Research Staff

Brock Mashburn, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Conservation Genomics
Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development

email: bmashburn@mobot.org

Missouri Botanical Garden
4344 Shaw Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63110
USA

Education
Ph.D., Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2024
M.S., Biology, University of Missouri - St. Louis, 2019
B.S., Agriculture, Truman State University, 2012

My research uses genomic approaches to support the conservation of some of the world’s rarest plant species. I am currently working on the genus Hibiscus, which includes many critically endangered species, especially on tropical islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. I am also working on a project concerning many endangered species from central Florida, which are experiencing population declines due to habitat loss and fire suppression.

Conservation genetics Rare plant conservation Fire ecology Molecular systematics Phylogenetics Biogeography

Mashburn B, Trigueros A, Ulloa Ulloa C, Muchhala N. 2024. Morphometrics in the recurved corolla clade of Burmeistera (Campanulaceae) clarifies species limits and identifies a new species. Systematic Botany 49(1): 128–153. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1600/036364424X17110456120730. Associated Dataset:
Mashburn B, Trigueros A, Ulloa Ulloa C, Muchhala N. 2024. Morphometrics in the recurved corolla clade of Burmeistera (Campanulaceae) [Dataset]. Dryad. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.z612jm6j9. Thomson L, Braglia L, Mashburn B, Butaud JF, Read S. 2023. Pacific species of Hibiscus sect. Lilibiscus (Malvaceae). 3. Hibiscus mabberleyi L.A.J. Thomson sp. nov. and H. × denisonii Burb. Pacific Science 77(1): 49–61. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2984/77.1.3. Mashburn B, Jhangeer-Khan R, Bégué A, Tatayah V, Olsen KM, Edwards CE. 2023. Genetic assessment improves conservation efforts for the critically endangered oceanic island endemic Hibiscus liliiflorus. Journal of Heredity 114(3): 259–270. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esad021. Hanes M, Mashburn B, Callmander M. 2022. Transfer of the endemic Malagasy species of Kosteletzkya to Hibiscus and Perrierophytum (Malvaceae). Candollea 77: 161–171. In English, English and French abstracts. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15553/c2022v772a4. Thomson L, Mashburn B. 2022. Pacific Hibiscus (Malvaceae) in sect. Lilibiscus. 1. Hibiscus kokio and Related Species from the Hawaiian Archipelago. Pacific Science 76(2): 157–174. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2984/76.2.5. Mashburn B, Ulloa Ulloa C, Muchhala N. 2021. Six new species of Burmeistera (Campanulaceae) from Ecuador. Novon 29: 51–69. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3417/2021589. Muchhala N, Mashburn B. 2021. Three New Species of Burmeistera (Campanulaceae) Endemic to Ecuador. Phytotaxa 490(3): 253–262. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.490.3.3. Mashburn B, Péréz ÁJ, Muchhala N. 2020. Burmeistera quimiensis (Campanulaceae, Lobelioideae): A new species from the Cordillera del Cóndor range in southeast Ecuador. Phytotaxa 433(1): 67–74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.433.1.7. Pérez ÁJ, Persson C, Zapata N, Mashburn B, Vázquez-García JA. 2020. Magnolia lozanoi (Magnolia subsect. Dugandiodendron, Magnoliaceae) rediscovered on Ecuadorian “tepuis” in Reserva Biológica El Quimi, Cordillera del Cóndor: critically endangered by open-pit mining. Phytotaxa 428(3): 255–262. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.428.3.6. Reid JL, Acha S, Becknell RE, Domene F, Figueiredo A, Haake D, Huang W-T, Loza I, Mashburn B, Moreira JI, Pilgram-Kloppe K, Young E. 2017. Foundations of Restoration Ecology. Restoration Ecology, 25(5):844-845. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.12592. Mashburn B, Chompoothong N, Bicksler A. 2014. Producing the Biocontrol Fungi Trichoderma and Beauveria. Echo Asia Notes, 20: 7-9.