Expert Source: Nancy A. Murray, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor Nancy Murray is curator of Ohio Wesleyan’s Jason Swallen Herbarium, which contains more than 16,000 dried and pressed plant specimens from around the world. Her research interests include the African species of Xylopia, a pantropical group of trees with promising anti-cancer and anti-malarial properties. Murray also serves as the university’s chief pre-health professions adviser.

Education:

• B.A., Boston University
• Ph.D., University of Michigan

Areas of Expertise:

• Biodiversity of flowering plants
• Plant breeding systems and evolution

Selected Publications:

• Four new species of Polyalthia (Annonaceae) from Borneo and their relationship to Polyalthia insignis. 1999. Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 22: 95-104. (with D.M. Johnson)
• Synopsis of the tribe Bocageeae (Annonaceae) with revisions of the genera Bocagea, Cardiopetalum, Froesiodendron, Hornschuchia, Mkilua, and Trigynaea. 1995. Brittonia 47: 248-319. (with D.M. Johnson)
• Revision of Cymbopetalum and Porcelia (Annonaceae). 1993. Systematic Botany Monographs 40: 1-121. [Cited as one of three examples of high-quality monographs of flowering plants in National Science Foundation Systematic Biology Program Panel Report from their Workshop on Practices & Directions in Monographic Research, 1994]