Tatyana Livshultz

Assistant Professor
Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science
Drexel University
United States of America

Biography

Tatyana Livshultz, PhD is currently assistant curator of the Botanical Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Before coming to the Academy in 2008, she was an assistant professor of biology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a post-doctoral fellow of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. She has published 12 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals, is a member of the Collections Committee of the American Society for Plant Taxonomy and vice-president of the Philadelphia Botanical Club. Livshultz’s research focus on the evolution and pollination of the predominantly tropical milkweed family requires frequent fieldwork in the tropics and subtropics. Current projects are located in Taiwan, the Bahamas, and Mississippi.

Research Intrest

Botany; phylogenetic reconstruction; pollination biology; morphological and functional evolution of flowers; climate niche evolution; biogeography; biodiversity

List of Publications
Livshultz, T., D. J. Middleton, M. E. Endress, and J. K. Williams. 2007. Phylogeny of Apocynoideae (Apocynaceae) and the APSA clade. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 94: 324-359.
Livshultz, T. 2010. The phylogenetic position of milkweeds (Apocynaceae subfamilies Secamonoideae and Asclepiadoideae): Evidence from the nucleus and chloroplast. Taxon 59: 1016-1030
Straub, S.C.K., Fishbein, M., Livshultz, T., Foster, Z., Parks, M., Weitemier, K., Cronn, R.C., & Liston, A. 2011. Building a model: Developing genomic resources for common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) with low coverage genome sequencing. BMC Genomics.