Euphorbia: how to make sense of the large genus of 2000+ species, and the common members in Minnesota

This will be a hybrid meeting, in-person at Dakota Lodge and on-line through Zoom. 7:00 PM Meeting starts, doors will open at 6:30 PM. MNNPS members, check your email for Zoom instructions.

Presenter: Dr. Ya Yang – Associate Professor, Curator – University of Minnesota Herbarium

Speaker Bio: Dr. Ya Yang grew up in Beijing, China, where she did her undergraduate degree at the Peking University, Beijing, China. She then moved on to do her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, focusing on the systematics of Euphorbia subgenus Chamaesyce. During that time she also co-authored treatments for the genus Euphorbia in Flora of North America. Currently, Dr. Yang is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and a curator at the University of Minnesota Herbarium. Her research focuses on the evolution of plant lineages using morphology, biochemistry, and gene sequences, using plants in the order Caryophyllales and Euphorbia. She teaches General Botany at the University of Minnesota.