Like many Garden curators, Mick Richardson teaches botany at the undergraduate and graduate level. He is an adjunct professor at University of Missouri - St. Louis, where he teaches an annual course in plant systematics. He is a biochemist and is currently studying the evolution of toxic substances in land plants.

Dr. Richardson helps select the candidates and arranges the financial support graduate students need for classroom, lab and field studies. He also serves as academic mentor, colleague and, often, one-man support group. Mostly, though, Richardson sees his role as a player in a much larger mission - to educate the next generation of botanists and to develop botanical expertise in countries where biodiversity is threatened.

(Source: The Unseen Garden)

Education

Ph.D., University of London, 1979

B.S., University of Durham, 1972

Interests

Phylogenetic methods

Evolution of chemical protection in land plants

Research Emphases

Phenolic compounds

Use of chemical data in phylogenetic analyis

Address

Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299
U.S.A.

Phone

314-577-5176 (O)

Email

mick.richardson@mobot.org

Website

http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/curators/richardson.shtml