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Dr. David Clarke, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before arriving at UNCA, Dr. Clarke served from 1995 to 1997 as the resident plant collector in Guyana for the Smithsonian Institution's Biological Diversity of the Guianas Program. From 1997 to 2000 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Smithsonian's Office of Biodiversity Programs and Laboratory of Molecular Systematics.  His teaching interests include introductory botany and advanced botany courses including plant systematics, field botany, plant anatomy and morphology, economic botany, and tropical biology.  His research interests focus on the biodiversity and flora of Guyana and the systematics of Acacia and other related tropical legumes. He will be developing a research program on the flora of the Southern Appalachians.