• Population genetics and genomics – particularly for woody species
• Phylogeography and conservation of native tree species
• Aquatic macrophytes (see research page)
• DNA barcoding (see research page)
• Arctic Willows (see research page)
• Conservation genetics of rare plants
• Species of interest include: oak, poplar, willows, water crowfoots.

Yin T-M, DiFazio SP, Gunter LE, Zhang X, Sewell MM, Woolbright S, Allan GJ, Kelleher CT, Douglas CJ, Wang M-X, Tuskan GA (2008). Genome structure and emerging evidence of an incipient sex chromosome in Populus. Genome Research (in press).

Kelleher CT, R Chiu, MI Krzywinski, H Shin, J Wilkin, J Bohlmann, CJ Douglas, B E Ellis, K Ritland, JE Schein (2007) A physical map of the highly heterozygous Populus genome: integration with the genome sequence and genetic map and analysis of haplotype variation. The Plant Journal 50 (6): 1063-1078.

Hodkinson TR, Waldren S, Parnell JAN, Kelleher CT, Salamin K, Salamin N (2007). DNA banking for plant breeding, biotechnology and biodiversity evaluation. Journal of Plant Research 120 (1): 17-29.

Tuskan GA, DiFazio S, Jansson J, Bohlman J, Grigoriev I, …….Kelleher C……, C. Douglas, M. Marra, G. Sandberg, Y. Van de Peer, and D. Rokhsar (2006) The Genome of Black Cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray) Science 313: 1596-1604. (Multi-author paper, total of 110 authors).

Kelleher, CT, Hodkinson, TR, Douglas, GC, Kelly, DL (2005). Species Distinction in Irish Populations of Quercus petraea and Q. robur: Morphological versus Molecular Analyses. Annals of Botany 96(7):1237-1246.

Kelleher CT, Kelly DL, Hodkinson TR (2005) Species status, hybridisation and geographic distribution of Irish populations of Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. and Q. robur L. Watsonia 25: 83-97

2007- Botanist, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9.
2006-2007 Independent Researcher and Environmental Consultant.
2003–2005 Research Associate, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
2002-2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin.
1998-2001 PhD Candidate, Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin.

2002 PhD Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
1997 MSc (Ecology), University of North Wales, Bangor, Wales.
1995 BSc (Botany) University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

• The Rubiaceous ant-plants Myrmecodia, Hydnophytum (see research page), Anthorrhiza, Squamellaria and Myrmephytum
• Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Nepenthes. (see research page)
• Taxonomy of Barringtonia, Aristolochia and Pandanus. (see research page)
• Conservation and recovery of threatened plants in Ireland.
• Island floras of the Irish Isles. (see research page)

1985: D. Phil., Department of Botany, Oxford University. ‘Taxonomy and Tuber Morphology of the Rubiaceous Ant-plants’.
1980: B. A. Botany Honours. 2nd Class. Oxford University.

2007 Attended the Sarawak Nepenthes Summitt, and took part in climbs of Mt. Mulu and Mt. Murud.

2006 to present Member of the Royal Irish Academy’s New Survey of Clare Island Committee

2006 Attended the Novosibirisk Botanic Gardens 50th Anniversary Celebrations and took part in a trip to the Altai Mountains

2005 to 2006 European representative to the Convention on Biological Diversity, part of the United Nations Environment Program.

2004 Irish Presidency team in Kuala Lumpur to represent, and negotiate on behalf of, the European Union. Lead on Access and Benefit Sharing negotiations.

2004 to present. Chairman of PlantNetwork: The Plant Collections Network of Britain and Ireland. This organisation is the national network of botanic gardens, arboreta and other documented plant collections throughout Ireland and Britain. Glasnevin has been a member, and had a presence on the board since its inception in 1994.

2003 Represented Ireland at the Montreal meeting of the intercessional meeting on the multi-year programme of work for the Conference of the Parties up to 2010; the 2nd open-ended expert workshop on Access and Benefit Sharing; and the 3rd open-ended expert workshop on Article 8j of the CBD.

2003 Attended the expert meeting on the Global Strategy For Plant Conservation held in County Kerry, under the aegis of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

2003 Present the Royal Irish Academy Discourse on Praeger and the Islands of Ireland to a meeting at the University of Ulster.

2002 Represented Ireland at the second meeting of the Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) under the United Nations Environment Program.

2002 Travelled with a team of 8 other horticulturists and botanists to Central China, to retrace some of the areas visited by the Irish botanist Dr. Augustine Henry.

2001 to present Member of the Royal Irish Academy’s Praeger Committee.

2000 Took part in a three-week expedition to Belize in Central America.

2000 to present Member of the Tree Register of Ireland steering committee, which oversees the TROI database, which lists some 7000 champion trees throughout the country.

1999 to present Director of PlantNetwork: The Plant Collections Network of Britain and Ireland

1995 Tour of herbaria in South-east Asia, including Bogor in Indonesia, the Singapore National Herbarium, and the Forestry Herbarium at Kepong, Kuala Lumpur.

1995 member of a collaborative collecting expedition In Thailand with the Thai Forestry Department.

1987 Held a 4 month research fellowship (January to May) at the Christensen Research Institute.

1983 Nine months field work in Papua New Guinea and Fiji, supported by an SRC grant. During this period I collected some 1,000 specimens of rubiaceous ant-plants, for many of which the entire tuber was collected into alcohol for later dissection.

1980 Organised, and lead, a five month Oxford University expedition to Papua New Guinea to study ant-plants.

1996 to present Horticultural Taxonomist and Keeper Of The Herbarium, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin.

1994 to 1996 Research fellow, Botany Department, Trinity College, Dublin.

1987 to 1993 Director, Christensen Research Institute, Madang, Papua New Guinea.

1982 to 1985 Research assistant in the Fielding-Druce Herbarium, funded by an SRC grant to Mr. Frank White, to study rubiaceous ant-plants. This study involved a 9 month collecting trip to Papua New Guinea, followed by herbarium studies towards a taxonomic revision of the five genera of ant-plant. Much of this work was done under the direct supervision of Dr. Camilla Huxley. I successfully completed my D.Phil. thesis in September 1985.

2007 Royal Horticultural Society Travel Grant to participate in ist International nepenthes Summit, Kuching Sarawak.
2002 Royal Horticultural Society Travel Grant to participate on Glasnevin Central China Expedition

Jebb, M. H. P. (1989) Some observations on Nepenthes in Papua New Guinea, in The Carnivorous Plants, B. E. Juniper, R. J. Robins and D. M. Joel, 314-316, Academic press, London.

Jebb, M. H. P. (1991) Tuber Structure in the Rubiaceous Ant-plants, in Ant- plant Interactions. eds. C. R. Huxley & D. F. Cutler. Oxford University Press. 374-389.

Huxley, C. R. & M. H. P. Jebb. (1990) New taxa in the myrmecophilous Psychotrieae (Rubiaceae). Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 60:420-421.

Huxley, C. R. & M. H. P. Jebb. (1991) The tuberous epiphytes of the Rubiaceae 1: A new subtribe - The Hydnophytinae. Blumea 36: 1-20.

Huxley, C. R. & M. H. P. Jebb. (1991) The tuberous epiphytes of the Rubiaceae 2: The new genus Anthorrhiza. Blumea 36: 21-41.

Huxley, C. R. & M. H. P. Jebb. (1991) The tuberous epiphytes of the Rubiaceae 3: A revision of Myrmephytum to include Myrmedoma. Blumea 36: 43-52.

Jebb, M. H. P. (1991) The tuberous epiphytes of the Rubiaceae 4: A revision of Squamellaria. Blumea 36: 53-61.

Jebb, M. H. P. (1991) An account of Nepenthes in New Guinea. Science in New Guinea 17: 7-54.

Jebb, M. H. P. (1992) A note on collections of Aristolochia. Science in New Guinea 18: 22.

Jebb, M. H. P. (1992) Edible Barringtonias. Kew Magazine (Curtis’s Botanical Magazine) 9(4):164-180.

Jebb, M. H. P. (1993) Aristolochia in New Guinea. Christensen Research Institute, PNG. Publication No.8, pp.51.

Huxley, C. R. & M. H. P. Jebb. (1993) The tuberous epiphytes of the Rubiaceae 5: A revision of Myrmecodia. Blumea 37 (2): 271-334.

Jebb, M. H. P. (1993) Anthorrhiza camilla - A new species of Rubiaceous ant-plant. Blumea 37(2):341-344.

Letourneau, D. K., F. Arias, M. H. P. Jebb (1993). Coping with Enemy-Filled Space: Herbivores on Endospermum in Papua New Guinea. Biotropica 25(1):95-99.

Allen, G. R. & M. H. P. Jebb. (1993) A collection of fishes from the Upper Purari River system, Papua New Guinea, with descriptions of two new species (Terapontidae and Eleotrididae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters 4(3):233-240.

Lovelock, C. E., M. H. P. Jebb, C. B. Osmond. (1994) Photoinhibition and recovery in tropical plant species: response to disturbance. Oecologia 97:297-307.

Scheltema, A. and M. H. P. Jebb. (1994) Natural History of a Solenogaster Mollusc, from Papua New Guinea, Epimenia australis (Thiele) (Aplacophora, Neomeniomorpha). Journal of Natural History 28(6): 1297-1318.

Jebb, M. H. P. and J. K. Lowry. (1995) Natural history of Madang Lagoon with an appendix to collecting localities. Records of the Australian Museum, supplement 22:1-24.

Cheek, M. & M. H. P. Jebb (1995) Nepenthaceae, in The European Garden Flora, Volume 4: 80 - 87.

Humphreys, W. F., S. M. Awramik & M. H. P. Jebb. (1995) Freshwater biogenic tufa dams in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 78: 43-54.

Tudhope, A. W., G. B. Shimmield, C. P. Chilcott, M. H. P. Jebb, A. E. Fallick, A. N. Dalgleish. (1995) Recent changes in climate in the far western equatorial Pacific and their relationship to the Southern Oscillation; oxygen isotope records from massive corals, Papua New Guinea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 136: 575-590.

Cheek, M. & M. H. P. Jebb (1996). Carnivorous Plants, in Whitten & Whitten (eds), Plants, Vol.4, Indonesian Heritage Editions, Didier Millet, Singapore.

NicLughadha, E., M. Cheek, B. Mackinder, M. H. P. Jebb, M. Newman, T. Pennington, M. Watson (1997). Against Bionomenclature. The Systematics Association Newsletter, 6:4-5.

Jebb, M. H. P. & M. Cheek. (1997). Flora Malesiana Precursorae: A skeletal revision of Nepenthes. Blumea 42:1-105.

Cheek. M., & M. H. P. Jebb, & M. (1998). Two new Philippine Nepenthes. Kew Bulletin 53: 966.

Jebb, M. H. P. (1998). A revision of Trevesia (Araliaceae). Glasra 3: 85-113.

Cheek. M., & M. H. P. Jebb, & M. (1999). Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae) in Palawan, Philippines. Kew Bulletin 54: 887-895.

Elgar, M. & M. Jebb. (1999) Nest provisioning in the mud-dauber wasp Sceliphron laetum (F.Smith): body mass and taxa specific prey selection. Behaviour 136: 147-159.

Scannell, M. J. P. & M. H. P. Jebb. (2000) Flora of Connemara and the Burren - Records from 1984. Glasra 4: 7-45.

Cheek. M., & M. H. P. Jebb, & M. (2001). Nepenthaceae. Flora Malesiana. Volume 15 pp.164. Foundation Flora Malesiana, Leiden.

Jebb, M. H. P. & S. Andrews (2001). Plant portraits: 425. Bursaria spinosa (Pittosporaceae). Curtis's Bot. Mag. 18(3): 163-169

Lu Lianli, M.Cheek and M. Jebb (2001) Nepenthaceae in Flora of China Volume 8: 198. Missouri Botanic Gardens, St. Louis.

Jebb, M. H. P. & J. Wen. (2001). Aralia fragrans (D.Don) Jebb & J.Wen, a new combination in Araliaceae. Adansonia 23: 311-314.

Jebb, M. H. P. (2002). Ginkgo, Shui-sa, & Tu-chung: sacred and medicinal trees of China. Releafing Ireland.

Jebb, M. H. P. (2002). The National Herbarium. Garden Heaven Magazine.

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Noeleen Smyth
National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9
Telephone: +353 1 8040327
e-mail: noeleen.smyth at opw.ie

Noeleen Smyth holds an Honours Degree in Botany and a Diploma in Statistics from Trinity College Dublin, a Diploma in Amenity Horticulture from the National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin and a Diploma in Horticulture from the Royal Horticultural Society. She has completed a Ph.D. at Trinity College Dublin on invasive species control and restoration of the threatened native flora of Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. Before working with the National Botanic Gardens she worked with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, BEC Consultants, and Natura Environmental Consultants and as a Horticulturalist both at the National Botanic Gardens and Talbot Botanic Garden, Malahide Castle. She has also carried out botanical research in Uganda and Guyana and participated on plant collecting expeditions to Belize and China.

Research Interests

• Conservation biology of Pitcairn Island South Central Pacific (see slide show page)
• Invasive species control development of practical and economical methodology
• Research into developing alternative species to the invasive species currently available in the trade
• Ferns and fern allied species conservation in Ireland (see research page)
• Bryophyte conservation Ireland (see research page)

Publications

Waldren, S., Kingston, N., Smyth, N., Warren, J. & Warren, C. 2005. Integrated plant conservation on Pitcairn Island, South Central Pacific Ocean. Journal of Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Special Biodiversity Issue 2(1): 22-24.

Kingston, N., Waldren, W. & Smyth, N. 2004. Conservation genetics and ecology of Angiopteris chauliodonta (Marratiaceae), a critically endangered fern from Pitcairn Island, South central Pacific. Biological Conservation 117: 309-319.

Waldren, S., Kingston, N., Smyth, N., Warren, J. & Warren, C. 2004. Plant conservation activities on Pitcairn Island. Flora English Nature. Summer 2004:14-15.

Career

2008 Conservation Botanist, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9.
2006-2007 Wildlife Officer, National Parks and Wildlife Service, Ely Place, Dublin 2.
2004–2006 Ecological Consultant, Botanical, Environmental & Conservation Consultants, 27 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2.
2002-2004 Postgraduate Research Student, Botany Department, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
2002 Ecological Consultant Natura Environmental consultants, Broomhall Business Park, Rathnew, Co. Wicklow.
1998-2002 B. A. Mod. Botany Student
1994-1998 Horticulturalist, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9.
1991-1994 Horticulturalist, Talbot Botanic Gardens, Malahide Castle, Malahide, Co. Dublin.

Awards

2001 Edge Prize Botany Department Trinity College Dublin
1991 Royal Dublin Society Award Horticultural Student of the Year
1990 Dublin Co. Council Award Horticultural Student of the Year
1990 Dublin Corporation Award Horticultural Student of the Year

Grants

2002 Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) Postgraduate PhD. Funding Award.
2002 Royal Horticultural Society Travel Grant to participate on Glasnevin Central China Expedition
2001 Royal Horticultural Society Travel Grant to participate on Tropical Biology Association Course in Uganda, Africa.
2001 Merlin Trust Travel Award Travel Grant for expedition to Guyana, South America.
1995-2000 Merlin Trust and Royal Horticultural Society Travel Grants for plant collecting expeditions to Belize, Central America.

Qualifications

2008 PhD. Syzygium jambos (L). Alston (Myrtaceae) control, and conservation restoration and monitoring, of the threatened native flora of Pitcairn Island, South Central Pacific. University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
2004 Dip. Stats. University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
2002 B.A. Mod. Botany University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2
1993 Dip. Hort. Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley, Woking, Surrey, GU23 6QB
1991 Dip. Amenity Hort. Teagasc, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9.

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Dr. Darach Lupton
National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9
Telephone: +353 1 8040327
e-mail: darach.lupton at opw.ie

Research Interests

• Conservation biology of Spiranthes romanzoffiana
• Conservation techniques and restoration ecology for the Irish Flora (see research page)
• Meadow management techniques (see research page)
• A great deal of expertise in biotechnological techniques, including; plant DNA extraction and analysis (CTAB, Extraction kits, PCR, Genotyping and AFLP analysis) and soil analysis.

Publications

Lupton, D. and Bertzky, M. (2002). Distribution and performance of Cyathia manniana in Amani Nature reserve. Natural History Museum, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Career

2004 - 2007 BEC Consultants. Part of a team involved in surveying, translocation and monitoring of rare vascular plants.
2002 - Present Member of All Ireland Species Action Plan committee for Spiranthes romanzoffiana. Contributed to the publication the Species Action Plan in 2005.
2002 - 2007 Trinity College Dublin. Undergraduate laboratory demonstrator. Assisted with lab/field sessions on vegetation dynamics and statistics to 4th year students. Led tutorials and lectures in plant ecology for 3rd and 4th year students.
1998 - 2004 Gardenworks, Garden Centre, Malahide, Co Dublin. Part time Plant Area Manager.
1998 NBG Glasnevin. Member of an orchid collecting expedition to Belize, Central America.
1997 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Assistant to the alpine plant judging committee.

Qualifications

2002 - 2006 Ph.D. on The Biogeography and Conservation Biology of Spiranthes romanzoffiana (Cham).
2005 Certificate in Experimental Design and Analysis (ANOVA). University College Dublin. Belfield Dublin 8.
1998 - 2002 B.A. (Mod) (Hons) Botany. (Grade achieved: 2.1) Trinity College, Dublin 2.
1995 - 1998 National Diploma (Dist) in Amenity Horticulture College of Horticulture, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 3.
1996 - 1997 Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Certificate in Horticulture College of Horticulture, Royal Horticultural Society Gardens, Wisley, Woking, Surrey, U.K. (Achieved during a one year placement from NBG Glasnevin)
1987 - 1991 National Trade Certificate in Heating Engineering College of Technology, Bolton Street Dublin 1.