Justin Williams

Justin Williams is a PhD candidate in the Davis Lab, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. As a botanist and evolutionary biologist with particular interest in systematics, conservation, and ethnobotany, his research questions are largely driven by and inspired through fieldwork and enhanced by museum collections. Justin’s dissertation is based in South America and applies chemo-genomics in effort to elucidate the evolutionary and domestication history of an Amazonian medicinal plant with a long history of human use: Banisteriopsis caapi. Fieldwork has taken him throughout Latin America, most recently to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, where he has worked with local researchers and communities.