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A short film on Indian Forester, Scottish Laird and the personalities behind it.
Sadie works as a Senior Horticulturist in the glasshouse research collections. She works closely with scientists studying the evolution and genetics of certain plant groups. Her time at…
Tiina is originally from Finland and is a Biodiversity Scientist in Edinburgh working on the economically important plant family Solanaceae. This family includes potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants and chilli…
Subhani is originally from Sri Lanka and is currently working on her PhD, studying members of plant family Gesneriaceae from Sri Lanka (African violet family). She has already…
Kate is a Senior Horticulturist who works on a variety of projects focussed on building and sharing horticultural skills within RBGE and overseas. She is sub editor of…
Jacqui is an artist and Director of Botanical Illustration at RBGE, designing and teaching a wide variety of courses. She is passionate about spreading the skills to enable…
Sangeeta is Professor, at Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University, doing her own research, teaching and supervising PhD and MSc students. She has worked as a Darwin Scholar…
Louise is a Glasshouse Supervisor with joint responsibility for managing staff and curating the collections. During her career, she has been part of several plant hunting expeditions to…
Sabina is a botanist specialising in the flora and vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula and the wider Middle East. This work includes conducting mountain surveys by helicopter in…
As the After the Storm exhibition continues to attract a large and appreciative audience in the John Hope Gateway, this week we are launching the much anticipated After…
Paulina is a Glasshouses Horticulturist at RBGE and was born in Warsaw in Poland. She graduated with a Masters degree from Warsaw University of Life Sciences and moved…
Regina was a Software Enablement Program Manager at IBM both here in the UK and Paris. She is a volunteer in the Library at RBGE researching many of…
Jean was a Consultant Pathologist in the NHS for more than 30 years. Since retiring she has volunteered in the Herbarium for many years, preparing pressed material for…
Jane has enjoyed careers in university administration, learning support and one-to-one tutoring. She started at the RBGE Library as a volunteer book cleaner, and since 2016 has also…
Frieda is responsible for the care and maintenance of the scanning electron microscope and oversees the use of it and the research grade light microscopes at RBGE. She…
Kanae is working on aspects of molecular phylogeny and evolutionary development of the family Gesneriaceae. The family shows highly diverse shoot and flower morphologies and teaches us interesting…
Hayley is 20 years old and has Asperger syndrome. She volunteers in the Glasshouse at RBGE with the group Supporting Positive Paths. It has made a huge difference to Hayley and her…
Flávia is studying the relationship between species of the genus Ceiba in the Neotropics. Ceiba is one of the most conspicuous elements of the highly threatened Seasonally Dry…
Elspeth Mackintosh is Senior Horticulturist in the Alpine Department. She is responsible for the running of the area which includes the public display area, an extensive back-up collection…