Welcome to the Pittermann Lab!

Bienvenidos! Bienvenue! Willkommen! Vítam Vás!

Congratulations Ryan and Scottie!

Call him Dr. Salladay! Ryan successfully defended his dissertation in December 2024. Congratulations! Scottie is a Master as of Spring 2024! Great work!! 🌟✴️

Nice commentary in the January issue of New Phytologist

Groover A, et al. 2025. Tree drought physiology: critical research questions and strategies for mitigating climate change effects on forests.https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20326

Hello and welcome to our lab website. We study plant ecophysiology and plant structure and function using a combination of field and greenhouse studies, lab work, and microscopy. Our work is diverse, focusing on crop drought stress physiology, conifer adaptations to water deficit, the evolution of xylem structure and function in ferns, and more recently, tree physiology in the context of fire. Our goal is to understand how drought stress physiology underpins plant evolution and ecology.