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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Light, Water, Air: The Physical World of Plants

Take a fascinating look at the unseen forces that shape our green world. Using NYBG collections as a living lab, you'll discover the remarkable ways plants interact with their environment-from keeping cool in the desert to staying dry in the more...
261BOT355 08/07 Th 10:00am-12:00pm Borsuk
NYBG