Former Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
E-mail address: mfish@pdx.edu
Website: http://web.pdx.edu/~mfish/
I am a plant systematist and evolutionary biologist. My research is focused on the evolution of flowers and their ecological interactions with pollinators. I work primarily with a group of plants called milkweeds that are commonly cultivated for their beautiful flowers. I received a B.S. degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1987 and M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona in 1991 and 1996, respectively. I was an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Mississippi State University from 2001 to 2005 and am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.
