Sarah Emery

University of Louisville

Sarah Emery is a full professor and plant ecologist in the Biology Department at the University of Louisville (KY, USA). She earned her B.S. from Denison University in Ohio, where she double-majored in Biology and Studio Art, and her Ph.D. in Plant Biology from Michigan State University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Rice University in Texas before joining the faculty at UofL in 2007. Dr. Emery is broadly interested in factors that influence plant biodiversity, and has more than 15 years of experience studying plant-fungal interactions in natural, agricultural, and horticultural systems. She has over 50 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, with funding from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, and the National Horticulture Foundation. Dr. Emery has also supervised dissertations and theses for 13 Ph.D. students and 6 M.S. students and has taught a variety of courses in ecology and plant biology during her tenure at UofL. In her personal time, Dr. Emery enjoys hiking, gardening, crochet, occasionally defeating her husband in pickleball, and being a mom to two great kids