Juan M. Lopez-Bautista

George P. Farmer Gallery Jul 2 – Aug 31, 2019

Juan López-Bautista is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and a College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Board Faculty Fellow at The University of Alabama. He received his Ph.D. in plant biology from Louisiana State University, a Master of Science degree in biology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was recently elected as the 2013 president of the Phycological Society of America and his most recent project funded by the National Science Foundation is the assembling of the tree of life for green and red algae. He is currently pursuing his MFA degree at the University of Alabama.