Beryl B. Simpson

C.L. Lundell Professor of Systematic Botany

Director, Plant Resources Center

  
School of Biological Sciences
Section of Integrative Biology
The University of Texas at Austin		 Office: BIO 112
Phone: 512.471.7335
e-mail: beryl at mail.utexas.edu
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Biographical Sketch
Education:
A.B. (Magna cum laude), 1964, Radcliffe College
M.A., 1967, Harvard University
Ph.D., 1968, Harvard University

Professional Experience:
1970-1972, Assistant Curator, Gray Herbarium, Harvard University
1972-1977, Associate Curator, Smithsonian Institution
1977, Curator, Smithsonian Institution
1978-1994, Professor, The University of Texas-Austin
1994-present, C. L. Lundell Professor, The University of Texas-Austin

Honors, major offices, and professional service:
1970, Greenman Award
1971, Cooley Award

1975-1980, Council, Society for the Study of Evolution
1975, Vice-President, Botanical Society of Washington
1975-1980, Board of Directors, I International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology
1980-1985, Co-President, III International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology
1981, Elected Fellow, Society of Naturalists
1981-1984, Council, American Society of Plant Taxonomists
1984, Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1984-1986, President-elect, President, Past President, Society for the Study of Evolution
1986-1988, Chairman, U.S. Committee to the International Union of Biological Sciences
1990-1992, President-elect, President, Past President, Botanical Society of America
1992-2003, Board of Governors, US-Mexico Foundation for Science
1993-1995, Board of Directors, American Institute of Biological Sciences
1993-1994, President-elect, President, American Society of Plant Taxonomists
1994, Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2001, President, Society for Economic Botany
2003, Asa Gray Award, Botanical Society of America

Editorial Boards: Evolution, Paleobiology, Darwiniana, Evolutionary Ecology Research
Editor-in-chief (1976-1978), Systematic Botany
Editor-in-chief (2000-present), Lundellia
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Representative Recent Publications:
   
2009 Simpson, Beryl B., Mary T. K. Arroyo, Sandra Sipe, Marta Dias de Moraes, and Joshua McDill. Phylogeny and Evolution of Perezia (Asteraceae: Mutisieae: Nassauviinae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution 47: 431-443.
2009 Simpson, Beryl B. Economic Botany of the Compositae. Pp 45--58 in Funk, V., A. Susanna, & T. Stuessy. The Systematics and Evolution of the Compositae. Vienna: International Association of Plant Taxonomy.
2009 Choo, J., E. L. Zent, and B. B. Simpson. The importance of traditional ecological knowledge for palm-weevil cultivation in the Venezuelan Amazon. Journal of Ethnobiology 29: 113-128.
2009 McDill, J., M. Repplinger, B. B. Simpson, and W. Kadereit. Phylogeny of Linum and Linaceae subfamily Linioideae, with implications for their systematics, biogeography, and evolution of heterostyly. Systematic Botany 34: 386-405.
2009 Tate, J. A., M. C. Acosta, J. McDill, E. A. Moscone, B. B. Simpson, and A. A. Cocucci. Phylogeny and character evolution in Nierembergia (Solanaceae): Molecular, morphological, and cytogenetic evidence. Systematic Botany 34: 198-206.
2008 Simpson, B. B. Krameriaceae. p. 2361 in F. O. Zuloaga, O. Morrone, and M. J. Belgrano, eds. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Saint Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden.
2008 Larkin, L. L., J. L. Neff, and B. B. Simpson. The evolution of pollen diet: Host choice and diet breadth of Andrena bees (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Apidologie 39: 133-145.
2007 Timme, Ruth E., Beryl B. Simpson, C. Randal Linder. High-resolution phylogeny for Helianthus (Asteraceae) using the 18S-26S ribosomal DNA external transcribed spacer. American Journal of Botany 94: 1837-1852.
2007 Meudt, Heidi, M. and Beryl B. Simpson. Phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters in Ourisia (Plantaginaceae): taxonomic and evolutionary implications. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 94: 554-570.
2007 Weeks, A., and B.B. Simpson.  Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Commiphora (Burseraceae) yields insight on the evolution and historical biogeography of an "impossible" genus.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42: 62-79.
2006 Simpson, B. B., L. Larkin, A. Weeks, and J. McDill.  Phylogeny and biogeography of Pomaria (Caesalpinioideae: Leguminosae).  Syst. Bot. 31: 792-804.
2006 Simpson, B. B. Krameriaceae Pp. 208-212 in K. Kubitzki, ed. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Heidelberg: Springer.
2006 Simpson, B. B. and E. A. Ulibarri.  Synopsis of the genus Hoffmannseggia (Leguminosae).  Lundellia 9: 7-33.
2006 Simpson, B. B. Gochnatia. Pp. 76-77 in Flora North America, North of Mexico. Vol. 19. Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. eds. Flora North America Editorial  Committee. New York: Oxford University Press.
2006 Simpson, B. B. Acourtia. P.. 71-74 in Flora North America,  North of Mexico. Vol. 19. Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6:  Asteraceae, part 1. eds. Flora North America Editorial Committee.  New York: Oxford University Press.
2006 Simpson, B. B. Hecastocleis. P. 71-72 in Flora North America, North of Mexico. Vol. 19. Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. eds. Flora North America Editorial Committee. New York: Oxford University Press.
2006 Meudt, H. M. and B. B. Simpson. The biogeography of the austral, subalpine genus Ourisia (Plantaginaceae) based on molecular phylogenetic evidence: South American origin and  dispersal to New Zealand and Tasmania. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society. 87: 479-513.
2006 Hansen, A. K., L. E. Gilbert, B. B. Simpson, S. R. Downie, A. C. Cervi, and R. K. Jansen. Phylogenetic relationships and chromosome number evolution in Passiflora.  Systematic Botany
31: 138-150.
2006 Larkin, L. L., J. L. Neff, and B. B. Simpson.  Phylogeny of the Callandrena subgenus of Andrena (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae):  Discrediting monophyly with mitochondrial and nuclear DNA data.   Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38: 330-343.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
 
 

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