Instructor: Aleca Borsuk

Aleca Borsuk
Dr. Borsuk is an Assistant Curator of Ecological Physiology in the Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research at the New York Botanical Garden. Her research group studies plant form & function across Earth's diverse environments to understand how plant anatomy promotes carbon assimilation, provides resilience to abiotic stress, and informs sustainable technologies that derive function from structure. Dr. Borsuk received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2023.

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Discover the world of the marine algae under the microscope and through artful preservation techniques. You'll begin with an in-depth overview of phycological diversity and ecological impact, before moving onto hands-on identification of anatomy under the microscope. Then, you will more...
272BOT311 11/04 We 6:00pm-7:30pm Borsuk
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