grall
Sue Zmartzy
Anna Haigh
Marie Briggs
Sally Dawson
Curator botanists
Maria Alvares Aguirre
Martin Xanthos
Saba Rokni
Sara Edwards
Nicola Biggs
Sue Frisby
Clare Drinkell
Renata Borosova
Lesley Walsingham
Alison Moore
Laura Pearce