The Marx Lab is moving to Cornell

Ithaca is gorges…

I’m excited to share that I will be moving to Cornell as Director of the L. H. Bailey Herbarium and Assistant Professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science beginning in January 2025.

I will miss the New Mexico botanical community and colleagues at UNM & the Museum of Southwestern Biology. However, I look forward to growing our lab group and developing the herbarium in Ithaca.  

I will be recruiting grad students, technicians, postdocs, and undergraduates so if you are interested in working together, please contact me! Updates on specific position openings will be posted on this website shortly.

Jeremiah's Honors Thesis wins award!

Jeremiah received the First Place Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award for his undergraduate Honors Thesis project titled:

Investigating the Potential Effect of Pollinators on the Alpine Plant Diversity of the Southern Rocky Mountains: A Community Phylogenetic Approach

Congratulations, Jeremiah!

More information here.

Joseph wins 2023 Faces of Biology Photo Contest!

Source: https://www.aibs.org/news/2023/231219-photo-contest-winners.html

Joseph wins first place for his image collecting alpine plants in the Pecos Wilderness in the 2023 Faces of Biology Photo Contest, sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). Congrats Joseph!

New Mexico Magazine

The UNM Herbarium was recently featured in an article published in the New Mexico Magazine. Looking forward to documenting alpine plant communities in New Mexico this summer!

Job Posting: Herbarium Collection Manager

Join us in the Herbarium at the Museum of Southwestern Biology! We are actively recruiting a Collection Manager. The position will begin as soon as possible after September 1st, 2021. Applications are now open on UNM Jobs.

More information about the position can be found on the application site, or in a position summary here.

Please contact me with any questions about the position.

Monsoon meadow in the Sandia Mountains, August 2021

Botany 2020: Virtual

Below is a recording of the talk I presented at the Botany 2020 Virtual conference. This was my first experience with a virtual format, so let me know if you have any questions or comments!

Next adventure: New Mexico

I am thrilled to share that I have accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology and Curator of the Herbarium of the Museum of Southwestern Biology at the University of New Mexico beginning in January 2021! I will soon be advertising positions for students interested in alpine botany and the flora of New Mexico. Stay tuned!

I am so thankful for all of the mentors, friends, and family who have supported me along this journey. A great article published through the University of Idaho shares some of this story here:

Sawtooth Alpine Flora Poster

I designed a poster showing the alpine flora of the Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho, USA, as they occur over increasing elevation. Pictures I took while working in the field, and inspiration came from similar posters designed by Dr. Ricardo Kriebel.

Sawtooth Alpine Flora Poster
by LiveToBotanize

Paper out in AJB

Exploring the alpine flora of the Sawtooth mountains in central Idaho was a major inspiration for me to pursue a career in science. It was a dream to be able to sample plants across nine summits in the wilderness area, and start to understand the diversity on these remote mountain summits I am so happy to see this finally published in the American Journal of Botany :

Marx HE, Richards M, Johnson GM & Tank DC. 2019. Increasing phylogenetic stochasticity at high elevations on summits across a remote North American wilderness. American Journal of Botany.106(7): 958-970. DOI: https:10.1002/ajb2.1328

MOVED TO MICHIGAN!

Over the summer I moved from the Sonoran desert to begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan. I’m really excited to begin working with Stephen Smith and Chris Dick on Alpine adaptations and geo-genomics. More soon!