Barbara Ambrose is a botanist working in the field of Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo).
As the Director of Laboratory Research at the New York Botanical Garden, Ambrose is a prolific scholar and leader and mentor in her field who is interested in patterns in plant diversity on macro and micro scales.
[4] Ambrose earned a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California, San Diego in June 2000, starting her career as a developmental geneticist working on maize (Zea mays) flowers.
[7] Her Evo-Devo research has continued to expand into work with leaves and seeds, using the latest scientific techniques to understand the evolution of morphological novelties.
Recent projects also include the use of machine learning to identify herbarium specimens through kaggle competitions, notably in 2019 and 2020.