"...a traveler should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment."  
--Charles Darwin. Voyage of the HMS Beagle

Stephen Saupe 

Professor

Phone: 363-2782
E-mail: ssaupe@csbsju.edu
Office: Science Center, Room 335
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Education: B.A. in Biology, Lynchburg College; M.S. and Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Research interests: Studies of the secondary metabolism in plants and fungi, especially the phenomenon of cyanogenesis, and floristic studies of plants and fungi.

Courses taught: Plant Physiology, Plant Taxonomy, Plants and Human Affairs, Concepts of Biology 115 and 116.

Recommended advisor for: Students interested in botany, plant physiology, mycology, phytochemistry, and forestry.

Dr. Saupe is the curator of the CSB/SJU Bailey Herbarium and editor of the CSB/SJU Biology Department Newsletter.