Vivian Irish

[4] Irish was drawn into research from a young age when visiting the Boston Science Museum.

[5] She has taught numerous undergraduate students at Yale University and focused on the importance of evidence-based thinking.

She began working with Arabidopsis as it was becoming a model organism, serving as a "botanical Drosophila".

[4] This has also included research into the morphogenesis of thorns in Citrus, which was found to be related to the rest of lateral stem cells.

[9] Irish is generally interested in patterns and timing of development, which she has explored through fate maps and gene expression[10]